Principal, EMEA Strategy Consulting

Principal, Strategic Advisory Consulting (Life Sciences Supply Chain & Operations)

Basel, Switzerland | Full time | Hybrid | R1536556

DTAS Strategic Advisory Consulting (Life Sciences Supply Chain & Operations)

IQVIA™ is The Human Data Science Company™, focused on using data and science to help healthcare clients find better solutions for their patients. IQVIA offers a broad range of solutions that harness advances in healthcare information, technology, analytics and human ingenuity to drive healthcare forward.

DTAS (Data, technology and Advisory Services) Strategic Advisory team, you will work directly with life sciences clients as a trusted partner, helping them navigate complex strategic, technological, and operational challenges. You will shape and deliver high‑impact consulting engagements for VP+ stakeholders, building deep client intimacy through insight‑driven dialogue, proactive partnership, and consistent delivery excellence.

You will be accountable for driving client satisfaction, identifying new opportunities, and achieving or exceeding assigned revenue targets.

IQVIA Global Advisory Services, EMEA Cluster is expanding its Life Sciences Supply Chain & Operations practice to support pharmaceutical and biotech clients in Europe. We are hiring for two key positions: a Principal/Sr. Principal and an Associate Principal/Manager – to lead and deliver projects that extend our clinical and commercial consulting offerings into supply chain and operations.

Both roles will be based in Germany or Switzerland with pan-European responsibilities. Prior experience in strategy consulting within pharmaceutical/biotech supply chain is strongly preferred, and the focus will be on commercial supply chains (manufacturing and distribution for marketed products, rather than clinical trial logistics).

The Principal/Sr. Principal will contribute to further expanding IQVIA’s supply chain and operations consulting initiatives in Europe, acting as the client engagement lead and subject matter expert. This is a senior leadership role responsible for shaping strategy, driving business development, and ensuring high-quality project delivery. You will help pharma and biotech clients optimize their end‑to‑end value chain – from manufacturing through distribution – to improve resilience, efficiency, and market success.

In this role, you will expand IQVIA’s consulting offerings by developing innovative solutions that integrate world‑class data assets with deep industry expertise
. You’ll address complex challenges with a holistic value chain perspective
, advising clients on how to enhance each step of the product lifecycle to ultimately advance patient health.

• Practice Leadership: Build and lead a regional consulting team focused on supply chain & operations. Define go‑to‑market strategy and new service offerings that complement IQVIA’s existing clinical and commercial consulting. Provide thought leadership on industry trends (e.g., supply chain digitalization, advanced analytics).
• Client Engagement & Delivery: Act as principal owner of consulting engagements, ensuring client satisfaction and high‑quality, value‑added deliverables. Lead project teams to solve critical operations challenges such as:
  • Manufacturing Network Strategy: Advise on manufacturing footprint optimization and localization vs. globalization decisions to boost resilience. For example, evaluate regionalizing/localizing production or nearshoring to improve supply chain agility, while balancing trade‑offs in cost and scale. Help clients realize efficiency gains /
    cost reduction through network optimization.
  • End‑to‑end Value Chain Planning & Operational Excellence: Oversee holistic value chain transformations that secure seamless sales and operations planning, eliminate waste and improve productivity/cost to serve. Implement S&OP processes,
    lean manufacturing or continuous improvement programs across client networks.
  • S&OP and Supply Planning: Implement or improve Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) processes to align demand forecasting with production and inventory planning. Use S&OP to proactively identify potential drug shortages and adjust…