HelloI am a PhD Statistics student at Oxford University. My research is on the pharmaceutical industry area and specifically I am working on a model which attempts to improve the resource allocation and the profitability of pharmaceutical companies.I was wondering which consulting companies are involved in the pharmaceutical industry. Furthermore my work experience is in tutoring, supervising and teaching, so I am not sure if this is adequate enough for a consulting firm. I am very interested in consultancy and will be very grateful if you could provide me with any information.

Look at www.zsassociates.com. They work predominantly in commercial pharma. Resource allocation and profitability is central to what they do. If you have done your Ph.D literature search properly you will know who Zoltners and Sinha are already. I think they hire PhDs are fast-track Business Analysts

From what I've seen of the pharmaceutical statistics research at Oxford, you might be interested in PA's Life Sciences & Healthcare Practice. Their work includes using optimization, discrete event simulation, and Bayesian networks to improve resource allocation & project selection & timing in drug discovery and development. I help out on this sometimes and in my (rather biased) view it is truly cutting-edge and with huge potential impact. It is also enjoyable and puts my mathematics PhD to good use. More widely, most large consulting firms will have good-sized pharmaceutical groups. Also, many will hire PhDs with relevant specialist skills like yours a rank or two ahead of graduates, or put them on a fast-track.

Many thanks for your answers. However I am concerned with the fact that my work experience is in tutoring, supervising and teaching and I am not sure how relevant and adequate would be for a consulting firm.

Don't worry about the work experience. At entry level they are looking for a good brain, and all the usual attribtutes rather than experience. I got into a strat house having done a science DPhil with no work experience.Best of luck.

ZS Associates and Campbell Alliance. Both excellent firms. CA has a more family-orientated bearing, while ZS will chain you to the data trough until you're obese enough to score a p-value over 1.Good luck.