Life Sciences Commercial Strategy Lead

Accenture; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 87,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture in Minneapolis is recruiting a Manager to lead Life Sciences commercial strategy work across asset/brand strategy, launch, market access, and AI-enabled reinvention. You will shape client objectives into actionable workplans, manage analysts, and drive executive-ready outputs.

Responsibilities span leading cross-functional teams, translating insights into enterprise implications, and advancing transformation programs with a focus on growth, efficiency, and patient outcomes.

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

Responsibilities

• Lead client workstreams that help life sciences organizations make critical commercial decisions — from launch and growth of assets to enterprise redesign
• Direct asset/brand strategy, launch, market access, patient services, and broader commercial strategy workstreams
• Assess market dynamics, customer needs, competitive landscapes, access considerations, and growth opportunities
• Translate strategic recommendations into functional or enterprise implications across operating model, process, governance, capability, talent, and technology
• Identify where AI, analytics, automation, copilots, or agentic workflows can improve commercial decision-making, execution, or ways of working
• Facilitate client discussions and synthesize research, interviews, benchmarks, and data into executive-ready recommendations
• Anticipate risks and pivot programs as priorities shift 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 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 and shape the value story, KPIs, and implications for leadership decisions
• Support AI/data-enabled strategy and reinvention work by shaping use cases, workflow fit, 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 with reusable perspectives, frameworks, and market-facing points of view

Skills

Life sciences commercial experience

Strategy consulting

Client management

PowerPoint

Excel

Written communication

Storytelling

Facilitation

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

Accenture in Minneapolis is recruiting a Manager to lead Life Sciences commercial strategy work across asset/brand strategy, launch, market access, and AI-enabled reinvention. You will shape client objectives into actionable workplans, manage analysts, and drive executive-ready outputs.

Responsibilities span leading cross-functional teams, translating insights into enterprise implications, and advancing transformation programs with a focus on growth, efficiency, and patient outcomes.