Job description
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
Avalere Health is seeking a Vice President level candidate to join our Market Access practice. The team focuses on a wide range of areas, such as payer strategy, pricing and contracting strategy; go-to-market campaigns; coverage, coding, and payment strategies across commercial and public payers; provider reimbursement and operations within value-based reimbursement models; distributors and specialty pharmacies; field team design and deployment; and patient support services. We help our clients optimize market access initiatives for their products though deep subject matter expertise and understanding of the policy and payment landscape and the business issues impacting the relative marketplace.
We design strategic and tactical plans to maximize adoption and uptake by payers, providers, and patients throughout the product lifecycle by integrating policy and healthcare market dynamics into the business planning cycle. We work on a team basis with complementary scientific, technical, and regulatory expertise in the pre-approval and post-market spaces.
What you’ll do
· Developing and securing business within the life science space.
· Managing a portfolio of clients to ensure that all of Avalere’s knowledge and expertise are available to meet client needs.
· Conceptualizing the scope of projects for clients, assembling a cross-functional team, and overseeing the team from project initiation through to client delivery.
· Serving as a subject matter expert on reimbursement and market access-related issues impacting the pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device industries.
· Creating both strategic and tactical recommendations for clients to ensure optimal market access for client products.
· Solving complex client issues in a timely and appropriate manner with minimal management oversight and attention to resources.
· Proactively seeking and obtaining speaking engagements with clients, policy makers, and thought leaders in order to generate public recognition for Avalere and result in new business and revenue generation.
· Collaborating with other Avalere Health business units including our Marketing/Agency of Record, Medical Communications and Global businesses.
· Direct management and supervision of team members.
· Mentoring, supervising, and training staff and team members within the Reimbursement Practice and across the firm.
About you
· Advanced degree in health policy, public policy, healthcare management, public health, public administration, health economics, business administration, law or a relevant discipline with 8 years of relevant experience OR an undergraduate degree in the same or similar areas with 11+ years of relevant experience.
o Examples of relevant work experience include: consulting firms, diagnostics and/or pharmaceutical manufacturers, clinical laboratories with specialty in molecular diagnostics, and the healthcare industry at large.
· 3-5 years reimbursement-specific policy experience.
· 3-5 years of consulting experience preferred
· 5 years of management/supervisory experience with excellent leadership/mentoring skills in developing staff.
· Advanced proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite.
· Solid writing and storytelling skills as a foundation for professional business communication.
Additional Skills and Competencies:
· 10 - 15 years relevant experience is preferred.
· Ability to establish personal credibility as a strategic and reimbursement expert with clients.
· Significant and sustained project management experience that includes interacting with and presenting to senior-level executives and/or health policy leaders.
· Proven situational leadership skills and the ability to motivate and generate enthusiasm with individuals across all levels of the organization.
· Exemplary interpersonal skills that translate into positive relationships with colleagues and clients.
· Solid communication skills including the ability to concisely explain complicated concepts to executives within and outside of the firm.
· Experience analyzing policy proposals, legislation, and/or federal regulation and conveying findings to clients and the public.
· Ability to analyze and understand health policy trends from the perspective of multiple stakeholders and translate related business implications.
· Commitment to working in a team environment with an emphasis on collaboration and maintaining positive relationships with colleagues and clients.
· Exceptional problem-solving and analytic skills with the ability to apply knowledge outside of one’s immediate functional area.
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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