Principal Business Consultant - Commercial

Veeva Systems, Inc.; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a pioneering firm in the life sciences industry as a Principal Business Consultant. This role offers a unique opportunity to lead business development efforts and optimize client engagement strategies. You will work with a dynamic team to reshape how pharmaceutical companies operate, leveraging your extensive management consulting experience. With a commitment to employee success and flexibility, this innovative organization fosters a collaborative environment where your contributions can significantly impact the industry. Embrace the chance to mentor junior team members and drive meaningful change in a rapidly evolving market.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible PTO

Company paid holidays

Retirement programs

1% charitable giving program

Qualifications

• 10+ years of management consulting experience required.
• Strong background in customer engagement and commercial operations preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead business development initiatives and manage client relationships.
• Oversee project teams and ensure timely delivery of high-quality deliverables.

Skills

Management Consulting

Client Engagement

Business Development

Project Management

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Problem-Solving

Team Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Job description

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $2B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.

Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

The US Commercial Strategy Business Consulting (CSBC) team is focused on reshaping the life sciences industry to work smarter, faster, and in a more connected way by optimizing the industry operating model. We support the life science industry by helping pharmaceutical and biotech companies through the design and delivery of solutions for the core business issues faced by today’s commercial pharmaceutical organizations.

Some of our key areas of focus include:

1. Identifying future customer engagement capabilities needed and the path to transformation
2. Transforming and modernizing the way HCP engagement is planned and executed
3. Optimizing field force direction, productivity, and effectiveness
4. Defining the strategy and execution to realize account-based engagement
5. Accelerating launch through a data-driven approach

The role of the Principal Business Consultant on the US CSBC team is responsible for identifying opportunities and leading business development efforts, building trusted customer relationships, bringing strategic oversight and deep domain expertise to project delivery, developing new and evolving existing offerings, and attracting and growing top talent.

Principal Consultants should have strong management consulting experience to serve as the day-to-day engagement resource leading projects with the engagement leadership team. Domain expertise in customer engagement strategy, sales and commercial operations, omnichannel, marketing excellence, key account management, and/or medical are preferred.

This is a home-based, full-time permanent role with the preference for candidates to live on the East Coast, West Coast, or other pharmaceutical markets to meet requirements to be at customer(s) site(s) as required.

Veeva Systems does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B, OPT) for this employment position.

What You’ll Do

• Business Development: lead business development initiatives (e.g., opportunity identification, proposal development, client presentations) and contribute a $2-4M annual book of business, collaborating with other business consulting groups (e.g., Content, Analytics, Medical, etc.) to scale and deliver one Veeva voice to the market
• Project Leadership: Oversee multiple project teams in the execution of consulting engagements by bringing strategic oversight and perspective, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality deliverables and adherence to budget and scope, and coaching/developing project team members on how to do the same
• Client Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with key client stakeholders; act as account lead for designated accounts, enhancing account relationship/stakeholder maps and developing actionable strategies for deepening commercial presence
• Trusted Advisor: Become a thought partner and a trusted advisor to clients, demonstrating a deep understanding of the client’s business – as well as Veeva technology and data – and delivering Veeva-sourced and additional marketplace insights that may inform clients’ strategic direction
• Team Development: Mentor and develop junior team members, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment within the practice.
• Offering Development: Support the enhancement and socialization of BC standard offerings, relating technical product features to business impacts for clients across the full suite of Veeva data and technology products; help to evolve existing and identify new future offerings as our business scales
• Thought Leadership: Stay abreast of current business and industry trends relevant to the client’s business and contribute to Veeva’s knowledge base by publishing insights, whitepapers, and case studies on emerging trends and best practices in life sciences commercial strategy

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree is required
• 10+ years of experience with Management Consulting experience
• Background and industry experience within customer engagement strategy, sales and commercial operations, omnichannel, marketing excellence, key account management, and/or medical are critical are preferred
• Strong track record of experience delivering client advisory engagements
• Core management consulting skills, including workshop facilitation, client presentations, project management, and ability to develop structured approaches/methodologies to business problems
• Proven experience and measurable impact in business development and sales
• Strong team leadership skills and ability to manage engagement economics
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to travel roughly 25% but this can vary depending on engagement

Perks & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance
• Flexible PTO and company paid holidays
• Retirement programs
• 1% charitable giving program

Compensation

• Base pay: $120,000 - $250,000
• The salary range listed here has been provided to comply with local regulations and represents a potential base salary range for this role. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range above or below, depending on experience and location. We look at compensation for each individual and base our offer on your unique qualifications, experience, and expected contributions. This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation in addition to base salary, such as variable bonus and/or stock bonus.

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Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.

Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us at [e-mail].