Accenture UK & Ireland
Life Sciences Consulting Associate Manager
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Life Sciences Associate Manager
Career Level: 8 - Associate Manager
Location: London
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services across strategy, technology and operations. Our Life Sciences Industry & Enterprise practice brings together a powerful combination of deep industry expertise, next-generation technology, transformative thinking, and collaboration. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we help clients reshape what Life Sciences can be.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced and ambitious Associate Manager to join our UK Life Sciences R&D practice, bringing a combination of Life Sciences industry knowledge, technology-enabled transformation experience and strong programme delivery capability. The role sits at the intersection of business consulting and technology programme delivery, with Pharmaceutical experience expected and adjacent Life Sciences sector experience (e.g. MedTech) an advantage.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the delivery of defined workstreams or projects within complex Life Sciences R&D transformation and technical programmes, from planning through to implementation.
- Apply structured problem-solving and consulting approaches to understand client challenges, develop insights and translate them into practical recommendations and delivery plans.
- Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders, leading discussions, workshops and status reviews within your area of responsibility.
- Lead workstream or project governance, proactively managing plans, risks, issues, dependencies, resources and delivery quality.
- Translate business and R&D requirements into executable solutions and coordinate delivery across business, technology, data, architecture and third-party teams.
- Support technical programme management across complex transformation initiatives, ensuring alignment between business outcomes, technology delivery and operational readiness.
- Coordinate and provide day-to-day leadership to junior colleagues, supporting their development through coaching, feedback and mentoring.
- Collaborate across multidisciplinary Accenture teams, bringing together industry, technology, data and delivery perspectives to solve client problems.
- Contribute to business development by identifying potential opportunities and supporting proposals, client pitches and the shaping of new work.
- Contribute to the continued growth of the R&D practice through development of propositions, methodologies, assets, thought leadership and knowledge sharing.
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Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant experience delivering projects or workstreams within complex transformation or technology programmes in the Pharmaceutical or broader Life Sciences industry.
- Good understanding of the Life Sciences R&D environment, with experience in one or more areas of R&D.
- Experience delivering business and/or technical programmes, with the ability to coordinate across business, technology, data and third-party teams.
- Strong project and programme delivery capability, including planning, governance, dependency management, risk and issue management, resourcing and stakeholder communication.
- Strong consulting and structured problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyse complex challenges and develop practical recommendations.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to build trusted relationships and work effectively with senior client stakeholders.
- Experience coordinating, coaching or providing day-to-day leadership to junior team members.
- Strong technology and data fluency, with an understanding of how cloud, data, digital platforms and AI can enable the reinvention of Life Sciences R&D.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex topics clearly and effectively.
- A collaborative and entrepreneurial mindset, with an interest in contributing to client development, proposals and the continued growth of our R&D practice.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience. An advanced degree is advantageous but not essential.
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Desirable Experience
- Experience delivering technology-enabled transformation or technical programme management within Life Sciences R&D.
- Experience with data, cloud or enterprise technology platforms, including areas such as data engineering, data platforms, cloud technologies such as Azure, systems integration or enterprise architecture.
- Understanding of emerging technologies, including Generative AI, and their potential application within Life Sciences R&D.
What’s In It For You
At Accenture, in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days' vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice.
You will join a collaborative and ambitious UK Life Sciences Industry & Enterprise team with access to Accenture's global network of industry, technology, data and delivery experts. You will have opportunities to build your career across R&D transformation, technical programme delivery, data and emerging technologies while contributing to the continued growth of our R&D practice.
Location: Your home office will be in London. This role is client-facing and may therefore involve travel, working in other parts of the UK as well as overseas depending on the needs of the project.
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