You will lead client workstreams to drive commercial strategy, including asset launches, portfolio growth, and enterprise-level transformation. The role involves synthesizing complex data into executive-ready recommendations and managing day-to-day client relationships to ensure successful project delivery.
Job Description & Requirements
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
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
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
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