Life Sciences Manager — Commercial Strategy

1000 Accenture LLP Company; New York (NY); On-site; USD 87,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental & Vision

401(k) plan

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Manager to lead client workstreams in life sciences commercial strategy, helping pharma, biotech, and medtech clients define launch plans, portfolio growth, and market access. You will translate insights into enterprise targets and coach analysts to deliver executive-ready outputs.

The role emphasizes AI/data-enabled reinvention, operating model redesign, and cross-functional collaboration across asset, function, and enterprise levels.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 years of life sciences commercial experience across asset/brand strategy, launch, marketing, market access, patient services, or related topics.
• Minimum of 5 years of strategy consulting, professional services, or an equivalent internal corporate-strategy role.

Responsibilities

• Lead client workstreams to help life sciences organizations make strategic commercial decisions.
• Shape objectives into clear workplans, hypotheses, analyses, and deliverables.
• Drive asset/brand strategy, launch, portfolio growth, and market access initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Client management

Strategy development

Communication

Problem solving

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 leading strategy work across asset / 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 Manager, you will lead 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:

• 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

In this role you will be expected to:

• 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

Growth Opportunities

You will continue to grow through:

• Leading high-priority commercial strategy and reinvention work for senior life sciences leaders


• Building breadth across asset, function, and enterprise commercial strategy topics


• Developing expertise in AI/data-enabled commercial strategy and future ways of working


• Partnering across Accenture teams to bring together strategy, technology, analytics, operations, and industry expertise


• Coaching analysts and consultants into future life sciences strategy practitioners

Who do we need?

Basic 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to lead work across both asset-level strategy and functional / enterprise-level reinvention questions


• Demonstrated ability to lead a workstream, manage clients, and coach junior team members


• Strong client management skills, including ability to build trusted relationships, facilitate working sessions, manage feedback, align stakeholders, and communicate risks / tradeoffs clearly


• Strong understanding of commercial strategy fundamentals such as market dynamics, customer behavior, access considerations, competitive positioning, value drivers, and launch / growth levers


• Experience with operating model, process redesign, governance, capability building, transformation roadmap, or implementation planning work


• Proactive mindset around innovative ways of working, including how AI, automation, copilots, and agentic workflows can improve productivity, quality, collaboration, and speed of execution


• Working knowledge of AI/data concepts, including predictive analytics, GenAI, copilots, workflow automation, and agentic solutions


• Practical understanding of how AI/data can be applied responsibly in commercial workflows, including where it creates value, what risks or dependencies must be managed, and how to support adoption with appropriate human oversight


• 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

Compensation at Accenture

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below. We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 09/12/2026.

Annual Salary Range

• California $87,400 to $253,000


• Cleveland $87,400 to $253,000


• Colorado $87,400 to $253,000


• District of Columbia $87,400 to $253,000


• Illinois $87,400 to $253,000


• Maine $87,400 to $253,000


• Maryland $87,400 to $253,000


• Massachusetts $87,400 to $253,000


• Minnesota $87,400 to $253,000


• New York $87,400 to $253,000


• New Jersey $87,400 to $253,000


• Virginia $87,400 to $253,000


• Washington $87,400 to $253,000

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.

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