Associate, Market Access & Reimbursement

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.avalerehealth.com and follow Avalere Health on LinkedIn and Instagram.

About the role

As the Associate, you will focus on a wide range of areas, such as: coverage, coding, and payment across commercial and public payers; pricing and contracting; distribution and specialty pharmacy strategy; field team design and deployment; and patient support services. We assess how our clients’ products fit within the emerging coverage and reimbursement landscape and help our clients optimize access to and utilization of their products though deep subject matter expertise and understanding of their business issues.

We design strategic and tactical plans to minimize access barriers and support uptake by payers, providers, and patients by integrating policy and healthcare market dynamics into the business planning cycle. We work on a team basis with complementary commercial, scientific, technical, and regulatory expertise in the pre-approval and post-market spaces.

What you’ll do

· Working independently and in cross-functional teams to contribute to the development and delivery of projects to clients.

· Conducting qualitative and quantitative research on a diverse array of healthcare and business issues (i.e., key stakeholder interviews, white and grey literature searches, etc.).

· Conduct analyses in Microsoft Excel to inform business recommendations.

· Create client deliverable presentations in PowerPoint, following pyramid structure storytelling, to provide strategic recommendations.

· Analyzing health policy documents (i.e., Medicare and Medicaid statutory provisions, Medicare payment regulations, etc.) to determine direct business implications to clients.

· Using content expertise, solid proofreading, and layout skills to quality control client deliverables.

· Support business development thought leadership content development, and internal initiatives.

· Ability to grow into project manager role.

About you

· Bachelor’s or master’s degree in public policy, public health, public administration, business, statistics, economics, mathematics, or a relevant discipline with 1-2 years of relevant full-time work experience.

o Examples of relevant experience include consulting firms, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and the healthcare industry at large.

· Prior experience with project task-management.

· Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, including PowerPoint and Excel.

· Self-starter, ability to work independently.

· Solid writing skills as a foundation for professional business communication.

· Sound analytic, problem solving, and quantitative skills.

· Good working knowledge of healthcare and related issues.

· Advanced research and project management skills.

· Experience organizing and supervising the work of others in the conducting of research or policy analysis is preferred.

· Demonstrated presentation and public speaking skills.

· Proven team player; strong relationship building skills both internally and externally.

· Customer service oriented and solution-focused attitude.

· High degree of professional maturity and sound decision-making ability.

· Strong organizational skills and ability to multitask.

· High level of initiative coupled with quick learning ability.

· Demonstrated understanding of the consulting environment.

About Avalere Health

Established in 2001, Avalere Health is a purposefully built commercialization partner for the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries.

Our 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.

Avalere Health partners with its 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.

We live and breathe our five values in everything we do: We are authentic. We act with integrity. We value difference. We play for the team. We enjoy the journey. At Avalere Health, we imagine a healthier world and create the connections to make it happen. 

We take pride in being part of the Disability Confident Scheme. This helps make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neurodiverse. If you'd like to apply and need adjustments made, you can let us know in your application.

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. 

We encourage all applicants to read our candidate privacy notice before applying to Avalere Health.