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MBA Strategic Thinking for Pharma and Biopharma Professionals Training Course

Working in the highly competitive pharmaceutical industry, with ever-increasing change and pressure, is probably one of the most challenging managerial roles of any industry today.

★★★★★ "All good! I learn quite some insights. As a researcher I was unsure if I would understand the conten... more"

16-17 June 2025
+ 2-3 October 2025 »
from £999

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Format: Live online
CPD: 12 hours for your records
Certificate of completion

Course overview

Working in the highly competitive pharmaceutical industry, with ever-increasing change and pressure, is probably one of the most challenging managerial roles of any industry today.

This MBA strategic thinking workshop has been especially designed to help you transcend these challenges by training you to become equipped to see the bigger picture in all aspects of your role. This two day interactive workshop will provide practical strategic thinking tools taught on MBAs to apply to your role. It will help you build your strategic thinking skills to guide the direction of your teams, develop strategies to key pharma and biopharma business problems, create a vision for the future, and implement strategic thinking within your team. You will gain new ways of thinking, making choices and implementing them using ‘Helicopter’ or ‘Strategic Thinking’. You will be able to implement what you have learnt on the course and immediately apply this into the workplace.

The workshop will focus on a number of areas in the pharmaceutical industry using MBA strategic business cases.

Key areas covered:

What is MBA ‘strategy’ & ‘strategic thinking’ - and the importance of this within the pharma and biopharma industry?
How artificial intelligence (AI) innovations are being used and developed in the pharma industry
Building strategic plans for your teams, group and/or organisation
Application to pharma case studies, your issues and at a departmental, and individual level
How to use the MBA strategic thinking tool-kit

This training course is part of our collection of Leadership & Management Training Courses which focus on leadership, innovation, strategy, communication, finance, problem solving and conflict management, to name a few key areas.

Who should attend?

All those in the pharmaceutical industry who make strategic choices, and who feel that they could rise to future challenges by being more strategic, behaviourally skilled, and creative. Managers who are keen to be able to deliver strategy more easily and to then evaluate its effectiveness - whether technical or commercial.

This is particularly relevant to heads of teams/departments, those responsible for leading a project, or those in roles attempting to influence other areas of their organisation, especially in matrix management.

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This course will cover:

Day 1
Day 2

Introduction and objectives

What is strategy and strategic thinking?

Helicopter thinking
The importance of strategy for the pharmaceutical industry
Artificial Intelligence (AI) being used in the pharma industry
The Strategy Process and tool strategic kit used on MBAs

Environmental analysis

Strategy tools
Competitive analysis
Case study in the pharmaceutical industry
Critical thinking model and application

Generating and evaluating Strategic Options

Creativity for generating options
Evaluating strategic options
Pharma case study continued

Strategy Implementation

Strategic project implementation
Leadership
Change management (pharma case study)

Behavioural

Effective and strategic communication (pharma case study)
Managing stakeholders and influencing agendas
Behaving strategically

Evaluation

Monitoring implementation
Performance drivers and indicators
Problem diagnosis

Application

Business plan structure
How to apply the strategic tools following the course

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Laura Brown
Independent Pharmaceutical Consultant

Dr Laura Brown MBA is an independent Pharmaceutical Training and Management Consultant, and visiting lecturer at Cranfield School of Management, a leading European business school. Laura has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 25 years. She has facilitated strategy development for a number of teams in the pharmaceutical industry.

Laura has also co-authored several books on strategy and related areas including “Be Your Own Strategy Consultant”, “Value-Based HR Strategy”, “Strategic Project Management” and “Pharmaceutical Project Management”.

More details

NEW higher discounts for multiple bookings - bring your colleagues to make your training budget go further:

30% off the 2nd delegate*
40% off the 3rd delegate*
50% off the 4th delegate*

Please contact us for pricing if you are interested in booking 5 or more delegates

16-17 June 2025

Live online

09:30-16:30 UK (London) (UTC+01)
10:30-17:30 Paris (UTC+02)
04:30-11:30 New York (UTC-04)
Course code 14646

GBP 1,199
EUR 1,679
USD 1,919

2 days live online training
Browser-based, no download usually required
See presenters and interact with fellow attendees
Download documentation and certification of completion
Fair transfer and cancellation policy

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2-3 October 2025

Live online

09:30-16:30 UK (London) (UTC+01)
10:30-17:30 Paris (UTC+02)
04:30-11:30 New York (UTC-04)
Course code 14964

GBP 999 1,199
EUR 1,399 1,679
USD 1,607 1,919

Until 28 Aug

2 days live online training
Browser-based, no download usually required
See presenters and interact with fellow attendees
Download documentation and certification of completion
Fair transfer and cancellation policy

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Not ready to book yet?

for 7 days, no obligation

* Early booking discounts may not be combined with other discounts or offers. As such, the discounts for 2nd/3rd/4th delegates are based on the full price; and apply only when booking multiple delegates on the same date.

Reviews of IPI's MBA Strategic Thinking for Pharma and Biopharma Professionals training course

All good! I learn quite some insights. As a researcher I was unsure if I would understand the content of the course entirely, but I did not have any problem; plus, I learned new tools and techniques that I will definitely implement. 5* - I would recommend.

Feb 24 2025

Clara Vázquez García Germany
Immunology Dept., Max Delbrück Center

Feb 24 2025

Very knowledgeable [speaker, who] brought the course to life by dipping into her own experiences of some scenarios which made the course very relatable.

Derek Lilley United Kingdom
National Account Manager, Colonis Pharma Ltd