Research Scientist, Policy

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

Avalere Health is seeking a Research Scientist I to join our Policy Practice. The practice focuses on a range of issues including: ongoing federal and state discussion around health reform, federal and state implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges, evolving benefit designs in public and private payers, Medicare Advantage and Part D policy and payment, Medicare reform issues, Medicaid and other state health policies, and federal budget and deficit reduction issues. We rely on deep subject matter expertise and understanding of the business issues facing our clients to assess how this changing policy landscape impacts the pharmaceutical industry, managed care plans, providers, and consumers. We provide analytic support and advisory services, including legislative strategy, regulatory analysis, and quantitative modeling of proposed and enacted policies to a wide range of clients across the healthcare industry. 

What you'll do

• Design analytical studies, protocols and methods, policy impact and scoring models
• Contribute to the development of concept proposals, scopes of work, budgets, and analysis plans
• Perform descriptive and advanced statistical analysis using large patient or claims databases in support of policy modeling to execute analysis plans and support client strategic objectives
• Develop and author study reports and publications
• Independently manage workflow and make direct contributions to the research and analysis process
• Work within the policy analytics team to identify areas for delivering innovation to clients
• Maintain compliance with Avalere Health’s policies, procedures and mission statement

About you

• BA/BS or MA/MS in economics, mathematics, statistics, data science, health policy, public administration, public policy, public health, epidemiology, statistics or related discipline
• 4+ years consulting, healthcare, academia, or pharmaceutical/device industry experience
• Broad technical knowledge of health economics, policy research and analytic designs
• Proficiency in design and execution of analytic studies using large administrative pharmacy and medical claims databases (public and private)
• Working knowledge of statistical software packages such as SAS, SQL, or STATA
• Working knowledge of advanced statistical techniques or econometric skills




Additional Skills and Competencies:

• Healthcare policy and analysis background
• Excellent writing, project management, communication, and presentation skills
• Ability to independently manage multiple work streams with limited supervision
• Demonstrated problem solving, analytical reasoning and decision-making skills and strong commitment to meeting goals and deadlines
• Positive, flexible and self-motivated attitude, with excellent teamwork skills and ability to work in a multi-disciplinary environment

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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