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; Value, Evidence, and Access; 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.
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Director, Global Patient Access Strategy & Commercialization
Location: UK (remote working available)
About the role
This role includes driving thought leadership and designing, selling and delivering de-novo patient access consultancy solutions to the meet current and emerging needs of pharma/biotech global market access teams. The Director will be expected to take a leadership role within the GPASC practice to help shape and work with leadership the strategic direction of a set of service offerings. This role is hands-on selling and project delivery and requires the highest levels of understanding of the current external pharma/biotech client environment and an in-depth knowledge of both national and sub national payer/ payer influencer value drivers. The role requires high levels of experience in providing strategic counsel to clients, commercial acumen, and a proven track record of high-quality content delivery.
What you’ll do:
Duties will include business development with an expectation to create and drive thought leadership and to build a portfolio of business with new and existing clients.
Projects will involve working with senior global/ regional market access clients to anticipate and implement solutions and initiatives to ensure that fully enabled in-market patient access and commercial pull through is achieved as close as possible to marketing authorization and sustained until loss of exclusivity.
Projects are diverse and bespoke and may include phase II health system impact planning, early and late stakeholder belief mapping/tracking, designing and implementing cross-functional access toolkits and conducting post launch patient access deep dives and action plans.
Many GPASC practice consultancy solutions include integral payer insight methodologies such as payer depth interviews and payer advisory boards.
You will sell, lead, coach and be a hands-on in the delivery of project work.
About you
You will have a broad understanding of the different payer/payer influencer stakeholders, value drivers and processes responsible for unlocking access in different global markets
You will be well versed in national market access archetypes, however the focus here is patient access over and above the narrower set of stakeholders, evidence and processes to achieve national HTA and includes patient access in the absence of a nationally reimbursed model. This understanding, strategic thinking, critical appraisal and commercial acumen needs to be applied to a wide range of client scenarios together with natural curiosity to think out of the box and drive innovation.
You will have a high drive and resilience to role model how to juggle multiple priorities, navigate challenges and develop flexible, innovative course-correction to deliver to client needs profitably.
You will have a creative flair for cutting through technical complexity to develop high impact “snackable” visual communication that sells concepts and ideas.
You will be a strong team leader to proactively support both the wider GPASC practice and the wider PAVE consultancy team with selling and delivery as needed.
Experience
Extensive experience in specialist market access consultancy with a proven track record across a wide range of global market access consultancy project types (client management, project leadership & management and content delivery) and/or global/regional affiliate-facing pharmaceutical market access roles with a proven track record in market access strategic planning, landscaping, pricing & reimbursement across nationally reimbursed and non-reimbursed markets and in-market access activities.
Experience and gravitas to shape and facilitate free-flowing strategic discussions with senior clients and provide robust, well considered advice to different business challenges
Experience of payer value drivers and payer decision making processes at national/regional level from extensive personal engagement with payers through primaryresearch and facilitation of advisory boards and/or directly from roles as a payer or in a payer customer-facing role. Experience of patient advocacy work is a plus.
Breadth of experience of pharma/biotech commercialization and distribution models in different market access archetypes and in different compliance frameworks
Deep understanding of the challenges and best practice ways of working pharma/ biotech global market access teams need pre-launch and how changes in the external environment are shaping what global market access clients need support achieving.
Experience of developing and facilitating senior multi-disciplinary client workshops across global markets, including negotiation excellence
Depth of experience in extracting, interpreting and critical appraisal of complex clinical and health economic data sets to create compelling payer/payer influencer messaging.
Experienced, supportive team line manager and coach with outstanding work ethic, commitment and organisational skills to deliver timely, high-quality work.
Exemplary proficiency in written and verbal English
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.
