Principal Consultant Market Access

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Job description

JOB TITLE: Principal Consultant, Market Access

COMPANY:

We are one of the world's largest research companies and currently the only one primarily managed by researchers. With offices in 90 markets, we bring together research, implementation, methodological, and subject-matter experts from around the world, combining thematic and technical experts globally with local knowledge to deliver top-quality research.

Our culture is unique - we have the entrepreneurial spirit and quirkiness of a small boutique, but we also have the resources, scale and diversity of a large global agency. We have more bright, friendly, hard-working and enthusiastic people, from more backgrounds, with more interests, skills and experiences to learn from. Our values are based on our diverse cultural backgrounds, helping us to be responsive, client-focused and flexible.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Lead teams of Consultants in the successful delivery of projects in areas of:

• Payer and multi-stakeholder insight
• Value proposition development
• Market access strategy
• Pricing and reimbursement

Drive client engagement and business development activities:

• Conduct competitor intelligence, benchmarking and service provision analyses
• Make new client contacts, follow-up leads and participate in new business meetings
• Ambassador of providing strong 'client experience'
• Experienced at building strong client relationships
• Leads proposal development, crafting a solution that meets client needs
• Participate in collaborative bid teams
• Take a role in presenting at conferences

Execute projects to a client ready standard:

• Owning an internal initiative which supports business progress
• Actively sharing information; an internal thought leader and driver of thought leadership material for external audiences, eg white paper, webinar
• Project Director, responsible for strategic direction of projects, and meeting client objectives
• Conduct stakeholder interviews
• Key role in guiding team towards impactful recommendations and strategies
• Maintain communication with clients and the internal team throughout the course of the project
• Provide expert content knowledge on global healthcare systems, as well as disease-specific and technology-specific areas
• Proactively manage own and other's time across multiple simultaneous projects
• Position yourself as an expert and trusted advisor, ensuring deliverables add value
• Guiding and supporting the project manager on timelines, quality and profitability
• Encourage collaborative working across the Market Access team and the broader organisation
• Proactively communicate with colleagues at all levels to ensure mutual exchange of information
• Provide constructive feedback to colleagues on a project by project basis, identifying potential issues and offering solutions as they arise
• Utilise own knowledge and expertise to lead the induction and ongoing development of colleagues
• Expectation to take on the management of junior team members as appropriate

EXPERIENCE NEEDED:

• Market access solutions experience
• Experience in the pharmaceutical/healthcare sector an advantage
• Excellent knowledge of health systems and pricing and reimbursement processes, in particular in key countries in Europe
• Proven evidence of client engagement and business development success
• Highly developed project management skills
• Ability to work to tight and immoveable deadlines, eg proposal submissions
• Excellent organisational, writing and planning skills
• A collaborative team member
• Ability to identify core issues and create solutions
• Flexibility and willingness to travel if necessary (eg day trips to visit clients, conference attendance for 2-3 days)

Real Staffing, a trading division of SThree Partnership LLP is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy| Registered office | London, EC4N 7BE, United Kingdom | Partnership Number | OC387148 England and Wales