Can someone with 5 years experience as a quality auditor in the UK pharmaceutical industry, who uses Lean tools as part of their day job, transfer into consulting?

What kind of firm, role, level?

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Yes and I have. I started out in an R&D lab focused on assay dev with no Lean experience . I was recruited by a company called BSM Lean Consultants out of Galway, IRL as they were trying to expand their US workforce is n small biotechs. Our work was focused on Lean lab quality, productivity, and speed consultancy at big pharma companies and they taught me lean as well as many of the standard consulting skills. As a small boutique firm we worked more directly with site lab directors rather than corporate leaders (compared to the big consulting firms) but had similar project scopes (Assessment, implementation, change mgmt) at a much smaller scale. I took what I learned and applied to Accenture Strategy and got an offer. The scope of the work is at a much higher level of a client organization which takes more soft skills (client mgmt, EI) but all of the hard skills I learned at BSM (excel analysis, ppt storytelling, etc) were directly transferable. My advice would be too look at your skills and try to apply them to open consulting roles no matter the company brand and if the brand isn’t exactly what your looking for learn the transferable skills and move to a big brand after a year or two.

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Yes, look for roles in pharma and medtech consulting that focus on Quality Systems. You'll get in as a Senior Associate level here with your YOE.

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