Associate Business Consultant - Life Sciences Analytics

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Veeva Systems is hiring recent graduates into our Associate Business Consultant Development Program. You’ll grow into leading customer engagements, workshops, and data-driven solutions for Life Sciences clients.

The role emphasizes mentorship, hands-on practice, and cross-team collaboration to deliver value quickly. You’ll work with Analytics and Consulting teams, learning to translate data insights into strategic business outcomes while developing professional communications and project

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with strong academic performance.
• 0–2 years of professional experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Fluent in English.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Basic to intermediate Microsoft Office skills (PPT and Excel).
• Understanding of data and analytics and how they drive business outcomes.
• Basic understanding of SQL or Python.

Responsibilities

• Learn how to support and deliver all components of customer engagements.
• Collaborate with consultants to create deliverables that optimize operating models and analytics.
• Gain understanding of diverse projects and contribute to the Analytics consulting team.
• Conduct research to build industry and customer knowledge for consulting programs.
• Support customers to realize the full potential of our software.

Skills

Excellent communication

English fluency

Data analysis

Visual storytelling

Python

SQL

Excel

PowerPoint

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

SQL

Python

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $2B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

Launch your Life Sciences Consulting Career at Veeva! We are hiring recent university graduates to grow the next generation of leaders through our Business Consultant Development Program. Associate Business Consultants deepen their skills and knowledge on how to drive innovation and partnership for our Life Sciences customers (Pharma and Biotech).

Our early career program provides comprehensive skill workshops, personalized mentorship, and a collaborative culture, equipping you with the resources to drive your growth as a Business Consultant. Your development progresses further through practical experiences on our team. Early in the program, you collaborate with experienced Business Consultants on customer-facing engagements to create high-impact business solutions.

Veeva Business Consulting helps the Life Sciences work in a more efficient and connected way through software, data, and consulting. We deliver unique value to this industry through excellent business consulting services powered by Veeva’s industry-leading software and data.

Our Analytics team builds smarter business strategies for Life Sciences customers by leveraging Veeva’s cutting-edge industry data -- Data Cloud (Patient, Medical Claims, Engagement, Sales). We inform our customers to be more accurate in their targeting and segmentation, field team activation, and understanding of patient and healthcare professional behaviors. Learn more about our team’s impact and thought leadership through our Resource Hub (see Veeva Pulse Data & Insights) and this article.

We hire Associate Business Consultants across our different teams. If multiple teams interest you, apply to the one team of most interest to you. We would help find the best fit during interviews.

The anticipated start date is July 2026.

Work Authorization

Qualified candidates should be legally authorized to be employed in the EU.

Work Environment

Veeva is a Work Anywhere company. You can choose to work in an office or remotely from home on any given day of the week - it’s up to you! Although Veeva is Work from Anywhere, Associate Business Consultants must live within a maximum commuting distance of 45 minutes to 1 hour from Veeva’s Barcelona office.

What You'll Do

• Learn how to support and deliver all components of customer engagements (e.g., customer communications, workshops, stakeholder interviews, data analysis, managing timelines)
• Collaborate with Business Consultants to create deliverables that optimize customer operating models, process, and analytics
• Gain an understanding of our diverse range of projects, and contribute to the Veeva Analytics Business Consulting team
• Conduct research to build industry and customer knowledge used to deliver consulting programs and business development
• Support customers to realize the full potential of our Veeva Cloud software
• Learn how to leverage data and analytics to deliver business solutions

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with strong academic performance
• Don’t have a university degree? That’s okay, if you have the equivalent skills gained through work experience or disciplined self-study
• 0-2 years of professional experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Fluent in English
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Aptitude to grasp quantitative and technical concepts
• Ability to express business and technical concepts as potential strategic solutions
• Basic to Intermediate Microsoft Office skills (PPT and Excel)
• Understanding of data and analytics, and how they drive business outcomes
• Ability to analyze data and create visualizations and stories to illustrate a business solution
• Basic understanding of SQL, Python, or a comparable coding language
• Desire to work in an intense, dynamic environment
• Ability to manage time in person and remotely, prioritize and meet deadlines
• Willingness to commute to your Hub when asked. Typical requests would include project co-working or program team commitments that require being in person.
• Willingness to travel up to 25% of your time per year. Travel varies per customer engagement, coworking, internal meetings, and events with your team.

Nice to Have

• Prior work, studies, internship, or experience in consulting and/or Life Sciences
• Experience with software, data reporting, and/or data visualization tools
• Business application of SQL, Python, or comparable coding language
• Resilience and strong work ethic proven by a history of persevering through challenging work (e.g., part-time jobs/labor)
• Mission-driven mindset demonstrated through commitments (e.g., volunteering, athletics, student leadership, co-curriculars)
• Fluency in another European language (French, German, Spanish, Italian)

Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.

Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us at [e-mail].