Market Access Consultant

**ABOUT ALIRA HEALTH**:
Alira Health is a global healthcare firm whose mission is to humanize healthcare and life sciences in partnership with patients. From development to medical care, we complement the expertise of our Pharma, Biotech, and MedTech clients with a full spectrum of services across their entire solutions lifecycle, including clinical operations, real-world evidence, and patient-centric technology offerings.

Our integrated and multidisciplinary team of over 800 scientists, strategists, economists, clinicians, and biostatisticians collaborate across our North American, European, and Asian offices and advise 80% of the top 50 MedTech companies and 75% of the top 50 Pharma companies.

**ABOUT THE CONSULTING PRACTICE**:
Alira Health Consulting Practice is an **integrated team of approximately two hundred consultants specialized in the healthcare industry **who can lead, manage, and execute a broad range of assignments, from Local and Global Market Access and Pricing to Strategy and Commercial Excellence, for Pharma, Diagnostics, MedTech, and Digital Health Solutions (DHS) clients.

Examples of assignments conducted by the Consulting Team at Alira Health are the following:

- Corporate strategy
- Market opportunity assessment
- Commercial/vendor due diligence
- Global Market Access, pricing, and reimbursement strategy
- Evidence generation strategy and plan
- Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) strategy
- Country launch planning & sequencing
- Patient Mobilization & Support Programs

**THE consultant ROLE**:
**Consultants are involved in the management and execution of a variety of projects and fully own assigned analyses and streams of work**, develop, and deliver components of the client engagement, and contribute to the success of each project. Specifically, they lead secondary and primary research activities, can sharply synthesize, and organize information gathered. They lead advanced quantitative analyses and modeling activities, and they contribute to the elaboration of final recommendations.

**KEY RESPONSABILITIES**:
**Project Execution/ Billability** (80%-90%)**:

- ** Manages the execution of a project stream (or a simple project)**, develops a plan to approach client’s needs, and leverages business experience and acumen in identifying strategies and project approach to client questions with guidance from senior roles.
- ** Coordinate client and stakeholder engagements**, leading meetings, reporting to clients on overall project execution
- ** Performs quantitative and qualitative analyses** to assist in the identification of client issues and the development of client deliverables.
- ** Understands and anticipates potential issues and/or challenges** deriving from the initial ‘problem’ and able to communicate this effectively to the project team and senior roles.
- ** Coordinates the creation of sections and/or entire reports**, presentations, workshops, and other client deliverables.
- ** Ensures the high quality** and accuracy of deliverables.
- **Presents assigned sections of the deliverables** with limited support from senior consultants.
- ** Develops an in-depth understanding of the healthcare industry** and a broad knowledge of related consulting methodologies through the delivery of consulting engagement and participation in formal and informal training programs.

**Business Development/ Corporate Initiatives & Thought Leadership (up to 20%)**:

- Support the **Business Development process** from leading discovery to proposal defense **as part of the execution team.**:

- Participate in **corporate development** by contributing to internal strategic projects, recruiting, knowledge management, technology systems, and related functions.
- ** Manage and coordinate Associates and/or Analysts and act as their point of reference** for daily activities and training, among others.

**DESIRED QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE**:

- Graduate degree with an excellent track record in either Life Sciences related, Business, Economics, or Engineering programs.
- PhD, specialized Masters in Lifesciences or Healthcare. Previous experience in Life Sciences companies or MBA are considered a plus.
- 3 years of professional experience in management consulting, private equity, health technology assessment (HTA) agencies, or pharmaceutical industry.
- Experience in managing small teams of 1-2 people.

**TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES & SOFT SKILLS**:

- Strong analytical skills and ability to problem-solve unstructured or ambiguous challenges.
- Knowledge of consulting methodologies, tools, and techniques.
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office Suite (PowerPoint, Excel, and Word) and a high attention to detail.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, time management, and organization skills. Strong capability in evaluating priorities to meet deadlines while retaining consistently high-quality outcomes.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, good project management skills, and agility.
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