Associate Director - Life Sciences Advisory - Market Access (Global)

Job Family:

Strategy & Transformation Consulting

Travel Required:

Up to 25%

Clearance Required:

None

Is life sciences in your DNA?  Breakthroughs in pharma are helping people live healthier lives, while medical devices enable patients to proactively maintain health – this is undoubtedly a transformative time for health care companies. Guidehouse’s Life Sciences practice is an engine of innovation, helping pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and diagnostic companies develop custom solutions that tackle today’s challenges, while anticipating tomorrows. You will have an immediate impact by partnering with our clients, across all levels, to deliver product planning, pricing, reimbursement, product commercialization, and regulatory and compliance solutions.  Do you think you are up for the challenge? 

                                                                          
We continuously strive to foster an inclusive and diverse work culture and thoughtfully develop our people through challenging work, valuable learning and educational programs. We cultivate a culture of mentorship and feedback for professional and personal growth. We help our clients take control of their future. This mission extends to our employee's careers, health and well-being and by the many ways we give back to our communities. If you’re passionately motivated to make a difference and deliver exceptional work, we invite you to learn more about your career opportunities at https://guidehouse.com/careers

What You Will Do:

The Global Market Access team provides commercialization strategy and reimbursement services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostics companies. Our client services range from pre-commercialization marketing strategies to determining and developing launch pricing and access strategies across major and emerging global markets.

Associate Directors are key members of the Global Market Access teams and contribute to all levels of the consulting process. Associate Directors are responsible for the day-to-day management of consulting staff, project quality, and integral in building and maintaining client relationships.  Specific responsibilities for the Global Market Access position include:

• Track record of success developing, leading, and delivering global (e.g., EU, APAC, LATAM) pricing and access / reimbursement projects, with subject matter expertise on HTA assessment frameworks, pricing & reimbursement archetypes, and national / regional pricing & reimbursement mechanisms

• Support development and review of project deliverables to ensure proper framing of strategic issues, use of appropriate methods, and that materials as well as final deliverables fully meet or exceed client standards

• Facilitate client presentations and manage on-going relationships

• Actively support in business development and project sales cycle

• Manage and develop staff, including performance management

• Create corporate- and product-level commercialization strategies for technologies in the early stages of the product development cycle

• Lead qualitative / quantitative research with payers and HCPs including supporting the development of materials and facilitating discussions as required

• Develop payer strategy including value proposition, global payer archetypes, and evidence generation expectations

• Conduct pricing studies for new products, including determining pricing & reimbursement potential, list-to-net pricing dynamics, contracting considerations, etc…

• Perform market landscape assessments for our clients’ technologies and their competitors, which include evaluating clinical literature, health economic and outcomes literature, payer access & reimbursement policies, as well as pricing dynamics

• Travel is project dependent but averages 20% percent

What You Will Need:

• BA/BS degree in Science, Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare, Business or related course of study.

• 6 + years of prior work experience in the healthcare industry; experience in market access, reimbursement, pricing, and/or health economics is required, with transferrable management consulting experience.

• 2-3 + years' experience managing the activities of a project team including workplan, staffing, deadlines scope and budget.

• Demonstrated success supervising, coaching and mentoring more junior level staff and ownership and guidance of their career development.

• Must be willing and able to t