Principal, R&D AI Solutions
Principal, R&D AI Solutions
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Job Description
About the Role:
We are seeking a Director or Principal-level Consultant to lead the selling and delivery of AI-powered projects in the Life Sciences R&D space with a core focus on Clinical Development and Clinical Trials. You will drive sales and delivery of engagements that range from strategic AI and data transformation initiatives to hands-on development of ML models and next-generation agentic AI systems.
This is a high-impact client-facing role for someone who is equally comfortable crafting visionary strategies in the boardroom and leading technical solution delivery with data scientists and engineers. You will be instrumental in building a practice growing a team and shaping the future of AI in Pharma R&D.
Key Responsibilities:
Client Engagement & Business Development
- Lead the end-to-end sales cycle: opportunity identification proposal development client presentations and deal closure.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders in Pharma and Life Sciences organizations.
- Identify and cultivate new opportunities in AI data science and digital transformation across Clinical R&D.
- Sell novel projects and solutions that have not been sold before; conceive sell and deliver first-in-class solutions; including selling and delivering solutions that are being built and need partnership with clients for successful development and delivery
- Lead the creation of narratives around IQVIAs Agentic AI solutions and systems; and the selling and delivery of agents and agentic systems to clients
Project Leadership & Delivery
- Design and oversee delivery of AI/ML projects involving real-world data (RWD) clinical trial data omics or other structured and unstructured data.
- Manage cross-functional project teams ensuring quality timeliness and client satisfaction.
- Support development of discriminative generative and agentic AI solutions in the life sciences domain
- Design develop deploy and evangelize new/innovative scalable high-performance solutions using state-of-the-art techniques and advanced analytical platforms
- Lead multi-disciplinary project teams with industry expertise technology skills and functional knowledge
- Lead development of AI strategy roadmaps PoCs ML pipelines and deployment strategies mainly focused on customer projects.
- Work with 3rd party partners especially tech partners across the tech stack for successful delivery of AI projects and solutions.
Practice Building
- Shape the growth of a new AI Life Sciences practice: define offerings hire and mentor team members establish delivery frameworks.
- Drive thought leadership by contributing to white papers conference talks or client workshops.
- Foster an agile entrepreneurial and impact-driven team culture.
Ideal Candidate Profile:
Must-Haves
- 510 years in Consulting with a strong focus on AI Data Science or Digital Transformation.
- Hands-on experience in both business development and delivery of complex projects.
- Strong familiarity with AI/ML techniques (supervised unsupervised generative AI LLMs agentic AI etc.).
- Domain expertise in Life Sciences preferably in Pharma R&D Clinical Trials or Clinical Operations.
- Proven experience managing senior client relationships and acting as a strategic advisor.
- Team leadership skills with experience managing consultants data scientists and technical teams.
- Drive to make things happen
- Ability to conceive sell and deliver novel projects services and solutions that have not been developed or sold before
Nice-to-Haves
- Prior experience at a top-tier consulting firm (e.g. Deloitte Accenture EY BCG McKinsey Bain).
- Understanding of regulatory and data governance issues in clinical data (HIPAA 21 CFR Part 11 etc.).
- Exposure to Real-World Evidence (RWE) biomarker discovery or trial optimization use cases.
- Experience with agentic AI or orchestration of LLM-based tools in the life sciences context.
- Familiarity with tools and platforms such as AWS Azure ML Databricks Foundation model platforms such as ChatGPT or Claude Code editors such as Cursor and other evolving parts of the tech stack needed for Agentic AI
What Were Looking For
- Polymath mindset: Ability (and desire) to master many skills strategic thinking technical depth and relationship-building.
- Entrepreneurial drive: Youre ready to build something a team a capability a practice.
- A jugaad spirit: Creative scrappy problem-solving and execution under ambiguity.
- Ambition to make a real impact in how medicines are discovered developed and delivered to patients.
What We Offer
- Opportunity to lead and shape a high-growth business unit at the forefront of AI in life sciences.
- Autonomy flexibility and support to innovate and build.
- A mission-driven team passionate about transforming healthcare through AI.
- Competitive compensation incentive structure and equity options.
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IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at
IQVIA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law. potential base pay range for this role when annualized is $144400.00 - $402100.00. The actual base pay offered may vary based on a number of factors including job-related qualifications such as knowledge skills education and experience; location; and/or schedule (full or part-time). Dependent on the position offered incentive plans bonuses and/or other forms of compensation may be offered in addition to a range of health and welfare and/or other benefits.
Employment Type
Full-Time
