Consulting Partner - Life Sciences & Medical Devices

About the role

Wipro Consulting is scaling its Life Sciences & Medical Devices consulting business just as AI-driven drug discovery, personalized medicine, and geo-political supply-chain shocks converge. Reporting to the Americas Managing Partner for Life Sciences, you will own C-suite relationships across global biopharma, biotech scale-ups, and MedTech majors originating board-room advisory work that converts into large-scale technology and BPO programs.

Your remit spans the full product lifecycle — re-imagining R&D, digitizing clinical trials, modernizing quality & regulatory, and scaling smart manufacturing while shortening time-to-market and improving patient outcomes. Backed by ~230,000 technologists and proprietary AI accelerators, you will launch signature IP (e.g., benchmarks, data assets, platform ventures) that amplify Wipro’s provider voice.

Impact & outcomes

• Impact: faster trial cycle-times, first-pass regulatory approvals, 100+ bps margin expansion
• Growth: $10M+ new consulting revenue per year, $50M+ pull-through across tech & BPO
• Eminence: top-tier analyst ranking, talent development and thought leadership

Responsibilities

• Originate growth: identify whitespace, craft C-suite narratives, and close $10M+ advisory bookings annually, anchoring $100M+ tech/BPO follow-ons
• Advise C-suites: act as trusted voice on AI-augmented R&D, digital trials, smart factories, and product-as-a-service commercialization to translate vision into funded roadmaps
• Steer transformations: govern multi-tower programs (PLM modernization, eTMF digitization, connected-device roll-out, GenAI regulatory automation) ensuring benefits realization and CSAT > 4.8/5
• Create IP and ventures: incubate differentiating benchmarks, twin platforms, and data products; spin out solution ventures with independent growth targets
• Amplify leadership: publish 3–4 flagship POVs per year, keynote major forums, and secure analyst citations that elevate Wipro’s brand
• Develop talent: recruit, mentor, and sponsor a diverse cadre of junior partners / senior managers, embed a psychologically safe, high-performance culture
• Forge alliances: build strategic partnerships with CROs, CDMOs, cloud/hyperscaler labs, and regulators to co-create market offerings
• Own the P&L: manage full consulting P&L for assigned accounts, drive forecast accuracy, safeguard margins, reinvest in growth accelerators
• Govern practice: shape investment roadmaps, prioritize solution backlog, and propagate agile ways-of-working across a global delivery footprint

Requirements

• Strategy pedigree: 15+ years in top-tier strategy or Big-4 advisory, including 7+ years life-sciences / MedTech leadership
• Client obsession: builds trust-based CXO networks across pharma R&D, clinical, quality, and MedTech business units, anticipates needs and turns insight into business impact and tangible opportunities
• Commercial track record: personally sold & led $100M+ cumulative advisory revenue, fluent negotiating at the executive level
• Domain mastery: end-to-end command of drug/device lifecycle — discovery to post-market surveillance and global regulatory landscapes (FDA, EMA, PMDA)
• Transformation gravitas: oversaw multi-tower programs touching 50+ assets or 100+ manufacturing lines and $1B+ spend
• Market authority: published author, keynote speaker, or quoted expert; creator of data assets and solution blueprints that set industry agendas
• Inclusive leader: proven sponsor of DEI initiatives, builds psychologically safe, high-performing teams across markets
• Entrepreneurial drive: operates with founder’s urgency, thrives amid ambiguity and rapid iteration
• Tech fluency: conversant in cloud, GenAI, digital twins, cybersecurity, and GxP digital-thread fundamentals
• Academic rigor: PhD, MBA, MD, or bio-informatics / biomedical-engineering credentials from a top institution

About Wipro Consulting

Wipro Consulting is the strategy and transformation arm of Wipro Limited, a global technology services leader with over USD 11 billion in annual revenue and operations in 66 countries. We fuse board-room insight with engineering execution to help clients navigate seismic shifts in digital, sustainability, and talent. Our 10,000+ consultants — many alumni of McKinsey, Accenture, Bain, BCG, and the Big-4 — work shoulder-to-shoulder with Wipro’s ~230,000 technologists, forming cross-functional squads that move at start-up speed while de-risking at enterprise scale.

In Life Sciences and Medical Devices, we have guided Big-Pharma through digital lab transformations, enabled AI-driven molecule discovery, modernized global QMS for MedTech leaders, and deployed smart-factory twins across vaccine and device plants. We are equally committed to people and planet. Wipro was among the first global tech firms to pledge Net-Zero emissions by 2040 and is repeatedly recognized for its diversity, equity, and inclusion leadership. Through the Wipro Foundation, we contribute over $30M annually to education and community-health programs worldwide.

Pay

The expected compensation for this role ranges from $190,000.00 to $325,000.00. Final compensation will depend on various factors, including your geographical location, minimum wage obligations, skills, and relevant experience.

Benefits

• Full range of medical and dental benefits options
• Disability insurance
• Paid time off (inclusive of sick leave)
• Other paid and unpaid leave options