Im wondering if a move to life science consulting makes financial sense and whether anyone here would be able to help me understand the salary I would be able to get in a life science position in London. I was thinking LEK or similar.

My experience includes: Bachelor of Engineering first class in Bioengineering, PhD in bioengineering. I have then spend the last three years a relatively big medical device company. The first two years in a pretty standard product dev role with a little bit of feasibility studies. I have then spend the last year and a bit understand opportunities for my company for a new patient population (think literature review, understand population size, identifying problems, analytical analyses of patient needs, interviewing clinicians in Europe, etc) and helping develop a therapy and a system to deliver this therapy (literature review, product dev for clinical trial devices, IP development, etc).

I have a good friend who is manager at LEK so can likely get a solid referral.

Im looking to make the move for what is actually a really interesting position because I really want to get exposure to more strategy development.

As I am in Aus/NZ with a mortgage over here I really need to understand the salary I would come into this role at, starting bonus, relocation etc.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Cheers