Senior Consultant, Commercial Strategy & Launch Excellence

Acumetis•Yardley, PA

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About The Position

Acumetis is a global healthcare consulting organization that partners with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and healthcare companies to solve business challenges and turn strategy into action. Its Commercial team helps clients maximize the potential of brands and portfolios throughout the product lifecycle through strategic thinking, healthcare expertise, analytics, and practical execution. The Senior Consultant will work with pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients on commercial questions, particularly launch strategy and readiness, commercial excellence, brand strategy, customer engagement, and performance optimization. The role owns significant project workstreams, conducts and synthesizes research and analysis, develops strategic recommendations, produces client deliverables, and collaborates with colleagues across Acumetis' global organization. Senior Consultants contribute across launch planning and readiness, commercial capability and performance improvement, and brand and commercial strategy. They lead defined workstreams from problem structuring through recommendations, participate in client interactions, guide junior team members, and contribute to project planning, quality control, and delivery.

Requirements

4–6+ years of relevant experience in life sciences consulting, pharmaceutical or biotechnology commercial strategy, launch planning, commercial excellence, marketing, or a related field.
Experience supporting pharmaceutical or biotechnology products across the commercialization lifecycle.
Understanding of factors that drive successful pharmaceutical product launches and commercial performance.
Strong strategic problem-solving and analytical capabilities.
Experience conducting and synthesizing primary and secondary research.
Ability to translate complex information and data into clear commercial implications and strategic recommendations.
Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills and experience developing client-ready deliverables.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Experience working in cross-functional and/or global environments.
Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
Intellectual curiosity and genuine interest in healthcare, life sciences, and commercial strategy.
Bachelor's degree required.

Nice To Haves

An advanced degree such as an MBA, MPH, PharmD, PhD, or other relevant graduate degree is valued but not required.
Prior experience in management consulting, life sciences strategy consulting, or a commercial role within pharmaceutical or biotechnology.
Experience in one or more areas such as launch excellence, brand strategy, segmentation and targeting, customer engagement, omnichannel strategy, field effectiveness, or commercial performance.
Experience working with products preparing for launch or undergoing significant commercial change.

Responsibilities

Support clients in developing integrated launch strategies for new products, indications, and markets.
Assess launch readiness across commercial capabilities and identify priorities, dependencies, risks, and gaps.
Contribute to launch planning, including strategic objectives, critical success factors, milestones, and performance measures.
Support pre-launch through post-launch activities and help clients adapt strategies based on market performance and emerging insights.
Develop launch frameworks, assessments, workshops, and recommendations to enable effective decision-making.
Help clients assess and improve commercial capabilities, processes, and ways of working.
Support development of commercial models involving customer engagement, field effectiveness, segmentation, targeting, omnichannel strategy, and performance measurement.
Analyze commercial performance and market information to identify optimization opportunities.
Translate data and customer insights into practical recommendations that improve commercial execution.
Support development of KPIs and measurement frameworks to evaluate commercial performance.
Conduct market, competitor, customer, and product analyses to inform commercial strategy.
Support brand positioning, value proposition development, customer segmentation, and engagement strategy.
Assess market opportunities and potential barriers to commercial success.
Help clients develop differentiated strategies based on customer needs, competitive dynamics, and market conditions.
Connect strategic recommendations to actionable commercial plans.
Own defined workstreams within consulting engagements, from initial problem structuring through final recommendations.
Develop hypotheses, analytical approaches, and frameworks for solving complex business problems.
Synthesize qualitative and quantitative information into clear strategic insights.
Create high-quality, executive-ready presentations with compelling storylines and recommendations.
Participate in client meetings, workshops, and presentations.
Build effective working relationships with client stakeholders.
Work closely with Managers, Principals, Partners, and colleagues across Acumetis' global teams.
Guide and review the work of Consultants and junior team members.
Contribute to project management, including work planning, quality control, and successful delivery.