Consulting Partner - Life Sciences & Medical Devices

Wipro; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 190,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental benefits

Competitive compensation

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

Wipro Consulting is scaling its Life Sciences & Medical Devices business, driven by AI-enabled drug discovery, personalized medicine, and geopolitics. You will own C-suite relationships globally, translating strategy into large-scale technology and BPO programs for biopharma, biotech scale-ups, and MedTech majors.

Your remit includes end-to-end R&D digitization, clinical-trial modernization, quality and regulatory improvements, and smart manufacturing, backed by vast resources and proprietary AI

Qualifications

• 15+ years in top-tier strategy or Big-4 advisory, incl. 7+ yrs life-sciences / MedTech leadership

Responsibilities

• Originate growth: Identify whitespace, craft C-suite narratives, and close $10 M+ advisory bookings annually, anchoring $100 M+ tech/BPO follow-ons
• Advise C-suites: Act as trusted voice on AI-augmented R&D, digital trials, smart factories, and product-as-a-service commercialization
• Steer transformations: Govern multi-tower programs (PLM modernization, eTMF digitization, connected-device roll-out, GenAI regulatory automation) ensuring benefits realization and CSAT > 4.8/5
• Create IP and ventures: Incubate differentiating benchmarks, twin platforms, and data products; spin out solution ventures with independent growth targets
• Amplify leadership: Publish 3-4 flagship POVs per year, keynote major forums, and secure analyst citations that elevate Wipro’s brand
• Develop talent: Recruit, mentor, and sponsor a diverse cadre of junior partners / senior managers, embed a psychologically safe, high-performance culture
• Forge alliances: Build strategic partnerships with CROs, CDMOs, cloud/hyperscaler labs, and regulators to co-create market offerings
• Own the P&L: Manage full consulting P&L for assigned accounts, drive forecast accuracy, safeguard margins, reinvest in growth accelerators
• Govern practice: Shape investment roadmaps, prioritize solution backlog, and propagate agile ways-of-working across a global delivery footprint
• Strategy pedigree: 15 + years in top-tier strategy or Big-4 advisory, incl. 7+ yrs life-sciences / MedTech leadership

Skills

C-suite relationships

Strategic advisory

GenAI knowledge

Education

15+ years in top-tier strategy or Big-4 advisory with life-sciences / MedTech leadership

Tools

Cloud platforms

GenAI tooling

Job description

Wipro Consulting is scaling its Life Sciences & Medical Devices consulting business just as AI-driven drug discovery, personalized medicine, and geo-political supply-chain shocks converge. Reporting to the Americas Managing Partner for Life Sciences, you will own C-suite relationships across global biopharma, biotech scale-ups, and MedTech majors originating board-room advisory work that converts into large-scale technology and BPO programs.

Ambition – Expected impact & outcomes

Your remit spans the full product lifecycle re-imagining R&D, digitizing clinical trials, modernizing quality & regulatory, and scaling smart manufacturing while shortening time-to-market and improving patient outcomes. Backed by ~230,000 technologists and proprietary AI accelerators, you will launch signature IP (e.g., benchmarks, data assets, platform ventures) that amplify Wipro’s provider voice. Success will be tracked along three vectors:

• Impact (e.g., faster trial cycle-times, first-pass regulatory approvals, 100+ bps margin expansion)
• Growth ($10 M+ new consulting revenue per year, $50 M+ pull-through across tech & BPO)
• Eminence (top-tier analyst ranking, talent development and thought leadership)

This is a rare opportunity to translate visionary science into systemic industry transformation at global scale.

Job description

Wipro Consulting is scaling its Life Sciences & Medical Devices consulting business just as AI-driven drug discovery, personalized medicine, and geo-political supply-chain shocks converge. Reporting to the Americas Managing Partner for Life Sciences, you will own C-suite relationships across global biopharma, biotech scale-ups, and MedTech majors originating board-room advisory work that converts into large-scale technology and BPO programs.

Ambition – Expected impact & outcomes

Your remit spans the full product lifecycle re-imagining R&D, digitizing clinical trials, modernizing quality & regulatory, and scaling smart manufacturing while shortening time-to-market and improving patient outcomes. Backed by ~230,000 technologists and proprietary AI accelerators, you will launch signature IP (e.g., benchmarks, data assets, platform ventures) that amplify Wipro’s provider voice. Success will be tracked along three vectors:

Impact (e.g., faster trial cycle-times, first-pass regulatory approvals, 100+ bps margin expansion)

Growth ($10 M+ new consulting revenue per year, $50 M+ pull-through across tech & BPO)

Eminence (top-tier analyst ranking, talent development and thought leadership)

This is a rare opportunity to translate visionary science into systemic industry transformation at global scale.

