Consulting Principal – Life Sciences Commercial Analytics
Cognizant · California, United States · 1 wk ago
HybridConsulting$165k–$194k/yrFull-time
About the role
As a Consulting Principal – Life Sciences Commercial Analytics, you will make an impact by serving as a subject matter expert and consulting leader for analytics-driven commercial transformation initiatives across pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients. You will be a valued member of the Life Sciences Commercial Analytics team and work collaboratively with managers, primary teams, and other stakeholders and clients.
Responsibilities
- Lead analytics-led consulting engagements, shaping insight strategies and operating models, and advising senior commercial stakeholders.
- Act as a Commercial Analytics SME for life sciences clients across sales, marketing, and omnichannel engagement.
- Enable data-driven decision making across brand strategy, field force deployment, channel mix optimization, and promotional effectiveness.
- Lead the design of analytics solutions and frameworks covering descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics.
- Own end-to-end consulting delivery for commercial analytics engagements, from problem framing to value realization.
- Identify and shape consulting opportunities across commercial analytics, insights, and decision science.
- Develop analytics frameworks, accelerators, and reusable assets for life sciences commercial engagements.
- Mentor consultants and managers on commercial analytics, insight generation, and consulting best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Life Sciences, Statistics, Economics, Engineering, Data Science, or Management.
- 14–18 years of experience in Life Sciences commercial analytics, consulting, or advanced analytics roles.
- Strong experience translating analytics into commercial strategy and execution decisions.
- Proven ability to lead complex analytics-driven consulting engagements and senior client relationships.
Qualifications
- Nice-to-have: MBA or advanced degree.
- Commercial analytics and performance management.
- Customer segmentation, targeting, and personalization.
- Promotional effectiveness and marketing mix analytics.
- Field force effectiveness and sales analytics.
- Omnichannel measurement frameworks.
- Advanced analytics, AI/ML, and next-best-action models.
- BI and visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI).
- Data privacy, consent, and compliance considerations.
Skills
- Transferable experiences and unique skills that make you stand out as someone who can bring new and exciting things to this role.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision and life insurance.
- 401(k) plan and contributions.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
- Employee assistance program.
- 10 paid holidays plus PTO.
- Paid parental leave and fertility assistance.
- Learning and development certifications and programs.
- Post closing date applications will be accepted until 5/15/2026.