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.​​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​​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…