Accenture

Life Sciences Manager -- Commercial Transformation & Enablement

Accenture$100K — $270K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in life sciences commercial roles (field, marketing, market access, etc.)
  • 5+ years in strategy consulting or similar corporate role
  • Bachelor's degree required
  • Proven leadership in managing clients and workstreams
  • Strong understanding of commercial processes and governance
  • Experience with technology-enabled transformation in life sciences
  • Knowledge of platforms like CRM, Salesforce, omnichannel, and analytics

Responsibilities

  • Activate commercial operating model changes across various functions
  • Translate strategy into business requirements and implementation plans
  • Support technology transformations in CRM and patient services
  • Identify automation opportunities to enhance execution and decision-making
  • Lead workshops with cross-functional teams to drive outcomes
  • Anticipate project risks and pivot plans when necessary
  • Manage client relationships and ensure effective communication regarding project status

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability insurance
  • 401(k) plan with employer matching
  • Bonus opportunities based on performance
  • Paid holidays and time off
  • Access to resources for professional development
Full Job Description
Overview

Join our Life Sciences Industry & Enterprise practice to help leading pharma, biotech, and medtech clients translate commercial ambition into executable transformation. This role focuses on activating commercial change across field, marketing, market access, patient services, medical, and commercial operations through operating model activation, process redesign, business requirements, technology enablement, change, and adoption.

What would you do?

As a Manager, you will lead client workstreams that move commercial strategy from design into execution. You will help clients understand how work gets done today, define how it needs to change, and build the practical plans, requirements, governance, and adoption approach needed to make transformation real.

Your work could include:

  • Activating commercial operating model changes across field, marketing, access, patient services, medical, and commercial operations
  • Translating strategy into future-state processes, business requirements, user stories, decision rights, governance, and implementation plans
  • Supporting technology-enabled transformation across CRM, content, omnichannel, patient services, workflow, analytics, and reporting platforms
  • Identifying how AI, automation, copilots, or agentic workflows can improve commercial execution, handoffs, decision-making, and productivity
  • Leading cross-functional workshops with business, technology, analytics, operations, change, and training stakeholders


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 ambiguous transformation objectives into clear workplans, milestones, deliverables, and decision points
  • Lead workstreams and manage analysts/consultants to produce client-ready outputs
  • Manage day-to-day client relationships, including working sessions, feedback, risks, and next steps
  • Translate commercial strategy into operating model activation, process design, business requirements, change impacts, and adoption plans
  • Identify and govern value unlock opportunities by linking transformation activities to measurable business outcomes, value cases, KPIs, and realization plans
  • Apply life sciences commercial knowledge to connect workflow, governance, data, technology, compliance, and talent implications
  • Partner with technology, analytics, AI, operations, and change teams to ensure solutions are practical and executable
  • Manage dependencies, issues, risks, stakeholder alignment, and rollout readiness across complex transformation programs
  • Manage delivery discipline across workplans, milestones, dependencies, RAID logs, stakeholder decisions, testing / UAT needs, rollout readiness, and adoption activities
  • Support proactive commercial transformation opportunities and proposals by shaping the client problem, workplan, solution approach, delivery model, and value story
  • Contribute to thought capital by developing reusable perspectives, frameworks, case examples, and market-facing points of view on commercial transformation, enablement, AI/data, and future ways of working


Growth Opportunities

You will continue to grow through:

  • Leading commercial transformation work that turns strategy into executable change for major life sciences clients
  • Building expertise across operating model activation, process redesign, technology enablement, AI/data, change, and adoption
  • Partnering across Accenture teams to deliver integrated strategy, technology, operations, analytics, and change solutions
  • Developing market-facing perspectives on commercial transformation and AI-enabled ways of working
  • Coaching analysts and consultants into future life sciences transformation 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 one or more commercial functions: field, marketing, market access, patient services, medical, or commercial operations
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in strategy consulting, professional services, or an equivalent internal corporate-strategy role.
  • Bachelor's Degree


Preferred Qualifications:
  • 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 workflows, cross-functional handoffs, governance, regulatory / compliance considerations, and capability needs
  • Experience translating business needs into process designs, business requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, implementation plans, or change impacts
  • Comfort partnering across operations, technology, analytics, AI, change management, training, and business teams
  • Experience supporting technology-enabled transformation or rollout efforts within the life sciences commercial sector
  • Working knowledge of platforms and capabilities such as CRM, Veeva/Salesforce, content/MLR, omnichannel, patient services, reporting dashboards, workflow automation, or analytics platforms
  • Practical understanding of AI/data-enabled transformation, including use case intake, workflow fit, data/system dependencies, guardrails, testing, adoption, measurement, and human-in-the-loop governance
  • 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, facilitation, stakeholder management, written communication, and executive storytelling 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 $94,400 to $293,800
Cleveland $87,400 to $235,000
Colorado $94,400 to $253,800
District of Columbia $100,500 to $270,300
Illinois $87,400 to $253,800
Maine $80,400 to $216,200
Maryland $94,400 to $253,800
Massachusetts $94,400 to $270,300
Minnesota $94,400 to $253,800
New York $87,400 to $293,800
New Jersey $100,500 to $293,800
Virginia $87,400 to $270,300
Washington $100,500 to $270,300

About Accenture

Accenture plc is a multinational professional services company that provides services in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations. The company has more than 537,000 employees serving clients in more than 120 countries. Accenture operates across five business segments: Communications, Media & Technology; Financial Services; Health & Public Service; Products; and Resources. The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and has offices worldwide.
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