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.

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.

• 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

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

We would love to hear from you if you have:

• 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

• 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

• Strong client management skills, including ability to build trusted relationships, facilitate working sessions, manage feedback, align stakeholders, and communicate risks / tradeoffs clearly

• Strong understanding of commercial strategy fundamentals such as market dynamics, customer behavior, access considerations, competitive positioning, value drivers, and launch / growth levers

• Experience with operating model, process redesign, governance, capability building, transformation roadmap, or implementation planning work

• Proactive mindset around innovative ways of working, including how AI, automation, copilots, and agentic workflows can improve productivity, quality, collaboration, and speed of execution

• Working knowledge of AI/data concepts, including predictive analytics, GenAI, copilots, workflow automation, and agentic solutions

• Practical understanding of how AI/data can be applied responsibly in commercial workflows, including where it creates value, what risks or…