Executive - Global Value & Access

Guidehouse
London
1 year ago
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Job Family:

Strategy & Transformation Consulting


Travel Required:

Up to 25%


Clearance Required:

None

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

What You Will Do:

The Global Value & Access team provides commercialization strategy and reimbursement services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostics companies. Our client services range from integrated evidence planning to pricing and local affiliate negotiations to helping our clients transform internal access functions to keep pace with increasing competition and complexity in medicine. 

 

The Executive role is a highly visible and challenging position that draws heavily upon all the analytical, creative, and interpersonal skills essential to effective strategy consulting. This role requires a keen ability to engage clients and lead teams in effectively delivering projects of the highest quality. This is a Practice Leadership role, which requires demonstrating the ability to foster a collaborative culture, provide real-time coaching and mentorship, and motivate a diverse team of consultants across multiple geographies. This role will be integral to building and maintaining client relationships and sourcing global market access business. The ability to assume complete ownership of significant projects while at the same time being a part of and leading a cross-functional team is critical.

  • Leading Guidehouse’s Global Market Access team, which entails:

    • Maintaining and expanding global market access relationships,

    • Actively pursuing business development

    • Ensuring delivery standards are met across clients and project teams

    • Leading complex client engagements across the project life cycle (sales, support, and follow-on)

    • Recruiting, training, and growing our EU-based delivery team

    • Collaborating with US Access leadership and team members


What You Will Need

  • A minimum of 10 years of experience in industry or life sciences with at least 7 years in Global Market Access consulting  

  • Recognized subject matter expertise in one or more of the following areas:

    • Integrated evidence planning

    • Pricing & local affiliate negotiations

    • Access excellence

    • Access transformation

  • Proven track record in account management and ability to independently generate business / sales ($2M+ annually)

  • History of building / growing teams, with experience managing a P&L preferred

  • Demonstrated success supervising, coaching and mentoring consulting staff at all levels, which includes ownership and guidance of their career development

  • Track record of successfully managing large and complex client engagements under high pressure situations

  • Strong conceptual, qualitative and quantitative analytical skills

  • Ability to plans, direct and coordinate work activities across multiple initiatives

  • Executive-level written and oral communication and presentation skills

  • Education Requirements:

    • BA/BS degree in Science, Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare, Business or related course of study

  • Must be willing and able to travel to client sites across EU (and occasionally the US), up to 30% of the time

What Would Be Nice To Have:

Advanced degree (MBA, MPH, MS, JD) preferred


What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

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