Senior Consultant Commercial Strategy - Pharmaceutical

Syneos Health, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health benefits

401k match

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Syneos Health seeks a Senior Consultant Commercial Strategy - Pharmaceutical in San Francisco, CA to help clients maximize the commercial value of assets and portfolios, while strengthening market access tactics. You will build trusted advisor relationships, lead cross-functional projects, and deliver client-ready outputs autonomously in a fast-paced environment.

The role requires experience in consulting or biopharma, with demonstrated ability to analyze claims data and develop deliverables for

Qualifications

• Experience in consulting and/or biopharmaceutical work.
• Experience in analyzing patient-level claims data.
• Ability to develop client deliverables autonomously.

Responsibilities

• Builds positive working relationships with clients, consulting staff, managers, leadership, and internal support teams.
• Significantly contributes to cross-functional management of projects, including scope, approach, budget, resources, and timelines.
• Accountable for project activities and uses internal tools to meet milestones and timelines.
• Establishes a trusted advisor relationship with the client through credibility and reliability.
• Identifies and evaluates secondary research data sources and summarizes industry and market trends.

Skills

Consulting experience

Biopharma knowledge

Project management

Client relationship management

Education

MBA or graduate degree

Job description

Senior Consultant Commercial Strategy - Pharmaceutical

Updated: October 23, 2026
Location: San Francisco, CA, United States
Job ID:18673-OTHLOC-CIxvYfws

You’re driven, resourceful, and above all else – remarkably smart.

In this role, you will help clients maximize the commercial value of their assets, portfolio, and organization while building excellence in the commercial organization. You will also help companies market and sell more effectively in an environment increasingly dominated by third-party payers. You will:

• Builds positive working relationships with clients, consulting staff, managers, leadership, and internal support teams
• Significantly contributes to the overall cross-functional management of projects, at both the client organization, as well as internally at Syneos Health. Understands, communicates, and maintains project scope, approach, budget, resource allocations, and timelines
• Accountable for project activities and leverages internal tools and tracking systems to ensure project objectives, milestones, and timelines are met efficiently and effectively. Must be able to quickly adapt to changing priorities to achieve goals and targets.
• Establishes a trusted advisor relationship with the client through being personable, trust, credibility, and reliability
• Strategically identifies and evaluates relevant secondary research data sources (analytically and scientifically based). Using research from competitive pipelines, company websites, prescribing information, epidemiology information, and syndicated reports, a Senior Consultant summarizes complex industry, market, client portfolio, and product data and trends in a clear and comprehensive manner.
• Experience in consulting and/or biopharmaceutical work
• Prior experience with analyzing patient-level claims data
• Ability to develop relevant client deliverables autonomously

Desired Requirements:

• MBA or a graduate degree in business or life sciences
• Demonstrated project management experience

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $X to $Y. The base salary range represents the anticipated lowand high of the Syneos Health range for this position. Actual salary will vary based on various factors such as thecandidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role. In addition, some positions mayinclude eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and / or individual performance.

At Syneos Health, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experiencedoesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. At times, we will consider transferable skills fromprevious roles. We also encourage you to join our Talent Network to stayconnected to additional career opportunities.

Why Syneos Health? Here, you're a part of the big picture. You will collaborate with colleaguesacross clinical and commercial disciplines to guide premarket development through post-market commercial strategy.Every project is a chance to solve a new challenge, learn from your colleagues, and advance your career. Thediversification and breadth of our new and existing partnerships create a multitude of career paths and employmentopportunities. Join our game-changing, global company dedicated to creating better, smarter, faster ways to getbiopharmaceutical therapies to patients. Experience the thrill of knowing that your everyday efforts arecontributing to improving patients' lives around the world.

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Syneos Health companies are affirmative action/equal opportunity employers(Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled)

Syneos Health has a voluntary COVID-19 vaccination policy. We strongly encourage allemployees to be fullyvaccinated. Additionally, certain local governments or Syneos Health customers may have vaccine requirementsthat apply to some of our employees. These employees are required to submit proof of vaccination to SyneosHealth and maintain compliance with these requirements.
At Syneos Health, we believe in providing an environment and culture in which Our People can thrive, developand advance. We reward and recognize our people by providing valuable benefits and a quality-of-life balance.

• a competitive compensation package
• Health benefits to include Medical, Dental and Vision
• Company match 401k
• flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time

Because certain states and municipalities have regulated paid sicktime requirements, eligibility for paid sick time may vary depending on where you work. Syneos Health complieswith allapplicable federal, state, and municipal paid sick time requirements.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Discover what our more than 25,000 employees already know: work here matterseverywhere. We work hard,and smart, all in the name of getting much-needed therapies to thosewho need them most. A career with Syneos Health means your everyday workimprovespatients’ lives around the world. Selecting us as an employer secures acareer inwhich you’re guaranteed to:

Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization builtto accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercialinsights into outcomes to address modern market realities. To learn more visit syneoshealth.com .

Syneos Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receiveconsideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, marital status,ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protectedveteran status, disability or any other legally protected status and will not bediscriminated against. If you are an individual with a disability who requires reasonableaccommodation to complete any part of our application process, including the use of thiswebsite, please contact us at: Email: [emailprotected] One of our staff members willwork with you to provide alternate means to submit your application.