Life Sciences Strategy Consulting

EY-Parthenon Life Sciences Strategy Consulting teams can advise clients on developing transformative growth strategies by providing broad market, competitor and customer insights. But a strategy alone is not enough: we also help organizations execute strategy through real operational change. We help them transform the vision into reality by leveraging strategic, financial and operational perspectives based on deep sector experience and firmwide knowledge to help enable end-to-end execution to address society’s most pressing health problems.

Earning the right to grow in the pharmaceutical sector

EY helped Bristol Myers Squibb unlock $500M in working capital, giving the “firepower” to invest. Find out how.

What the EY-Parthenon Life Sciences Strategy Consulting team can do for you 

As the life sciences industry transforms in the face of regulatory and geopolitical uncertainty and new ways of developing treatments, EY-Parthenon teams can help you answer some of your most critical questions:

Transformative strategy

  • How should I refine my business strategy to find new avenues for growth while bringing innovative treatments to patients amid an ever-changing life sciences landscape?
  • How can I reimagine my operating model and go-to-market strategy?
  • How can I hone my organization’s strategy to strengthen its operational resilience?
  • How can I leverage cutting-edge technology and therapeutic platforms to discover the next life-saving treatment?

Transformative transactions

  • How can I leverage the ecosystem to scale and reach more patients effectively?
  • What type of transaction, joint venture or alliance will propel our organization’s growth and pair with consumer needs?
  • What is the right strategy to buy, build or partner to help reverse the innovation deficit?

The EY-Parthenon Life Sciences team helps Biopharma, Medtech, Biotech and Tools and Services companies develop and deliver growth through enterprise, digital and value creation strategies and transformative transactions. Our advice is grounded in financial and operational rigor, helping companies remain resilient in a fast-changing geopolitical landscape.

Our focus includes:


Creating new life sciences revenue models

Watch the video to find out how venture building can help life sciences companies drive innovation in the face of the patent cliff.


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