Causaly
Life Sciences
LifeSciencesStrategyDirector
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“Life Sciences Strategy Director at Causaly. Skills: Pre-sales advisory model leadership, Strategic value articulation, Executive communication, Business case development, Coaching. Lead the pre-sales advisory model across Scientific Solutions Consultants and strategic value advisory support, ensuring the right expertise is applied to the right customer situation.. Build repeatable standards for executive value narratives, ROI frameworks, scientific workflow discovery, and business case developme”
What You'll Achieve.
Ensure the right expertise is applied to the right customer situation.; Build repeatable standards for executive value narratives, ROI frameworks, scientific workflow discovery, and business case development.; Translate user-level scientific value into senior stakeholder priorities.; Help others improve discovery, storytelling, problem framing, and stakeholder influence.; Support executive conversations, business case development, and senior stakeholder alignment.; Establish a clear operating cadence with Sales leadership.; Capture patterns from customer conversations and translate them into stronger pre- sales playbooks, enablement, and executive-facing assets.; Define practical measures of success for the advisory model.; Strengthen how we support strategic customers through complex buying decisions.
Industry & Context.
Structured problem-solving; Consultative problem-solving
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Significant experience in life sciences consulting, strategy consulting, commercial strategy, value advisory, solution consulting, or a related strategic customer-facing role., Understanding of how large pharma and biotech organisations evaluate enterprise solutions, including stakeholder mapping, budget approval, executive sponsorship, and business case development., Ability to translate complex scientific workflows into clear business implications for senior leaders., Credibility with scientific users and confidence in executive-level conversations with senior life sciences stakeholders., Experience building structured narratives, value propositions, operating models, business cases, or transformation recommendations for sophisticated customers., Coaching capability, with the ability to help others improve discovery, storytelling, problem framing, and stakeholder influence., Comfortable operating hands-on in high-priority customer situations while also building scalable processes, standards, and team capability., Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to pressure-test assumptions, simplify complexity, and create materials that influence decision-making.
Nice to Have
Experience in sales or pre-sales can be valuable, but the role is not designed as a traditional sales leadership position., Candidates who have helped senior life sciences stakeholders make decisions about complex scientific, digital, data, or AI-enabled solutions.
What You'll Do.
Lead the pre-sales advisory model across Scientific Solutions Consultants and strategic value advisory support
ensuring the right expertise is applied to the right customer situation.
Build repeatable standards for executive value narratives
scientific workflow discovery
and business case development.
Partner with Strategic Client Partners to translate user-level scientific value into senior stakeholder priorities such as research productivity
Coach SSCs and future strategic value advisors on how to move from product demonstration to consultative problem-solving and strategic value articulation.
Personally act as a strategic value advisor on selected strategic opportunities during the initial phase
supporting executive conversations
business case development
and senior stakeholder alignment.
Establish a clear operating cadence with Sales leadership
including prioritisation
strategic opportunity reviews
Capture patterns from customer conversations and translate them into stronger pre- sales playbooks
and executive-facing assets.
Define practical measures of success for the advisory model
including quality of business cases
strength of executive engagement
conversion from user interest to senior stakeholder sponsorship
and consistency of pre-sales execution.
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with Strategic Client Partners to translate user-level scientific value into senior stakeholder priorities.; Coach SSCs and future strategic value advisors.; Establish a clear operating cadence with Sales leadership.; Partners with Sales to strengthen the quality of strategic customer engagement.
Communication Scope
Clear written and verbal communication; Ability to pressure-test assumptions; Simplify complexity; Create materials that influence decision-making; Executive-level conversations
Full Job Description
About us: Causaly is redefining how humans acquire knowledge and develop insights in biomedicine. Our AI-powered platform enables researchers and decision-makers to discover and interpret evidence from millions of scientific publications, clinical trials, regulatory documents, and other complex data sources in minutes. We are building the world’s most advanced biomedical knowledge platform, powered by a high-precision Knowledge Graph and GenAI capabilities. Our technology is already used by leading biopharmaceutical organizations to accelerate drug discovery, improve safety, and drive better decision-making. Backed by top-tier investors including ICONIQ, Index Ventures, Pentech, and Marathon, we are scaling rapidly and expanding our product suite and market presence. About the role Causaly helps life sciences organisations make faster, better-informed R&D decisions by combining scientific depth with AI-powered evidence discovery. As our customers expand theway they use Causaly, we need a senior leader who can connect scientific value, executive priorities, and enterprise decision-making. The Life Science Strategy Director will lead our pre-sales advisory model for strategic accounts. This role sits at the intersection of science, consulting, and commercial strategy. You will help customers understand where Causaly can create measurable value, shape the strategic narrative for senior stakeholders, and build the operating model that allows our Scientific Solutions Consultants and strategic value advisory capability to execute consistently. This is a player-coach role. In the initial phase, you will personally support selected strategic opportunities as a strategic value advisor, helping Strategic Client Partners develop the executive case, ROI logic, and “why change, why now, why Causaly” narrative. Over time, you will build the standards, coaching, and governance needed to scale this capability across regions. This is not a quota-carrying sales role. The Strategic C
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