Associate Director - Life Sciences Advisory - Market Access

Job Family:

Strategy & Transformation Consulting

Travel Required:

Up to 25%

Clearance Required:

None

Is life sciences in your DNA? Breakthroughs in pharma are helping people live healthier lives, while medical devices enable patients to proactively maintain health – this is undoubtedly a transformative time for health care companies. Guidehouse’s Life Sciences practice is an engine of innovation, helping pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and diagnostic companies develop custom solutions that tackle today’s challenges, while anticipating tomorrows.

You will have an immediate impact by partnering with our clients, across all levels, to deliver product planning, pricing, reimbursement, product commercialization, and regulatory and compliance solutions. Do you think you are up for the challenge?

We continuously strive to foster an inclusive and diverse work culture and thoughtfully develop our people through challenging work, valuable learning and educational programs. We cultivate a culture of mentorship and feedback for professional and personal growth. We help our clients take control of their future. This mission extends to our employee's careers, health and well-being and by the many ways we give back to our communities.

If you’re passionately motivated to make a difference and deliver exceptional work, we invite you to learn more about your career opportunities at  .

The Value & Access team provides commercialization strategy and market access services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Our client range from pre-commercialization go-to-market planning to launch value story, pricing, and reimbursement strategies, impacting policies affecting the use and payment of our clients’ novel therapies.

You will be responsible for creating and implementing pricing and access strategies for a variety of pharmaceutical assets. This will involve working with senior staff to develop project proposals, managing consulting teams in the development and communication of client deliverables, and maintaining client relationships. Associate Directors oversee multiple projects simultaneously.

• Oversee development and review of project deliverables to ensure proper framing of strategic issues, use of appropriate methods, and that materials are up to client standards
• Facilitate client presentations and manage client relationships
• Actively supports business development and project sales cycle
• Manage and develop staff, including performance management of direct reports
• Manage project budgets, timelines, and staffing
• Create corporate- and product-level market access strategies for technologies across multiple stages of the product development cycle
• Designing and managing project teams to execute various pharmaceutical market access and pricing strategy projects, both qualitative and quantitative, including overseeing development of materials and facilitating discussions as required
• Strong market research skills required
• Preferred candidates will have experience with various pricing methodologies (analog assessment, Van Westerndorp, Garbor Granger, Conjoint, etc.)
• Designing and leading primary interviews with key stakeholders such as payers and KOLs
• Deep experience with:
• Part A / hospital inpatient pricing and reimbursement
• Part B / medical benefit pricing
• Part D / contracting
• Calculating gross-to-net
• Building Excel-based financial models to evaluate price-access scenarios and inform pricing recommendations
• Strong understanding of health economic methodologies and value pricing constructs
• Ability to construct practice economic analyses under a variety of settings of care and financial ecosystems
• Familiarity with current pricing and access laws and proposed pricing policy
• Track record of thought leaderships (written or podium)
• Comfortable engaging with and presenting to executive level audience to deliver actionable insights and recommendations
• Track record of training and developing junior consulting staff

• Bachelor’s degree, a major course of study in science, biomedical engineering, business, or healthcare policy preferred.
• 6+ years of transferable…