Life Sciences Manager - Commercial Strategy - Remote, Client Travel as Needed
About The Position
As a Manager, lead client workstreams that help life sciences organizations make critical commercial decisions, including how to launch and grow assets and how to redesign functions and enterprise ways of working. The work may span asset and brand strategy, launch, portfolio growth, market access, patient services, broader commercial strategy, and functional or enterprise reinvention. Assess market dynamics, customer needs, competitive landscapes, access considerations, and growth opportunities. Translate strategic recommendations into implications for operating models, processes, governance, capabilities, talent, and technology. Identify opportunities to apply AI, analytics, automation, copilots, or agentic workflows to commercial decision-making and execution. Facilitate client discussions and synthesize research, interviews, benchmarks, and data into executive-ready recommendations. Shape client objectives into workplans, hypotheses, analyses, and deliverables; lead workstreams and manage analysts and consultants; and manage day-to-day client relationships. Apply life sciences commercial knowledge, provide a clear point of view, and communicate recommendations through structured problem solving and storytelling. Define value opportunities, value stories, KPIs, and leadership decision implications. Support AI- and data-enabled strategy, proposals, and thought capital. This is a primarily remote, full-time W-2 opportunity with travel based on client and project requirements. Sponsorship is not available.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of life sciences commercial experience across asset or brand strategy, launch, portfolio growth, marketing, medical, market access, patient services, field, or commercial operations/transformation topics.
- At least 5 years of experience in strategy consulting, professional services, or an equivalent internal corporate-strategy role.
- Bachelor's degree.
- Must be open and able to travel based on client and project requirements.
- Sponsorship is not available for this role.
Nice To Haves
- Ability to lead work across both asset-level strategy and functional or enterprise-level reinvention questions.
- Demonstrated ability to lead a workstream, manage clients, and coach junior team members.
- Strong client management skills, including building trusted relationships, facilitating working sessions, managing feedback, aligning stakeholders, and clearly communicating risks and tradeoffs.
- Strong understanding of commercial strategy fundamentals, including market dynamics, customer behavior, access considerations, competitive positioning, value drivers, and launch and growth levers.
- Experience with operating model, process redesign, governance, capability building, transformation roadmap, or implementation planning work.
- Proactive approach to innovative ways of working, including applying AI, automation, copilots, and agentic workflows to improve productivity, quality, collaboration, and speed of execution.
- Working knowledge of AI and data concepts, including predictive analytics, GenAI, copilots, workflow automation, and agentic solutions.
- Practical understanding of responsible AI and data applications in commercial workflows, including value, risks, dependencies, adoption, and appropriate human oversight.
- Comfort partnering with technology, analytics, AI, and platform teams while staying anchored in the business problem.
- Strong PowerPoint, Excel, written communication, storytelling, facilitation, and executive communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Lead asset and brand strategy, launch, portfolio growth, market access, patient services, and broader commercial strategy workstreams.
- Assess market dynamics, customer needs, competitive landscapes, access considerations, and commercial growth opportunities.
- Translate recommendations into operating model, process, governance, capability, talent, and technology implications.
- Identify opportunities for AI, analytics, automation, copilots, and agentic workflows to improve commercial decision-making, execution, or ways of working.
- Facilitate client discussions and synthesize research, interviews, benchmarks, and data into executive-ready recommendations.
- Anticipate risks, dependencies, and shifting client priorities, and prepare teams to adapt while maintaining outcome-focused delivery.
- Turn client objectives into clear workplans, hypotheses, analyses, and deliverables.
- Lead workstreams and manage analysts and consultants to produce high-quality, client-ready outputs.
- Manage day-to-day client relationships, including working sessions, feedback, and next steps.
- Apply life sciences commercial knowledge to connect asset, customer, access, functional, and enterprise implications.
- Provide a robust point of view and advise clients on recommendations.
- Use structured problem solving and storytelling to communicate recommendations clearly and persuasively.
- Identify commercial value opportunities and shape the value story, KPIs, and implications for leadership decisions.
- Shape AI- and data-enabled strategy use cases, workflow fit, required inputs, risks, governance, and human-in-the-loop considerations.
- Support proactive commercial strategy and reinvention opportunities and proposals by shaping the client problem, workplan, solution approach, and value story.
- Develop reusable perspectives, frameworks, case examples, and market-facing points of view on priority commercial topics.
- Coach analysts and consultants.
- Partner across strategy, technology, analytics, operations, and industry teams.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
