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Life Sciences R&D Management Consulting Manager

Mgmt Consulting Manager | Senior Level | Full time
Job No. R00243198 | Multiple Locations
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Overview

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance 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. 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 accenture.com.

In Strategy & Consulting 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 is supported by proprietary assets and solutions that help organizations transform faster and become more resilient. Underpinned by technology, data, analytics, AI, change management, talent, learning and sustainability capabilities, our Strategy & Consulting services help architect and accelerate all aspects of an organization’s reinvention.

An R&D expert with an in-depth understanding of how business, technology and operations intersect. You’ve got the know-how to help our biopharmaceutical and/ or biotechnoloy clients design, build and deploy solutions to help them get the right therapies to patients faster. You get a sense of quiet satisfaction from using your analytical talents to solve problems in new and creative ways. Plus, you always find a way to explain those ideas, thanks to above average communications and interpersonal skills.

Objectives:

Key Responsibilities:

  • Help clients, and other organizations in the broader healthcare ecosystem, get the right therapies to patients faster

  • Analyze clients’ current R&D strategies, processes and technology landscape

  • Advise clients on how they can shape the next generation of capabilities and operating models to become data-driven, AI enabled organizations

  • Design and deploy change management projects that set up clients for long-term success

  • Build relationships with client stakeholders that help Accenture become a trusted partner

  • Coach junior team members

  • Spot and pursue business development opportunities

  • Develop Accenture’s thought leadership in sales, marketing, and customer experience


 

Basic Qualifications:

  • Minimum of five years of experience in management consulting and the life sciences R&D industry in at least one of the following areas: research, clinical development, pharmacovigilance, regulatory, medical affairs, MD&D (medical device and diagnostics), EBP (evidence based practice), medtech, or related areas such as CRO’s, health institutions, health technology companies, etc.

  • Minimum 3 years of experience leading, consulting for or supporting R&D management consulting programs for  biopharma/ biotech.

  • A Bachelor’s degree

Bonus Points If (Preferred Skills):

  • Your Bachelor’s degree has a major in science or health engineering

  • You have a deep understanding of biopharmaceutical R&D and product lifecycle processes

  • You have experience working with and/or leading teams, clients and vendors using your exceptional team building, mentoring, people development and management skills

  • You have experience working with Life Sciences R&D professionals applying excellent client-facing communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

  • You work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment, and apply structure to your problem solving

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.
We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply. Information on benefits is here.

Role Location                                    Annual Salary Range

California                                          $93,400 to $258,500

Colorado                                           $93,400 to $223,300

District of Columbia                       $99,500 to $237,800

New York                                          $86,500 to $258,500

Maryland                                          $86,500 to $206,800

Washington                                      $99,500 to $237,800

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