Senior Lead, Strategy & Transformation

About our Company :

Medidata is powering smarter treatments and healthier people through digital solutions to support clinical trials. Celebrating 25 years of ground-breaking technological innovation across more than 36,000 trials and 11 million patients, Medidata offers industry-leading expertise, analytics-powered insights, and one of the largest clinical trial data sets in the industry. More than 1 million users trust Medidata's seamless, end-to-end platform to improve patient experiences, accelerate clinical breakthroughs, and bring therapies to market faster. Discover more at www.medidata.com .

About the Team :

The Senior Lead, Strategy & Transformation (S&T) is responsible for leading high-impact consulting engagements that drive transformative change and deliver measurable value for Medidata customers. This role ensures an exceptional experience for both internal and external stakeholders by combining deep domain expertise, consulting best practices, and the strategic application of Medidata’s technology.

Acting as an integrator between business objectives and platform-driven solutions, the Senior Lead S&T takes ownership of complex, cross-functional challenges—applying structured thinking and creative problem-solving to design, re-engineer, and optimize critical processes.

The Senior Lead’s primary responsibility is to lead the successful delivery of strategic consulting engagements, guiding clients through the adoption of Medidata’s solutions while embedding scalable practices, governance models, and value-based transformation strategies.

Responsibilities :

• Collaborate with Commercial and Strategy teams to shape client-specific solution proposals and statements of work (SoWs)
• Translate client challenges into structured consulting approaches during pre-sales and discovery phases
• Identify and position relevant consulting offerings aligned to digital transformation goals
• Contribute to reusable proposal assets and pre-sales templates to accelerate future opportunities
• Lead and deliver both paid projects and strategic investment consulting engagements from initiation through completion
• Structure and solve complex operational challenges using qualitative and quantitative techniques
• Develop current state diagnostics, process maps, KPI models, and value-based future state recommendations
• Manage multiple workstreams, delegate tasks effectively, and ensure delivery meets or exceeds client expectations
• Apply creative and critical thinking to develop structured, human-centered outcomes that align to the client's business and technical needs
• Drive adoption of Medidata technology through complementary processes, governance models, and change mechanisms
• Serve as a strategic advisor to client stakeholders, cultivating long-term, trusted relationships
• Lead stakeholder workshops, alignment sessions, and executive presentations to facilitate buy-in and shared vision
• Promote alignment across cross-functional stakeholders by managing expectations, timelines, and measurable success criteria
• Ensure the client experience throughout the engagement is professional, value-driven, and collaborative
• Maintain referenceable relationships and positive customer outcomes across the project lifecycle
• Develop reusable consulting assets, accelerators, and methodologies to drive internal scalability and delivery excellence
• Identify industry trends and best practices that can be embedded into Medidata's consulting approach
• Lead or contribute to the design of new service offerings that support digital transformation and advanced operating models
• Operate effectively in undefined or evolving environments, transforming abstract ideas into tangible results
• Continuously seek to improve internal tools, processes, and capabilities through feedback and cross-team collaboration

Qualifications :

Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Medidata provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a commission on the terms of applicable plan documents, and many of Medidata's non-sales positions are eligible for annual bonuses. Medidata believes that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most and provides best-in-class benefits, including medical, dental, life and disability insurance; a generous pension; and 25+ paid holidays per year.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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