We are looking for an entrepreneurial, client-driven Manager, role is remote-friendly after an initial 3–6 month onboarding period in Barcelona.

A Piece of Pie is a global strategy consultancy rooted in the human sciences. We work mainly with life sciences and healthcare companies on high-stakes questions where the answer is not obvious: how to position a new therapy, how to accelerate adoption, what matters in patients’ lived experience, or how to translate scientific value into stronger commercial strategy and storytelling.

Our work is about sensemaking. We help clients understand how patients, physicians, payers and internal teams interpret information, make decisions and change behaviour. We believe that in healthcare, strong science matters,but how that science is understood, framed and acted upon also has a direct impact on adoption, engagement and, ultimately, health outcomes.

We are now looking for a Manager who can grow with us. Someone with strong consulting experience, ideally in life sciences, who enjoys both the work and the business of consulting: leading complex projects, building trusted client relationships, developing teams and helping shape the next stage of A Piece of Pie.

This is a hands-on, player-manager role. You will stay close to the strategic work while also taking ownership of client growth, team development and business building. Over time, this role has the potential to grow into a key leadership position in the company.

About the Role

At A Piece of Pie, we work in small, senior, high-impact teams. Our clients are marketing, commercial, insights, strategy and medical affairs teams at leading pharmaceutical and healthcare companies. They come to us when they need to make better decisions in moments of complexity, uncertainty or change.

As a Manager, you will be responsible for the end-to-end success of a portfolio of client accounts. This includes identifying opportunities, shaping proposals, closing projects, overseeing delivery, developing your team and ensuring that the work leads to clear, actionable recommendations.

You will act as a trusted partner to senior client. You will be expected to bring strategic judgement, commercial maturity and a strong ability to turn complex human, scientific and market inputs into clarity.

Responsibilities

Business Development

• Identify, develop and close new business opportunities.
• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across marketing, commercial, insights, medical affairs, strategy and market access.
• Position A Piece of Pie as a strategic partner for complex business and decision-making challenges.
• Represent A Piece of Pie in relevant external forums.

Client Delivery

• Oversee a portfolio of projects across launch strategy, brand positioning, patient and physician insights, adoption strategy and go-to-market challenges.
• Ensure projects are well scoped, priced, resourced and set up for success from the start.
• Maintain high standards of strategic quality, rigour and client satisfaction.
• Stay close to the work, stepping in as a hands-on strategic advisor when needed.
• Translate complex research, behavioural insight and market context into strategic narratives and actionable interventions for commercial, marketing and medical teams.

People & Team Leadership

• Lead, manage and develop Consultants across projects.
• Provide structured coaching, feedback and support to help people grow.
• Build an intellectually ambitious, collaborative and high-trust team culture.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will bring:

• Strong experience in strategy consulting, insights consulting, innovation consulting or a related advisory role.
• Significant experience in life sciences, pharma, biotech or healthcare.
• International experience working across markets and with global teams; experience in the US healthcare market is a strong plus.
• A good understanding of pharmaceutical commercial challenges, including launch, brand strategy, stakeholder engagement, adoption and market dynamics.
• A proven ability to build client relationships and generate new business.
• Experience leading complex, multi-stage projects from proposal to final recommendation.
• Strong understanding of qualitative research, human insight and sensemaking methodologies.
• Solid quantitative literacy and the ability to integrate different sources of evidence.
• Excellent communication, storytelling and client-facing skills.
• The ability to inspire confidence with senior stakeholders.
• Entrepreneurial energy: comfortable with ambiguity, proactive in spotting opportunities and willing to take ownership.
• Fluency in English. Additional languages are a plus.
• A background in social sciences, anthropology, sociology, psychology, business or life sciences would be valuable. We are especially interested in people who can connect human understanding with business strategy.

What We Offer

• A senior role with real client ownership and commercial visibility.
• The opportunity to work on high-impact, complex challenges with leading global healthcare companies.
• A company where human sciences, strategy and business growth are deeply connected.
• A flat structure with direct influence on the firm’s future direction.
• A flexible, primarily remote role, with an initial onboarding period of 3–6 months based in Barcelona to embed with the team, followed by ongoing remote/hybrid flexibility
• Competitive compensation with performance-linked upside.
• The possibility to grow into a key leadership role as the company evolves.

How to Apply

Please send your CV and cover letter to [email protected]