Market Access Lead

Pay: $62-67/hour W2. Our company offers our consultants a suite of benefits after a qualification period including health, vision, dental, life and disability insurance.

Remote: 100% remote; candidates in Indianapolis, IN are a bonus.

• The Market Access Partnership Lead is a member of the U.S. Market Access team and reports to the Access & Reimbursement Strategy Leader.
• This role serves as the U.S. market access lead for potential pharmaceutical/diagnostics (pharma/dia) partnerships, working closely with the global function and stakeholders.
• Will develop the U.S. market access strategy, proposals, and presentations for pharma partnership opportunities.
• Will lead the market access workstream and be accountable for the agreed milestones, deliverables, governance, and partner communication.
• Depending on the product, will either lead the access work directly or collaborate with the applicable product Access Strategy Lead (ASL).
• Seeking a strategic market access professional, ideally with experience in both diagnostics and pharmaceuticals.
• Success requires strong cross-functional leadership across U.S. and global teams, sound judgment in ambiguous situations, and the ability to translate market and customer insights into practical, long-term access strategies that support patients, customers, and partners.

• Serve as the U.S. Market Access lead for potential pharma/dia partnerships, collaborating closely with global PHCS, product teams, Business Development, Alliance Management, and other U.S. and global stakeholders.
• Develop and evolve a broad U.S. market access strategy for pharma across the diagnostics portfolio, with a current focus on Core Lab and Pathology Lab, and assess product-specific reimbursement, payer, evidence, stakeholder, and market-development needs.
• Define market access scope, deliverables, timelines, dependencies, resource requirements, risks, and budget inputs for proposals and statements of work.
• Develop and present partner-ready market access strategies, recommendations, proposals, and executive presentations to pharma partners and internal teams.
• After an agreement is signed, translate commitments into an executable market access plan and lead delivery of agreed milestones, deliverables, workstream governance, and partner communication.
• Lead the market access work directly or collaborate with the applicable product ASL, engaging the appropriate U.S. and global experts and establishing clear roles and accountability for each project.
• Coordinate cross-functional work streams; track progress, risks, decisions, budgets, and timelines; manage scope changes; and escalation issues that may affect partnership health or delivery.
• Develop reusable market access frameworks, proposal content, work packages, tools, and processes to improve speed, consistency, and quality across future partnership opportunities.

• Bachelor's degree in health economics, public health, business, life sciences, a clinical discipline, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Five or more years of relevant experience in market access, reimbursement, payer strategy, health economics and outcomes research, diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, consulting, or a related healthcare field.
• Experience in diagnostics and/or pharmaceutical market access, with a strong preference for candidates who have worked across both industries.

• Strong knowledge of the U.S. payer, reimbursement, and evidence environment for diagnostic technologies; experience with biomarker or companion diagnostic programs is a plus.
• Proven ability to develop and implement market access strategies that support measurable business, customer, and patient outcomes.
• Experience developing…