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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Salary: Competitive + excellent benefits
Location: Remote in the UK or EU; or hybrid (London, UK)
About The Role
We are seeking a Principal to join our Evidence & Strategy practice who has successfully worked in life sciences consultancy supporting life sciences initiatives in qualitative and quantitative research, implementation science, public health, health economics & outcomes research and evidence strategy and tactical development. You will have extensive experience in business development and conducting quantitative and qualitative research using a variety of methodologies, providing strategic and tactical HEOR/Value & Evidence advisory and/or industry services to a variety of stakeholders, leveraging subject matter expertise to generate novel solutions for our clients, generate new business, and lead projects in a leadership capacity to support evidence generation for life sciences clients.
The ideal candidate will also have deep knowledge of developing and interpreting evidence and communicating value for life sciences products, especially in global markets. This work would be designing, measuring and evaluating interventions, initiatives and implementation from all perspectives.
About Evidence & Strategy
Avalere Health is a vibrant community of innovative thinkers dedicated to solving the challenges of the healthcare industry. We dig deep into the healthcare system and work closely with clients to develop practical solutions. At Avalere Health, we prize curiosity, resilience, a positive attitude, and an enthusiasm to embrace new challenges. Join us and get ready to make your mark on healthcare!
Avalere’s Evidence & Strategy practice provides exceptional consultation, evidence, and insights on key aspects of healthcare – including patient-centric HEOR, quality of care measures, shared decision-making, value-based care, and health equity – to shape strategy for our clients.
Our mission is to improve quality of care, craft data-driven strategies, drive patient-centric outcomes, and ultimately provide the highest value to all our partners, including life sciences companies, payers, providers, and patient advocates. Our work is focused on 3 intersecting strategic pillars: Patient-Centric Value, Evidence & Analytics, and Healthcare Strategy. Underlying all work is a deep commitment to data-driven insights.
The Principal role within our practice will support client engagements that inform business and evidence strategy related to the strategic direction and execution of projects in partnership with the cross-functional teams to generate data to answer decision-makers complex questions on the value, impact and program evaluation of clients’ products and disease areas of focus.
What you’ll do
- Demonstrates superior consulting acumen, deepening client relationships and anticipating client needs and impacts of healthcare landscape changes
- Help generate business with new clients and grow business with existing clients
- Manage multiple clients and short- and long-term deliverables to ensure that Avalere’s knowledge and expertise are available to meet client needs
- Lead and execute qualitative research and implementation science initiatives, including creating protocols and evaluation plans, executing strategic and tactical projects, and preparing/presenting through manuscripts, posters, presentations..
- Presenting formally and informally the results of research to a diverse group of stakeholders.
- Develops and executes a range of projects, including writing RFPs, vendor selection, and project management, including budget and timelines.
- Proficient at mixed-methods research and the development of strategic plans, studies, and analyses to support patient access and value-based outcomes, all within a highly matrixed team environment
- Building integrated RWE generation and communication plans in close collaboration within and across Avalere and Avalere Health.
About you
- Graduate level degree in public health, public policy, epidemiology, health economics, pharmacology, medicine or other quantitative health field of study required
Skill Requirements:
- Experience generating real-world evidence (qualitative and/or quantitative) to support value assessments and inform clinical treatment guidelines, formulary management, and other key facets of clients’ products
- Ability to translate complex research into accessible and actionable insights
- Proven situational leadership skills and the ability to motivate and generate enthusiasm with individuals across all levels of the organization
- Commitment to working in a team environment with an emphasis on collaboration and maintaining positive relationships with colleagues and clients
- Solid communication skills (written and verbal) including the ability to concisely explain complicated concepts to executives within and outside of the firm
- Experience in formative research or implementation science, including formulating research questions, designing data collection instruments, and executing studies
- Proven-track record of conducting and leading healthcare research studies.
Experience Requirements:
- 10+ years of relevant work experience, preferred with healthcare consultancy but which could include employment by a healthcare provider organization, pharmaceutical or diagnostic company, digital health company, or healthcare-focused research organization
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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