Product Advisory Consultant

About the role

ZS is a management consulting and technology firm focused on improving life and how we live it. We transform ideas into impact by bringing together data, science, technology, and human ingenuity to deliver better outcomes for patients, caregivers, and consumers worldwide. As a Product Advisory Consultant in the Digital Product Management Expertise Center, you will partner with clients in pharma, med-tech, and beyond to discover, build, and deliver digital products their users and customers value.

Our team leads clients through digital transformations, helping them adopt a product operating model, embed agile ways of working, and apply a genuine product mindset across their digital investments. We measure success by the outcomes our clients achieve once we’ve changed how they work.

Responsibilities

• Lead clients through transformations of digital product development team ways of working.
• Design target operating models for enterprise digital organizations, including team topologies, roles, decision rights, governance, and intake/prioritization.
• Build playbooks, frameworks, and reference materials that codify product-management best practices and make new ways of working repeatable.
• Design and facilitate executive workshops and working sessions that drive alignment and unlock hard decisions.
• Synthesize data-driven insights and deliver structured verbal and written presentations, including executive-level PowerPoint decks.
• Develop client relationships and serve as a key point of contact on projects.
• Coach product managers, product owners, and leaders on product development and agile practices; run trainings that build lasting in-house capability.
• Shape workflows and tooling (Jira, Confluence, Productboard, Aha!, and similar) that operationalize the operating model.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree; Master’s degree preferred.
• 6–10 years of combined experience across client-facing management consulting and product management/product ownership roles.
• Direct experience with product operating model/agile transformations.
• High energy level, with strong facilitation and verbal/written communication skills.
• Strong organization, project management, and prioritization skills.
• Experience working in/with Lifesciences preferred.
• Ability to travel as needed.
• Fluency in English.

Skills

• Client-first mentality.
• Intense work ethic.
• Collaborative spirit and problem-solving approach.

How you’ll grow

• Cross-functional skills development and custom learning pathways.
• Milestone training programs aligned to career progression opportunities.
• Internal mobility paths that empower growth via s-curves, individual contribution, and role expansions.

Benefits

At ZS, we offer a comprehensive total rewards package that supports your health and well-being, financial future, time away, and professional development. This includes robust skills-building programs, multiple career progression paths, internal mobility, and a deeply collaborative culture.

For details on total rewards in the United States, visit ZS US office locations.

Schedule

We are committed to a hybrid working model, combining work from home and on-site presence at clients/ZS offices for the majority of the week. Travel is a requirement for client-facing roles, with business needs determining priority.