Life Sciences Supply Chain and Manufacturing Transformation Principal Director

Accenture Consulting. We work with C-suite executives, leaders and boards of the world’s leading organizations, helping them reinvent every part of their enterprise to drive greater growth, enhance competitiveness, implement operational improvements, reduce cost, deliver sustainable 360 stakeholder value, and set a new performance frontier for themselves and the industry in which they operate. Our deep industry and functional expertise is supported by proprietary assets and solutions that help organizations transform faster and become more resilient. Underpinned by technology, data, analytics, AI, change management, talent and sustainability capabilities, our Strategy & Consulting services help architect and accelerate all aspects of an organization’s total enterprise reinvention.Join our team that is helping the world’s leading life sciences companies to evolve rapidly from selling products to delivering value through better patient outcomes. We work with our pharmaceutical, biotech, medical technology, distributor and consumer health clients globally to redefine the future of the life sciences industry: combining the latest technology with scientific breakthroughs to revolutionize how medical treatments are discovered, developed and delivered to patients around the world.Our Life Sciences Supply Chain practice helps clients to transform their end-to-end supply chain to be patient centric and an enabler of growth.What would you do?Most of the team works on one or more projects at any given point in time, typically as part of a larger core team working on multiple priorities across client accounts. At a Principal Director level, it could be:Lead sales origination and project delivery in Life Sciences Supply Chain and Manufacturing with a focus on PLM and digital CMCSupport sales and delivery of business and technology transformations by utilizing deep industry expertise in PLM, CMC, tech transfer, data as a product, knowledge graphs, data lineage, and AI-enabled business and technology transformation workUnderstand business value levers for PLM and CMC reinvention across pharmaceuticals, biotech, MedTech and beyond including upstream R&D and downstream commercializationManage business development opportunities end to end to bring innovative solutions and ways of working to clientsBuild and apply technical, industry, organization, and functional knowledge to support efforts in selling opportunities to existing and new clientsLead diverse, global Accenture teams to deliver project work effectively leveraging AI through setting strategy, coaching and driving engagementBring effective communications to manage senior level client relationships and deliver with excellenceEffectively manage networked consulting organization to influence diverse stakeholders to help support worldclass delivery across technology, management consulting, and Data/AI teams and skillsetsOwn PLM and CMC thought leadership efforts across Life Sciences, bringing deep industry expertise and perspective in settings small and largeProvide point-of-view on Life Sciences technology vendor landscape and value levers for PLM tools as well as broader technology ecosystem relevant to Life Sciences development and manufacturingCreate PLM, product development, product launch and data management thought leadership for clients across Life SciencesPathway to practice leadership roles both in North America and globally for PLM and CMC reinvention servicesTravel - candidate should be willing to travel up to 75% to client locationsGrowth OpportunitiesYou will always be learning in this role through:On the job learning: creating experiments with new technologies, products and across team partnershipsBeing part of a forward-thinking community committed to learning and adoption of AI to reinvent the ways medicines reach patientsOpportunities to be a thought leader in a growing focus areaBasic QualificationsHere’s what you need:Minimum of 8 years of experience scoping and delivering Life Sciences transformation and technology advisory solutions and services across the value chain and across multiple modalitiesMinimum of 5 years of experience at a management consulting or strategy consulting firmBachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 10 years) work experienceCompensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. 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