Commercial Strategy & Solutions Lead, Life Sciences
Location
United States
Posted
4 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Commercial Strategy & Solutions Lead, Life Sciences
phData
• Drive customer outcomes by staying focused on client goals and applying the right data, AI, and platform capabilities to create measurable business and patient value. • Sharpen where phData can credibly win by combining deep commercial domain knowledge with data, analytics, AI, and cloud capabilities. • Serve as a trusted advisor to commercial, analytics, and data leaders, helping clients turn ambiguous priorities into clear decisions, roadmaps, and business cases. • Lead business development that expands phData’s commercial footprint in life sciences, including shaping proposals, leading client orals, supporting strategic pursuits, and growing existing accounts against shared revenue goals. • Champion phData’s commercial capabilities in the market through thought leadership, client stories, event content, and other credibility-building activities. • Identify adjacent use cases and expansion paths with account and partner teams, turning successful delivery into broader account growth. • Own the development of phData’s commercial accelerators by defining their value proposition, positioning, and requirements while partnering closely with the teams responsible for building them. • Scale commercial offerings across accounts through demos, solution briefs, client and partner conversations, and repeatable go-to-market motions. • Feed field and client feedback into the accelerator roadmap so offerings become easier to sell, deploy, and expand over time. • Partner with data, engineering, ML, and platform teams to ensure solutions remain both commercially relevant and technically feasible.
Job Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in life sciences, including meaningful time in commercial domain roles, consulting, data and analytics, solution leadership, or adjacent commercial transformation work.
- Strong working knowledge of one or more commercial domains, such as commercial analytics, market access, pricing and reimbursement, patient services, field analytics, omnichannel, commercial operations, or gross-to-net.
- Experience shaping and selling data, analytics, digital, or AI-enabled solutions for life sciences clients.
- Ability to engage both business and technical stakeholders and translate between commercial priorities and technical approaches.
- Track record of contributing to client pursuits, proposals, workshops, or strategic account growth.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity, structuring problems, and moving from concept to execution.
- Strong communication skills, including clear narrative development, solution framing, and executive-ready materials.
- Experience across both industry and consulting, services, or solution environments.
- Depth in commercial intelligence platforms, payer analytics, patient access, field force analytics, or AI-enabled commercial workflows.
- Direct experience with pharma commercial work such as launch planning, brand performance, segmentation and targeting, next-best-action, or omnichannel analytics.
- Familiarity with life sciences commercial data sources and vendors, including claims, formulary, payer, real-world data, specialty pharmacy, hub, HCP/HCO, contracting, and gross-to-net data through platforms such as IQVIA, Komodo, Symphony, MMIT, Clarivate/DRG, Definitive Healthcare, Veeva CRM and Network, or Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud.
- Technical fluency across tools such as Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, dbt, SQL, Python, R, SAS, Tableau, or Power BI. You do not need to be hands-on in all of them, but you should be able to lead cross-functional conversations across business, data, analytics, ML, and platform teams with credibility.
- Experience packaging reusable offerings, accelerators, or market-facing assets.
- Co-sell or joint-solution experience with cloud, data, or application vendors.
- Exposure to adjacent domains such as patient support, provider analytics, or medtech commercial analytics.
Benefits
- phData celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees
- 600+ Expert Cloud Certifications (Sigma, AWS, Azure, Dataiku, and more)
- Recognized as an award-winning workplace in the US, India and LATAM
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