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Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 742,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

In Strategy & 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 project at any given point in time, typically as part of a larger core team working on a priority. At a Consultant level, it could be: 

• Create supply chain planning thought leadership for clients across Life Sciences.

• Shape client’s planning transformation vision, focus areas, and journey from the current state to a “to-be” enterprise environment.
• Provide point-of-view on Life Sciences supply chain solutions to deliver on transformational goals along with strengths and weaknesses of various planning solutions. 
• Collaborate with senior client leaders to ensure buy-in to recommended solutions. 
• Oversee the design and implementation of Life Sciences Supply Chain solutions, processes, and operating model specifically for planning (Integrated Business Planning, Supply Planning, Demand Planning) by leveraging Accenture’s implementation methodology. 
• Help to develop and expand the Life Sciences Supply Chain Services consulting portfolio through thought leadership and opportunity identification. 
• Manage business development opportunities to bring innovative solutions and ways of working to clients. 
• Build and apply technical, industry, organization, and functional knowledge to support efforts in selling opportunities to existing and new clients. 
• Manage workstreams and/or work efforts at a client or within Accenture. 
• Serve as the planner/architect for a delivery initiative. 

Who do we need - Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience scoping and delivering Life Sciences transformation and innovation technology advisory solutions and services that includes advanced functional-level understanding of at least one of the following: Kinaxis, SAP IBP, OMP
• Minimum of 2 years of external experience at a consulting firm or 3 years of internal consulting experience in a role within Life Sciences (biopharma or medical device) 
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent 12 years work experience.

Bonus

Prior Life Sciences experience doing any planning functions:

• You can use the latest data analytics tools to spot opportunities for improvement.
• Prior experience in driving insights using visualization tools (i.e. Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx) and analytics tools (i.e. Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics).

Travel - candidates must be willing to travel up to 75% to client locations

Growth Opportunities 

You will always be learning in this role through: 

• On the job learning: creating experiments with new technologies, products and across team partnerships 

• Being part of a forward-thinking community committed to training on and the adoption of latest methodologies such as design thinking and agile working 

• Opportunities to be a face of Accenture at industry forums, conferences, and through thought leadership 

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We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

Information on benefits is here.

Role Location                                    Annual Salary Range

California                                          $63,200 to $188,600

Colorado                                           $63,200 to $163,000

District of Columbia                       $67,300 to $173,500

New York                                          $58,500 to $188,600

Maryland                                          $58,500 to $150,900

Washington                                      $67,300 to $173,500

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