Point B
Director, Consulting (Senior Leader, Life Sciences) Intelligent Operations
Boston, MA · Director
Sponsorship not specified$133k-$285kDetected 83 days ago
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About the role
- This leader will serve as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders, helping clients reimagine operations through integration of progress redesign, automation, AI, and data-driven technologies.
- This leader will sit at the intersection of commercial growth, strategic advisory, and subject matter expertise, helping clients transform how they operate across R&D, clinical development, and adjacent functions.
Responsibilities
- They are passionate about the role automation, AI, and data-driven decision-making play in enabling enterprise-wide operational transformation and sustained performance improvement to deliver faster innovation and better patient outcomes.
Requirements
- Proven track record of originating new business, growing and scaling a book of business, and cultivating c-suite relationships
- 15+ years of consulting industry experience, or a combination of consulting and direct industry, including hands-on leadership in clinical development and operations or R&D transformation
- Experience delivering and leading strategic engagements in pharma and biotechnology organizations
- Ability to engage credibly with client operations and technology leaders (CFO, COO, CSCO) as a peer, not only with operational or clinical executives
- Familiarity with modern delivery approaches (agile, product operating model, DevSecOps) and practical experience applying them in regulated life sciences environments
- Ability to work remotely
- Ability to travel up to 80%
- Ability to work non-standard hours as necessary
- You can expect to hear back from us with feedback if we think there could be a fit and what next steps look like.
- B.A. or B.S.
- Demonstrated experience advising senior stakeholders on strategic initiatives shaping operating model (including CRO insourcing/outsourcing, business process optimization, op model design) and technology enablement (including automation, AI, and custom solutions); must include hands-on leadership or oversight of end-to-end operational transformation delivery - not strategy advisory alone
- Deep understanding of the clinical development/clinical operations operating model, including business functions, roles and responsibilities, technology landscape, and regulatory impacts
- Exceptional executive communication, structured problem solving, and consulting storytelling skills
- Active network across breadth of the Life Sciences industry, including Research, Development, and Commercial
- Proven ability to architect complex client engagements, develop a portfolio of work, and create new executive relationships
- Hands-on experience leading or overseeing delivery of operations transformations in life sciences, including experience with enterprise technologies (e.g., Veeva, Medidata, SAP, Salesforce), solution design, change management strategies, and driving AI and process automation in regulated environments
- Experience in building or scaling an operations transformation-focused consulting capability or practice area, including hiring and establishing delivery standards
- Ability to work on-site as requested
Skills
- Point B is a business innovation firm that takes the guesswork out of transformation.
- The proof is in our world-class NPS score that consistently triples our competitors.
Compensation
- Benefits – Point B rewards high performance with a total rewards approach that includes competitive base pay, benefits, as well as flexibility, leadership development opportunities, and a culture designed to help our diverse team of individ
Company info
- We are proud to be named a Best Workplace in the US by Fortune magazine, Best Workplaces for Millennials, and Best Workplaces for Women in addition to other awards regarding our workplace inclusivity.
Equal opportunity
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- Please use the Contact Us form for any recruiting inquires.
- Legal Information for Job Seekers can be accessed on our Careers Website.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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