ZS Associates

Product Advisory Consultant

ZS Associates$110K — $130K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree; Master's degree preferred
  • 6-10 years in management consulting and product management/ownership
  • Experience in product operating model/agile transformations
  • Strong facilitation and communication skills
  • Excellent organization and project management
  • Experience in Lifesciences preferred
  • Willingness to travel as necessary

Responsibilities

  • Lead clients through digital transformation in product development
  • Design target operating models for enterprise organizations
  • Create playbooks and frameworks for product management best practices
  • Facilitate workshops for executive alignment and decision-making
  • Deliver structured presentations and insights, including executive-level decks
  • Act as primary client contact and build relationships
  • Coach product managers and run agile training sessions
  • Shape operational workflows and tool usage

Benefits

  • Comprehensive rewards package supporting health, finance, and development
  • Skills-building programs and tailored career progression paths
  • Internal mobility opportunities for role expansion
  • Flexibility in hybrid work model, combining remote and on-site work
  • Emphasis on meaningful work and collaboration in a global community
Full Job Description


What you'll do: Product Advisory Consultant in the Digital Product Management Expertise Center will...

Our team partners with clients in pharma, med-tech, and beyond to discover, build, and deliver digital products their users and customers value. We lead our clients through digital transformations that change how they build digital products. We help them adopt a product operating model, embed agile ways of working, and apply a genuine product mindset across their digital investments. We measure our success by the outcomes our clients achieve once we've changed how they work.

What you'll do

As a Product Advisory Consultant, you will take clients from where they are today to a materially better way of working. Engagements range from maturing the ways of working of high-performing teams to standing up, or rebuilding, digital product organizations from the ground up. You will move fluidly between executive-level partnership and hands-on, in-the-weeds support for individual product managers.

On large-scale transformations, you will partner with senior leaders to design the next generation of enterprise digital organizations. Drawing on deep expertise in product management and agile ways of working, you will shape how teams operate across strategic planning, governance, decision rights, ceremonies, and core product artifacts. You will diagnose the current state, define the target operating model, build the playbooks that make it real, facilitate the workshops that drive alignment, and solve the organizational-design problems that determine whether a transformation actually sticks.

You will own workstreams end-to-end, structure ambiguous problems into a clear path forward, and bring the executive presence to influence senior stakeholders, all while coaching the product managers doing the day-to-day work.
  • Lead clients through transformations of digital product development team ways of working
  • Design target operating models for enterprise digital organizations: team topologies, roles, decision rights, governance, and intake/prioritization
  • Build the playbooks, frameworks, and reference materials that codify product-management best practice and make new ways of working repeatable
  • Design and facilitate executive workshops and working sessions that drive alignment and unlock hard decisions
  • Synthesize data-driven insights and deliver structured verbal and written presentations, including executive-level PowerPoint decks
  • Develop client relationships and serve as key point of contact on projects
  • Coach product managers, product owners, and leaders on product development and agile practice; run trainings that build lasting in-house capability
  • Shape the workflows and tooling (Jira, Confluence, Productboard, Aha!, and similar) that operationalize the operating model

What you'll bring:
  • Bachelor's Degree. Master's degree preferred
  • 6-10 years of combined experience across client-facing management consulting and product management/product ownership roles
  • Direct experience with product operating model/agile transformations
  • High energy level, with strong facilitation and verbal/written communication skills
  • Strong organization, project management and prioritization skills
  • Experience working in/with Lifesciences preferred
  • Ability to travel as needed
  • Fluency in English
  • Client-first mentality
  • Intense work ethic
  • Collaborative spirit and problem-solving approach

How you'll grow:
  • Cross-functional skills development & custom learning pathways
  • Milestone training programs aligned to career progression opportunities
  • Internal mobility paths that empower growth via s-curves, individual contribution and role expansions


Perks & Benefits:

At ZS, your growth matters. We offer a comprehensive total rewards package that supports your health and well-being, financial future, time away, and professional development. With robust skills-building programs, multiple career progression paths, internal mobility, and a deeply collaborative culture, you'll have the opportunity to do meaningful work, expand your capabilities, and thrive as part of a global community. For details on total rewards in United States, visit ZS US office locations | Where we work | ZS.

Hybrid working model:

We are committed to giving our employees a flexible and connected way of working. A flexible and connected ZS allows us to combine work from home and on-site presence at clients/ZS offices for the majority of our week. The magic of ZS culture and innovation thrives in both planned and spontaneous face-to-face connections.

Travel:

Travel is a requirement at ZS for client facing ZSers; business needs of your project and client are the priority. While some projects may be local, all client-facing ZSers should be prepared to travel as needed. Travel provides opportunities to strengthen client relationships, gain diverse experiences, and enhance professional growth by working in different environments and cultures.

About ZS Associates

ZS is a professional services firm that works side by side with companies to help develop and deliver products that drive customer value and company results. From R&D to portfolio strategy, customer insights, marketing and sales strategy, operations and technology, we leverage our deep industry expertise and leading-edge analytics to create solutions that work in the real world. Our most valuable asset is our people?a fact that?s reflected in our values-driven organization in which new perspectives are integral and new ideas are celebrated. ZSers are passionately committed to helping companies and their customers thrive in industries ranging from healthcare and life sciences, to high-tech, financial services, travel and transportation, and beyond.
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Size
10,000 employees
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Founded
1983

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