Senior Commercial Life Sciences Solutions Lead

Datavant; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 193,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Datavant is seeking a Principal, Commercial Life Sciences Solutions to guide Life Sciences customers in designing and adopting high-value data connectivity solutions across commercial, medical, market access, and real-world data use cases.

You will partner with Sales, Solutions Consulting, Product, Partnerships, Customer Success, Privacy, Legal, and Delivery to shape strategy and translate needs into actionable Datavant solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience in life sciences, pharmaceutical commercial strategy, commercial analytics, market access, healthcare data, real-world data, digital health, healthcare marketing, omnichannel marketing, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior commercial pharma subject matter expert for Datavant’s Life Sciences go-to-market team, with a focus on pre-sales solutioning, customer discovery, and strategic opportunity development.
• Partner with Client Partners, sales leaders, and solutions consultants to shape customer conversations across commercial analytics, market access, patient services, healthcare marketing, and digital/ad tech use cases.
• Lead discovery with pharmaceutical customers to understand their business objectives, stakeholder priorities, available data assets, privacy requirements, operational constraints, and desired outcomes.
• Translate customer goals into Datavant solution strategies that leverage privacy-preserving linkage, tokenization, data connectivity, real-world data partnerships, and health data exchange infrastructure.
• Design and communicate solution approaches for use cases such as patient journey analytics, launch planning, commercial analytics aggregation, adherence and persistence insights, market access evidence, medical affairs insights, provider targeting, omnichannel measurement, and privacy-preserving media activation.
• Help customers understand how Datavant can connect internal and external data assets across the healthcare ecosystem to create more complete, actionable views of patients, providers, products, and markets.
• Build executive-ready narratives that articulate the business value, feasibility, privacy posture, implementation path, and expected impact of connected data strategies.
• Support complex enterprise pursuits by developing solution hypotheses, shaping proposals, identifying risks, pressure-testing scope, and aligning internal teams around a credible and compelling approach.
• Collaborate with Product and Partnerships to identify market needs, solution gaps, customer feedback, and opportunities to convert demand into scalable Datavant offerings.
• Create reusable go-to-market assets, including solution playbooks, discovery guides, use case narratives, customer-facing materials, objection handling, case studies, and sales enablement.
• Act as a bridge between commercial teams and technical, product, privacy, and delivery teams to ensure customer-facing solutions are compelling, credible, feasible, and operationally executable.
• Represent Datavant in strategic customer workshops, executive briefings, industry forums, conferences, and thought leadership opportunities.
• Stay current on trends shaping commercial pharma data strategy, including real-world data adoption, healthcare media networks, clean rooms, first-party data strategy, privacy-preserving collaboration, tokenization, AI-enabled analytics, and the evolving life sciences data ecosystem.

Skills

Life sciences

Commercial analytics

Pre-sales solutioning

Executive presence

Tools

Salesforce

Google Workspace

Job description

Datavant is seeking a Principal, Commercial Life Sciences Solutions to guide Life Sciences customers in designing and adopting high-value data connectivity solutions across commercial, medical, market access, and real-world data use cases.

You will partner with Sales, Solutions Consulting, Product, Partnerships, Customer Success, Privacy, Legal, and Delivery to shape strategy and translate needs into actionable Datavant solutions.