OverviewJoin 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 workstreams 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 workstreams
- 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 workstreams 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 OpportunitiesYou 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
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
- 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 dependencies must be managed, and how to support adoption with appropriate human oversight
- Comfort partnering with technology, analytics, AI, and platform teams while staying anchored in the business problem
- Proactive mindset around innovative ways of working, including how AI, automation, copilots, and agentic workflows can improve productivity, quality, collaboration, and speed of execution for external project & internal Accenture work
- Strong PowerPoint, Excel, written communication, storytelling, facilitation, and executive communication skills
Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 09/12/2026.
Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here:
U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture
Role Location Annual Salary Range
California $87,400 to $253,000
Cleveland $87,400 to $253,000
Colorado $87,400 to $253,000
District of Columbia $87,400 to $253,000
Illinois $87,400 to $253,000
Maine $87,400 to $253,000
Maryland $87,400 to $253,000
Massachusetts $87,400 to $253,000
Minnesota $87,400 to $253,000
New York $87,400 to $253,000
New Jersey $87,400 to $253,000
Virginia $87,400 to $253,000
Washington $87,400 to $253,000