Senior Consultant - Life Sciences Advisory - Global Market Access

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The Global Market Access team focuses on value access pricing and commercialization strategy projects for pharmaceutical biotechnology medical device and diagnostics companies. Our client services range from pre-commercialization product opportunity assessments to determining and developing launch pricing and access strategies across major and emerging global markets.

Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for developing and implementing pricing value and access strategies for pharmaceutical biotech and medical device clients. This will involve working with senior staff to build project proposals managing consulting teams across multiple large-scale complex projects to develop and communicate client deliverables and maintaining client relationships.

Key Expectations:

• Lead teams to design execute and deliver projects across key value and access topics such as pricing and reimbursement studies (inclusive of qualitative & quantitative methodologies) early access opportunity assessments value communication strategy and payer engagement strategy

• Demonstrates strong market research skills inclusive of primary research qualitative interview as well as quantitative survey experiences and familiarity with various pricing methodologies (i.e. analogue assessment Van Westerndorp Gabor Granger Conjoint etc)

• Understand key access tenets and landscapes across key geographic markets (US EU LATAM APAC)

• Leverage work experience business acumen and subject matter expertise on global market access topics to determine key approach and develop strategic recommendations that efficiently and effectively address client business questions

• Proactively manages own and team members time effectively and efficiently across multiple complex projects

• Effectively liaise with senior staff to ensure strategically sound and actionable insights are developed as outputs to answer key client business questions on value access and pricing

• Serves as primary point of contact and engages executive level audience to deliver actionable insights and recommendations

• Builds and manages ongoing relationships as client thought partners as well as elevate new business opportunities to senior staff through identification of follow-on projects or new opportunities to further support client needs

• Supports the development of new analytical methodologies capabilities and intellectual property for use on future client engagements

• Develops thought leadership (written or podium) and provides subject matter expertise to clients

• Trains and mentors junior team members to enable team development and professional growth

What You Will Need/Senior Consultant:

• Requires a Bachelors degree. A major course of study in science biomedical engineering or healthcare policy and planning

• 3-5 years of transferrable consulting or work experience with demonstrated experience in value access pricing and commercialization strategy projects for pharmaceutical biotechnology medical device and diagnostics companies in global markets

• Experience developing designing and executing value pricing and access strategy projects for large global pharma mid-sized pharma and/or biotech clients.

• Strong understanding of the pharmaceutical industry including drug development and launch.

• The ability to analyze complex information identify key issues and develop effective strategies.

• Excellent communication skills to convey strategic recommendations to various stakeholders including senior management.

• Must demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills (in English)

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Excel Word PowerPoint and Outlook

• Willingness and ability to travel for client work as needed in the 25% range

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• Graduate level degree in business or other health-related fields (e.g. MBA MPH MS PhD)

• Extensive experience as project managers strong team players take initiative and think strategically and creatively

• Keen attention to detail

• Superior written and verbal communication skills