Director, Global Patient Access Strategy & Commercialization

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.

Salary: £Competitive + excellent benefits (bonus, pension, healthcare, life cover etc.)

Location: Hybrid or remote, UK

This role involves driving thought leadership, and designing, selling and delivering de-novo patient access consultancy solutions to meet current and emerging needs of pharma/biotech global market access teams. The Director will be expected to take a leadership role within the Global Patient Access Strategy & Commercialization (GPASC) practice to help shape and work with leadership on 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.

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 hands-on in the delivery of project work.

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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