Principal Advanced Analytics - Life Sciences (1273)

axtriainc; Berkeley Heights (NJ); Hybrid; USD 204,250 - 312,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based compensation packages

Comprehensive benefits including health insurance

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Axtria, located in Berkeley Heights, NJ, is seeking a Decision Intelligence Principal to drive client engagements in pharma commercial analytics. The ideal candidate will blend delivery leadership with strategic client executive skills, overseeing analytics initiatives while fostering executive relationships.

This role also involves evolving account engagements toward AI-powered decision support. Candidates should have a strong background in management consulting, analytics, and demonstrating the ability to elevate client relationships within the commercial landscape.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in pharma commercial analytics or management consulting.
• Experience managing complex analytics relationships.
• Demonstrated ability to grow accounts and elevate relationships.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery accountability across a portfolio of analytics engagements.
• Build relationships with executives and commercial leaders.
• Lead the transformation of accounts toward decision-centric engagement models.

Skills

Pharma commercial analytics

Management consulting

Client relationship management

AI and technology fluency

Decision-centric engagement

Job description

Company Overview

Axtria is a global provider of data analytics, software, and consulting services for the Life Sciences and Pharmaceutical industry. With 3,700+ employees and clients in over 30 countries, Axtria empowers life sciences organizations to drive commercial success and improve patient outcomes. Since our founding in 2010, Axtria has differentiated itself through technology innovation. Our cloud‑native platforms—Axtria DataMax™, InsightsMax™, SalesIQ™, MarketingIQ™, and CustomerIQ™—enable seamless integration of data science and AI across commercial operations, supporting functions from sales planning to omnichannel engagement.

About the Role

The Decision Intelligence (DI) Principal is the senior‑most client leadership role within Axtria's Decision Intelligence practice. Principals are accountable for the full client relationship—from delivery excellence on current analytics engagements to the long‑term transformation of those relationships from analytics services to AI‑powered decision support. This is a dual‑mandate role: run the business today while building the business of tomorrow. In the near term, Principals will own and grow a portfolio of pharma commercial analytics accounts—ensuring delivery quality, deepening executive relationships, and expanding scope. Over time, Principals will lead the evolution of those accounts toward Decision Transformation Programs, shifting commercial models from T&M toward fixed‑fee, outcome‑linked, and managed services structures. The right candidate is both a credible delivery leader and a strategic client executive—someone who can hold a conversation about an analyst's output in the morning and sit with a VP Commercial in the afternoon to discuss how their organization makes brand investment decisions.

What You Will Own

Account Delivery and Growth – Own delivery accountability across a portfolio of analytics COE and project‑based engagements. Ensure quality of output—from ad hoc analyses and patient journey work to marketing mix and payer access engagements. Serve as the escalation point for delivery issues and the primary driver of account health. Grow revenue within existing accounts through scope expansion, new workstreams, and deepening of the analytics mandate.

Executive Relationship Development – Principals are expected to systematically build relationships with Executives, Directors, VPs and ultimately C‑Suite commercial leaders. The goal is to position Axtria as a consultative decision partner. Through these relationships, Axtria’s position needs to be cemented as the firm clients call when they face a consequential commercial question, not just when they need analytical capacity.

Account Transformation – Lead the deliberate evolution of assigned accounts from T&M analytics delivery toward decision‑centric engagement models. This means introducing decision‑first framing into existing COE work, identifying high‑value decision problems that warrant structured Decision Transformation Programs, and piloting alternative commercial structures (fixed‑fee workstreams, deliverable‑based pricing, outcome‑linked components) where client receptivity exists.

Offer Design and GTM – Shape how Axtria's Decision Intelligence capabilities are positioned and sold within assigned accounts. Design proposals that lead with decisions and business outcomes rather than FTE configurations. Work with the AI & Data and Product groups at Axtria to bring full Axtria platform capabilities into client conversations where appropriate.

Practice Contribution – Contribute to the development of the DI practice—refining playbooks based on account experience, mentoring AD and Director‑level talent, supporting AI certification (L3 AI Decision Architect standard), and building reusable assets from engagement IP.

What You Bring

• Experience – 15+ years in pharma commercial analytics, management consulting, or a combination, with significant time in client‑facing delivery leadership. Experience managing large, complex analytics relationships—not just project delivery. Demonstrated track record of growing accounts and elevating relationships over time. Prior accountability for revenue targets.
• Domain – Deep fluency in at least two of: brand commercial strategy, marketing mix and promotional effectiveness, HCP targeting and sales force deployment, patient journey analytics, forecasting and launch analytics, or payer/market access analysis. Ability to connect analytical work to the business decisions it should inform—and to make that connection visible to clients.
• Delivery Leadership – Comfortable owning delivery accountability across distributed onshore/offshore teams. Able to diagnose quality issues, hold delivery directors accountable, and intervene directly when needed. High standards for output—understands the difference between analysis that is technically correct and analysis that is decision‑ready.
• Relationship Elevation – Demonstrated ability to move relationships up the org chart. Not just managing the analytics buyer, but building credibility with commercial leadership. Knows how to shift a conversation from “here are the results” to “here is what you should do and why.”
• AI and Technology Fluency – Practical understanding of AI‑augmented analytics, agentic workflows, and what separates a decision system from a dashboard or a model. Must be able to credibly lead client conversations about AI's role in their decision‑making—without overpromising. Commitment to maintaining L3 AI Decision Architect certification within Axtria's framework.
• Commercial Acumen – Understanding of T&M and alternative commercial structures. Ability to identify opportunities to pilot non‑FTE pricing within existing accounts and to build the internal and client case for doing so.

Why This Role

Axtria's Decision Intelligence practice is in active transformation—from analytics staffing toward AI‑powered decision support with outcome accountability. Principals are the people leading that transformation account by account, relationship by relationship. The role requires someone who can hold the current business together while steadily pulling it toward something more valuable—for clients and for Axtria. It is not a role for someone who only wants to sell, or only wants to deliver. It is for someone who can do both, and who finds the in‑between—the moment when a client starts to see Axtria differently—genuinely satisfying.

Location & Logistics

• Location: We are open to hire in New Jersey, Boston and SFO, CA
• Head Office: Berkeley Heights, NJ
• U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply
• Flexibility to travel and/or relocate within the U.S. as per project requirements

The exact nature of duties, level of role as well as the salary and compensation package will be commensurate with experience and salary history.

Axtria is an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We offer attractive performance‑based compensation packages including salary and bonus. Comprehensive benefits are available including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, and 401(k) with company match. Immigration sponsorship will be considered.

Pay Transparency Laws

Salary range for this position is $204,250 to $312,000 annually. The actual salary will vary based on applicant’s education, experience, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. The salary may also be adjusted based on applicant’s geographic location. The salary range reflected is based on a primary work location of Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. The actual salary may vary for applicants in a different geographic location.