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The Global Health and Life Sciences Customer Advisory team is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Industry Consultant – Pharma who is an industry expert dedicated to our strategic account, Bayer. In this role, you will operate as an embedded consultant and forward-deployed engineer, working closely with business, data science, engineering, and IT teams at the customer site in Berlin or Leverküsen . Your mission is to co-create innovative analytics, AI-driven, agent-based, and data-centric solutions on top of SAS technology, directly within the customer’s operational environment.

You will accelerate innovation and time-to-value by applying, composing, and extending SAS capabilities to address high-impact pharmaceutical sponsor challenges. This role is designed for longer-term customer engagement to enable sustained capability development and deep business impact.

As a Senior Forward Deployed Industry Consultant, Pharma, you will:

• Serve as a forward-deployed, customer-embedded consultant working directly with business and technical teams within a large pharmaceutical organization.
• Lead time-boxed innovation sprints (typically ~12 weeks), with continuity across multiple sprints, to design and deliver analytics- and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Translate real-world business challenges into production-ready solutions built on SAS platforms and integrated into customer systems and workflows.
• Apply deep life sciences and pharmaceutical expertise to identify and solve problems across R&D, clinical development, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and commercial operations.
• Co-develop new analytical methods, metrics, and AI-driven approaches that deliver measurable improvements for sponsors and manufacturers.
• Bridge industry context and technical execution, ensuring solutions are innovative, compliant, and usable in regulated environments.
• Design and implement analytics pipelines, AI/ML workflows, agent-based approaches, and decisioning solutions using SAS technologies, APIs, and enterprise integrations.
• Rapidly prototype, iterate, and operationalize solutions with customer users, progressing from proof of value to scalable, production-ready capabilities.
• Partner closely with Global Account Directors, Account Executives, Industry Consultants, and technical teams to align embedded innovation with overall account strategy and support reuse across SAS.
• Clearly articulate business value, outcomes, and ROI, while providing structured feedback to SAS teams on customer needs, emerging use cases, and innovation opportunities.
• Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do.
• Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization's secure software development goals.
• Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do.
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