Technology Strategy Manager, Life Sciences Industry

Accenture•St. Louis, MO

3d•$87,400 - $253,000

About The Position

Accenture’s Technology Strategy and Transformation team designs and executes industry-relevant reinventions to help organizations realize business value from technology. The team advises leaders on strategic technology choices, including how AI and emerging technologies can reshape products, services, operations, business models, and sources of competitive advantage. It helps clients translate technology opportunities into strategic choices, investment priorities, and transformation roadmaps. The Technology Strategy Manager serves as a trusted advisor to senior client leaders, defining strategies at the intersection of business and technology. The role develops technology visions and strategies, identifies and prioritizes value-creation opportunities, and helps clients incorporate innovative technology solutions into broader business transformations. It also develops operating models and business cases and contributes thought leadership on market-relevant technology strategy. AI tools are used to support research, synthesis, modeling, and scenario analysis, with professional judgment and rigorous validation applied to AI-assisted work. The Manager leads a project or major workstream, including work that redesigns how human and AI agent teams perform work. The role oversees deliverables, supervises and mentors team members, builds client relationships, facilitates consensus and action, contributes to business development and proposals, and advances thought leadership and new opportunities. The position also involves engaging senior stakeholders in challenging conversations and driving meaningful outcomes.

Requirements

At least 5 years of professional work experience.
Experience in operating model strategy, technology in M&A, technology value or cost take-out, technology-driven revenue growth strategy, or strategy involving AI- and emerging-technology-enabled transformation.
Experience writing business cases.
Experience leading or managing large teams effectively, including planning and structuring analytical work, facilitating team workshops, and rapidly developing technology strategy recommendations.
At least 1 year of strategy consulting experience at a consulting firm.
Bachelor’s degree.

Nice To Haves

Strong understanding of a specific industry, client, or technology and ability to advise senior leadership as an expert.
MBA or equivalent graduate degree.
Experience serving as a long-term trusted advisor on how technology affects an industry and the implications for business strategy and market share.
Ability to lead projects delivering business technology solutions and create practical roadmaps for clients’ long-term success.
Experience managing budgeting and forecasting activities and building financial proposals.
Experience managing end-to-end projects and reporting or escalating to senior levels.
Ability to create expert content and participate in professional forums.
Demonstrated critical thinking, ability to question decisions, and ability to provide creative solutions.
Experience building trusted relationships with senior client leaders.
Ability to mentor and guide team members and prepare them for greater responsibility.
Advanced presentation and public-speaking skills, including at the C-suite level.
Ability to provide junior team members with an integrated perspective of the client and project.
Fluency in using AI to augment strategy work while applying independent judgment.
Understanding of the strategic considerations for scaling AI responsibly in an enterprise and the need for human oversight.

Responsibilities

Advise C-suite clients on strategy at the intersection of technology and business, including how AI is reshaping competitive advantage and enterprise value.
Articulate technology visions using industry and functional expertise.
Shape the role of technology in business strategies to capture market share, including identifying opportunities for AI to differentiate products, experiences, operations, and business models.
Assess clients’ technology footprints and identify and prioritize value-creation opportunities.
Drive strategic opportunities that incorporate innovative technology solutions into broader business transformations.
Develop operating models and business cases using disruptive technologies, including AI, to unlock growth, productivity, and enterprise value.
Create thought leadership assets presenting market-relevant technology strategy insights, guidance, and recommendations.
Use AI tools to accelerate research, synthesis, modeling, scenario analysis, and strategic insight development; apply critical judgment and validate AI-assisted analysis.
Manage a project or major workstream, drive team deliverables, and supervise and mentor team members, including on work redesign involving human and AI agent teams.
Build strong senior client relationships, develop C-suite relationships, collaborate with clients, and act as a trusted advisor.
Advance thought leadership, asset development, and intellectual capital on agentic AI, operating models, workforce design, and human judgment and oversight; identify new opportunities.
Support business development by helping architect and position proposals and statements of work that reflect AI-enabled solutions and practical tradeoffs around agent autonomy.
Facilitate results and consensus, address difficult client conversations, and engage senior stakeholders to drive meaningful outcomes.