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Life Sciences Consulting

The complex healthcare industry continues to experience unparalleled transformation, driven by a sharp focus on overall wellness, and increased health consumerisation and empowerment, powered by digital transformation.

Our deep expertise and extensive experience working with many of the world’s leading Healthcare and Wellness organisations helps us deliver lasting change for teams in pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals, vaccines, medical devices, consumer healthcare and animal health organisations.

We work closely with and across Marketing, Sales, Insights & Analytics, Medical Affairs, Market Access and Capability teams on strategy, planning or capability challenges to unlock sustainable growth and better outcomes for people, planet and profit.

We’re independent, with no hierarchies and no politics, so we’re able to work with teams to unlock genuine behaviour change, whether from customers, patients, healthcare professionals or within internal teams. We do this by working with you as one team, bringing broad and deep industry expertise gained from our experience as senior leaders in the industry and leveraging our extensive partner networks and technology solutions.

That could mean helping you uncover the right strategic direction, implement planning approaches that equip teams to jointly make growth happen, or building the right people capabilities to embed real transformational change.

The complex healthcare industry continues to experience unparalleled transformation, driven by a sharp focus on overall wellness, and increased health consumerisation and empowerment, powered by digital transformation.

Our deep expertise and extensive experience working with many of the world’s leading Healthcare and Wellness organisations helps us deliver lasting change for teams in pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals, vaccines, medical devices, consumer healthcare and animal health organisations.

Engaging conversations around healthcare consulting

We work closely with and across Marketing, Sales, Insights & Analytics, Medical Affairs, Market Access and Capability teams on strategy, planning or capability challenges to unlock sustainable growth and better outcomes for people, planet and profit.

We’re independent, with no hierarchies and no politics, so we’re able to work with teams to unlock genuine behaviour change, whether from customers, patients, healthcare professionals or within internal teams. We do this by working with you as one team, bringing broad and deep industry expertise gained from our experience as senior leaders in the industry and leveraging our extensive partner networks and technology solutions.

That could mean helping you uncover the right strategic direction, implement planning approaches that equip teams to jointly make growth happen, or building the right people capabilities to embed real transformational change.

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Health and Wellness Experience

1,800+

Health and Wellness consulting projects delivered in the past decade

57+

Health and Wellness clients 

Health and Wellness Strategy

We work closely with senior leaders and cross-functional teams to help define the right evidence-based strategic foundations and make clear, aligned choices against those. We’ve helped businesses transform through:

  • - Insight, foresight and future-market scenario planning
  • - Multi-stakeholder patient journey and deep behavioural insight
  • - Brand and Value Proposition creation and refinement

Case Studies

Developing the strategy for colorectal cancer

We partnered with a cross-functional team to help develop the strategy for a key part of the colorectal cancer portfolio. The plan included clear choices on driving uptake, communications, and the customer experience needed to drive growth.

As the plan has been implemented, this has led to a fall in death rates.

Transforming sustainable innovation in consumer health

As a B Corp we believe passionately that business must be a force for good. We worked with this major global consumer health organisation with a clear mission and $800M commitment to make their products more sustainable to reinvent innovation, so that brand teams were able to identify and realise opportunities that are better for the people, the company and the planet.

Driving customer-centric strategy in medical devices

Facing extreme cost pressure on the next generation devices, we worked with the team to develop customer-centric strategies that could drive, not dilute, value. We helped them define their core business challenges, identify target customers and clearly define specific customer needs, challenges and pain points. These informed a refreshed positioning, the user interface and professional/patient communications.

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The Oxford team brings strong strategic perspective given both their depth of understanding of our business  as well as the broader dynamics and nuance. It is this balance that we appreciate as they facilitate global and local discussions to drive towards a common understanding and valuable output.

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It was great to have another perspective from highly experienced and knowledgeable experts who challenged the team to be more strategic, and focus on what really matters.

