Analyst

Are you looking to work for an inspiring, fast-paced, global award-winning consultancy, working with the top twenty pharma companies worldwide? At the cutting edge of the pharma industry’s R and D pipeline, working on exciting areas of new science and innovative medicines that will transform patients’ lives?

We are now looking to recruit Analysts into our company; this is an early career level role which will give you exposure to all parts of consultancy and managing projects, and you’ll play a vital role in delivering and supporting our client-facing team within a practice. In this role you will have the opportunity to work with many different people in many different roles across the organisation.

Are you working as a project manager, and have a minimum of one year’s experience, ideally working in the pharma or healthcare industry, preferably with a scientific background? Are you an analytical thinker, creative yet detailed in your approach, and passionate about improving and having a positive impact on patients’ lives?

We are recognised as a diverse supplier for many organisations, and have been winning industry awards since 2013, from the PMEA for our work with clients, and we were acknowledged in 2023 with a National Businesswomen’s Award. In 2024, we were honoured with the King’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade.

Take a look at our video of Isabelle and Omar, two of our team members, reflecting on their first few days and weeks at Uptake.

Our Analysts perform a critical role for our clients and internal project team members. You are responsible for supporting the delivery of several projects for the client(s), ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and to the required quality; you will partner with our consultant team.

This role also provides outstanding future career progression and potential. We offer unrivalled professional development opportunities due to the significant variety of geographies, clients, disease areas, and consulting challenges.

Your accountabilities include:

• Within this role, you will work with our project teams, supporting the development and delivery of our client project work
• You will be responsible for a variety of project management tasks, including organising materials, researching best practice, communicating with stakeholders, tracking project progress and evaluating project impact
• You will navigate multiple diaries across various internal / external team members to get meetings and workshops in the diary when needed
• You will demonstrate your organisational and planning skills by supporting logistics and materials for in-person and virtual workshops
• You will have strong PowerPoint skills, to be able to create draft presentation slide decks, including ability to format visually appealing slides and convey messages in a clear and succinct way
• You will have strong Excel skills, which you use to manage our project plans, proactively planning the next steps of the project in partnership with the Consultant team
• You will find and book venues for face-to-face workshops and work with our travel agency to book travel when required for our project team and consultants
• You will work with our internal teams, to organise formatting, copy editing and proposal development to be completed
• You will support Zoom calls, and, if needed, manage online breakouts, whiteboards and chat functionality
• You will take workshop notes, flipcharts and input and type into a client-friendly summary

About you:

• A proactive attitude with a desire to learn and always looking for ways to improve and develop
• Ability to work as a constructive team member and a willingness to support other colleagues when needed
• Excellent organisation and time-management skills with the ability to work to a tight deadline
• Comfortable and excited by working in a high-pressured, fast-paced, client-focused environment
• Multi-tasking individual with strong analytic, communication and presentation skills
• A willingness to deliver high quality of work, commitment to learning from mistakes and attention to detail
• Strong writing skills with a sound knowledge of English grammar and spelling
• A working understanding of theoretical marketing is desired but not essential

What will Uptake provide for you?

• The opportunity to work with international clients, particularly in the US, and across a variety of time-zones, and with clients throughout Europe and the UK
• You will work with client teams in the top 20 biggest pharma companies in the world
• Our cutting edge HR policies include the flexibility of core working hours, and incredible support for your wellbeing
• Enjoy a weekly team day in the office
• Take advantage of the ability to work from an alternative location for up to two weeks of the year
• Five weeks paid holiday plus public holidays, and an extra day off for your birthday
• The opportunity to take an unpaid summer sabbatical for up to four weeks in the summer
• A hugely competitive range of benefits including private medical insurance and group income protection
• A dog-friendly office that welcomes and cares for your canine associates, bring them with you on your team day in the office

Does this sound like the sort of team you want to be part of?

If it does, please click the apply button.

We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion, or belief.

Please let us know if we can make any adjustments at any stage of the application and interview process.