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# Principal Consultant, Growth at Inizio Engage XD

- **Company:** Inizio Engage XD
- **Location:** Philadelphia, PA
- **Posted:** 2026-09-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xdinizioengage/jobs/8173790

## Job description

Nazaré (Part of Inizio Engage XD) is looking for a commercially minded Principal Consultant to help grow our partnerships across the US pharmaceutical and life sciences market.

This is a senior, client-facing role for someone with deep pharmaceutical industry experience, an established network and the credibility to engage senior decision-makers.

You'll combine your industry knowledge with a consultative approach to identify client challenges, open new opportunities and turn them into capability solutions that deliver measurable business impact.

On any given day, you might be:

- An Industry Leader partnering with clients to solve complex commercial challenges
- A Trusted Partner who clients rely on for honest, insightful, and pragmatic advice
- A Leader who raises the bar for both client impact and internal performance
- A Strategic Consultant who can quickly identify where performance is won or lost
- A Growth Driver who spots opportunities others miss and knows how to convert them
- A Connector who brings together the right expertise to deliver the right solution

US-Based | East Coast preferred

You will report into the Managing Director, Nazaré North America

What you'll do...

- Build trusted relationships with senior pharmaceutical and life sciences leaders.
- Use your network and industry credibility to identify new business opportunities.
- Grow strategic client accounts and help shape high-value proposals and solutions.
- Understand clients' commercial challenges and translate them into capability and performance strategies.
- Challenge client thinking and connect business strategy with execution in the field.
- Partner with experts across Nazaré and the wider Inizio network to create differentiated solutions.
- Represent Nazaré at industry events, conferences and leadership forums.
- Mentor colleagues and contribute to the continued growth of our business.

What we're looking for...

- 10+ years experience in Pharmaceutical/life sciences experience, ideally within commercial leadership, sales, commercial excellence, market access or medical.
- An established network within the pharmaceutical industry and the ability to open doors with senior decision-makers.
- Experience in business development, account growth or strategic client partnerships.
- Commercial acumen and the ability to spot, shape and convert opportunities.
- Confidence engaging and influencing senior and executive-level partners.
- The ability to connect strategy, capability development and measurable business performance.
- Consulting, agency or learning/capability experience is beneficial, but pharma industry credibility is the priority.

Just a few of our benefits...

- Great compensation package
- 23 days' personal leave plus public holidays and volunteering leave
- Private Medical Plan and Life Insurance
- 401(K) Plan
- Hybrid working

A bit about us...

Nazaré is the centre of excellence in capability development within Inizio Engage XD.

We help our clients turn strategy into execution, ensuring that what is planned at a brand level shows up consistently in the field. We do this by combining industry expertise, behavioural science, and tailored capability solutions to drive real performance.

Working across sales, medical, and market access teams, we focus on what matters most: impact where it counts in front of customers.

As part of Inizio, we bring together a unique mix of data, science, creativity, and technology to help our clients reimagine how they engage across the healthcare ecosystem.

We believe in our values: We empower everyone | We rise to the challenge | We work as one | We ask what if | We do the right thing and we will ask you how your personal values align to our values

## #LIML

This is a hybrid remote/in-office role. Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.

## About Inizio Engage XD

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Inizio Engage XD is the Experience Design specialist area within Inizio Engage, creating integrated experiences that inspire lasting change in attitude, behavior, and performance for clients primarily in healthcare and life sciences.
- **Entity Type**: Private (division of Inizio Engage, which is part of the larger Inizio Group)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom (with offices in Manchester, UK; Ontario, Canada; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
- **Founded**: Year not publicly disclosed as a distinct entity; operates as a specialist unit within Inizio Engage
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (leadership includes Russ Lidstone as President, Tim Williams as COO, and Lauren Ince as Chief Growth Officer)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Healthcare engagement, Experience Design, Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical Marketing, Employee Experience, Learning & Capabilities
- **Target customers**: B2B — primarily global pharmaceutical and healthcare clients, with additional work across technology, finance, and consumer brands
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To create experiences that inspire a lasting change in attitude, behaviour, and performance — combining insight, expertise, and creativity to design and deliver world-class experiences that engage people, change mindsets, enrich cultures, enhance skills, and drive overall business performance [inizioengage.com](https://inizioengage.com/xd/)

