The Company
Cognizant (NASDAQ:CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant has over 350,000 employees as of January 2025. Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 1000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.
Cognizant Consulting
At Cognizant, our consultants orchestrate the capabilities to truly change the game across strategy, design, technology and industry/functional knowledge to deliver insight at speed and solutions at scale. Our consulting services elevate the unique abilities and business aspirations of customers and employees and build relationships based on trust and value.
Life Sciences Consulting
In Life Science Consulting, all our consultants share a common personal value – improving the health and wellbeing of all those around them, in communities and across society.
Each of our Consultants has made a conscience decision to pursue careers to enable them to live such values. As a result, we have a diversity of talent that comes from all different backgrounds. From those that have pursued academic careers in the Sciences, to those that have trained or worked in healthcare, to those that have worked in Pharmaceutical or Medical Device companies, or simply worked for other Consulting companies – we have a diverse team that specialises in the different areas our clients are seeking to transform in Life Sciences.
Role Outline:
The Consulting Manager will play a key role in delivering strategic CRM and Commercial IT solutions to clients in the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors. This role requires a strong understanding of life sciences commercial operations and hands-on experience with CRM platforms such as Veeva and Salesforce. The successful candidate will engage with clients to derive strategic insights, shape transformation roadmaps for commercial activities, lead engagements, support digital transformation initiatives, and contribute to internal capability development.
Responsibilities:
- Provide CRM Subject Matter Expertise (SME) to direct the design, implementation, and optimization of CRM platforms (e.g., Veeva CRM, Salesforce) for life sciences clients.
- Translate commercial business requirements into scalable digital solutions aligned with compliance and regulatory standards.
- Conduct business process analysis, stakeholder interviews, and system assessments to inform IT roadmaps.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including data, analytics, regulatory, and medical affairs.
- Support change management, training, and user adoption strategies.
- Contribute to business development activities including proposals, client presentations, and thought leadership.
- Mentor junior consultants and support knowledge sharing across the team.
Experience Required:
- 5+ years of experience in life sciences consulting or IT roles specializing in Life Science CRM and digital channels.
- Strong fundamental consulting skills and experience of how to engage clients to frame problem statements, shape materials for effective communication and demonstrate critical thinking
- Strong understanding of pharmaceutical commercial operations (sales, marketing, medical affairs).
- Proven expertise in CRM platforms (Veeva CRM, Salesforce, or similar).
- Understanding of modern commercial activities including omnichannel, marketing automation and digital content creation
- Ability to guide and advise clients on future roadmaps
- Familiarity with data integration, customer master data, and compliance frameworks (e.g., GxP, GDPR).
- Experienced in Business Analysis methodologies and contributing to both process improvements and delivering systems that users adopt, trust, and scale up to meet new needs
- Success in working with Product Managers/owners, UX, copy writers and engineering teams to create next generation digital customer experiences. Additional experience in product launch, customer testing and rapid innovation sprints welcome
Contribution to Development of Practice:
- A line manager, coach and mentor to members of the team
- Lead practice activities including Capability Development, Knowledge Management, Proposition or Solution Development
- Develop focused Thought Leadership assets including industry ‘points of view’ or ‘white papers’, podcasts, blogs, video interviews etc
La communauté Cognizant :
Nous sommes une équipe de professionnels dont les membres s'apprécient et se soutiennent mutuellement. Nos collaborateurs sont les garants d'un lieu de travail dynamique, collaboratif et inclusif où chacun peut s'épanouir.
- Cognizant est une communauté mondiale qui compte plus de 300 000+ collaborateurs dans le monde entier.
- Nous ne nous contentons pas de rêver de façons idéales, nous apportons des améliorations concrêtes
- Nous prenons soin de nos collaborateurs, de nos clients, de notre entreprise, de nos communautés et du climat, en faisant ce qui est juste.
- Nous favorisons un environnement innovant où vous pouvez construire le plan de carrière qui vous convient.
À propos de nous :
Cognizant est l’un des leaders mondiaux des services professionnels. Nous transformons les modèles commerciaux, opérationnels et technologiques de nos clients pour les adapter à l’ère numérique. Notre approche consultative, basée sur une connaissance sectorielle, aide nos clients à concevoir, développer et gérer des entreprises plus innovantes et plus efficaces. Basée aux États-Unis, Cognizant (membre du NASDAQ-100 et l’un des meilleurs employeurs du monde en 2024 selon Forbes) figure régulièrement parmi les entreprises les plus admirées au monde. Découvrez comment Cognizant aide ses clients à garder une longueur d’avance grâce au numérique sur le site www.cognizant.com.
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Mentions légales :
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