Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SAS is a leader in data and AI software and services that helps organizations transform data into intelligence. The Senior Forward Deployed Industry Consultant will serve as an embedded consultant for a pharmaceutical customer, designing and delivering analytics, AI-driven, agent-based, and data-centric solutions using SAS technologies. The role focuses on translating pharmaceutical business challenges into production-ready capabilities and accelerating innovation through sustained customer engagement.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, or a related field
- Minimum 8 years of 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 New Jersey 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
- 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.
- A pharmacy that ships prescriptions for no additional charge for employees not local to HQ.
- 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.
- Commission or discretionary bonus based on company and individual performance, as determined by the role.
- Life and disability insurance.
- Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.
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