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This is a remote position that requires regular travel to client locations and to Nuvera's home office in Cedar Knolls, New Jersey.

Nuvera, now part ofInizio Engage, isa specialized consulting firm in the life sciences, focusing on designing, building, and managing optimal patient and healthcare professional (HCP) treatment experiences for rare diseases and specialty medicines, using data-driven strategies to improve patient access, adherence, and outcomes from early development through post-launch, offering solutions from strategy to operational implementation.

Shape the future of the patient experience

This is a remote position that requires regular travel to client locations and to Nuvera's home office in Cedar Knolls, New Jersey.

At Nuvera, we bridge the gap between operations and strategy helping pharmaceutical and biotech leaders design, build, and manage seamless support experiences that simplify the complex journey of starting and staying on therapy.

Our Principals play a defining role in that mission. You will expand our business, build new capabilities, and lead work that shapes how treatment experiences are delivered, combining deep expertise with non-traditional thinking to drive what is meaningful, not just what is possible.

Your impact in this role

As a Principal, you will operate at the intersection of client leadership, strategy execution, and business growth.

Lead high-impact client engagements

• Build and sustain trusted relationships with senior leaders across pharmaceutical and biotech organizations
• Serve as the senior advisor on multiple strategic projects, owning delivery, facilitating executive workshops, and acting as the final quality gate for all client deliverables

Build teams and capabilities

• Lead and mentor Nuvera project teams, including performance management and professional development
• Identify, define, and help implement firmwide infrastructure and operational enhancements
• Shape and launch new service lines and client offerings

Drive business growth

• Personally generate $2M+ in new business annually through new opportunity development and client expansion
• Lead business development efforts that extend Nuvera's market impact and long-term growth trajectory

What defines successful Principals at Nuvera

The people we seek are singular in what they do and who they are. While experience matters, how you think, lead, and build trust matters just as much.

Our Principals are known for:

• Planning & Execution - Setting clear objectives and consistently delivering results
• Synthesis & Simplification - Turning complexity into clarity and direction
• Impactful Communication - Influencing through compelling, thoughtful storytelling
• Organizational Development - Building new capabilities that shape the future
• Leadership - Inspiring teams and clients around a shared vision
• Client Management - Cultivating deep, trust-based partnerships
• Business Development - Identifying and securing meaningful growth opportunities

What you bring

Education & experience

• Bachelor's degree or higher (MBA preferred)
• 12+ years in life sciences, including 4+ years in strategy consulting managing multiple client engagements
• 4+ years leading projects focused on solving complex business problems through strategy, performance improvement, or optimization
• Experience with unstructured, non-IT projects requiring you to define approaches and build analytical frameworks

Leadership & delivery

• Proven experience formally managing teams, mentoring talent, and leading cross-functional stakeholder groups

Business development

• Demonstrated ability to generate new business

Practical requirements

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and Visio
• Ability to travel as necessary to client sites and the Cedar Knolls, NJ office, including overnight and weekend travel
• U.S. citizenship or valid work authorization

Domain expertise

You bring depth across multiple areas of the life sciences ecosystem, including experience in several of the following:

• Product launch and commercialization
• Product strategy and positioning
• Commercial operations
• Patient services and patient experience design
• Market access, reimbursement, and product access
• Adherence solutions and hub services
• Health outcomes strategy and optimization
• Specialty pharmacy distribution
• Customer insights and engagement
• Commercial model transformation

AboutInizioEngage

InizioEngage is a strategic, commercial, and creative engagement partner that specializes in healthcare. Our passionate, global workforce augments localexpertiseand diverse mix of skills with data, science, and technology to deliver bespoke engagement solutions that help clients reimagine how they engage with their patients, payers,and providers to improve treatment outcomes. Our mission is to partner with our clients, improving lives by helping healthcare professionals and patients get the medicines, knowledge and support they need.

To learn more aboutInizioEngage, visit us at:https://inizio.health/

We believe in our values:We empower everyone/We rise to the challenge/We work as one/We ask what if/We do the right thing, and we will ask you how your personal values align to them.

InizioEngage is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Individuals seeking employment atInizioare considered without regards to age, ancestry, color, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Further,pursuant toapplicable local ordinances,Iniziowillconsider foremployment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.