Senior Forward Deployed Industry Consultant, Pharma Bayer

Senior Forward Deployed Industry Consultant Pharma (Bayer) - Berlin OR Leverkusen Hybrid

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About the job

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 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 customers 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 organizations secure software development goals.
• Embrace curiosity passion authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do.

Required qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Data Science Applied Mathematics or a related field.
• Solid experience in life sciences/pharmaceutical consulting applied analytics data science engineering or technical solution delivery roles.
• Strong hands-on experience building analytics- or AI-driven solutions in complex enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated ability to work embedded with customers including on-site collaboration in and comfort operating in ambiguous fast-moving settings.
• Proven capability to translate business requirements into technical implementations that deliver real operational value.
• Equivalent combination of related education training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.

Additional competencies knowledge and skills

• Broadening Business Value: Exploring customers underlying issues and needs that suggest broader solutions; maximizing the productiveness of sales interactions by building on customer cues to gain commitment to products services and solutions; articulating and promoting a path forward.
• Building Customer Loyalty: Meeting and exceeding internal or external customer expectations while cultivating relationships that secure commitment and trust.
• Customer Focus: Ensuring that the internal or external customers 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 organizations needs; promoting and operationalizing customer service as a value.
• Ability to work on complex problems requiring simultaneous understanding of industry data and technology.
• Strong problem-solving skills and creative thinking in environments with evolving requirements.
• Capability to lead initiatives define working approaches and coordinate activities across business and technical stakeholders.
• Clear communication skills with the ability to explain advanced analytical or AI concepts in business terms.
• Strong relationship-building skills and comfort working across organizational boundaries.

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