Life Sciences Manager — Commercial Strategy

Overview ​ Join our Life Sciences Industry & Enterprise practice to help leading pharma, biotech, and medtech clients define commercial strategy and reinvent how commercial work gets done. This role focuses on leading strategy work across asset / brand strategy, launch, portfolio growth, market access, patient services, functional transformation, operating model, process redesign, and AI/data-enabled reinvention. ​ ​ What would you do? ​ As a Manager, you will lead client workstreams that help life sciences organizations make critical commercial decisions — from how to launch and grow assets to how to redesign functions and enterprise ways of working. ​ Your work could include: ​ Leading asset / brand strategy, launch, portfolio growth, market access, patient services, and broader commercial strategy workstreams ​ Assessing market dynamics, customer needs, competitive landscapes, access considerations, and commercial growth opportunities ​ Translating strategic recommendations into functional or enterprise implications across operating model, process, governance, capability, talent, and technology ​ Identifying where AI, analytics, automation, copilots, or agentic workflows can improve commercial decision-making, execution, or ways of working ​ Facilitating client discussions and synthesizing research, interviews, benchmarks, and data inputs into executive-ready recommendations ​ ​ In this role you will be expected to: ​ Anticipate risks, dependencies, and shifting client priorities; prepare teams to pivot as programs evolve while keeping delivery focused on outcomes ​ Shape client objectives into clear workplans, hypotheses, analyses, and deliverables ​ Lead workstreams and manage analysts/consultants to produce high-quality, client-ready outputs ​ Manage day-to-day client relationships, including working sessions, feedback, and next steps ​ Apply life sciences commercial knowledge to connect asset, customer, access, functional, and enterprise implications ​ Bring a robust point of view on the “right answer” and shift from executor to advisor ​ Use structured problem solving and storytelling to communicate recommendations clearly and persuasively ​ Define value unlock opportunities by identifying where commercial strategy can drive growth, efficiency, differentiation, or better customer / patient outcomes; shape the value story, KPIs, and implications for leadership decisions ​ Support AI/data-enabled strategy and reinvention work by shaping use cases, workflow fit, required inputs, risks, governance, and human-in-the-loop considerations ​ Support proactive commercial strategy / reinvention opportunities and proposals by shaping the client problem, workplan, solution approach, and value story ​ Contribute to thought capital by developing reusable perspectives, frameworks, case examples, and market-facing points of view on priority commercial topics Growth Opportunities ​ You will continue to grow through: ​ Leading high-priority commercial strategy and reinvention work for senior life sciences leaders ​ Building breadth across asset, function, and enterprise commercial strategy topics ​ Developing expertise in AI/data-enabled commercial strategy and future ways of working ​ Partnering across Accenture teams to bring together strategy, technology, analytics, operations, and industry expertise ​ Coaching analysts and consultants into future life sciences strategy practitioners Who do we need? ​ We would love to hear from you if you have: ​ Basic Qualifications Minimum of 6 years of life sciences commercial experience across asset / brand strategy, launch, portfolio growth, marketing, medical, market access, patient services, field, or commercial ops / transformation topics Minimum of 5 years of experience in strategy consulting, professional services, or an equivalent internal corporate-strategy role. Bachelor's Degree ​ Preferrred Qualifications ​ Ability to lead work across both asset-level strategy and functional / enterprise-level reinvention questions ​ Demonstrated ability to lead a workstream, manage clients, and coach junior team members ​ Strong client management skills, including ability to build trusted relationships, facilitate working sessions, manage feedback, align stakeholders, and communicate risks / tradeoffs clearly ​ Strong understanding of commercial strategy fundamentals such as market dynamics, customer behavior, access considerations, competitive positioning, value drivers, and launch / growth levers ​ Experience with operating model, process redesign, governance, capability building, transformation roadmap, or implementation planning work ​ Proactive mindset around innovative ways of working, including how AI, automation, copilots, and agentic workflows can improve productivity, quality, collaboration, and speed of execution ​ Working knowledge of AI/data concepts, including predictive analytics, GenAI, copilots, workflow automation, and agentic solutions ​ Practical understanding of how AI/data can be applied responsibly in commercial workflows, including where it creates value, what risks or dependencies must be managed, and how to support adoption with appropriate human oversight ​ Comfort partnering with technology, analytics, AI, and platform teams while staying anchored in the business problem ​ Proactive mindset around innovative ways of working, including how AI, automation, copilots, and agentic workflows can improve productivity, quality, collaboration, and speed of execution for external project & internal Accenture work ​ Strong PowerPoint, Excel, written communication, storytelling, facilitation, and executive communication skills ​ ​ Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. 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