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. ​

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What would you do?  ​

As a Manager, you will lead 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:  ​

+ Leading asset / brand strategy, launch, portfolio growth, market access, patient services, and broader commercial strategy work streams ​

+ 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 ​

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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 work streams 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

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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…