R&D Strategy Manager - Life Sciences
Level: Manager
Location: London
Job Description
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity.
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Our Team
As a strategy practitioner you’ll work with clients to transform the way they research and develop new drugs and set the direction for their portfolio and development strategies. The work you do will provide cutting-edge perspectives to reinvent the way pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies work in R&D, helping them to focus on the science of getting new products to patients faster - across research, clinical, regulatory, pharmacovigilance and medical affairs.
By joining Accenture’s Life Sciences Strategy team, you will embark on a fast-paced career path to Managing Director that will allow you to utilize your deep industry experience and specialized skills to design, sell and lead industry defining transformation programs.In this role you’ll use your expertise to drive opportunity—for the company and for yourself—while maintaining the flexibility you need to keep your career ahead of the curve.
Accenture Strategy - Life Sciences
Accenture Strategy Life Sciences (ASLS) partners with clients globally to transform their businesses and unlock value: across the industry value chain, and throughout their organisations typically underpinned with technology innovation.
Are you ready to help our clients to solve their biggest R&D problems by designing and implementing strategies and operating models that enhance business performance?- Do you want to help the biggest names in the Life Sciences industry understand how business, technology and operations intersect; help them simplify their technology investments; better connect them to the rest of the business and improve their organisational agility?
- Are you capable of leveraging progressive business ideas and emerging technologies to drive and deliver transformational change? If yes, then ASLS is the place for you to grow your reputation as you become an Accenture leader!
- As strategy practitioners, we work to simplify and accelerate the journey from early research to regulatory approval and throughout the product lifecycle.
We leverage our deep industry experience and customer insights to improve business outcomes and help our clients bring life-saving medicines to market. Our practice draws on:
- 3,000+ skilled R&D professionals across 30+ offices
- 1,000+ people with industry experience at a Top 50 pharmaceutical company
- 50+ years combined experience in R&D Consulting, Regulatory, Pharmacovigilance and Clinical data services across more than 26 therapeutic areas
In our team you will be expected to:
- Use your judgment to solve complex, ambiguous client business problems, bringing structure and rigorous quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques; acting and taking decisions with little management oversight
- Lead definition of strategic direction, using rigorous analysis to address our clients’ business challenges and deliver lasting and distinctive outcomes and value
- Develop knowledge of prevailing trends, financials and operating drivers across Life Sciences, identifying industry specific operating metrics and linking them to relevant financial metrics to identify the key value drivers for a client;
- Make, build and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs and styles. Present key findings to C-suite clients
- Develop and lead high performing multidisciplinary Strategy teams, leading by example, actively mentoring others and contributing to performance management and recruitment activities
- Run Accenture’s business (including cost management, contract management) with discipline, rigor and integrity, contributing towards evolution of Accenture’s Growth Strategy, securing key milestones and developing next scale plays and initiatives
- Contribute to business development activities including opportunity identification/qualification and proposal development/presentation
- Support practice/ community building efforts such as developing offerings, assets, capabilities, and relevant thought leadership
- Engage with the wider Strategy community in UKIA to foster collaboration and support growth and development of the business
In this role you will:
- Lead successful strategy engagements addressing our clients’ business challenges, delivering lasting and distinctive outcomes and value in disciplines such as:
- Solving key business problems and challenges by enabling Pharma R&D transformation, painting a picture of, and charting a journey from the current state to an ambitious future.
- Advising client organizations on how to transform their R&D functions, through changes to strategy and operating model, including harnessing the power of data and technology
- Analysing clients’ development strategies and assets, and making strategic recommendations to evolve and improve their pipeline and portfolio
- Collaborate with your Accenture colleagues and leaders in our SONG and Technology services to co-create innovative patient and investigator stakeholder experiences
- Own trusted relationships with client stakeholders in R&D and related functions as you help them achieve their goals.
- Contribute to compelling Life Sciences R&D thought leadership and share best practice as part of our Life Sciences squad network
- Understand client strategic/operational issues and structure the problem in order to develop hypotheses around possible solutions
- Structure and create business/market assessments and identify appropriate tools to be used and analyses to be done
- Develop and utilize industry knowledge to be able to make implementation-oriented recommendations
- Develop business cases to identify, measure and realise enterprise value
- Contribute to business development activities including opportunity identification/qualification, proposal development/presentation, and commercial contract negotiation
- Contribute to developing the Accenture Strategy Life Sciences practice and building Accenture’s Life Sciences offerings, assets, capabilities, and thought leadership.