The Role
The Managing Director, Policy oversees significant projects, drives business growth, meets revenue targets, and leads consulting efforts in healthcare policy. They manage client relationships, team performance, and strategic initiatives while ensuring organizational capacity and innovation.
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About Avalere Health
United by one profound purpose: to reach EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE. At Avalere Health, we ensure every patient is identified, treated, supported, and cared for. Equally. Our Advisory, Medical, and Marketing teams come together – powerfully and intentionally – to forge unconventional connections, building a future where healthcare is not a barrier and no patient is left behind.
Achieving our mission starts with providing enriching, purpose-driven careers for our team that empower them to make a tangible impact on patient lives. We are committed to creating a culture where our employees are empowered to bring their whole selves to work and tap into the power of diverse backgrounds and skillsets to play a part in making a difference for every patient, everywhere.
Our flexible approach to working allows our global teams to decide where they want to work, whether in-office or at home based on team and client need. Major city hubs in London, Manchester, Washington, D.C., and New York, and smaller offices globally, serve as collaboration hubs allowing our teams to come together when it matters. Homeworkers are equally supported, with dedicated social opportunities and resources.
Our inclusive culture is at the heart of everything we do. We proudly support our employees in bringing their whole selves to work with our six Employee Network Groups – Diverse Ability, Family, Gender, LGBTQ+, Mental Health, and Race/Ethnicity. These groups provide opportunities to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion and to connect, learn, and socialise through regular meetings and programs of activity. We are an accredited Fertility Friendly employer with our Fertility Policy, enhanced parental leave, and culture of flexibility ensuring every employee feels supported across their family planning journey and can work in a way that suits their family’s needs.
We are deeply invested in supporting professional growth for our employees through day-to-day career experiences, access to thousands of on-demand training sessions, regular career conversations, and the opportunity for global, cross-capability career moves.
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About the role:
Seeking a candidate with expertise and professional experience related to Physician administered drugs under Medicare Part B and expertise in the negotiation program established by Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)
We are seeking a policy professional who loves to generate creative solutions to complex problems, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and is energized by working collaboratively with highly motivated and knowledgeable colleagues to join as Managing Director within our Policy Advisory Practice.
The policy practice focuses on a range of issues including ongoing federal and state discussion around drug pricing policy; Medicare Part B and expertise in the program established by the IRA, evolving benefit designs and coverage in public and private payers; Medicaid; and other state health policies. We rely on deep subject matter expertise and understanding of the business issues facing our clients to assess how this changing policy landscape impacts the pharmaceutical industry, managed care plans, providers, pharmacies, PBMs, and consumers. We provide analytic support and advisory services, including legislative strategy, regulatory analysis, and quantitative modeling of proposed and enacted policies to a wide range of clients across the healthcare industry.
The Managing Director is a senior leadership role that will focus on the strategic direction, growth, and client delivery of a key portion of our policy work — shaping thought leadership, guiding client engagement on complex health policy issues, and driving new business opportunities that advance Avalere Health’s mission to improve patient access and outcomes.
Advisory Services (SME/Analyst)
- Serve as a trusted advisor to executive-level clients across the life sciences, payer, and provider sectors, offering insights on the evolving policy and regulatory landscape impacting pharmaceutical/ biotech, health insurance, pharmacy, and PBM industries.
- Lead development of new policy service offerings and thought leadership that position Avalere as a recognized leader in healthcare policy strategy.
- Oversee delivery of high-impact advisory engagements addressing issues such as drug pricing, coverage and access, reimbursement, and other healthcare reform.
- Engage in frequent public speaking and panel discussion forums as recognized expert across a diverse range of health policy areas.
- Use expert health policy content knowledge to identify new areas for business growth and steward these opportunities through successful implementation and delivery.
- Deploy understanding of complex account issues to problem-solve multi-dimensional policy and business interests.
- Collaborate across Advisory, Medical, and Marketing teams to ensure integration of policy insights into broader client strategies.
Client Engagement
- Act as senior leader on major accounts, ensuring client satisfaction, strategic alignment, and long-term partnership growth.
- Leverage strong industry networks to open new doors and reinforce Avalere’s position as a trusted policy advisor.
- Demonstrate expert consulting acumen, deepening client relationships and anticipating client needs and impacts of healthcare landscape changes
- Direct teams to ensure revenue and business development goals are achieved
- Participate in account goal planning meetings, using client and healthcare knowledge to contribute to action plans and identify staff to execute
- Work with Client Partnership team as expert SME and trusted business partner
- Leverage high quality work to grow client relationships and opportunities
Leadership
- Manage, mentor, and grow a high-performing tree of policy strategists and consultants, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and innovation.
- Lead a significant book of business critical to practice revenue attainment
- Contribute to plans for growth, acquisition, and retention of talent as well as succession planning
- Contribute to firmwide strategy and cross-functional initiatives
About you
- 15+ years of experience in health policy, which could include employment by a pharmaceutical company, relevant trade group, advocacy organization, Capitol Hill, the Administration, or professional advisory services.
- Deep understanding of U.S. healthcare policy, biopharmaceutical market dynamics, and payer/reimbursement structures.
- Significant experience analyzing policy proposals, legislation, and/or regulation and conveying findings to clients and the public.
- Proven track record of building and growing successful teams.
- A strategic thinker with business acumen and the ability to translate complex policy shifts into actionable client insights.
- Exemplary interpersonal skills that translate into positive relationships with colleagues and clients.
- Advanced degree in public policy, public health, business, or a related field preferred.
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills, including PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.
- Makes decisions with speed and sound judgment in support of business goals
- Sets and drives team objectives
- Expert knowledge of client and stakeholder needs, concerns and viewpoints
- Fosters innovation
- Creates winning teams
- Communicates openly and clearly
- Collaborates effectively
- Develops self and others
Skills/Competencies
What we can offer
You will receive a 401K plan with an employer match contribution up to 4% (immediately vested), as well as life insurance, disability coverage, and medical, dental, and vision plans for peace of mind. Enjoy flexible working arrangements, including hybrid and remote work, along with the option to work from anywhere across the globe two weeks each year. We provide 20 vacation days plus one personal well-being day, recognise 9 public holidays, along with gifted end-of-year holidays and an early Summer Friday finish in June, July, and August.
Access free counselling through our employee assistance program and personalized health support. Our enhanced maternity, paternity, family leave, and fertility policies provide support across every stage of your family-planning journey. You can also benefit from continuous opportunities to professionally develop with on-demand training, support, and global mobility opportunities across the business.
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Skills Required
- Advanced degree in public policy, public health, public administration, business, economics or related fields
- 10-15 years of work experience
- 5 years of solid consulting experience
- 5+ years of supervisory and leadership experience
Avalere Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Avalere Health and has not been reviewed or approved by Avalere Health.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is positioned as generous, including vacation, sick leave, and a year‑end holiday shutdown. Remote work flexibility is frequently highlighted as a strong complement to PTO.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Work-from-home flexibility is emphasized through a “magnet not a mandate” approach with collaboration hubs. Wellbeing resources are visible, including mental-health support networks.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-forming support and external fertility-friendly accreditation are promoted. This signals investment in parenthood pathways alongside broader inclusion initiatives.
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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.
