The posting
Acumetis is a global healthcare consulting organization partnering with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and healthcare companies to solve complex business challenges and turn strategy into action.
Our Commercial team helps clients maximize the potential of their brands and portfolios across the product lifecycle. We bring together strategic thinking, healthcare expertise, analytics, and practical execution to support clients as they prepare for launch, optimize commercial performance, and navigate evolving markets.
The Opportunity
We are seeking a Senior Consultant – Commercial Strategy & Launch Excellence to join our growing Commercial team.
In this role, you will work with pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients on critical commercial questions, with a particular focus on launch strategy and readiness, commercial excellence, brand strategy, customer engagement, and performance optimization.
Senior Consultants play an important role in our client engagements. You will own significant project workstreams, conduct and synthesize research and analysis, develop strategic recommendations, create compelling client deliverables, and collaborate with colleagues across Acumetis' global organization.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who combines strong analytical capabilities with commercial thinking and wants to continue developing as a healthcare strategy consultant.
What You'll Do
Launch & Readiness
- Support clients in developing integrated launch strategies for new products, indications, and markets.
- Assess launch readiness across key commercial capabilities and identify priorities, dependencies, risks, and gaps.
- Contribute to launch planning, including strategic objectives, critical success factors, milestones, and performance measures.
- Support pre-launch through post-launch activities and help clients adapt strategies based on market performance and emerging insights.
- Develop launch frameworks, assessments, workshops, and recommendations that enable effective decision-making.
Commercial Strategy
- Help clients assess and improve commercial capabilities, processes, and ways of working.
- Support development of commercial models across areas such as customer engagement, field effectiveness, segmentation, targeting, omnichannel strategy, and performance measurement.
- Analyze commercial performance and market information to identify opportunities for optimization.
- Translate data and customer insights into practical recommendations that improve commercial execution.
- Support development of KPIs and measurement frameworks to evaluate commercial performance.
Brand & Commercial Strategy
- Conduct market, competitor, customer, and product analyses to inform commercial strategy.
- Support brand positioning, value proposition development, customer segmentation, and engagement strategy.
- Assess market opportunities and potential barriers to commercial success.
- Help clients develop differentiated strategies based on customer needs, competitive dynamics, and market conditions.
- Connect strategic recommendations to actionable commercial plans.
Client & Project Leadership
- Own defined workstreams within larger consulting engagements, from initial problem structuring through final recommendations.
- Develop hypotheses, analytical approaches, and frameworks for solving complex business problems.
- Synthesize qualitative and quantitative information into clear strategic insights.
- Create high-quality, executive-ready presentations with compelling storylines and recommendations.
- Participate actively in client meetings, workshops, and presentations.
- Build effective working relationships with client stakeholders.
- Work closely with Managers, Principals, Partners, and colleagues across Acumetis' global teams.
- Guide and review the work of Consultants and junior team members.
- Contribute to project management, including work planning, quality control, and successful delivery.
Required Skills:
- 4-6+ years of relevant experience in life sciences consulting, pharmaceutical/biotechnology commercial strategy, launch planning, commercial excellence, marketing, or a related field.
- Experience supporting pharmaceutical or biotechnology products across the commercialization lifecycle.
- Understanding of the factors that drive successful pharmaceutical product launches and commercial performance.
- Strong strategic problem-solving and analytical capabilities.
- Experience conducting and synthesizing primary and secondary research.
- Ability to translate complex information and data into clear commercial implications and strategic recommendations.
- Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills and experience developing client-ready deliverables.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience working in cross-functional and/or global environments.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to successfully manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Intellectual curiosity and a genuine interest in healthcare, life sciences, and commercial strategy.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required; an advanced degree such as an MBA, MPH, PharmD, PhD, or other relevant graduate degree is valued but not required.
- Prior experience in management consulting, life sciences strategy consulting, or a commercial role within pharmaceutical or biotechnology.
- Experience in one or more areas such as launch excellence, brand strategy, segmentation and targeting, customer engagement, omnichannel strategy, field effectiveness, or commercial performance.
- Experience working with products preparing for launch or undergoing significant commercial change.
Achievement
We set a high bar, deliver on our commitments, and take pride in outcomes that matter to clients and patients.
Entrepreneurial
We look for better ways to solve problems, take ownership, and act on opportunities to grow the business.
Collaborative
We work as one team across service lines, regions, and legacy firms, and share knowledge openly.
Integrity
We do what we say, give honest advice, and hold ourselves to the scientific and ethical standards our clients rely on.
Acumetis is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, military service, age, sex, pregnancy, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
