Principal Global SLC Pre-Sales Consultant – Healthcare and Life Sciences

Key Responsibilites  

• Engage with customers and prospects, leading conversations to gather high-level business and technical requirements

• Lead technical discovery sessions and activities, assessing feasibility and effort in porting existing SAS code to be executed in SLC

• Review existing and target IT infrastructure, ecosystems, and Statistical Computing Environments, providing architectural guidance for deploying SLC

• Aid customers in porting their existing SAS language code to run in SLC

• Scope and conduct successful pilots and proof-of-concept activities with prospects interested in exploring the feasibility of SLC as a SAS language capability within their current and target architectures, where  SAS language execution, code portability, performance, compatibility, and modernization  are key decision factors

• Provide subject matter expertise in the SAS language and statistical programming within the pharmaceutical industry

• Create and conduct industry specific software demonstrations

• Onboard and support service and technology partners in presenting SLC to the industry

• Author and present pertinent pharma industry specific papers and presentations in webinars and at pharma community conferences and events

• Participate in and lead pharma industry projects related to statistical programming

• Orchestrate and lead workshops showcasing SLC

• Lead and provide input to RFI and RFP responses

• Own the technical relationship throughout the sales cycle

• Collaborate with SLC product team, feeding real-world customer insights back into the product roadmap, ensuring SLC is meeting the demands of the pharmaceutical industry

Required: • Minimum of 5 years' experience programming in the SAS language

• Deep understanding of Statistical Programming within the pharmaceutical industry

• Strong communication skills, explaining complex problems in simple terms

• Ability to influence executives and guide enterprise-scale technology adoption

• Full professional proficiency in English and Swedish (written and spoken)

• Experience conducting and running workshops

• practical experience in  customer-facing technical roles  (PreSales, Solutions Consulting, Technical Consulting, Training, Business or Technical Support or similar).

• Strong ability to explain and demonstrate  SAS language behavior, compatibility considerations, migration patterns, and performance implications  to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience designing and running  proof-of-concepts  and technical evaluations with clear success criteria and structured outcomes.

• Confident presentation skills: ability to deliver  technical demos, workshops, and architecture discussions .

• Comfortable working across stakeholders (sales, product, engineering) to influence solution direction and remove blockers.

Preferred: • Experience with R and/or Python

• Knowledge of low-code AI tools