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About the Role
Join us as a Consultant to lead high-quality literature review projects that inform healthcare decision-making, and play a key role in the continuing growth and success of our renowned Literature Reviews team. As a Consultant, you will take overall responsibility for the successful delivery of multiple projects. This will include shaping the project scope and methodology, leading client discussions, managing timelines and budgets, overseeing the work of project teams, and ensuring that deliverables are scientifically robust, strategically useful and produced to an exceptional standard. You will be expected to act as a trusted advisor to clients, helping them to navigate complex evidence needs and recommending appropriate review approaches. You will also contribute to business development by identifying opportunities to support existing clients, developing proposals, delivering pitches and helping to build a sustainable pipeline of literature review work. Beyond project delivery, Consultants play an important role in developing people and improving how we work. You will line manage and mentor colleagues, provide constructive feedback, support training initiatives, contribute to recruitment, and help refine our methods, tools and internal processes as this thriving team continues to grow.
Responsibilities
- Lead literature review projects, acting as the primary client contact
- Nurture client relationships
- Build project pipelines
- Contribute to the growth and strategic direction of the Literature Reviews team
- Take overall responsibility for the successful delivery of multiple projects
- Shape project scope and methodology
- Lead client discussions
- Manage timelines and budgets
- Oversee the work of project teams
- Ensure deliverables are scientifically robust, strategically useful and produced to an exceptional standard
- Act as a trusted advisor to clients
- Help clients navigate complex evidence needs
- Recommend appropriate review approaches
- Contribute to business development by identifying opportunities to support existing clients
- Develop proposals
- Deliver pitches
- Help build a sustainable pipeline of literature review work
- Line manage and mentor colleagues
- Provide constructive feedback
- Support training initiatives
- Contribute to recruitment
- Help refine methods, tools and internal processes
Requirements
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience of conducting literature review projects in a consultancy, agency, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical technology or other relevant setting
- Within this, experience will include at least 1–2 years of managing projects and project teams
- Strong technical knowledge of systematic literature review methodology, including review design, database searching, screening, data extraction, quality assessment and qualitative or quantitative synthesis
- Familiarity with how AI can be used to facilitate these project stages
- Experience managing complex projects from initiation through to final delivery, including responsibility for timelines, resourcing, budgets, scope and quality
- Excellent attention-to-detail, written communication and data presentation skills
- Ability to produce/guide others to produce clear, accurate and strategically focused scientific content
- Experience communicating directly with clients or senior stakeholders, including advising on project approach, confidently presenting findings and managing expectations
- Capacity to maintain exceptional customer service and quality of deliverables under multiple competing demands in a fast-paced consulting environment
- Ability to build robust and sustainable client relationships
- Experience contributing to business development and maintaining a project pipeline, including proactively identifying opportunities, writing proposals, developing budgets and pitching
- Experience line managing, mentoring or formally supporting the development of junior colleagues, including the provision of constructive feedback
- A strong desire to contribute positively to our welcoming, collaborative, and supportive-yet-ambitious team and company culture
Skills
- Evidence synthesis
- Client advising
- Managing competing priorities
- Supporting colleague development
- Systematic literature review methodology
- Review design
- Database searching
- Screening
- Data extraction
- Quality assessment
- Qualitative synthesis
- Quantitative synthesis
- AI facilitation in project stages
- Project management
- Attention-to-detail
- Written communication
- Data presentation
- Scientific content creation
- Client communication
- Stakeholder communication
- Presenting findings
- Managing expectations
- Customer service
- Business development
- Proposal writing
- Budget development
- Pitching
- Line management
- Mentoring
- Formal colleague development support
- Constructive feedback provision
Location
- Cambridge
- London
- Manchester
Work Type
- Full-time
- Part-time (30 hours/week)
- Hybrid working (up to 50% from home)
Experience Level
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience of conducting literature review projects
- At least 1–2 years of managing projects and project teams
Education Level
- Degree level or higher qualification in a scientific discipline (minimum 2.1)
Salary/Compensations
- £61,500 per annum
Benefits
- Discretionary profit share bonuses paid twice per year
- Hybrid and flexible working options
- Generous holiday allowance
- Private medical insurance
- Critical illness cover
- Income protection
- Full funding for external training
- 25 days’ annual leave plus bank and public holidays
- Holiday buy and sell scheme
- Flexible working hours
- Work from home for up to half of your working time after passing probation
- Flexible benefits scheme offering cash payments, additional pension contributions and more
- Life Assurance
- Paid study leave
- Funding for external qualifications
- Paid and unpaid sabbaticals based on length of service
- Regular company-funded social activities
- Opportunities to contribute to charitable and pro bono initiatives
About the Company
- Costello Medical is a rapidly growing global healthcare consultancy specialising in medical communications, market access, and health economic and outcomes research.
- We work with a wide range of clients, including pharmaceutical and medical technology companies, patient and public health bodies, and charitable organisations.
- We have been listed in the Top 100 Best Companies to Work For list since 2017, the Boston Globe’s Top Places to Work list in 2025, and were proud to receive B Corporation accreditation in 2022.
- We are independently owned and managed, which gives us the freedom to invest in the areas that matter most to our clients, our colleagues and the communities we work within.
- Learn more about us, our work, and our mission on our website: https://www.costellomedical.com/
Equal Opportunity
- As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce and, throughout the recruitment process, there are a number of reasonable adjustments we can provide: https://www.costellomedical.com/reasonable-adjustments/