Principal Global SLC Pre-Sales Consultant – Healthcare and Life Sciences

About the role

SLC is a flexibly deployed environment for SAS language development and execution that also supports Python, R, and SQL. We are seeking a technical consultant to support account executives in all phases of the sales process.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers and prospects, leading conversations to gather high-level business and technical requirements
• Lead technical discovery sessions and activities, assessing feasibility and effort in porting existing SAS code to be executed in SLC
• Review existing and target IT infrastructure, ecosystems, and Statistical Computing Environments, providing architectural guidance for deploying SLC
• Aid customers in porting their existing SAS language code to run in SLC
• Scope and conduct successful pilots and proof-of-concept activities with prospects interested in exploring the feasibility of SLC as a SAS language capability within their current and target architectures, where SAS language execution, code portability, performance, compatibility, and modernization are key decision factors
• Provide subject matter expertise in the SAS language and statistical programming within the pharmaceutical industry
• Create and conduct industry specific software demonstrations
• Onboard and support service and technology partners in presenting SLC to the industry
• Author and present pertinent pharma industry specific papers and presentations in webinars and at pharma community conferences and events
• Participate in and lead pharma industry projects related to statistical programming
• Orchestrate and lead workshops showcasing SLC
• Lead and provide input to RFI and RFP responses
• Own the technical relationship throughout the sales cycle
• Collaborate with the SLC product team, feeding real-world customer insights back into the product roadmap, ensuring SLC is meeting the demands of the pharmaceutical industry

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience programming in the SAS language
• Deep understanding of Statistical Programming within the pharmaceutical industry
• Strong communication skills, explaining complex problems in simple terms
• Ability to influence executives and guide enterprise-scale technology adoption
• Full professional proficiency in English and Swedish (written and spoken)
• Experience conducting and running workshops
• Practical experience in customer-facing technical roles (PreSales, Solutions Consulting, Technical Consulting, Training, Business or Technical Support or similar)
• Strong ability to explain and demonstrate SAS language behavior, compatibility considerations, migration patterns, and performance implications to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience designing and running proof-of-concepts and technical evaluations with clear success criteria and structured outcomes
• Confident presentation skills: ability to deliver technical demos, workshops, and architecture discussions
• Comfortable working across stakeholders (sales, product, engineering) to influence solution direction and remove blockers

Preferred

• Experience with R and/or Python
• Knowledge of low-code AI tools

Pay

$146,700 – $293,400 a year. Compensation is OTE with a 70/30 split.