Strategy Principal Director, Data & AI Strategy - Life Sciences

Accenture PLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 151,000 - 388,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is actively seeking a Data & AI Strategy Principal Director in Chicago to shape vision and drive data-and-AI led business reinvention. You will build client relationships as a trusted advisor on how to infuse Data & AI into core processes and define the strategy to create competitive advantage through data assets and AI technologies.

You will lead multi‑disciplinary workstreams, define a future‑ready operating model, and develop business cases and roadmaps to deliver the strategy while

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 10 years of Data and AI Strategy experience including Data Management, Data Analysis, and Responsible AI.
• 7+ years of high-value consulting or equivalent internal consulting experience.
• 7+ years leading workstreams and delivering large-scale programs.
• Excellent English skills, both written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Shape vision and create opportunities for data & AI–led business reinvention.
• Build client relationships as a trusted advisor on Data & AI integration.
• Define and structure data/AI strategy to optimize data assets and AI technologies.
• Assess maturity of data/AI foundations and design future-ready operating models.
• Develop business cases, investments and roadmaps for AI-first initiatives.
• Infuse Responsible AI and plan ecosystem partnerships with a culture of innovation.
• Identify people, processes and technologies to operationalize AI solutions.
• Create strategy for AI‑first products and drive commercialization opportunities.
• Originate new opportunities and navigate sales cycles; travel as needed.

Skills

Fluent English

Program management

Communication

Leadership

Business development

Client relationships

Education

Bachelor's Degree Minimum

Master’s degree (Nice to Have)

Job description

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth, and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 774,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise, and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners, and communities. Visit us at accenture.com. We work with C-suite executives, leaders and boards of the world’s leading organizations, helping them reinvent every part of their enterprise to drive greater growth, enhance competitiveness, implement operational improvements, reduce cost, deliver sustainable 360° stakeholder value, and set a new performance frontier for themselves and the industry in which they operate. Our deep industry and functional expertise are supported by proprietary assets and solutions that help organizations transform faster and become more resilient. Our Data and AI Strategy practitioners work to create and execute an organizations business strategy for data and AI, including defining a compelling industry vision, creating value models, describing business/technology roadmap, and creating operating model and platform and ecosystem architecture, in support of data-led transformation. Use scaled agile disciplines to transform around iterative approach sequencing use cases focused on critical data elements aligned to data product and platform feature development.

As a Data & AI Strategy Principal Director, you will:

• Shape vision and create opportunities for data & AI led business reinvention.
• Build client relationships and credibility as a trusted advisor on how to infuse Data & AI into the business processes or functions.
• Define and structure an organization’s data and AI strategy to build and optimize data assets, AI technologies for growth & competitive advantages.
• Assess maturity of an organization’s data and AI foundation.
• Define building blocks required to convert to an AI-first organization, including technology and AI platform blueprint, data strategy and future-ready operating model.
• Create the business case, investment profile and roadmap to deliver on the strategy.
• Infuse Responsible AI in vision and roadmap, develop plan for leveraging ecosystem partners, and define operating model to foster a culture of innovation and experimentation.
• Identify people, processes, and technologies to develop and operationalize AI solutions.
• Create strategy for AI-first products and develop commercialization opportunities.
• Originate new opportunities and see through sales cycle.
• Ability to travel as needed based on client expectations.

Here’s What You Need:

• Bachelor's Degree Minimum
• 10 years of experience working within Data and AI Strategy Space including specific skills and experiences around Data Management, Data Analysis, Data Management, Requirements Gathering, Responsible AI, leading tech driven transformations
• 7+ years of high value consulting experience or equivalent internal consulting experience
• A minimum of 7 years of experience leading workstreams and meeting deadlines
• A minimum of 7 years of large-scale delivery experience with minimal help
• Nice to Have: Master’s degree in a relevant field
• Experience with senior level (C-level or C-level minus 1) conversations
• Strong program management and communication skills, both verbal and written
• Driven and entrepreneurial: ability to originate and shape new deals, lead in client conversations, and go to market activities.
• Fluent in English (both spoken and written)
• Excellent leadership and people skills: proven ability to build effective teams and foster a collaborative and inclusive environment and proven ability to build strong client relationships.
• You have experience bringing innovative ideas to projects

Compensation

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below. We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 10/22/2026.

Benefits

• Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.
• See more information on our benefits here: U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture

Annual Salary Range

• California $150,900 to $387,800
• Colorado $150,900 to $387,800
• Connecticut $150,900 to $387,800
• District of Columbia $150,900 to $387,800
• Illinois $150,900 to $387,800
• Maine $150,900 to $387,800
• Maryland $150,900 to $387,800
• Massachusetts $150,900 to $387,800
• Minnesota $150,900 to $387,800
• New York $150,900 to $387,800
• New Jersey $150,900 to $387,800
• Ohio $150,900 to $387,800
• Virginia $150,900 to $387,800
• Washington $150,900 to $387,800

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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