Life Sciences Consultant - 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 supporting strategy work across asset / brand strategy, launch, portfolio growth, market access, patient services, functional transformation, operating model, process redesign, and AI/data-enabled reinvention. ​

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What would you do?  ​

As a Consultant, you will support client work streams 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:  ​

+ Supporting asset / brand strategy, launch, portfolio growth, market access, patient services, and broader commercial strategy projects ​

+ Assessing market dynamics, customer needs, competitive landscapes, access considerations, and commercial growth opportunities ​

+ Supporting functional or enterprise reinvention work across operating model, process, governance, capability, and talent implications ​

+ Identifying where AI, analytics, automation, copilots, or agentic workflows can improve commercial decision-making or execution ​

+ Translating research, interviews, benchmarks, and data inputs into clear hypotheses, insights, and client-ready recommendations ​

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In this role you will be expected to:  ​

+ Understand client and project objectives and proactively ask clarifying questions at the onset of work ​

+ Own complex deliverables or workstream components from start to finish with limited guidance ​

+ Conduct independent primary and secondary research and synthesize findings into hypotheses ​

+ Apply life sciences commercial knowledge to connect asset, customer, access, functional, and enterprise implications ​

+ Use structured problem solving and storytelling to communicate insights clearly in client-ready materials ​

+ Build and apply strategy frameworks to break down ambiguous commercial questions and explore scenarios ​

+ Support development of value cases by sizing commercial opportunities, defining assumptions, analyzing value drivers, and translating evidence into clear implications for strategy decisions ​

+ Support AI/data-enabled strategy and reinvention work by defining use case objectives, workflow fit, required inputs, risks, and human-in-the-loop considerations ​

+ Support proactive commercial strategy / reinvention opportunities and proposals by shaping the client problem, strategic approach, workplan, and value story ​

+ Contribute to thought capital by developing reusable perspectives, frameworks, case examples, and market-facing points of view on priority commercial strategy topics ​

+ Manage up effectively, flag risks early, and support analysts or peers through coaching, feedback, and work product review

Growth Opportunities  ​

You will continue to grow through: ​

+ Building broad commercial strategy experience across asset, function, and enterprise topics ​

+ Supporting high-priority work for senior life sciences commercial leaders ​

+ Developing expertise in commercial reinvention, AI/data-enabled strategy, and future ways of working ​

+ Partnering across Accenture teams to bring together strategy, technology, analytics, operations, and industry expertise ​

+ Growing into a workstream leader who can manage teams and advise clients across a range of commercial strategy questions

Who do we need?  ​

We would love to hear from you if you have: ​

Basic Qualifications

+ Minimum of 3 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 3 years of experience in strategy consulting, professional services, or an equivalent internal corporate-strategy role.

+ Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Qualifications

+ Ability to flex across asset-level strategy and functional / enterprise-level reinvention questions ​

+ Strong problem-solving skills, including ability to structure ambiguous questions, synthesize research, and translate findings into…