Key responsibilities

• Originate growth: Identify whitespace, craft C-suite narratives, and close $10 M+ advisory bookings annually, anchoring $100 M+ tech/BPO follow-ons
• Advise C-suites: Act as trusted voice on AI-augmented R&D, digital trials, smart factories, and product-as-a-service commercialization to translate vision into funded roadmaps
• Steer transformations: Govern multi-tower programs (PLM modernization, eTMF digitization, connected-device roll-out, GenAI regulatory automation) ensuring benefits realization and CSAT > 4.8/5
• Create IP and ventures: Incubate differentiating benchmarks, twin platforms, and data products; spin out solution ventures with independent growth targets
• Amplify leadership: Publish 3-4 flagship POVs per year, keynote major forums, and secure analyst citations that elevate Wipro’s brand
• Develop talent: Recruit, mentor, and sponsor a diverse cadre of junior partners / senior managers, embed a psychologically safe, high-performance culture
• Forge alliances: Build strategic partnerships with CROs, CDMOs, cloud/hyperscaler labs, and regulators to co-create market offerings
• Own the P&L: Manage full consulting P&L for assigned accounts, drive forecast accuracy, safeguard margins, reinvest in growth accelerators
• Govern practice: Shape investment roadmaps, prioritize solution backlog, and propagate agile ways-of-working across a global delivery footprint

• Strategy pedigree: 15 + years in top-tier strategy or Big-4 advisory, incl. 7+ yrs life-sciences / MedTech leadership

Our next partner would have…

• Client Obsession: Builds trust-based CXO networks across pharma R&D, clinical, quality, and MedTech business units, anticipates needs and turns insight into business impact and tangible opportunities
• Commercial track record: Personally sold & led $100 M + cumulative advisory revenue, fluent negotiating at the executive level
• Domain mastery: End-to-end command of drug/device lifecycle discovery to post-market surveillance and global regulatory landscapes (FDA, EMA, PMDA)
• Transformation gravitas: Oversaw multi-tower programs touching 50+ assets or 100+ manufacturing lines and $1 B+ spend
• Market authority: Published author, keynote speaker, or quoted expert, creator of data assets and solution blueprints that set industry agendas
• Inclusive leader: Proven sponsor of DEI initiatives, builds psychologically safe, high-performing teams across markets
• Entrepreneurial drive: Operates with founder’s urgency, thrives amid ambiguity and rapid iteration
• Tech Fluency: Conversant in cloud, GenAI, digital twins, cybersecurity, and GxP digital-thread fundamentals
• Academic Rigor: PhD, MBA, MD, or bio-informatics / biomedical-engineering credentials from a top institution

About Wipro Consulting

Wipro Consulting is the strategy and transformation arm of Wipro Limited, a global technology services leader with over USD 11 billion in annual revenue and operations in 66 countries. We fuse board-room insight with engineering execution to help clients navigate seismic shifts in digital, sustainability, and talent. Our 10,000+ consultants many alumni of McKinsey, Accenture, Bain, BCG, and the Big-4 work shoulder-to-shoulder with Wipro’s ~230,000 technologists, forming cross-functional squads that move at start-up speed while de-risking at enterprise scale.

In Life Sciences and Medical Devices, we have guided Big-Pharma through digital lab transformations, enabled AI-driven molecule discovery, modernized global QMS for MedTech leaders, and deployed smart-factory twins across vaccine and device plants.

We are equally committed to people and planet. Wipro was among the first global tech firms to pledge Net-Zero emissions by 2040 and is repeatedly recognized for its diversity, equity, and inclusion leadership. Through the Wipro Foundation, we contribute over $30 M annually to education and community-health programs worldwide.

Join us to wield the combined power of strategic thinking, deep technology, and purposeful stewardship—creating a healthier, more equitable future for all.

Reinvent your world.

We are building a modern Wipro. We are an end-to-end digital transformation partner with the boldest ambitions. To realize them, we need people inspired by reinvention. Of yourself, your career, and your skills. We want to see the constant evolution of our business and our industry. It has always been in our DNA - as the world around us changes, so do we. Join a business powered by purpose and a place that empowers you to design your own reinvention.

The expected compensation for this role ranges from $190,000.00 to$265,000.00.

Final compensation will depend on various factors, including your geographical location, minimum wage obligations, skills, and relevant experience. Based on the position, the role is also eligible for Wipro’s standard benefits including a full range of medical and dental benefits options, disability insurance, paid time off (inclusive of sick leave), other paid and unpaid leave options.

Applicants are advised that employment in some roles may be conditioned on successful completion of a post-offer drug screening, subject to applicable state law.

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