Commercial Strategy Consultant

at  Veeva Systems

Team: Business Consulting
City: Sydney
Country: Australia
Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $2B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.
At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We’re not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.
As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.
Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree
• 3+ years of management consulting experience
• Experience in Life Sciences, particularly in Commercial Operations/Commercial Excellence and/or consulting in this sector
• Good understanding of Commercial, with deeper expertise in two or more of the following areas: multi-channel strategy and optimization, product launch, go-to-market strategy, commercial model design, key account planning and management, segmentation and targeting, insight and analytics and brand strategy
• Good understanding of commercial/marketing technology and how business consulting offerings can both leverage and support these
• Good understanding of the business capabilities and drivers underpinning digital technology in Health and Life Sciences and the market forces and trends driving industry changes
• Proven data science and analytical skills, able to quantitatively and qualitatively assess problems and communicate responses across a range of issues
• A problem-solving mindset: anticipating issues early, analyzing and proactively finding solutions
• Highly effective project management skills
• Skilled in facilitating collaboration amongst team members
• Able to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization and quickly establish credibility
• Have a strong personal impact and ability to influence and persuade a range of stakeholders
• An effective communicator verbally and written in English
• Ability to travel roughly 50%, but this can vary depending on engagement/environment
• Need the right to work in Singapore or Australia.

THE ROLE

Veeva’s APAC Business Consulting Group is a key growth area for the company. It offers a differentiated consulting service in Life Sciences with a compelling value proposition - building on Veeva’s position as the digital partner of choice for 85% of the top 20 Pharmaceutical companies.
As a Consultant, you will manage workstreams on consulting projects for Veeva’s commercial life sciences customers: planning, organizing, and tracking all aspects of delivery in that workstream. You will analyze complex problems, build insightful solutions, and develop close working relationships with customers (through face-to-face discussions, workshops, email, etc.) to deliver demonstrable, sustainable value at the forefront of digital and commercial innovation.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Lead a workstream(s) in a project engagement: planning, organizing, and managing all aspects of delivery, including scope, quality, resources, risk, and timelines
• Be responsible for the end-to-end design, build, and delivery of project deliverables that meet specific project goals and objectives
• Identify and proactively solve problems faced by the Client
• Be a primary Client contact for operational project questions, build trusted relationships with Client stakeholders through interactions in person and remotely
• Manage the work and priorities of Associate Consultants in your workstream
• Support and mentor Associates in developing skills and professional capabilities
• Demonstrating the ability to assimilate new knowledge
• Possess good business acumen
• Remaining current on new developments in advisory services capabilities and industry knowledge
• Input into business development opportunities and proposals
• Help develop and disseminate thought leadership