Consultant, Pharma/Chemicals practice

At dss+, you don’t just deliver projects – you help save lives, improve performance, and build a more sustainable future.

We are a purpose-led global consultancy partnering with organisations in high-risk and asset-intensive industries to solve complex operational challenges across safety, operational excellence, and sustainability.

With a heritage rooted in DuPont’s industrial operations, we combine deep expertise, practical problem-solving, and digital innovation to deliver measurable and lasting impact for our clients.

This role sits at the centre of delivering large-scale transformation programmes across high-risk, asset-intensive industries in the Asia-Pacific region.

As a Consultant, you will lead complex engagements, manage senior client relationships, and drive measurable impact across safety, operational performance, and sustainability.

As a Consultant for our China (Pharma or Chemicals) business, you will be responsible for leveraging your consulting skills and subject matter expertise, to enhance our impact in client engagements, aimed at identifying, designing and implementing effective solutions withing your area of expertise. You will create impact in client engagements by:

• Leveraging your strong foundation in consulting skills to enhance our impact in client engagements and to create new solutions for our teams to deliver in future client engagements.

• Working in tandem with managers to prepare technical and commercial proposals.

• Independently managing end to end projects and identifying areas of improvement of new processes and design and implementing effective solutions within your area of expertise

• Independently undertaking / leading the analysis, including quantitative and qualitative evaluations of results and preparation of reports and presentations to be used in client engagements and business development.

• Engaging clients across scoping, proposal preparation and project management.

• Following up and implementing the proposed solutions at clients’ sites.

• Leading clients through meetings, interviews and workshops at various stages of the project lifecycle.

• Possessing strong industry knowledge and staying abreast with current trends, pricing and new technology related to industry or technical practice.

• Developing project work plans, progress trackers and status report, alongside being able to identify project critical paths, project risk, mitigation plans and issue management.

• Working closely with Senior Subject Matter Experts to assist in delivering and co delivering workstreams.

• You have demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the Pharmaceutical/Healthcare/Chemicals industry

• You are ideally proficient with one of the following functional disciplines such as:

• Your values align with ours. Living and breathing the dss+ Core Values and Mission Critical Behaviors and encouraging others to do the same through decisions, policies, actions, etc. More information about our core values can be found here: https://www.consultdss.com/content/assets/documents/DSS-Code-of-Conduct.pdf

• Graduate with 5+ years of associated industry / technical and client facing experience / exposure, and at least 3 years in a management consulting firm.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate complex research projects and provide relevant recommendations.

• Exceptional interpersonal skills and team working attitude, to be able to work in multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary teams.

• Experience with the Pharmaceutical/Healthcare industry

• Additional experience in one or several of the following sectors is also an advantage: Metals &Mining, Chemicals, Oil & Gas, Power &Utilities, Industrial Manufacturing.

• High level of proficiency with PowerPoint, Visio, Word, Advanced Excel, Access, and ideally visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau.

• Fluency in Mandarin and English

• Building effective working relationships regionally and participating in global technical communities to ensure a strong network of resources, alongside possessing a network of regional contacts.

• Supporting by contributing to the development and / or enhancement of existing DSS+ IP, functional/industry networks, in the relevant field of expertise, such as developing reusable assets and sharing thought leadership etc.

• Participating and contributing to functional and/or industry networks with the aim of developing and sharing best practices.

• Living and breathing the DSS+ Core Values and Mission Critical Behaviors and encouraging others to do the same through decisions, policies, actions, etc. More information about our core values can be found here: https://www.consultdss.com/content/assets/documents/DSS-Code-of-Conduct.pdf 
  

• Ensuring the execution of multiple co-current complex consulting assignments to meet /   exceed client deliverables as per expectations.

• Building and enhancing strong relationships with existing/ prospective clients to position the company as a trusted partner.

Taking the lead in engaging clients through meetings, interviews, and workshops at various stages of the project lifecycle and leading the development of high-quality presentations and documents to be used in client engagements and business development. 

Building the Firm: (Knowledge Management and Continuous Improvement) 

• Supporting DSS+ knowledge base through creating best practice project content and standardizing project practices and templates.

• Supporting the development and publishing of thought leadership and new perspectives, including DSS Points of View, and educating key stakeholders internally and externally.