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Supply Chain Planning Life Sciences Consultant

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Manhattan, NY, USA
59K-206K Annually
Mid level
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Manhattan, NY, USA
59K-206K Annually
Mid level
Deliver supply chain and integrated planning transformation programs for life sciences clients. Responsibilities include project execution, planning capability development, client relationship management, sales support, coaching, and practice development. The consultant will also help implement generative AI and agent-based planning solutions, translating technical outputs into executive-ready insights. The role requires supply chain, integrated planning, and life sciences industry experience, with travel ranging from 0% to 75%.
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Accenture is a leading solutions and services company that helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed across the enterprise, bringing together the talent of our approximately 786,000 people, our proprietary assets and platforms, and deep ecosystem relationships. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. Through our Reinvention Services we bring together our capabilities across strategy, consulting, technology, operations, Song and Industry X with our deep industry expertise to create and deliver solutions and services for our clients. Our purpose is to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity, and we measure our success by the 360° value we create for all our stakeholders. Visit us at accenture.com. 

 

WHO WE ARE 

We are Accenture’s Supply Chain and Engineering reinvention partner for Life Sciences. We embed innovation, intelligence, and AI-native operations into the way the world designs, engineers, manufactures, and distributes products. We serve Life Sciences clients across the value chain to help bring lifesaving medicines and products to patients through harnessing the power of advanced technologies. 

 

The Work: 
Accenture is seeking a consultant to drive project execution across Planning transformation work within our Supply Chain & Engineering practice for Life Sciences. 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.  

 
The role is responsible for delivering large scale Planning Transformation programs through ownership of end-to-end delivery while building Accenture’s differentiated Planning capability.  
 
Key Responsibilities: 

At a consultant level, key responsibilities could include:  

  • Support project delivery of business and technology transformations by utilizing deep industry expertise in Planning and AI-enabled business and technology transformation work   

  • Understand business value levers for Planning reinvention across pharmaceuticals, biotech, MedTech and beyond including full value chain impacts of Planning decision making 

  • Build and apply technical, industry, organization, and functional knowledge to support efforts in selling opportunities to existing and new clients   

  • Engage deeply in project delivery with hands-on work executing against program priorities, leading work products, and coaching and mentoring others  

  • Bring effective communications to manage both internal and external relationships and deliver with excellence   

  • Support practice and people development in addition to day to day project delivery excellence 

  • Support delivery of generative AI and agent-based modeling to accelerate scalable use cases for Agentic planning operations - translating complex technical outputs into executive-ready insights and scalable solutions.   

Travel Requirements:

Travel is required for this role and could vary from 0-75%.

Here’s what you need: 

  • Minimum of 3 years of experience working on Supply Chain initiatives 
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience working on Integrated Planning initiatives  
  • Minimum of 2 years of experience working in one or many of the following industries: Biopharma, Medical Devices / Med Tech, CDMO/CMO, or adjacent Life Sciences sectors 
  • Minimum of 1 year of external experience at a consulting firm or 2 years of internal consulting experience in a role equivalent to Manager level within industry 
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If associate degree, must have a minimum of 6 years’ work experience) 

  

Bonus points if: 

  • You have developing expertise in one or more of the following life sciences planning domains: Patient-Based Demand Forecasting, IBP/S&OP, S&OE, Inventory Optimization, CMO/CDMO Supply Planning, or Clinical Supply 
  • You have the proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment 
  • You’ve earned an MBA or equivalent graduate degree 
  • You have exposure to life sciences planning platforms such as OMP, Kinaxis RapidResponse, SAP IBP/S4, o9 Solutions, or Blue Yonder, or adjacent systems such as Veeva Vault, SAP ERP, or MES/MOM platforms 
  • Lean or Six Sigma qualifications 
  • You can use the latest data analytics tools to spot opportunities for improvement 
  • Prior experience in driving insights using visualization tools (i.e. Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx) and analytics tools (i.e. Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics) 
  • Understanding of GxP and regulatory considerations in pharma manufacturing, and how they shape data and AI solutions 

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 as set forth below.

We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 10/05/2026.


Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here: U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture


Role Location Annual Salary Range

California $70,350 to $205,800

Colorado $63,800 to $177,800

Connecticut $63,800 to $177,800

District of Columbia $68,000 to $189,300

Illinois $59,100 to $177,800

Maine $54,400 to $151,400

Maryland $63,800 to $177,800

Massachusetts $63,800 to $189,300

Minnesota $63,800 to $177,800

New York $66,300 to $205,800

New Jersey $68,000 to $205,800

Ohio $59,100 to $164,600

Virginia $59,100 to $189,300

Washington $80,200 to $189,300


About Accenture

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 791,000 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. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, 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 

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