Associate Director/Director - BI Consulting & Client Advisory (1286)
$131,200–$174,975 year
On-siteBerkeley Heights, New Jersey, United States
Job Summary
Lead strategic advisory conversations with CIOs, commercial leaders, and medical affairs stakeholders to translate business priorities into BI transformation roadmaps and modernization plans. Facilitate discovery workshops, solution design sessions, and executive readouts while guiding clients on Gen BI, Agentic BI, and semantic layer architectures. Create compelling demos and value narratives for RFPs and account expansions, converting technical capabilities into clear business outcomes for pharma clients. Provide direction to distributed teams of architects and consultants, reviewing solution designs and mentoring staff on executive communication and domain fluency.
Required Qualifications
- 12–15 years of experience in BI, analytics consulting, data visualization, enterprise reporting, solution advisory, or analytics transformation
- Strong hands-on or architecture-level expertise across the platforms listed in Core Platforms above (minimum two, preferably Power BI and Tableau)
- working knowledge of modern cloud and lakehouse / warehouse architectures
- Strong understanding of BI architecture: semantic layers, data modeling, dashboard performance, governance, row-level security, KPI frameworks, data lineage, and self-service analytics
- Strong pharma / life sciences domain experience in Commercial and/or Medical Affairs analytics
- Proven ability to lead executive presentations, client workshops, demos, and strategic advisory discussions, converting technical content into business value narratives for senior stakeholders
- Awareness of AI-enabled analytics capabilities including Power BI Copilot, Tableau Pulse / Agent, ThoughtSpot AI, natural-language querying, Gen BI, Agentic BI, and knowledge graph / semantic-layer approaches
- Excellent written and verbal communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, and consultative problem-solving skills
Desired Qualifications
- Prior consulting experience with US-based pharma, biotech, or life sciences clients
- Experience in pre-sales, solution shaping, RFP/RFI response development, account expansion, or GTM support
- Experience building or presenting demos related to executive dashboards, HCP 360, field insights, brand performance, market access, medical insights, or Gen BI / AI-assisted analytics
- Experience with dashboard rationalization, BI platform migration, cloud modernization, KPI standardization, or BI operating model design
- Certifications in one or more of the core platforms listed above
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