Job Description
Senior Industry Consultant - Platinum Accounts - Pfizer– PA/NJ/NY
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About the job
SAS is seeking a Senior Industry Consultant to leverage deep pharmaceutical/life sciences expertise and networks to drive revenue growth, support sales opportunities, and position SAS as a differentiated analytics partner in the market, for one of our key clients, Pfizer. You will play a key role in shaping the strategy, supporting customer engagements, and acting as a trusted advisor across stakeholders.
As a Senior Industry Consultant, Pfizer, you will:
- Lead end-to-end customer engagements across sales calls, discovery, business analysis, demonstrations, and presentations, translating business needs into value-driven SAS solutions.
- You are client-aligned with 1 or 2 platinum life sciences / pharmaceutical accounts but you do not carry full ownership of the account. Owner of the end-to-end functional and technical strategy to position SAS at those accounts with emphasis on the value articulation.
- Work in close partnership with the Global Account Director and Account Executives to drive account strategy, prioritization, and execution excellence.
- Drive revenue growth by supporting new business and expanding existing accounts, contributing to account strategy, opportunity development, and procurement activities including RFPs and proposals.
- Develop and execute-specific strategies by analysing market trends, identifying disruptions and gaps, and positioning SAS as the preferred analytics partner.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with our key client, senior stakeholders, partners, and system integrators, acting as a trusted advisor and enabling effective strategic collaborations.
- Create and deliver sales enablement assets, thought leadership, and training (e.g., value propositions, use cases, workshops, webinars) to strengthen internal alignment and market positioning.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with sales, marketing, and product teams to ensure consistent messaging, inform product direction, support solution deployment, and provide expertise across pre- and post-sale activities.
- Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do.
Required qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree preferably in Business, Marketing, Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in Life Sciences/pharmaceutical consulting, sales support, or related roles.Proven ability to drive incremental revenue and support complex sales cycles.
- Strong understanding of life sciences/pharmaceutical trends, disruption factors, and analytics-driven solutions.
- Experience collaborating with partners, system integrators, and cross-functional teams.
- Ability to communicate complex technical and analytical concepts in business terms.
- Experience contributing to proposals, RFPs, and customer-facing documentation.
- Strong relationship-building skills with stakeholders across all levels.
- Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.
Additional competencies, knowledge and skills
- Business Savvy: Demonstrates a keen understanding of basic business operations and the organizational levers (systems, processes, departments, functions) that drive profitable growth; draws from personal experience to quickly evaluate business plans and processes to identify data or recommendations that need further investigation.
- Customer Focus: Ensuring that the internal or external customer’s perspective is a driving force behind strategic priorities, business decisions, organizational processes, and individual activities; crafting and implementing service practices that meet customers’ and own organization’s needs; promoting and operationalizing customer service as a value.
- Sales Persuasion: Gaining prospect or customer commitment to a product, service, or idea by using effective influence strategies.
- Ability to work on complex issues requiring in-depth analysis and evaluation of multiple variables.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to apply professional judgment and creative thinking.
- Capability to lead initiatives, determine methodologies, and coordinate team activities.
- Experience networking with key contacts beyond immediate area of expertise.
- Ability to articulate business value and align solutions with customer needs.
World-class benefits
Highlights include...
- Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
- Medical plan options include:
- PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
- HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
- Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There’s a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
- An industry-leading 401k plan.
- Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development
- Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
- Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
- Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.
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Additional Information
To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights.
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The base salary range for this position is $135,841 USD - $166,028 USD per year and is a good faith estimate only. The range does not include any applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. Actual pay will vary depending on factors including but not limited to job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay is just one component of SAS’s total compensation package for employees. Employees may also be eligible for commission or discretionary bonus (based on company and individual performance) as determined by the role. In addition, SAS provides a competitive benefits package to meet different employee needs and lifestyles; including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, retirement benefits, company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business. For more information regarding SAS benefits, click here to view the total rewards package.
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