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Management consulting · Life sciences

Mohammed Kasim

Management consultant focused on life sciences, clinical operations, and enterprise transformation

About

Mohammed Kasim is a management consultant with experience delivering life-sciences, data, and digital transformation programs. He combines program governance, business analysis, and cross-functional delivery with an MBA from IIM Kozhikode.

Mohammed works across strategy and delivery, translating complex operating needs into practical transformation programs. At Accenture Strategy & Consulting, he has led cross-functional work spanning clinical operations, R&D labeling, executive governance, and regulated technology delivery. Earlier roles at ZS and Cognizant included data transformation, master data management, product development, process improvement, and agile delivery. His approach is grounded in structured problem-solving, clear stakeholder communication, and calm coordination across business and technical teams.

Experience

Sep 2024 - Present

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Management Consultant

Accenture Strategy & Consulting

Led a 20-person cross-functional team across functional, technical, and validation workstreams for an enterprise clinical-operations transformation.
Drove executive program governance through decision-oriented reporting and proactive management of risks, dependencies, vendors, cost controls, and service performance.
Led diagnostic workshops with 10 senior R&D stakeholders and shaped a phased GenAI-enabled labeling transformation roadmap and business case.
Led functional delivery across regulated clinical systems, translating business needs into configuration-ready user stories while supporting traceability, compliance, and inspection readiness.

Oct 2021 - Jun 2024

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Associate Consultant

Led 27 associates supporting seven commercial-analytics data workstreams and established an end-to-end master-data change governance process that reduced release time by 40%.
Led teams of up to 12 associates to cleanse, segment, and migrate pharmaceutical data from six sources across 83 countries.
Analyzed data and developed recommendations for 80 regional affiliates, presenting more than 50 complex cases to senior stakeholders and delivery teams.
Identified and automated process improvements that reduced the time required to onboard new master data by 50%.

Apr 2019 - Sep 2021

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Consultant

Cognizant Business Consulting

Led cross-functional engineering teams of up to 13 people through agile product development and coordinated business, UI, backend, and quality-assurance stakeholders.
Mapped customer-service and product-replacement processes, refined user stories, and produced functional design specifications and interface recommendations.
Led a six-person proof-of-concept team applying machine learning to customer-query automation.
Analyzed user-generated map content and sustainability workflows, identifying opportunities that increased automation by 6% and reduced knowledge-transfer time by 9%.

Expertise

Life-sciences transformation

Clinical operations

Program and project management

Business analysis

Data and digital transformation

Master data management and governance

Product management

Agile delivery

Requirements analysis

Executive stakeholder management

Process improvement

Data analysis

Education

2017 - 2019

Master of Business Administration

Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

2014 - 2017

Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Political Science and International Relations

University of Delhi

Open to relevant conversations

Bring clarity to complex transformation.

For life-sciences consulting, enterprise programs, and international opportunities, connect with Mohammed on LinkedIn.

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