MedTech Strategy Director - Life Sciences & AI Growth

Accenture PLC; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 151,000 - 388,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a senior MedTech strategy leader to shape and activate growth for its MedTech Strategy business. You will define market strategy, create industry-leading points of view, cultivate C-suite relationships, and help establish Accenture as the preferred strategy partner within the MedTech ecosystem.

You will drive AI-enabled engagement, build client relationships, and lead engagements from insight through activation, shaping activation roadmaps and investments across priority

Qualifications

• Minimum of 12 years of experience in MedTech strategy, healthcare strategy, management consulting, corporate strategy, business unit leadership, clinical/commercial strategy, or an equivalent field.
• Minimum of 8 years of deep experience in at least one MedTech segment such as surgery, diabetes, diagnostics, cardiovascular, orthopedics, imaging, patient monitoring, or digital health.
• Demonstrated expertise in physician and allied medical staff customers, including clinical workflows, decision drivers, adoption barriers, evidence needs, training requirements, and stakeholder dynamics across care settings.
• Minimum of 5 years of consulting or strategy leadership experience, with a strong record of structuring ambiguous problems, developing executive-level recommendations, and leading strategy through activation.

Responsibilities

• Advise MedTech C-suite and business unit leaders on enterprise, portfolio, growth, customer, and segment strategy, with emphasis on physicians and allied medical staff.
• Lead client engagements from insight through activation, including market and customer assessment, strategic option development, business case creation, roadmap design, and implementation mobilization.
• Connect clinical customer insight with commercial and enterprise decisions across innovation, portfolio strategy, go-to-market, customer experience, education and training, service, digital solutions, and AI-enabled engagement.
• Develop differentiated points of view on the future of MedTech segments, care pathways, clinical workflows, customer expectations, and the role of data, digital, and AI in improving customer and patient outcomes.
• Shape the strategy and vision for Accenture's MedTech Centers of Excellence, defining where each COE will differentiate, the priority client problems it will solve, and the assets, partnerships, and capabilities required to win.
• Translate COE strategy into activation plans, including market-facing propositions, lighthouse pursuits, executive engagement, research agendas, reusable assets, alliance plays, and talent communities.
• Build senior relationships across strategy, business unit, medical, clinical, R&D, marketing, commercial, and operations leadership, positioning Accenture as a trusted partner for high-value strategic decisions.
• Originate and shape major strategy-led opportunities, working across Accenture Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Song, Industry X, Data & AI, and Operations to bring the best of Accenture to clients.
• Build strategy frameworks, playbooks, benchmarks, and reusable intellectual property that improve the quality and speed of client work and pursuit shaping.
• Identify and incubate high-potential offerings at the intersection of segment expertise, clinical customer needs, data, digital, AI, and new commercial models.
• Mentor senior and emerging talent, strengthening MedTech segment knowledge, clinical customer fluency, and strategy capabilities across the practice.
• Travel based on client and business needs, potentially up to 75%.

Job description

Accenture is seeking a senior MedTech strategy leader to shape and activate growth for its MedTech Strategy business. You will define market strategy, create industry-leading points of view, cultivate C-suite relationships, and help establish Accenture as the preferred strategy partner within the MedTech ecosystem.

You will drive AI-enabled engagement, build client relationships, and lead engagements from insight through activation, shaping activation roadmaps and investments across priority