Senior Policy Lead

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This role is in support of Cencora's global pharma consulting services

The Senior Director, Health Policy plays an integral role in developing, delivering, and selling data-driven solutions to clients as part of evolving our Reimbursement Policy Analytics offering. At Cencora, we are passionate about helping our clients anticipate reimbursement challenges and creating targeted reimbursement and health policy solutions that maximize patient access at every stage of the product life cycle. This role will play heavily in thought leadership, business development and strategic and tactical management of project execution.

• Strong subject matter expertise in life sciences healthcare policy (e.g., Medicare and Medicaid policy and regulations, Inflation Reduction Act, federal budget scoring models, alternative payment models, etc.)
• Primary driver of thought leadership activities and presence for health policy offerings internally and externally and business development subject matter expert and driver of BD opportunities
• Familiarity with key data sources for healthcare analysis (e.g., Medicare claims, Medicare Part D data, commercial claims data, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data, Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey data)
• Experience working with patient advocacy and industry groups is preferred
• Quickly recognize and understand clients’ business questions; ability to identify and connect client market access and HEOR requirement needs to the rest of the business for RFP execution
• Develop data-driven solutions and analysis frameworks that clearly answer those questions
• Execution of contracted work as strategic oversight, providing leadership of the team. Ability to manage projects effectively and efficiently and be flexible enough to shift directions, if needed
• Interpret and summarize results accurately
• Create story‑based narratives that articulate how results directly inform product launch strategies or influence policy decision‑makers

• Accomplishes team results by communicating expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, and counseling employees; developing, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, procedures, and productivity standards. No direct line management at initiation of role, but will be a possibility over time
• Creates innovative business expansion and/or new services
• Responsible for lead proposal writing
• Allocates human and financial resources as appropriate to ensure objectives are accomplished within scope of project requirements
• Searches and pursues revenue generation opportunities and effectively manages to ensure that new revenue is realized
• Overall responsibility for timeliness, accuracy, and completeness of all services
• Identifies areas for risk
• Fosters proactive, continued quality improvement
• Ensures and maintains highest integrity and honesty in all business activities

• Graduate degree in public policy, healthcare policy or law, or another related field
• Requires broad experience in fields such as public policy, business administration, sales, marketing, or similar vocations generally obtained through completion of a four‑year bachelor's degree program or equivalent combination of experience and education.
• Master’s degree or equivalent experience is preferred.
• Normally requires directly related and progressively responsible experience within healthcare consulting or pharmaceutical, biotechnology or medical device industry with a history of successful achievement in the fields of reimbursement strategies and tactics; tangential experience in market access and/or HEOR a plus.

• Minimum of 12+ years relevant healthcare policy and reimbursement experience

• Strong connections with Congress and Pharma
• Pr…