Managing Consultant - Life Science Advisory - Market Access; Global

Job Family: Strategy & Transformation Consulting

Travel Required: Up to 25%

Clearance Required: None

Is life sciences in your DNA? Breakthroughs in pharma are helping people live healthier lives, while medical devices enable patients to proactively maintain health – this is undoubtedly a transformative time for health care companies. Guidehouse’s Life Sciences practice is an engine of innovation, helping pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and diagnostic companies develop custom solutions that tackle today’s challenges, while anticipating tomorrows.

You will have an immediate impact by partnering with our clients, across all levels, to deliver product planning, pricing, reimbursement, product commercialization, and regulatory and compliance solutions. Do you think you are up for the challenge?

We continuously strive to foster an inclusive and diverse work culture and thoughtfully develop our people through challenging work, valuable learning and educational programs. We cultivate a culture of mentorship and feedback for professional and personal growth. We help our clients take control of their future. This mission extends to our employee's careers, health and well-being and by the many ways we give back to our communities.

If you’re passionately motivated to make a difference and deliver exceptional work, we invite you to learn more about your career opportunities at

The Global Market Access team focuses on value, access, pricing and commercialization strategy projects for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostics companies. Our client services range from pre-commercialization product opportunity assessments to determining and developing launch pricing and access strategies across major and emerging global markets.

You will be responsible for developing and implementing pricing, value, and access strategies for pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device clients. This will involve working with senior staff to build project proposals, managing consulting teams across multiple large-scale, complex projects to develop and communicate client deliverables, and maintaining client relationships.

• Lead teams to design, execute, and deliver projects across key value and access topics such as pricing and reimbursement studies (inclusive of qualitative & quantitative methodologies), early access opportunity assessments, value communication strategy, and payer engagement strategy

• Exhibit clear and deep understanding of how to connect payer value perception and expectations to product evidence needs

• Demonstrates ability to conduct gap assessment, comparative analyses and competitive intelligence to inform price and access strategies

• Possess strong market research skills, inclusive of primary research qualitative interview as well as quantitative survey experiences and familiarity with various pricing methodologies (i.e., analogue assessment, Van Westerndorps, Gabor Granger, Conjoint, etc)

• Demonstrated extensive working experience and understanding of global (e.g., EU, APAC, LATAM) P&MA dynamics, including:

  • Country HTA Assessment Frameworks

  • Payer Product Value Assessment Drivers

  • Payer Pricing and Reimbursement (P&R) Archetypes & Processes

  • Market Access Pathways and Funding / Reimbursement Requirements

  • National and regional reimbursement mechanisms

  • Evidence requirements by market or region

• Leverage work experience, business acumen, and subject matter expertise on global market access topics to determine key approach and develop strategic recommendations that efficiently and effectively address client business questions

• Proactively manages own and team members’ time effectively and efficiently across multiple complex projects with multi-country, global scopes

• Effectively liaise with senior staff to ensure strategically sound and actionable insights are developed as outputs to answer key client business questions on value, access, and pricing

• Serves as primary point of contact and engages executive level audience to deliver actionable insights and recommendations

• Builds and manages ongoing relationships as client thought partners as well as elevate new…