Our US business is entering an exciting phase of growth. Having established a strong foundation in the market, we are deepening our consulting presence and client portfolio across Life Sciences.

This is an opportunity to help shape that journey. For experienced consulting leaders looking for greater ownership and influence than they might find in a larger firm, Gate One offers the chance to help build something, not simply inherit it.

This role sits within our broader Life Sciences team, with a particular focus on helping grow new clients in the US. You will help build Gate One's presence in the market, working closely with an established and successful Global Life Sciences practice.

Our work spans:

• Commercial, portfolio, and asset strategy

• Launch, growth, and lifecycle strategy

• Enterprise, functional, and operating model transformation

• Marketing, customer engagement, and content transformation

• Data, AI, and technology-enabled transformation

As demand continues to grow, we are looking for Principals with:

• Significant Life Sciences consulting experience and genuine sector credibility

• Depth in one or more areas of strategy or transformation

• A proven ability to identify, shape, and grow strategic client relationships and opportunities

• The breadth and adaptability to apply their experience across a range of complex client challenges

• A willingness to play a visible role in building Gate One's US and Global presence

The Opportunity

As a Principal, you will lead engagements helping Life Sciences clients navigate challenges from commercial strategy through to complex business transformation, while playing a key role in building Gate One's US Life Sciences business.

You will combine delivery leadership with commercial responsibility, helping clients navigate complex strategic and transformation challenges while shaping and converting new opportunities.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex business problems, leading teams through ambiguity, and helping grow a consulting business in an entrepreneurial environment.

You will

Lead Strategy and Transformation Engagements

• Lead complex strategy and/or transformation engagements from problem definition and strategy through to supporting execution, and delivery.

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, helping them navigate complex strategic, commercial, organizational, and transformation challenges.

• Lead blended Gate One and client teams to deliver measurable outcomes.

• Bring depth in one or more areas, including commercial strategy, operating model, technology-enabled transformation, data and AI, customer engagement and organizational change.

• Draw on broader Gate One capabilities and specialist expertise to solve multidisciplinary client challenges.

• Provide senior oversight and quality assurance across engagements.

Grow Accounts and Generate Opportunities

• Build and deepen senior client relationships, using your existing network and market credibility to identify and shape new opportunities.

• Shape and lead new opportunities across existing and prospective client accounts.

• Lead proposals, bids, and business development pursuits.

• Drive account growth through strategic relationship development and thought leadership.

• Support the growth of Gate One's US Life Sciences presence through account development and market engagement.

• Translate market insight, client challenges, and delivery experience into distinctive Life Sciences propositions and market-facing points of view.

Shape the Future of the Practice

• Help develop Gate One's Life Sciences propositions and capabilities in the US, drawing on experience from across our global practice.

• Work closely with colleagues across the US and global teams to bring the best of Gate One to clients.

• Recruit, coach, and mentor consultants across the business.

• Contribute to firm-wide initiatives, knowledge sharing, and capability building.

• Play an active role in shaping our culture and future growth.

Who We Are Looking For

You will have around 10 years’ experience working within management consulting environments and will already be operating at an established senior level, with a strong track record of leading complex transformation engagements and teams. This will typically be at Senior Manager or Principal level, or in a comparable industry role, applied to Life Sciences strategy and/or transformation.

You will also bring:

• Significant Life Sciences consulting experience and genuine sector credibility, with a strong understanding of the sector's commercial, regulatory, operational, and organizational complexity.

• Depth in one or more areas of Life Sciences strategy or transformation, such as commercial or portfolio strategy, product launch and lifecycle management, operating model, customer engagement, organizational transformation, technology, data, or AI.

• Proven business development experience, including account growth, opportunity shaping, and proposal leadership.

• A track record of developing trusted senior client relationships and translating those relationships into opportunities.

• Experience leading consulting teams and developing others.

• Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.

• An entrepreneurial mindset and desire to help grow a fast-moving consulting business.

You are likely to bring deeper expertise in a particular area of Life Sciences strategy or transformation; equally important is the breadth and adaptability to apply that experience beyond your core specialty and lead teams across a range of complex client challenges.

Why Gate One?

• Join a growing US consulting business at a pivotal stage, with meaningful influence over how our Life Sciences business develops.

• Work across complex Life Sciences challenges spanning strategy through transformation and execution.

• Collaborate with an established Global Life Sciences team to draw on international experience and capabilities to support US clients.

• Combine client leadership, business development, and practice building in a single senior role.

• Enjoy the agility and ownership of a challenger consultancy backed by the scale of the Havas network.

Inclusion & Accessibility

Gate One is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can do their best work. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and provide reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process.

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.