Location: Remote (Canada, ON)
Start date: Early September 2025
Deadline: Applications will close on Friday 31st January 2025
About the program
Do you want to help us build a healthier world? Do you want to start your career in an inclusive, people-first organization and gain a personalized approach to your professional development?
After the success of our 2023 global, cross-functional Graduate Program, Avalere Health is once again looking for scientific, collaborative, and creative graduates to join our rotational Graduate Program commencing September 2025. The 18-month program will offer full-time positions with the potential for a permanent role at the point of completion.
Our clients are global biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness companies and we partner with them across the product and service lifecycle from early clinical development to post-launch. We combine our knowledge and expertise across our core disciplines – Medical; Marketing; Policy, Access, Value, and Evidence; and Consulting.
What makes our program different?
Our graduate program offers you the opportunity to kickstart your career. You will be given the chance to rotate across three of our core business units: Medical, Marketing, and Policy, Access, Value, and Evidence. The program is designed to give you maximum exposure to the various stakeholders, projects, and the industry-leading clients we work with across the organization.
You will learn how the different stakeholders in healthcare come together to develop life-changing solutions for patients across the globe. And you will support our teams to make a difference, playing an active role in helping clients ensure transformative products and services reach the patients that need them.
Based on your degree, skills, and our business needs, you will be able to select the pathways that are best matched to your skills and professional aspirations across the rotations. You can choose from departments in the Medical and Marketing rotations including: Medical Writing, Healthcare Copywriting, Client Services, Strategy, and Project Management (find out more about these roles on our early careers page
here).
For Policy, Access, Value, and Evidence you will gain experience across several practice areas, so no selection will be required on your application. Please note these rotation selections are preliminary and may be subject to change depending on business needs.
Supporting you to build your career
During the program, you will be given the knowledge, support, and training required to supercharge your career in your chosen area of specialism. Alongside full access to our Career Experience team, suite of internal career experience platforms, and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) employee network groups, you will be mentored by an expert in your chosen field.
You will be qualified in one of the following degrees: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in the life sciences (e.g., Biomedical Science, Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Forensic Science, Biotechnology, Physiology).Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Marketing, Advertising, or an equivalent discipline.Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Public Health, Public Policy, Business Statistics, Economics, Mathematics.You will possess the following skills:Excellent communication skills.Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment while functioning as a member of highly collaborative teams.Eagerness to learn with a positive, professional, and solution-orientated attitude.About Avalere Health
Established in 2001, Avalere Health is a purposefully built commercialization partner for the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries.
Our 1,500+ experts combine their knowledge and expertise across our core disciplines — Consulting; Medical; Policy, Access, Value, and Evidence; Marketing; and Digital Experience Technology — to create the connections that make better health happen.
Avalere Health partners with its clients to navigate the complex and rapidly changing healthcare ecosystem. Together, our experts help clients connect patients with life-changing therapies, realizing the potential of strategies and solutions to accelerate innovation that improves lives.
We live and breathe our five values in everything we do: We are authentic. We act with integrity. We value difference. We play for the team. We enjoy the journey. At Avalere Health, we imagine a healthier world and create the connections to make it happen.
We take pride in being part of the Disability Confident Scheme. This helps make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neurodiverse. If you'd like to apply and need adjustments made, please let us know in your application.
What we can offer
Avalere Health aims to empower every employee to develop and thrive, providing 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. This includes building personalized learning approach to help you grow within the company and take advantage of our global scale and scope.
We are committed to embedding a culture of DEI in every aspect of our organization and provide opportunities for every team member to play an active role in our DEI journey. You can learn more about our approach
here.
Our city hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, are geared toward global collaboration. We also maintain and fully support flexible working practices, so each team member can work in a way that best suits them – remotely or from our office locations.
Our compensation and benefits package is benchmarked across the industry. We offer a generous pension/retirement plan, private medical insurance, comprehensive wellbeing initiatives, a compelling time-off policy, plus many other excellent employee benefits.
