Job Overview:
Consultant - Market Access

At Covance, we are recognised as a leader in drug development because of our exceptional people. Our team is driven by an energised purpose to improve health and improve lives. Here, you'll partner on diverse, industry-shaping initiatives across the drug development spectrum and build relationships with thought leaders and supportive colleagues which will last a lifetime.

As a Consultant/ Manager within Covance Market Access (CMA)Consulting, you will play a vital role in supporting and leading client engagements/ projects, including businessdevelopment efforts. You will oversee and conduct all necessary activities through to, and including client presentation, providing mentoring/ coaching support to the project team, and acting as the main day-to-day project contact.

Specific, demonstrable experience and expertise in payer insights and analytics is essential, as is broad experience in a range of pricing & market access projects.

Join us as we work together to create solutions that transform extraordinary potential into reality for our clients-and your career.

Responsibilities:

Content development:

• Comprehensive knowledge of what CMA offers to its clients
• Provide strategic, methodological, and conceptual approaches to projects according to CMA best practice
• Bring expertise in Pricing Reimbursement & Market Access (PRMA), payer value communication and other related specialisations, with a good working knowledge of methodologies applied to payer insights and analytics type projects, including design and execution of landscape analyses, HTA review, stakeholder identification and similar projects
• Good understanding of the concepts of health economics, pricing and price referencing, reimbursement and market access, including reimbursement processes for key global markets (including EU5 and US)
• Critically review work of more junior staff from a client's perspective and provide constructive feedback
• Line management (where applicable) and mentoring of more junior team members
• Co-ordinate schedules and timelines for multiple staff on their team/project team, and gather input required from other teams/personnel
• Play a key role in group resource planning and tracking

Business development

• Understanding of where our work fits with the client's strategic goals
• How CMA presents itself, relative to competitors
• Full range of services and deliverables CMA can provide
• Write proposals for a wide range of projects and make useful contributions in pitch meetings
• Identify where CMA could offer additional services to help client reach strategic goals
• Follow up on leads and opportunities in order to win business for CMA
• Work as a team with business development directors in order to win business and advance CMA's commercial interests
• Contribute to Consulting specific account plans, taking ownership of specific actions and follow up needs

Project management

• Manage projects, responsible for overall quality, direction and resource use
• Co-ordinate schedules and timelines for multiple projects
• Mentor and coach more junior staff within project teams

Client contact

• Develop good working relationships with clients
• Comprehensive understanding of client roles, taking a consultative approach to projects and client requirements
• Offer clients proactive and strategic advice

Education :

Life science undergraduate degree from a reputable university is required. Post-graduatequalifications such as MSc/MRes or PhD are preferred. Strong experience/ expertise in pricing and reimbursement, general market access, payer value communication,health economics, modeling, statistics, referencing,proofing etc.

Experience:

The successful candidate will typically have several years' prior work experience in asimilar environment within a consulting practice or a health products manufacturer, with specific experience of leading client engagements, particularly those in the payer insights and analytics space. In addition, solid experience of general market access/ payer value communications, plus a good understanding of general health economic concepts and principles is essential.

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Education/Qualifications:

Life science undergraduate degree from a reputable university is required. Post-graduatequalifications such as MSc/MRes or PhD are preferred. Strong experience/ expertise in pricing and reimbursement, general market access, payer value communication,health economics, modeling, statistics, referencing,proofing etc.

Experience:

The successful candidate will typically have several years' prior work experience in CMA or in asimilar environment within a consulting practice or a health products manufacturer, with solid experience of general market access/ payer value communications, plus a good understanding of general health economic concepts and principles, including clientcontact and some business development experience.