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About the Role

Accenture's Life Sciences Commercial practice is seeking an experienced and ambitious Senior Manager to shape and lead complex transformation engagements. This role focuses on the intersection of strategy, business transformation, and technology-enabled change within the Life Sciences sector, particularly pharmaceuticals, with adjacent sector experience being a plus. The position offers the opportunity to grow client relationships and the practice, making a significant impact on organizations that touch billions of lives.

Responsibilities

Shaping and leadership of complex, multi-workstream Commercial strategy and transformation engagements across Life Sciences clients.
Building trusted relationships with senior client executives, acting as a strategic advisor.
Growing the Life Sciences Commercial practice through origination, proposal leadership, and pipeline building.
Leading, coaching, and developing multidisciplinary teams.
Developing Commercial propositions, assets, thought leadership, and market eminence, including AI-enabled commercial model reinvention.
Leading and managing multidisciplinary engagement teams to deliver strategic and transformation solutions.
Taking end-to-end accountability for engagement delivery, including scope, commercials, quality, risk, and client satisfaction.
Leveraging industry knowledge to shape client commercial strategies, operating models, launch plans, and technology roadmaps.
Advising clients on reinventing commercial models with data and AI.
Driving business development by identifying growth opportunities and leading proposals.
Collaborating with Accenture teams across strategy, technology, data, AI, and operations.
Ensuring the delivery of high-quality, data-driven recommendations and implementation roadmaps.
Contributing to practice growth through development of propositions, methodologies, assets, and thought leadership.

Requirements

8-12+ years of relevant experience in the Life Sciences industry with a focus on Commercial, including significant prior strategy/management consulting experience.
Deep functional knowledge in one or more of the following areas: commercial strategy and operating model; commercial data and technology strategy incl. CRM; portfolio/asset strategy; product launch/go-to-market strategy; digital transformation and innovation; data, analytics and AI; customer and patient experience.
Track record of leading complex, multi-workstream engagements end-to-end, including scope, commercials, quality, and risk.
Proven business development experience, including originating opportunities, leading proposals, and converting pipeline.
Experience building trusted relationships with, and influencing, senior client executives up to C-suite level.
Team leadership experience, including leading, coaching, and developing multidisciplinary teams.
Exceptional strategic thinking, creative problem-solving, and analytical skills.
Strong technology and data fluency, with an understanding of how cloud, data, digital platforms, and AI can enable commercial model reinvention.
Experience shaping and leading AI strategy and modernization programs, AI operating model design, AI-ready data and AI-enabled enterprise data platforms, semantic modeling and ‘Digital Brain’ capabilities, or agentic process redesign and workforce transformation would be highly advantageous.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level presentation and facilitation.
Fluency in English.
Bachelor’s degree with a strong academic record.

Skills

Commercial strategy
Operating model design
Product launch
Go-to-market strategy
Commercial data and technology strategy
CRM
Portfolio strategy
Asset strategy
Digital transformation
Innovation
Data
Analytics
AI
Customer experience
Patient experience
Business development
Proposal leadership
Pipeline management
Team leadership
Coaching
Strategic thinking
Problem solving
Analytical skills
Technology fluency
Data fluency
Cloud
Digital platforms
AI strategy
AI operating model design
AI-ready data platforms
Enterprise data platforms
Semantic modeling
Digital Brain capabilities
Agentic process redesign
Workforce transformation
Communication skills
Presentation skills
Facilitation skills

Location

London

Work Type

Client-facing
Travel required

Experience Level

Senior Manager
8-12+ years relevant experience

Education Level

Bachelor's degree
MBA is a plus

Benefits

Competitive basic salary
30 days' vacation per year
Private medical insurance
3 extra days leave per year for charitable work

About the Company

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services across strategy, technology and operations.
Accenture 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.
Accenture is a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.
Accenture combines its strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability.
Accenture's broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with its culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable it to help clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships.
Accenture measures its success by the 360° value it creates for its clients, employees, shareholders, partners, and communities.

Equal Opportunity

All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
Accenture's rich diversity makes it more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps it better serve its clients and its communities.