Senior Manager - Health and Life Sciences (Government)

Our Government Health practice are looking for an experienced Senior Manager to join the team. 

We are partners in purposeful health transformation, helping organisations deliver rapid, responsible, and integrated change across national, regional, and local health systems. We support major health and care stakeholders, including NHS England, in delivering complex programmes ranging from large-scale technology and data initiatives to critical system procurements and life sciences partnerships. What excites us most is the intersection of the private and public sectors — the point where life sciences innovation meets the everyday realities of frontline care, and where the greatest opportunities for patients are unlocked. As a single firm working across both sides of that boundary, we are able to operate in a far more joined-up way than most: partnering directly with pharmaceutical and life sciences companies as they interface with the health system, and working alongside the health system as it engages with the life sciences companies developing the next generation of treatments. 

What you will be doing

• You will work across strategy, delivery, commercial development, and stakeholder orchestration within the UK health and life sciences ecosystem.
• You will work across the intersection of government, NHS organisations, arm’s length bodies, and the pharmaceutical/life sciences industry, helping translate national strategy into delivery.
• You will support the implementation of the UK Life Sciences Sector Plan, contributing to programmes spanning health data, clinical research, and innovation.
• You will help shape and deliver work on health data infrastructure and research services, including national initiatives enabling access to health data for research and innovation.
• You will contribute to the development of new data-driven health products, platforms, and services, working through questions of how health data assets can best support research and commercial use cases.
• You will build and develop a pipeline of opportunities across health, life sciences, and government clients, supporting growth of the practice.

• You will support the development of proposals, bids, and commercial propositions, working with senior leaders to shape client solutions.
• You will play a key role in delivering client programmes, ensuring work moves from strategy through to execution and measurable outcomes.
• You will act as a connector across stakeholders and institutions, helping align organisations that do not naturally operate in sync.
• You will support senior stakeholder engagement, including facilitating relationships between government, NHS leaders, and industry partners.
• You will contribute to commercial growth activities, but within a consulting context focused on shaping and delivering programmes rather than transactional sales.
• You will work closely with colleagues delivering clinical research, health data, and life sciences transformation programmes, bringing commercial and delivery capability into integrated teams.

Your skills and experience 

• You’ve worked in health, life sciences, clinical research, health data, or adjacent regulated environments, with a strong understanding of how these ecosystems operate.
• You will have experience working across UK government, NHS organisations, or arm’s length health bodies, ideally with exposure to multiple parts of the system.
• You’ve operated in complex stakeholder environments, where success depends on alignment across organisations with different incentives and priorities.
• You will have experience in commercial development, bid/proposal work, or pipeline building, ideally within consulting, advisory, or public-private environments.
• You’ve contributed to delivery of programmes or transformation initiatives, not just strategy definition.
• You will understand or have exposure to health data systems, digital health infrastructure, or research platforms, and their role in enabling innovation.
• You’ve worked with or alongside life sciences or pharmaceutical organisations, particularly in research, partnerships, or innovation contexts.
• You will have strong relationship-building skills and experience connecting senior stakeholders across fragmented systems.

What a career at Baringa will give you 

Putting People First.

Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.

• Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.

• Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.

• Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.

• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people. 

An award-winning workplace

You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this. 

Using business as a force for good. 

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.