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Passionate about helping Life Sciences organizations navigate strategic, operational, and regulatory priorities while driving meaningful transformation? If you're excited to work across multidisciplinary teams to deliver innovative, practical solutions that make a measurable impact, we encourage you to apply! 

Work you'll do

As a Senior Manager on the Life Sciences R&D team, you will be responsible for...

• Leading engagement planning, budgeting, staffing, and delivery for complex client engagements
• Managing executive client and sponsor relationships and driving alignment on solutions, deliverables, and outcomes
• Leading clinical transformation initiatives, including operating model changes and process redesign across drug development workflows
• Applying technologies such as generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and automation to improve clinical and business processes
• Leading business development efforts, including pursuits, proposal development, pricing strategy support, and team leadership and coaching

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to mentor and provide clear guidance to others

The team

Deloitte's Life Sciences & Health Care practice works across the health ecosystem with organizations focused on transformation, innovation, and improved health outcomes. The practice brings industry experience, technology capabilities, and strategic insight to help clients address complex business and operational challenges.

Within that practice, Deloitte's Life Sciences team works with organizations developing therapies, treatments, devices, and cures to address critical health challenges. The team helps clients advance clinical and business transformation through industry knowledge, flexible delivery approaches, and technology-enabled solutions.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree
• 8+ years of consulting experience
• 6+ years of life sciences industry experience in pharmaceutical research and development regulatory affairs, including artificial intelligence/generative artificial intelligence for regulatory content generation, regulatory intelligence, or clinical trial optimization
• 6+ years of experience leading, managing, and delivering end-to-end engagements with teams across multiple locations
• Experience with submissions management, labeling, chemistry, manufacturing, and controls change control, lifecycle management, or submissions package development
• Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.

Preferred:

• Experience leading proposal development and pursuit activities for consulting engagements
• Experience leading virtual teams across multiple locations
• Experience delivering multiple strategic engagements for large global organizations
• Experience presenting to executive stakeholders and large and small audiences
• Veeva certification

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $189,200 to $372,900.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

Passionate about helping Life Sciences organizations navigate strategic, operational, and regulatory priorities while driving meaningful transformation? If you're excited to work across multidisciplinary teams to deliver innovative, practical solutions that make a measurable impact, we encourage you to apply! 

Work you'll do

As a Senior Manager on the Life Sciences R&D team, you will be responsible for...

• Leading engagement planning, budgeting, staffing, and delivery for complex client engagements
• Managing executive client and sponsor relationships and driving alignment on solutions, deliverables, and outcomes
• Leading clinical transformation initiatives, including operating model changes and process redesign across drug development workflows
• Applying technologies such as generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and automation to improve clinical and business processes
• Leading business development efforts, including pursuits, proposal development, pricing strategy support, and team leadership and coaching

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to mentor and provide clear guidance to others

The team

Deloitte's Life Sciences & Health Care practice works across the health ecosystem with organizations focused on transformation, innovation, and improved health outcomes. The practice brings industry experience, technology capabilities, and strategic insight to help clients address complex business and operational challenges.

Within that practice, Deloitte's Life Sciences team works with organizations developing therapies, treatments, devices, and cures to address critical health challenges. The team helps clients advance clinical and business transformation through industry knowledge, flexible delivery approaches, and technology-enabled solutions.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree
• 8+ years of consulting experience
• 6+ years of life sciences industry experience in pharmaceutical research and development regulatory affairs, including artificial intelligence/generative artificial intelligence for regulatory content generation, regulatory intelligence, or clinical trial optimization
• 6+ years of experience leading, managing, and delivering end-to-end engagements with teams across multiple locations
• Experience with submissions management, labeling, chemistry, manufacturing, and controls change control, lifecycle management, or submissions package development
• Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.

Preferred:

• Experience leading proposal development and pursuit activities for consulting engagements
• Experience leading virtual teams across multiple locations
• Experience delivering multiple strategic engagements for large global organizations
• Experience presenting to executive stakeholders and large and small audiences
• Veeva certification

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $189,200 to $372,900.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.