Associate Director, Strategy & Consulting - Pharma Supply Chain

About the role

Pharmaceutical supply chains are being reinvented by pressure on availability, resilience, service and working capital, alongside the rise of AI, automation and digital. Accenture is looking for a senior pharmaceutical supply chain leader to advise client executives, shape strategic transformation agendas and build a vision for the future of pharma supply chains. This is primarily a strategic advisory and executive engagement role, not day-to-day delivery management.

Key responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor to client leadership, bringing external perspectives on trends, leading practices and innovation, and helping executives decide on future operating models.
• Shape end-to-end transformation agendas covering business planning, demand and supply planning, customer service, logistics, distribution and network performance.
• Bring practical insight on AI-enabled planning, intelligent decision support, control towers, digital twins, automation and advanced analytics, and guide executives on the data and technology foundations of transformation.
• Identify and shape strategic transformation opportunities, turn complex challenges into value cases and roadmaps, and lead diagnostics and working sessions.
• Sponsor initiatives from design to execution, orchestrate multidisciplinary teams and define benefit-realisation approaches and metrics.

Required profile

• Significant experience in pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical supply chains, through industry, consulting or a mix of both.
• Strong track record advising and influencing senior executives and turning executive dialogue into transformational programs.
• Proven experience designing and mobilising complex transformations involving process, organisation, data and technology change.
• Based in or able to operate across Europe, supporting a global stakeholder network.
• Preferred: experience leading operating model and organisational transformation, including workforce implications of digital and AI; depth in sustainable supply chain strategy; an established network across European pharma and biopharma leadership.

Required skills

• Integrated business planning (IBP), demand and supply planning, customer service, logistics and distribution, inventory optimisation, supply chain resilience and operating model design.
• Credible fluency in digital, data and AI in pharma supply chains.
• Strong facilitation, stakeholder management and executive communication.