Associate

About the Role

As an Associate on the Market Access Strategy Consulting team, you will be a core member responsible for executing high-quality quantitative analytics to address client business questions and needs. You will develop expertise across analytical methodologies and tools to create Market Access strategies for clients. While initially guided by senior team members, you will quickly have opportunities to contribute to all aspects of client engagements. Many Associates present project materials to clients early in their tenure. In your second and third years, you will assume managerial roles, running projects and mentoring junior colleagues. You will collaborate directly with senior leaders on project work, thought leadership, and professional development.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute high-quality, logical, and timely strategic analysis using a wide range of ‘big data’ assets to derive trends, conclusions, and actionable recommendations for clients.
• Conduct primary (qualitative) and secondary (quantitative) research on markets, payers, physicians, patients, and competitive products to identify key findings for client engagements.
• Actively participate in internal brainstorming sessions, collaborate with project teams, and exercise informed business judgment in identifying the best approach to address key client needs.
• Develop sophisticated predictive models to inform contracting strategies, patient cost and affordability programs, prescriber/product utilization, and brand performance/financial modeling.
• Translate analyses into thorough and insightful conclusions and outputs to address client issues and succinctly deliver these conclusions to clients via reports, presentations, and other tools.
• Prepare for internal project team and client meetings to contribute and discuss analysis and answer questions on your work.
• Leverage all available QC tools and demonstrate knowledge of QC standards, applied consistently throughout the project in all aspects of the work.
• Manage your time effectively and meet deadlines.
• Manage upward by proactively communicating progress and challenges (context, assumptions, rationale, and limitations in analyses) and request guidance when needed.
• Develop deep knowledge of the healthcare industry and consulting methodologies.
• Assist with recruiting new team members and participate in the interview process.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• A willingness to travel as needed (<10% on average).
• IT literacy including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• SQL is a plus.

Qualifications

• A strong academic record (GPA 3.5/4 or greater).
• Excellent problem-solving abilities.
• Exceptional communication skills.
• Strong quantitative skills.
• Proven team contributor.
• Bachelor's or Master's Degree, preferably in areas such as Biology, Biochemistry, Economics, Finance, Business, Healthcare Management and Policy, History, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Psychology, Neuroscience, Public Health, and International Relations (but not limited to these).
• An interest in and desire to learn about the constantly evolving healthcare industry.
• Good project management, time management, and organizational skills.
• Excellent conversational and business English (written and oral).