Managing Director, Commercialization & Market Access

About the Company
Avalere is a strategic advisory company whose core purpose is to create innovative solutions to complex healthcare problems. Based in Washington, DC, the firm delivers actionable insights, product solutions, and custom analytics for leaders in healthcare business and policy. Avalere's experts span 230 staff drawn from Fortune 500 healthcare companies, the federal government (e.g., CMS, OMB, CBO and the Congress), top consultancies and nonprofits. The firm offers deep substance on the full range of healthcare business issues affecting the Fortune 500 healthcare companies. Avalere’s focus on strategy is supported by a rigorous, in-house analytic research group that uses public and private data to generate quantitative insight. Through events, publications and interactive programs, Avalere insights are accessible to a broad range of customers.
Avalere is part of a parent company Avalere Health, a purposefully built commercialization partner for the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries. Its 1,500+ experts combine their knowledge and expertise across our core disciplines—Consulting; Medical; Policy, Access, Value, and Evidence; Marketing; and Digital Experience and Technology—to create the connections that make better health happen. Visit www.avalere.com and follow Avalere Health on LinkedIn and Instagram.
Avalere Health is seeking a Vice President level candidate to join our Market Access practice. The team focuses on a wide range of areas, such as payer strategy, pricing and contracting strategy; go-to-market campaigns; coverage, coding, and payment strategies across commercial and public payers; provider reimbursement and operations within value-based reimbursement models; distributors and specialty pharmacies; field team design and deployment; and patient support services. We help our clients optimize market access initiatives for their products though deep subject matter expertise and understanding of the policy and payment landscape and the business issues impacting the relative marketplace.
We design strategic and tactical plans to maximize adoption and uptake by payers, providers, and patients throughout the product lifecycle by integrating policy and healthcare market dynamics into the business planning cycle. We work on a team basis with complementary scientific, technical, and regulatory expertise in the pre-approval and post-market spaces.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
· Developing and securing business within the life science space.· Managing a portfolio of clients to ensure that all of Avalere’s knowledge and expertise are available to meet client needs.· Conceptualizing the scope of projects for clients, assembling a cross-functional team, and overseeing the team from project initiation through to client delivery.· Serving as a subject matter expert on reimbursement and market access-related issues impacting the pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device industries.· Creating both strategic and tactical recommendations for clients to ensure optimal market access for client products.· Solving complex client issues in a timely and appropriate manner with minimal management oversight and attention to resources.· Proactively seeking and obtaining speaking engagements with clients, policy makers, and thought leaders in order to generate public recognition for Avalere and result in new business and revenue generation.· Collaborating with other Avalere Health business units including our Marketing/Agency of Record, Medical Communications and Global businesses.· Direct management and supervision of team members.· Mentoring, supervising, and training staff and team members within the Reimbursement Practice and across the firm.

Skills, Experience, and Other Job Related Requirements:
Minimum Requirements:
· Advanced degree in health policy, public policy, healthcare management, public health, public administration, health economics, business administration, law or a relevant discipline with 8 years of relevant experience OR an undergraduate degree in the same or similar areas with 11+ years of relevant experience.o Examples of relevant work experience include: consulting firms, diagnostics and/or pharmaceutical manufacturers, clinical laboratories with specialty in molecular diagnostics, and the healthcare industry at large.· 3-5 years reimbursement-specific policy experience.· 3-5 years of consulting experience preferred· 5 years of management/supervisory experience with excellent leadership/mentoring skills in developing staff.· Advanced proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite.· Solid writing and storytelling skills as a foundation for professional business communication.
Additional Skills and Competencies:
· 10 - 15 years relevant experi