Life Sciences Manager -- Commercial Transformation & Enablement

Accenture Plc

  • Des Moines, IA
  • 2 days ago

    Highlights

    This role focuses on activating commercial change across field, marketing, market access, patient services, medical, and commercial operations through operating model activation, process redesign, business requirements, technology enablement, change, and adoption. Contribute to thought capital by developing reusable perspectives, frameworks, case examples, and market-facing points of view on commercial transformation, enablement, AI/data, and future ways of working.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationDes Moines, IA

    Description

    Overview

    Join our Life Sciences Industry & Enterprise practice to help leading pharma, biotech, and medtech clients translate commercial ambition into executable transformation. This role focuses on activating commercial change across field, marketing, market access, patient services, medical, and commercial operations through operating model activation, process redesign, business requirements, technology enablement, change, and adoption.

    What would you do?

    As a Manager, you will lead client workstreams that move commercial strategy from design into execution. You will help clients understand how work gets done today, define how it needs to change, and build the practical plans, requirements, governance, and adoption approach needed to make transformation real.

    Your work could include:

    • Activating commercial operating model changes across field, marketing, access, patient services, medical, and commercial operations

    • Translating strategy into future-state processes, business requirements, user stories, decision rights, governance, and implementation plans

    • Supporting technology-enabled transformation across CRM, content, omnichannel, patient services, workflow, analytics, and reporting platforms

    • Identifying how AI, automation, copilots, or agentic workflows can improve commercial execution, handoffs, decision-making, and productivity

    • Leading cross-functional workshops with business, technology, analytics, operations, change, and training stakeholders

    In this role you will be expected to:

    • Anticipate risks, dependencies, and shifting client priorities; prepare teams to pivot as programs evolve while keeping delivery focused on outcomes

    • Shape ambiguous transformation objectives into clear workplans, milestones, deliverables, and decision points

    • Lead workstreams and manage analysts/consultants to produce client-ready outputs

    • Manage day-to-day client relationships, including working sessions, feedback, risks, and next steps

    • Translate commercial strategy into operating model activation, process design, business requirements, change impacts, and adoption plans

    • Identify and govern value unlock opportunities by linking transformation activities to measurable business outcomes, value cases, KPIs, and realization plans

    • Apply life sciences commercial knowledge to connect workflow, governance, data, technology, compliance, and talent implications

    • Partner with technology, analytics, AI, operations, and change teams to ensure solutions are practical and executable

    • Manage dependencies, issues, risks, stakeholder alignment, and rollout readiness across complex transformation programs

    • Manage delivery discipline across workplans, milestones, dependencies, RAID logs, stakeholder decisions, testing / UAT needs, rollout readiness, and adoption activities

    • Support proactive commercial transformation opportunities and proposals by shaping the client problem, workplan, solution approach, delivery model, and value story

    • Contribute to thought capital by developing reusable perspectives, frameworks, case examples, and market-facing points of view on commercial transformation, enablement, AI/data, and future ways of working

    Growth Opportunities

    You will continue to grow through:

    • Leading commercial transformation work that turns strategy into executable change for major life sciences clients

    • Building expertise across operating model activation, process redesign, technology enablement, AI/data, change, and adoption

    • Partnering across Accenture teams to deliver integrated strategy, technology, operations, analytics, and change solutions

    • Developing market-facing perspectives on commercial transformation and AI-enabled ways of working

    • Coaching analysts and consultants into future life sciences transformation practitioners

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