Associate, Market Access & Reimbursement

About Avalere Health

Guided by a single mission to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE, our Advisory, Medical, and Marketing capabilities move as one, ensuring every patient is identified, supported, treated, and cared for. Equally.

Avalere Health is a global strategic partner, perfectly formed to solve the biggest challenges in health—at pace and at scale. We are united across the product lifecycle, uniquely positioned to understand every angle of life, health, and the human condition. Partnering with our clients, we are building a world where healthcare is not a barrier. And no patient is left behind.

We are powered by our unique and proprietary model, SenseMaking. Combining strategic tools and human ingenuity, SenseMaking allows us to transform limitations into pathways, obstacles into possibilities, and intricacy into action. Our talented, diverse, and passionate team—known as SenseMakers—strive each day to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE.

About the role  

 As the Associate, you will focus on a wide range of areas, such as: coverage, coding, and payment across commercial and public payers; pricing and contracting; distribution and specialty pharmacy strategy; field team design and deployment; and patient support services. We assess how our clients’ products fit within the emerging coverage and reimbursement landscape and help our clients optimize access to and utilization of their products though deep subject matter expertise and understanding of their business issues. 

 We design strategic and tactical plans to minimize access barriers and support uptake by payers, providers, and patients by integrating policy and healthcare market dynamics into the business planning cycle. We work on a team basis with complementary commercial, scientific, technical, and regulatory expertise in the pre-approval and post-market spaces. 

 This is an onsite position in our Washington DC office. 

****Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visas at this time. 

What you'll do:

• Work independently and in cross-functional teams to contribute to the development and delivery of projects to clients.
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative research on a diverse array of healthcare and business issues (i.e., key stakeholder interviews, white and grey literature searches, etc.).
• Conduct analyses in Microsoft Excel to inform business recommendations.
• Create client deliverable presentations in PowerPoint, following pyramid structure storytelling, to provide strategic recommendations.
• Analyze health policy documents (i.e., Medicare and Medicaid statutory provisions, Medicare payment regulations, etc.) to determine direct business implications to clients.
• Use content expertise, solid proofreading, and layout skills to quality control client deliverables.
• Support business development thought leadership content development, and internal initiatives.
• Ability to grow into project manager role

About you:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in public policy, public health, public administration, business, statistics, economics, mathematics, or a relevant discipline with 1-2 years of relevant full-time work experience. 
• Possess examples of relevant experience include consulting firms, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and the healthcare industry at large. 
• Prior experience with project task-management. 
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, including PowerPoint and Excel. 
• Self-starter, ability to work independently. 
• Solid writing skills as a foundation for professional business communication. 
• Sound analytic, problem solving, and quantitative skills. 
• Good working knowledge of healthcare and related issues. 
• Advanced research and project management skills. 
• Experience organizing and supervising the work of others in the conducting of research or policy analysis is preferred. 
• Demonstrated presentation and public speaking skills. 
• Proven team player; strong relationship building skills both internally and externally. 
• Customer service oriented and solution-focused attitude. 
• High degree of professional maturity and sound decision-making ability. 
• Strong organizational skills and ability to multitask. 

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. 

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