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The Role
As a Consultant II, you will lead market access strategies, conduct research, support project delivery, and guide junior members in a cross-discipline environment, promoting healthcare client partnerships and brand value.
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About Avalere Health
Guided by a single mission to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE, our Advisory, Medical, and Marketing capabilities move as one, ensuring every patient is identified, supported, treated, and cared for. Equally.
Avalere Health is a global strategic partner, perfectly formed to solve the biggest challenges in health—at pace and at scale. We are united across the product lifecycle, uniquely positioned to understand every angle of life, health, and the human condition. Partnering with our clients, we are building a world where healthcare is not a barrier. And no patient is left behind.
We are powered by our unique and proprietary model, SenseMaking. Combining strategic tools and human ingenuity, SenseMaking allows us to transform limitations into pathways, obstacles into possibilities, and intricacy into action. Our talented, diverse, and passionate team—known as SenseMakers—strive each day to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE.
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About the role:
As Consultant II, Advisory Strategy –Access Marketing, you hold a dedicated and unique role that is responsible for leading subject matter expertise in an agency of record capacity. As a key member of our cross-discipline Access Marketing offering, this role seeks a strategy contributor who is deeply hands-on, balancing the macro picture with the micro details.
What you'll do:
- Serve as subject matter expert on market/patient access strategy to support pipeline and inline assets in maximizing and communicating brand value for agency clients; expertise sought includes but is not limited to coverage, coding, and payment across commercial and public payers; pricing and contracting; distributors and specialty pharmacies; field team design and deployment; and patient support services
- Lead, contribute, and support the analysis of qualitative and quantitative research relating to market/patient access stakeholders and derive meaningful insights
- Partner across Access Marketing’s micro-strategy disciplines, including equipping brand strategists with the insights, data, and evidence that will then support the development of market/patient access stakeholder personas/archetypes, strategy maps, brand plans, positioning, brand identity strategy, creative briefs, and messaging strategy among other critical strategic elements
- Lead teams in developing and delivering strategic advisory projects within AOR relationship
- Contribute to the ideation and execution of access marketing solutions, tactics, and activations that amplify brand performance
- Design, lead, and support workshops, training meetings, launch meetings, and other key events on behalf of access marketing clients, including direct development of materials
- Integrate seamlessly and maintain fluency between Advisory and Marketing disciplines within a matrixed organization
- Deliver thought leadership, publish articles, contribute to podcasts, and keep pulse on key market events that would impact market/patient access stakeholder attitudes, behavior, and perceptions
- Contribute to the growth of the Access Marketing offer by developing strategy for RFPs and identifying organic growth/new business development opportunities
- Conceptualize Access Marketing project scope for clients, support assembling a cross-functional team, and oversee project initiation through to client delivery for strategy that supports agency partnerships
- Partner collaboratively with account, medical, and creative team members on the delivery of insights, subjective matter expertise, and strategy
- Provide training, supervising, and mentorship to junior team members
- Be flexible with travel up to 10-20% of time as needed
About you:
- Bachelor's degree required; Master’s degree preferred in related field (public health, public policy, marketing, business administration)
- 5+ years of relevant market/patient access experience
- In-depth experience with market/patient access subject matter expertise, insights generation, and developing strategy, including across pre-launch, launch, mature, and portfolio brands
- Ability to establish personal credibility as a strategic reimbursement/access expert with clients
- Thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and cross-discipline environment with a proactive mindset
- Highly skilled as an interdisciplinary thinker, strategic problem-solver, and focused business leader
- Curious strategist who keeps abreast of everchanging healthcare landscape and encourages clients to challenge the status quo
- Seamlessly skillful in balancing the need for both collaboration and independent work
- Commitment to working in a team environment with an emphasis on collaboration and maintaining positive relationships with colleagues and clients
- Proven track record in inspiring teams, situational leadership, as well as upholding the organization’s culture
- Crisp and persuasive communications skills, both written and verbal
- Comfortable leading and working under pressure with tight deadlines, across both inline client work and pipeline new business development work
- Exceptional and reliable organizational skills
What we can offer
Avalere Health aims to empower every employee to develop and thrive. We empower our team with the tools, skills, and support needed to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges.
At the center of our people-led culture is our Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career. We also pride ourselves on our personalized learning approach to ensure you receive the training you need to help you grow within the company and take advantage of our global scale and scope.
We are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our organization. We encourage diversity of thought, inclusive behavior, and break down barriers to ensure every individual feels valued and encouraged to contribute their unique abilities and potential. As part of our commitment to building a healthier world, every employee is also encouraged to participate in our community engagement efforts, which support a wide range of healthcare programs and wellbeing causes worldwide.
We have city hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization while maintaining and fully supporting flexible working practices. Our compensation and benefits package is benchmarked across the industry. We offer a generous company pension/retirement plan, private medical insurance, comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives, compelling time-off policy, plus many other excellent employee benefits.
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The Company
What We Do
Established in 2001, Avalere Health is a purposefully built commercialization partner for the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries. Our team of 1,500+ experts combine their knowledge and expertise across our core disciplines—Consulting; Medical; Policy; Value, Evidence, and Access; Marketing; and Digital Experience Technology—to create the connections that make better health happen.
We partner with our clients to navigate the complex and rapidly changing healthcare ecosystem. Together, our experts help clients connect patients with life-changing therapies, realizing the potential of strategies and solutions to accelerate innovation that improves lives.