## Products & Services
- **Meetings, Events & Exhibitions**: Strategic creation and delivery of live events, from conferences to fully immersive brand experiences [inizioengage.com](https://inizioengage.com/xd/)
- **Employee Experience**: Blends insight, technology, and creativity to deliver employee experiences that drive engagement and business performance [inizioengage.com](https://inizioengage.com/xd/)
- **Digital & Immersive**: Combines strategy, creativity, and technology to design interactive digital experiences that improve business performance [inizioengage.com](https://inizioengage.com/xd/)
- **Learning & Capabilities**: Expertise in learning, capability, and life sciences to transform the behavior of people, including blended learning journeys, slide decks, facilitated materials, and eLearning [inizioengage.com](https://inizioengage.com/xd/)
- **PX+CX (Patient Experience + Customer Experience)**: Creates connected, meaningful, and measurable engagements for both patients and HCPs (Healthcare Professionals) [inizioengage.com](https://inizioengage.com/xd/)
- **Film**: Production of films that elevate engagement by creating compelling and authentic stories [inizioengage.com](https://inizioengage.com/xd/)
- **Insight & Research**: Goes beyond data to uncover what truly drives people, delivering real insight and real impact [inizioengage.com](https://inizioengage.com/xd/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private entity within Inizio Group)
- **Key Metric**: Inizio Engage employs 6,000+ experts across 20+ countries globally; XD is one of its specialist areas [inizioengage.com](https://inizioengage.com/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Part of Inizio Group — clients include global pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, as well as technology, finance, and consumer brands
- **Growth Signals**: Actively hiring across multiple roles (Senior Learning Experience Designer, Studio Operations Director, Senior Insights Manager, Project Manager, Learning Project Coordinator, Content Coordinator, Billings Administrator) indicating ongoing expansion [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xdinizioengage)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep healthcare heritage** combined with cross-industry expertise (technology, finance, consumer brands) [inizioengage.com](https://inizioengage.com/xd/)
- **Full-spectrum capability** from insight generation and medical affairs to experience design, patient solutions, sales, and HCP promotion — all under one roof [inizioengage.com](https://inizioengage.com/)
- **Scale and global reach** — part of Inizio Engage’s 6,000+ person network across 20+ countries, giving access to local market expertise and global resources [inizioengage.com](https://inizioengage.com/)
- **Symbiotic approach** to blending diverse talents and perspectives across expertise, creativity, and insight [inizioengage.com](https://inizioengage.com/xd/)
- **Specialist focus on life sciences** with over 950 medically qualified employees and 1,000 patient support specialists in the broader Inizio Engage network [inizioengage.com](https://inizioengage.com/)

## Strategic Focus
- **Experience-led transformation** — prioritizing the design of experiences that change mindsets and behavior across employee, patient, customer, and learner audiences
- **Integration of insight, creativity, and technology** — combining data-driven understanding with creative execution and digital innovation
- **Expansion across industries** — leveraging healthcare expertise to serve technology, finance, and consumer brands
- **Growth in learning and capabilities** — actively building out learning solutions for global pharmaceutical and healthcare clients, as evidenced by multiple learning-related job postings [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xdinizioengage)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture of openness, inclusion, and growth**: XD explicitly states they invest in people with opportunities to learn, develop, and build rewarding careers [inizioengage.com](https://inizioengage.com/xd/working-here/)
- **People-first environment**: Described as a "people business in the truest sense, built on empathy, collaboration and care" [inizioengage.com](https://inizioengage.com/xd/working-here/)
- **Collaborative office culture**: Offices are designed as "vibrant spaces for collaboration, creativity and community" where ideas spark and relationships grow [inizioengage.com](https://inizioengage.com/xd/working-here/)
- **Work that makes a difference**: Projects help clients connect with audiences, tell powerful stories, and create experiences that make a real impact in healthcare [inizioengage.com](https://inizioengage.com/xd/working-here/)
- **Flexible working**: While the business thrives on teamwork and shared time together, XD encourages open conversations about making work work in ways that support both individual wellbeing and team success [inizioengage.com](https://inizioengage.com/xd/working-here/)
- **Multiple locations**: Offices in London, Manchester, Philadelphia, and Ontario — offering geographic flexibility [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xdinizioengage)
- **Agency environment**: Fast-paced, multi-disciplinary setting with opportunities to work on high-impact projects for prestigious global clients

## Sources
1. [Inizio Engage XD Official Site](https://inizioengage.com/xd/)
2. [Inizio Engage Home](https://inizioengage.com/)
3. [Inizio Engage XD Careers Page (Greenhouse)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xdinizioengage)
4. [Inizio Engage XD Working Here Page](https://inizioengage.com/xd/working-here/)

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