Senior Director Market Access Strategist

Location: United States,None,None

Senior Director Market Access Strategist Overview:The position plays an integral role in shaping insight‑driven strategic thinking across stakeholders pertaining to market access, health systems, HCP, patients and caregiver roles, and initiatives within Relevate Health. This role would provide active leadership support in synthesizing complex market dynamics, uncovering trends, and generating actionable insights that inform strategic direction, client engagements, and communication development. The position would lead efforts to gather market intelligence, validate strategic recommendations, pressure‑test content, and deliver evidence‑based insights that enhance strategic rigor across the organization. This role requires a blend of strategic acumen, analytical depth, and industry expertise within the market access and health system landscape. The Sr. Director will collaborate cross‑functionally with account, medical, creative, project management, sales, and subject matter teams to embed insights into strategic planning and execution. The role will also be responsible to manage and lead voice of the customer sessions, and gather insights from avenues such as Advisory Boards, Steering Committees, roundtables, leadership workshops etc. An aspirational long-term objective of the role is to build and scale an internal market research capability, evolving from an outsourced model to a more robust, hybrid internal organic function. This includes establishing research frameworks, developing methodologies, and implementing processes that support both inline client strategy and new business development. Job Summary: The Sr. Director Market Access Strategist has a unique, valuable, business-driving role within Relevate Health that is a part of our Strategy Team. It is unique in that this role will work be responsible for independently developing, setting, and implementing the strategic vision in partnership with account leads and others cross-functional partners. The ideal candidate will ensure that the work sold is strategically set up in a way to exceed client goals and to ensure the final deliverables are insightful and provide significant measurable value to the client’s business. The Sr. Director will be closely connected with the Client Services team managing the business and will work with the entire internal team to determine the best ways to deliver the work. It is expected that some of the work will be solely developed by this role. In other situations, additional internal or external resources will be pulled in to develop high-quality deliverables with this role focused on setting the direction and providing strategic oversight through completion.  Duties / Responsibilities:Strategy

• SME Role: Serve as the health systems expert to provide insights and guidance in project work and client interactions, confidently bringing the voice of advanced B2B customers to every workstream.
• Market Trends: Identify trends in pharmaceuticals and the business of healthcare to align client objectives with market trends and customer implications, especially focusing on population health and unmet needs. Proactively identify, evaluate, and interpret emerging trends across the healthcare ecosystem (eg, policy, payer landscapes, affordability dynamics, provider networks, and patient access pathways).
• Collaboration: Partner with Client Services, Medical, and Data Strategy Insights teams to apply market learnings to projects and recommend new strategies. Partner with Medical and Creative teams to ensure customer-centric content development and messaging aligned to client strategies.
• Consultation: Support annual account planning and client brand planning processes, providing strategic recommendations backed by data and customer insights among health system leadership audiences and market access stakeholders.
• Growth Agency: Work with Client Services and Engagement Solutions partners to drive organic growth with existing clients and to open doors for new business opportunities.

Delivery

• Project Support: Ensure project briefs and outlines align with overarching strategies and create a clear vision for success.
• Resource Assessment: Identify the right internal and external resources for project execution.
• Content Development: Collaborate with Medical and Creative teams to embed market insights and voice-of-the-customer subject matter expertise into client deliverables and new business communications.
• Training: Upskill cross-functional team members to understand the voice of health system leaders and market access customers, including how to build strategic partnerships that drive behavior change in the account management space.
• Insights: Deliver high-quality insights to inform brand strategies