Life Sciences Commercial Strategy Manager

Accenture; Walnut Creek (CA); On-site; USD 87,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Life Sciences is seeking a Manager to lead client workstreams that help pharma, biotech, and medtech organizations make critical commercial decisions, from launch and growth to operating model changes and AI-enabled reinvention.

You will shape strategies, manage analysts, and collaborate across asset, brand, market access, and enterprise topics while building trusted relationships and delivering executive-ready recommendations.

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

• Leading asset / brand strategy, launch, portfolio growth, market access, patient services, and broader commercial strategy workstreams
• Assessing market dynamics, customer needs, competitive landscapes, access considerations, and commercial growth opportunities
• Translating strategic recommendations into functional or enterprise implications across operating model, process, governance, capability, talent, and technology
• Identifying where AI, analytics, automation, copilots, or agentic workflows can improve commercial decision-making, execution, or ways of working
• Facilitating client discussions and synthesizing research, interviews, benchmarks, and data inputs into executive-ready recommendations
• Anticipate risks, dependencies, and shifting client priorities; prepare teams to pivot as programs evolve 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, client-ready 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 by identifying where commercial strategy can drive growth, efficiency, differentiation, or better customer / patient outcomes; shape the value story, KPIs, and implications for leadership decisions
• Support AI/data-enabled strategy and reinvention work by shaping use cases, workflow fit, required inputs, 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 by developing reusable perspectives, frameworks, case examples, and market-facing points of view on priority commercial topics

Job description

Accenture Life Sciences is seeking a Manager to lead client workstreams that help pharma, biotech, and medtech organizations make critical commercial decisions, from launch and growth to operating model changes and AI-enabled reinvention.

You will shape strategies, manage analysts, and collaborate across asset, brand, market access, and enterprise topics while building trusted relationships and delivering executive-ready recommendations.