Supply Chain Planning Life Sciences Consultant

Remote Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture in the United States seeks a consultant to drive project execution across Planning transformation for Life Sciences.

We work with pharmaceutical, biotech, medical technology, distributor and consumer health clients globally to redefine the future by combining the latest technology with scientific breakthroughs to revolutionize how medicines are discovered, developed and delivered to patients around the world.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of experience working on Supply Chain initiatives.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience working on Integrated Planning initiatives.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in Life Sciences industries (Biopharma, Med Tech, CDMO/CMO) or adjacent sectors.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience (minimum 12 years) or 6 years with associate degree.

Responsibilities

• Support project delivery of business and technology transformations by applying industry expertise in Planning and AI-enabled transformations.
• Understand business value levers for Planning reinvention across pharma, biotech, MedTech and beyond.
• Build and apply knowledge to support opportunities with clients.
• Lead work products and coach others in project delivery.
• Communicate effectively to manage relationships and deliver with excellence.
• Support development of people and ensure delivery excellence.

Skills

Supply Chain

Integrated Planning

Client engagement

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Alteryx

Veeva Vault

Job description

Accenture is a leading solutions and services company that helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed across the enterprise, bringing together the talent of our approximately786,000 people, our proprietary assets and platforms, and deep ecosystem relationships. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled,great placeto work in the world. Through our Reinvention Services we bring together our capabilities across strategy, consulting, technology, operations,Songand Industry X with our deep industryexpertiseto create and deliver solutions and services for our clients. Our purpose is todeliver onthe promise of technology and human ingenuity, and we measure our success by the 360° value we create for all our stakeholders. Visit us ataccenture.com.

Who We Are

We are Accenture’s Supply Chain and Engineering reinvention partner for Life Sciences. We embed innovation, intelligence, and AI-native operations into the way the world designs, engineers, manufactures, and distributes products. We serve Life Sciences clients across the value chain to help bring lifesaving medicines and products to patients through harnessing the power of advanced technologies.

The Work

Accenture is seeking a consultantto drive project execution across Planning transformation work within our Supply Chain & Engineering practice for Life Sciences. We work with our pharmaceutical, biotech, medical technology, distributor and consumer health clients globally to redefine the future of the life sciences industry: combining the latest technology with scientific breakthroughs to revolutionize how medical treatments are discovered, developed and delivered to patients around the world.

Key Responsibilities

At a consultant level, key responsibilities could include:

• Support projectdelivery of business and technology transformations byutilizingdeep industryexpertisein Planning and AI-enabled business and technology transformation work
• Understand business value levers for Planning reinvention across pharmaceuticals, biotech, MedTech and beyond including full value chain impacts of Planning decision making
• Build and apply technical, industry, organization, and functional knowledge to support efforts in selling opportunities to existing and new clients
• Engage deeply in project delivery with hands‑on work executing against program priorities, leading work products, andcoaching and mentoring others
• Bring effective communications to manageboth internal and externalrelationships and deliver with excellence
• Support practice and people development in addition today to dayproject delivery excellence
• Support delivery of generative AI and agent‑based modeling to acceleratescalable use cases for Agentic planning operations -translating complex technical outputs into executive‑ready insights and scalable solutions.

Travel Requirements

Travel is required for this role and could vary from 0-75%.

Here’s what you need

• Minimum of 3 years of experience working on Supply Chain initiatives
• Minimum of 3 years of experience working on Integrated Planning initiatives
• Minimum of 2 years of experience working in one or many of the following industries: Biopharma, Medical Devices / Med Tech, CDMO/CMO, or adjacent Life Sciences sectors
• Minimum of 1 year of external experience at a consulting firm or 2 years of internal consulting experience in a role equivalent to Manager level within industry
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If associate degree, must have a minimum of 6 years’ work experience)

Bonus points if

• You have developing expertise in one or more of the following life sciences planning domains: Patient-Based Demand Forecasting, IBP/S&OP, S&OE, Inventory Optimization, CMO/CDMO Supply Planning, or Clinical Supply
• You have the proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem‑solving environment
• You’ve earned an MBA or equivalent graduate degree
• You have exposure to life sciences planning platforms such as OMP, Kinaxis RapidResponse, SAP IBP/S4, o9 Solutions, or Blue Yonder, or adjacent systems such as Veeva Vault, SAP ERP, or MES/MOM platforms
• Lean or Six Sigma qualifications
• You can use the latest data analytics tools to spot opportunities for improvement
• Prior experience in driving insights using visualization tools (i.e. Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx) and analytics tools (i.e. Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics)
• Understanding of GxP and regulatory considerations in pharma manufacturing, and how they shape data and AI solutions

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 10/05/2026.

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

Role Location Annual Salary Range

• California $70,350 to $205,800
• Colorado $63,800 to $177,800
• Connecticut $63,800 to $177,800
• District of Columbia $68,000 to $189,300
• Illinois $59,100 to $177,800
• Maine $54,400 to $151,400
• Maryland $63,800 to $177,800
• Massachusetts $63,800 to $189,300
• Minnesota $63,800 to $177,800
• New York $66,300 to $205,800
• New Jersey $68,000 to $205,800
• Ohio $59,100 to $164,600
• Virginia $59,100 to $189,300
• Washington $80,200 to $189,300

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

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