It was great to have another perspective from highly experienced and knowledgeable experts who challenged the team to be more strategic, and focus on what really matters
Pharma Company

Rare Diseases

The Oxford team brings strong strategic perspective given both their depth of understanding of our business as well as the broader dynamics and nuance. It is this balance that we appreciate as they facilitate global and local discussions to drive towards a common understanding and valuable output.
Senior Marketing Leader

Haleon

My experience with the entire Oxford team has been tremendous. Great partners that "get it" in terms of how to engage in an organization and add meaningful value.
TA Lead

US CSL Behring

Strategy Consulting Expertise

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Business Planning in Health and Wellness

We help organisations, cross-functional and functional teams create, embed and integrate customer-centric strategic and operational planning approaches that make it clear what teams need to do to make growth happen, and how they work together to achieve that. Our work in Business Planning includes:

  • - Business, Disease State, Therapeutic Area, Portfolio and Brand planning processes and ways of working
  • - Omnichannel customer engagement planning and activation
  • - Launch planning and launch excellence

Case Studies

Step-changing launch success in oncology

Faced with six launch assets, accelerated timelines, and limited launch experience, we helped to ensure that teams were ready and focused on the most critical success factors. We aligned cross-functional teams around the challenges, opportunities and behaviour changes needed for success, and coached teams to create powerful customer experiences and launch action plans.

Coaching brand teams to optimise omnichannel plans

We have partnered extensively with this global pharmaceutical organisation. Recently we coached over 40 brand teams in omnichannel planning, with Oxford’s omnichannel experts using the team’s own plans to coach them on selection and blending of channels based on preferences, and KPI setting for optimisation.

Defining global/local omnichannel journeys

Working closely with one of our pharmaceutical clients, we developed an approach for defining global omnichannel customer engagement journeys. Using customer and brand questions, we uncovered common themes, with support materials on how to apply the global guidance locally to build seamless global/local customer journeys.
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Oxford enabled the global launch team to implement the brand launch excellence framework in a very short time by providing a platform for constructive team discussions and alignment. As a result of this we now have a global launch plan which is based on common understanding and shared goals that are easy to track.

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Incredibly effective result in such a a short period of time. Process we highly recommend to all teams who want to put the customers at the centre.

Business planning expertise

Learn more about the work we do in business planning beyond healthcare.

Change and Capability in Health and Wellness

We work with Capability and L&D leads, and teams across Marketing, Sales, Market Access and Medical Affairs Excellence to develop the mindsets, behaviours, and skills needed to drive business transformation, including:

  • - Skills and competency definition and development
  • - Learner experience definition, design and delivery across multiple platforms, from single courses to full academies, including curriculum design and production
  • - Live action sessions for fast results on real business challenges with expert facilitation and coaching

Case Studies

Building the pharmaceutical marketer of the future

We worked closely with the Marketing Excellence team of this lean, mid-sized pharmaceutical organisation to define the skills needed for the marketer of the future, developing and embedding compelling skill-build content via a new learning platform that transformed the learner experience.

Making omnichannel business as usual

We partnered with the organisation on their omnichannel journey, including inspiring leaders to spearhead change through masterclasses. We developed a network of change agents, equipped to coach teams, supporting the wider audience with online learning and embed it into core business processes.

Building healthcare industry leading KAM capabilities

The organisation aimed to step-change their KAM capabilities, with an industry-leading approach for planning and executing KAM strategy, enabling local markets to maximise impact. We defined the ‘world class KAM’, with benchmarked excellence standards, a KAM roadmap, comprehensive toolkit with best practice examples - and brought it all to life in a summit for 70+ KAM Heads.
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It was great to have another perspective from highly experienced and knowledgeable experts who challenged the team to be more strategic, and focus on what really matters.

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Oxford pays attention to the ask and really thinks through what is going to work for a team and an organisation.

Change management and capability

Find out more about our change and capability practice.

Our Life Sciences consulting experts

Get in touch with one of our Life Sciences consultants for more information about our services.

Adam Price Adam Price Oxford consultant
Adam Price
Lisa Davies Lisa Davies Oxford consultant
Lisa Davies
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