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Life Sciences Supply Chain Fulfillment/Planning Delivery Lead - Senior Manager

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Job Description

Overview

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 or more projects at any given point in time, typically as part of a larger core team working on a priority. At a Senior Manager level, it could be:

  • Work with cross-functional client teams to architect and deliver end to end supply chain transformations spanning R&D to Finished Goods, and connecting to Patients through innovative digital solutions, often over the course of multiple years involving large scale re-design
  • Provide deep Life Sciences and pharmaceutical distribution expertise across fulfillment domains of logistics, transportation management, cold chain, warehouse management, global trade, wholesaler distribution, etc.
  • Lead end to end business transformations within the fulfillment function including definition of key business processes, organizational enhancements, key metrics, performance indicators and analytics
  • Define operating models and organizational design for large scale global fulfillment organizations
  • Evaluate and recommend supportive technology solutions as needed
  • Leverage data driven hypothesizes and recommendations to support the End to End Supply Chain Transformation
  • Leading global teams of 2-75+ to deliver against client priorities and to solve a specific problem
  • Function as a strategic advisor to clients on end-to-end SC&O transformations addressing key business challenges such as New Product Launch, Cold Chain, Biologics, etc. including awareness of technology landscape and application
  • Collaborate effectively with other Accenture teams in Strategy, Consulting Technology and Operations to bring the best of Accenture to clients
  • Developing meaningful partnerships with Life Sciences clients through utilizing interpersonal skills, effective communication, and relationship building
  • Act as a thought leader by sharing client-relevant perspectives related to the Life Sciences fulfillment domain both internally and externally through blogs, industry white papers, speaking engagements, etc.
  • Proactively identify ways in which Accenture can better support clients through qualifying, co-creating, and executing new sales opportunities
  • Support the growth and operations of the Life Sciences Supply Chain practice at Accenture through active involvement and leadership

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

Who do we need?

We would love to hear from you if you meet the following:

  • Minimum of 5 years of Life Sciences experience, either in industry or through business consulting
  • Experience leading successful teams and autonomously “running a business”
  • Experience in architecting and delivering Life Sciences or wholesaler distribution fulfillment and/or planning related project work
  • Bachelor's Degree
  • Preference for deep pharmaceutical experience in New Product Launch, Cold Chain, Biologics, transportation management, warehouse management, etc.

Travel - candidate shold 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

EEO Statement

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

Compensation 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. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, New York or Washington as set forth below.
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                                          $131,100 to $336,900

Colorado                                           $131,100 to $291,100

New York                                          $121,400 to $336,900

Washington                                      $139,600 to $309,900

 

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