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.

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.

• 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

• 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

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

We would love to hear from you if you have:

• 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

• 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 recommendations
• Understanding of commercial strategy fundamentals such as market dynamics, customer behavior, access considerations, competitive…