Life Sciences Consultant — Commercial Strategy

Accenture PLC; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 70,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture Life Sciences is seeking a Consultant to support strategy work across asset/brand strategy, launch, portfolio growth, market access, patient services, and enterprise transformation. You will lead client workstreams, synthesize research, and translate insights into client-ready recommendations.

A background in life sciences strategy and strong presentation skills are essential. This role emphasizes AI/data-enabled reinvention, relationship-building with clients, and collaboration across

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 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 3 years of experience in strategy consulting, professional services, or an equivalent internal corporate-strategy role.

Responsibilities

• Support client workstreams to help life sciences organizations make critical commercial decisions.
• Own complex deliverables or workstream components from start to finish with limited guidance.
• Apply life sciences commercial knowledge to connect asset, customer, access, functional, and enterprise implications.
• Support AI/data-enabled strategy and reinvention work by defining use case objectives and risks.

Skills

Life sciences

Strategy consulting

Commercial strategy

PowerPoint

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Overview

Join our Life Sciences Industry & Enterprise practice to help leading pharma, biotech, and medtech clients define commercial strategy and reinvent how commercial work gets done. This role focuses on supporting strategy work acrossasset / brand strategy, launch, portfolio growth, market access, patient services, functional transformation, operating model, process redesign, and AI/data-enabled reinvention.

What would you do?

As a Consultant, you will support client workstreams that help life sciences organizations make critical commercial decisions — from how to launch and grow assets to how to redesign functions and enterprise ways of working.

Your work could include:

• Supporting asset / brand strategy, launch, portfolio growth, market access, patient services, and broader commercial strategy projects
• Assessing market dynamics, customer needs, competitive landscapes, access considerations, and commercial growth opportunities
• Supporting functional or enterprise reinvention work across operating model, process, governance, capability, and talent implications
• Identifying where AI, analytics, automation, copilots, or agentic workflows can improve commercial decision-making or execution
• Translating research, interviews, benchmarks, and data inputs into clear hypotheses, insights, and client-ready recommendations

In this role you will be expected to:

• Understand client and project objectives and proactively ask clarifying questions at the onset of work
• Own complex deliverables or workstream components from start to finish with limited guidance
• Conduct independent primary and secondary research and synthesize findings into hypotheses
• Apply life sciences commercial knowledge to connect asset, customer, access, functional, and enterprise implications
• Use structured problem solving and storytelling to communicate insights clearly in client-ready materials
• Build and apply strategy frameworks to break down ambiguous commercial questions and explore scenarios
• Support development of value cases by sizing commercial opportunities, defining assumptions, analyzing value drivers, and translating evidence into clear implications for strategy decisions
• Support AI/data-enabled strategy and reinvention work by defining use case objectives, workflow fit, required inputs, risks, and human-in-the-loop considerations
• Support proactive commercial strategy / reinvention opportunities and proposals by shaping the client problem, strategic approach, workplan, and value story
• Contribute to thought capital by developing reusable perspectives, frameworks, case examples, and market-facing points of view on priority commercial strategy topics
• Manage up effectively, flag risks early, and support analysts or peers through coaching, feedback, and work product review

Growth Opportunities

You will continue to grow through:

• Building broad commercial strategy experience across asset, function, and enterprise topics
• Supporting high-priority work for senior life sciences commercial leaders
• Developing expertise in commercial reinvention, AI/data-enabled strategy, and future ways of working
• Partnering across Accenture teams to bring together strategy, technology, analytics, operations, and industry expertise
• Growing into a workstream leader who can manage teams and advise clients across a range of commercial strategy questions

Who do we need?

We would love to hear from you if you have:

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 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 3 years of experience in strategy consulting, professional services, or an equivalent internal corporate-strategy role.
• Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to flex across asset-level strategy and functional / enterprise-level reinvention questions
• Strong problem-solving skills, including ability to structure ambiguous questions, synthesize research, and translate findings into recommendations
• Understanding of commercial strategy fundamentals such as market dynamics, customer behavior, access considerations, competitive positioning, value drivers, and launch / growth levers
• Exposure to operating model, process redesign, governance, capability building, or transformation roadmap work
• Working knowledge of AI/data concepts, including predictive analytics, GenAI, copilots, workflow automation, and agentic solutions
• Comfort partnering with technology, analytics, AI, and platform teams while staying anchored in the business problem
• Proactive mindset around innovative ways of working, including how AI, automation, copilots, and agentic workflows can improve productivity, quality, collaboration, and speed of execution for external project & internal Accenture work
• Strong PowerPoint, Excel, written communication, storytelling, and client-facing presentation skills

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We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 10/06/2026.

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here: U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture

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Virginia $59,100 to $188,100

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