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About the Role
This role provides senior leadership across a diverse portfolio of healthcare research and consultancy projects. You will work closely with behavioural scientists, researchers, account teams and clients to ensure the delivery of high-quality work, support team development, and maintain strong commercial performance. The position combines hands-on behavioural science expertise with project oversight, client consultancy, business development, and people leadership.
Responsibilities
- Provide senior leadership across a diverse portfolio of healthcare research and consultancy projects.
- Ensure the delivery of high-quality work.
- Support team development.
- Maintain strong commercial performance.
- Combine scientific rigour, commercial thinking and people leadership.
- Translate evidence into meaningful action.
- Lead and shape the strategic direction of behavioral science across high-impact healthcare research and consultancy projects.
- Influence senior client decision making.
- Develop talented behavioural scientists.
- Contribute to the continued growth of an award winning and respected global business.
- Help clients solve complex behavioral challenges.
- Support the continued evolution of Shift's offering.
- Provide behavioural science leadership.
- Engage in client partnership and business growth.
- Provide team leadership and development.
- Offer operational and project leadership.
Requirements
- Commercially aware behavioural science leader with a passion for applying evidence-based approaches to real-world healthcare challenges.
- Significant experience applying behavioural science within healthcare research, consultancy or a related commercial environment.
- Strong understanding of both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies.
- Proven experience translating research and behavioural evidence into strategic recommendations.
- Experience leading complex projects, budgets and multiple concurrent workstreams.
- Outstanding communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
- Previous experience coaching, mentoring or line managing individuals or teams.
- Excellent judgement and decision-making capability.
- Collaborative leadership style with the ability to inspire and develop others.
- Strong commercial awareness and client consultancy skills.
- Confidence working with senior stakeholders and navigating complex environments.
Skills
- Behavioural Science
- Qualitative Research
- Quantitative Research
- Strategic Recommendations
- Project Leadership
- Budget Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Line Management
- Client Consultancy
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Maternity Cover
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Director
- Senior Leadership
Benefits
- Competitive Annual Leave Allowance
- Company matching pension
- Private Medical Insurance
- Hybrid working model & Flexi hours
- 4 pm Friday finishes
- Meeting Free days
- You days / Take your birthday off
- Discount portal access
- Cash back Plan
- Profit incentive Bonus
- Fruit, Snacks & Refreshments
- Team Socials, off site meetings & training days
About the Company
- HRW Shift is HRW's specialist behavioural science consultancy.
- HRW Shift combines behavioural science, healthcare expertise and rigorous research to help clients understand and influence behaviour in ways that improve outcomes for patients, healthcare professionals and healthcare systems.
- We are an award winning and respected global business.