Life Sciences Sr. Manager – Commercial Marketing Capabilities

We Are:

Accenture Life Sciences Commercial: We work together, innovating to bring insights, design thinking, and human ingenuity to enable commercial success for our clients.

Our capabilities are designed to help our clients commercialize differently; in order to better capitalize on the advancements, the industry has made through new science. We acknowledge that scientific innovation is not enough, as private sector pressures, regulatory & policy reform, the customer engagement model, and consumerism are driving change. To enable commercial success, we partner with our clients do drive foundational change by aligning evidence and economics to outcomes, bringing outcomes to life through experience, modernizing launch & competitive strategies, reimagining the digitized customer model, reinventing end to end marketing, applying intelligence to commercial models, and rewiring operations & capabilities. One of the key pillars of Life Sciences is our work in the omnichannel space – helping pharma and biopharma companies maximize the effectiveness of their omnichannel model with effective content. We focus on working with clients to help them think about omnichannel strategies across personal and non-personal promotions, as well as how their strategies affect commercial operations such as brand and field planning and content creation. We do this through redesigning operating models associated with omnichannel, functional and process design work, innovation and strategy workshops, and change management and training discussions and assessments.

You Are:

A Life Sciences marketing enthusiast in the Life Sciences industry interested in commercial marketing capabilities and omnichannel operations, generative AI, and sales. Your expertise? Working hand in hand with clients in a fast-paced global environment to understand business needs, create comprehensive strategies and documentation, and work in teams to deliver commercial capability consulting projects, whether they’re large transformations, or shorter strategic sprints.

The Work:

• Lead global teams to deliver sales or marketing consulting, readiness, technology roll outs and operations to Life Sciences clients

• Drive proactive business development to identify solutions and transformation potential for client challenges

• Drive the development of marketing capability assets (content and omnichannel assets), including whitepapers, POVs, and thought capital pieces for publication at least once a quarter

• Responsible for client delivery teams across strategy, defining operating models and governance, managing change, redesigning processes, writing functional requirements, deploying technologies, and taking remedial steps

• Build and own relationships with clients to sustain Accenture’s profile as a long-term trusted advisor and partner

• Drive proactive business development to identify solutions and transformation potential for client challenges

• Bring therapeutic area expertise to omnichannel projects or content programs for pharma/ biopharma

• Work with ecosystem partners to develop the best strategy and approach for a client

• Develop the next generation of omnichannel technology practitioners at Accenture, including building skillsets and capabilities and leading community building efforts

• Deliver high value consulting sales every year in this space

Travel: As required for client support.

Location: Primary residency within 90 minutes of an approved Accenture office

Here’s What You Need:

• 8+ years of pharma/life sciences experience and expertise, specifically focused in commercial and a deep understanding of omnichannel, marketing capabilities including but not limited to:
  • Experience in developing deliverables and expertise around marketing capability op model, process design and transformation tracking or marketing technology strategy and implementation
• Minimum 5 years of experience consulting and driving the transformation of marketing capabilities across medium to large Pharma/BioPharma programs, including but not limited to:
  • Successfully setting up program, defining deliverables, designing and running innovative workshop and complete programs with documented high levels of customer satisfaction
  • A deep cross-functional LS commercial working knowledge (across brand strategy, patient services, market access, sales)
  • Originating and driving programs including all financial aspects
  • Creating business transformation that have alignment across the organization including change strategy, trainings and communications

Bonus Points if You Have:

• Deep expertise in other omnichannel technologies and content creation platforms
• Specific therapeutic area expertise
• Experience with prototyping/scaling GenAI capabilities related to marketing
• Experience with one or more marketing/content platforms such as Veeva, PromoMats, Adobe AEM etc.
• Experience working with client external brand marketing teams
• Experience leading various parts of internal practice

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 in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Maryland, New York or Washington as set forth below.
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Information on benefits is here.

Role Location Annual Salary Range

California $131,100 to $336,900

Colorado $131,100 to $291,100

District of Columbia $139,600 to $309,900

New York $121,400 to $336,900

Maryland $121,400 to $269,500

Washington $139,600 to $309,900

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