**Introduction** A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences. **Your role and responsibilities** As an Industry Consultant: Life Sciences, you will accelerate innovation and operational excellence for life sciences companies by advising on R&D transformation, regulatory compliance, and patient-centric digital health strategies. You will combine scientific expertise with business insight to help clients streamline clinical trials, optimize supply chains, and bring therapies to market faster and more efficiently. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Advise on R&D Transformation: Provide guidance on transforming research and development processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness, leveraging expertise in scientific and business principles to drive innovation and growth. • Implement Regulatory Compliance Strategies: Collaborate with clients to develop and implement regulatory compliance strategies that meet industry standards and requirements, ensuring seamless integration with existing processes. • Develop Patient-Centric Digital Health Strategies: Design and deliver digital health solutions that prioritize patient needs, leveraging expertise in life sciences and business to drive improved health outcomes and customer satisfaction. • Optimize Supply Chain Operations: Analyze and optimize supply chain operations to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance overall performance, applying knowledge of life sciences industry best practices. • Streamline Clinical Trials: Apply expertise in clinical trial management to streamline processes, reduce timelines, and improve trial outcomes, collaborating with clients to achieve their goals. **Required technical and professional expertise** • Exposure to R&D Transformation: Experience with transforming research and development processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness, leveraging scientific and business principles to drive innovation and growth. • Experience with Regulatory Compliance: Familiarity with developing and implementing regulatory compliance strategies that meet industry standards and requirements, ensuring seamless integration with existing processes. • Knowledge of Digital Health Solutions: Exposure to designing and delivering digital health solutions that prioritize patient needs, leveraging expertise in life sciences and business to drive improved health outcomes and customer satisfaction. • Understanding of Supply Chain Optimization: Experience working with supply chain operations to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance overall performance, applying knowledge of life sciences industry best practices. • Familiarity with Clinical Trial Management: Exposure to streamlining clinical trial processes, reducing timelines, and improving trial outcomes, collaborating with clients to achieve their goals. **Preferred technical and professional experience** • Scientific Research Expertise: Exposure to conducting scientific research, collecting data, and analyzing results in a life sciences setting, with the ability to apply this knowledge to drive business growth and innovation. • Business Acumen: Experience working with business principles, including market analysis, competitive landscape, and financial planning, to inform life sciences industry decisions and drive strategic growth. • Digital Health Technologies: Familiarity with emerging digital health technologies, such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, or the Internet of Things (IoT), and their applications in the life sciences industry. IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.