Senior Manager- Life Sciences- Commercial
Capgemini
United Kingdom
Posted on Feb 17, 2026
At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.
YOUR ROLE
Capgemini Invent partners with the world’s leading Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, and MedTech organisations, to unlock growth, improve patient outcomes, and shape the future of healthcare. We combine strategy, data & AI, experience design, and technology powered execution. In this role, you will help to grow our commercial engagements across biopharma, selling & delivering programmes that elevate brand performance, modernize marketing and scale AI-powered, omnichannel operations. You will collaborate closely with frog on brand, content, creative, and marketing operating model transformation.
As a Senior Manager within Life Sciences, you will play a key role in:
· Selling & growing our Commercial business: originate, shape, and sell consulting, advisory and delivery engagements with life sciences commercial teams (UK & Global).
· Building & growing executive relationships: across Marketing, Commercial/BU, Digital, Sales, Patient Services, and Market Access leadership with Pharma (UK & Global)
· Leading cross-disciplinary teams to delivery strategy through execution programmes: brand growth, digital and multi-channel acceleration, marketing technology & data foundations, and AI enablement.
· Co-creating modern brand & content strategies: design marketing operating models, stand up content studies and production pipelines, and scale omnichannel playbooks, collaborating with frog & Invent strategists, creatives, and marketing operations specialists.
· Coaching and developing team members: recruit outstanding talent, and cultivate an inclusive, high-performance culture.
As part of your role, you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:
· Internal contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.
· Learning & development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.
· Business development – utilising a combination of the organisation’s broader pre-existing relationships, company relationships and your own network, you’ll be responsible for generating c.£1m - £2m of consulting revenues
YOUR PROFILE
We’re looking for some who has experience with a mix of the following:
• 10-15+ years’ experience in Commercial pharma and/or medtech positions (Industry, client-facing consulting, or agency), including leadership roles.
• Bachelor’s degree within Life Sciences or adjacent subjects; advanced degree (MBA, MSc, PharmD) is preferred.
• End to end ownership of launching and growing at least one brand within a Pharmaceutical or MedTech business (specialty/rare, vaccines, or primary care) or a major indication/label expansion
• Expertise across brand strategy, brand & portfolio planning, segmentation & targeting, and/or product lifecycle management.
• Successful collaboration with Sales/Field, Patient Services, Medical, and/or Market Access teams, to ensure integrated brand execution.
• Proven delivery of AI use cases in Commercial, such as:
• GenAI content operations: brief-to-MLR drafting, variant generation, channel-specific renditions, localisation.
• Personalisation & Next-Best-Action: segmentation, micro-audiences, decisioning engines, experimentation.
• Insights generation using ML/NLP: social listening, KOL mapping, intent signals, conversation intelligence.
• Digital Strategy and digital asset creation & production (experience with Veeva / PromoMats / MedComms alignment, MLR optimization is a plus)
• Campaign strategy & execution across HCP, patient, and payer journeys.
• Robust knowledge of UK/EU compliance frameworks (ABPI/PMCPA) and global promotional governance, with an understanding of Responsible AI in Pharma.
• Ability to navigate matrix organisations and partner ecosystems (agencies, media, tech partners), with a strong industry network.
• Proven track record of selling and delivering multi-workstream programmes
• UK-based and available for travel, with experience working on global brands.
Optional:
· Experience with specialty care, oncology, rare diseases, vaccines, and/or cell & gene therapies.
· Conference presence, published articles, or advisory roles.
WHAT YOU'LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE:
You’ll be working with global Pharmaceutical and MedTech clients at the intersection of strategy, data & AI, and design, with end-to-end impact. You’ll be able to collaborate across our Capgemini ecosystem, particularly closely with frog, and will be able to accelerate your career with a global firm, iconic clients, and strong culture of inclusion and learning.
As a Senior Manager for Life Sciences, we envision success in the first 12 months of your role to look like:
· You have established trusted relationships with VP/SVP Commercial/Marketing and BU Heads.
· You have shaped a distinctive AI-enabled Commercial proposition in collaboration with frog and taken it to market.
· You have built a healthy pipeline and lead several wins across UK and global accounts.
· You will be mobilizing and delivering high-impact programmes with measurable brand and engagement outcomes.
· You will be coaching and growing a diverse team; you will have published thought leadership and spoken at one or more industry forums.
NEED TO KNOW
At Capgemini we don’t just believe in inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Inclusive Futures for All campaign, we build environments where you can bring you whole self to work.
We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.
Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:
· Declare they have a disability, and
· Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.
Please opt in during the application process.
CSR
We’re also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we’re working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone’s access to a digital world. It’s something we’re really serious about. In fact, we were even named as one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a team that does the right thing.
Whilst you will have London, Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.
We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent on the grade and on company and personal performance.
ABOUT CAPGEMINI
Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 350,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.