Strategy Principal Director, Data & AI Strategy - Life Sciences

About the Company

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments, and other organizations build their digital core, optimize operations, accelerate revenue growth, and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 774,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data, and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise, and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions, and assets.

We work with C-suite executives, leaders, and boards of the world’s leading organizations, helping them reinvent every part of their enterprise to drive greater growth, enhance competitiveness, implement operational improvements, reduce cost, deliver sustainable 360° stakeholder value, and set a new performance frontier for themselves and their industry. Our deep industry and functional expertise are supported by proprietary assets and solutions that help organizations transform faster and become more resilient.

About the Role

Our Data and AI Strategy practitioners work to create and execute an organization’s business strategy for data and AI, including defining a compelling industry vision, creating value models, describing business/technology roadmaps, and creating operating models and platform and ecosystem architecture in support of data-led transformation. Use scaled agile disciplines to transform around an iterative approach sequencing use cases focused on critical data elements aligned to data product and platform feature development.

Responsibilities

• Shape vision and create opportunities for data & AI-led business reinvention.
• Build client relationships and credibility as a trusted advisor on how to infuse Data & AI into business processes or functions.
• Define and structure an organization’s data and AI strategy to build and optimize data assets and AI technologies for growth & competitive advantages.
• Assess the maturity of an organization’s data and AI foundation.
• Define building blocks required to convert to an AI-first organization, including technology and AI platform blueprint, data strategy, and future-ready operating model.
• Create the business case, investment profile, and roadmap to deliver on the strategy.
• Infuse Responsible AI in vision and roadmap, develop a plan for leveraging ecosystem partners, and define an operating model to foster a culture of innovation and experimentation.
• Identify people, processes, and technologies to develop and operationalize AI solutions.
• Create a strategy for AI-first products and develop commercialization opportunities.
• Originate new opportunities and see through the sales cycle.
• Travel as needed based on client expectations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree.
• Minimum 10 years of experience working within the Data and AI Strategy space, including specific skills and experiences around Data Management, Data Analysis, Requirements Gathering, Responsible AI, and leading tech-driven transformations.
• 7+ years of high-value consulting experience or equivalent internal consulting experience.
• A minimum of 7 years of experience leading workstreams and meeting deadlines.
• A minimum of 7 years of large-scale delivery experience with minimal help.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a relevant field (nice to have).
• Experience with senior-level (C-level or C-level minus 1) conversations (nice to have).
• Strong program management and communication skills, both verbal and written (nice to have).
• Driven and entrepreneurial: ability to originate and shape new deals, lead client conversations, and engage in go-to-market activities (nice to have).
• Fluent in English (both spoken and written).
• Excellent leadership and people skills: proven ability to build effective teams and foster a collaborative and inclusive environment, and proven ability to build strong client relationships.
• Experience bringing innovative ideas to projects.

Pay

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. The following ranges are provided as required by local law:

• California: $150,900 to $387,800
• Cleveland: $150,900 to $387,800
• Colorado: $150,900 to $387,800
• District of Columbia: $150,900 to $387,800
• Illinois: $150,900 to $387,800
• Maine: $150,900 to $387,800
• Maryland: $150,900 to $387,800
• Massachusetts: $150,900 to $387,800
• Minnesota: $150,900 to $387,800
• New York: $150,900 to $387,800
• New Jersey: $150,900 to $387,800
• Virginia: $150,900 to $387,800
• Washington: $150,900 to $387,800

Benefits

Accenture offers a market-competitive suite of benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage.
• 401(k) plan.
• Bonus opportunities.
• Paid holidays and paid time off.

See more information on our benefits here.