Associate, Healthcare Policy

About Avalere Health

Guided by a single mission to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE, our Advisory, Medical, and Marketing capabilities move as one, ensuring every patient is identified, supported, treated, and cared for. Equally.

Avalere Health is a global strategic partner, perfectly formed to solve the biggest challenges in health—at pace and at scale. We are united across the product lifecycle, uniquely positioned to understand every angle of life, health, and the human condition. Partnering with our clients, we are building a world where healthcare is not a barrier. And no patient is left behind.

We are powered by our unique and proprietary model, SenseMaking. Combining strategic tools and human ingenuity,  SenseMaking allows us to  transform limitations into pathways, obstacles into possibilities, and intricacy into action. Our talented, diverse, and passionate team—known as SenseMakers—strive each day to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE.

About the Company

Avalere is a strategic advisory company whose core purpose is to create innovative solutions to complex healthcare problems. Based in Washington, DC, the firm delivers actionable insights, product solutions, and custom analytics for leaders in healthcare business and policy. Avalere’s experts span 230 staff drawn from Fortune 500 healthcare companies, the federal government (e.g., CMS, OMB, CBO and the Congress), top consultancies and nonprofits. The firm offers deep substance on the full range of healthcare business issues affecting the Fortune 500 healthcare companies. Avalere’s focus on strategy is supported by a rigorous, in-house analytic research group that uses public and private data to generate quantitative insight. Through events, publications and interactive programs, Avalere insights are accessible to a broad range of customers.

Avalere is part of a parent company Avalere Health, a purposefully built commercialization partner for the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries. Its 1,500+ experts combine their knowledge and expertise across our core disciplines—Consulting; Medical; Policy, Access, Value, and Evidence; Marketing; and Digital Experience and Technology—to create the connections that make better health happen. Visit www.avalere.com and follow Avalere Health on LinkedIn and Instagram.

About the Role

Avalere is seeking an Associate/Senior Associate to join our Healthcare Policy practice. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to shaping and analyzing healthcare policy and delivering actionable insights that drive our clients’ business and advocacy priorities. We are seeking a policy professional who loves to generate creative solutions to complex problems, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and is energized by working collaboratively with highly motivated and knowledgeable colleagues.

Avalere’s Healthcare Policy Practice provides advisory services, including policy analysis and strategy, data analytics, and quantitative modeling to a wide range of clients across the healthcare industry such as life science companies, managed care plans, providers, and patient groups. Issues of focus will span the health policy landscape, including but are not limited to the Medicare program (Medicare Part B, Medicare Part D, Medicare Advantage), Medicaid, the 340B program, the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges, and other state policy issues (e.g., drug pricing legislation such as drug affordability review boards, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) regulation, etc.).

What You Will Do

- Conduct qualitative and quantitative research on a diverse array of healthcare issues (e.g., key informant interviews, literature searches, etc.)

- Track federal and state legislation and regulatory matters based on client priorities and project needs; evaluate the potential impacts of proposed policies

- Draft written summaries, white papers, and PowerPoint presentations to provide strategic recommendations to clients

- Use content expertise, strong attention to detail, solid proofreading, and layout skills to build client deliverables

- Assist in translating and communicating the implications of policy changes on clients’ businesses and strategic priorities

- Deepen subject matter expertise on policy-related issues impacting the pharmaceutical/biotech and health insurance industries

- Work independently and in cross-functional teams to contribute to the development and delivery of projects to clients

- Draft scopes of work and using subject matter expertise to collaborate and bridge work across teams

Skills, Experience, and Other Job-Related Requirements

Education Requirements

A degree in health policy, public policy, healthcare management, public health, public administration, economics, business administration, law, or a relevant discipline.

Skill Requirements

- Strong communication skills (written and oral) including the ability to concisely explain complicated concepts

- Strong Microsoft Office skills, especially PowerPoint, Excel, and Word

- Strong organizational skills and ability to multitask

- Self-starter, ability to work independently and multi-task

- Exemplary interpersonal skills that translate into positive relationships with colleagues and clients; proven team player with solution-focused attitude

- Understanding of the consulting environment and expectations

Experience Requirements

- New grad to 1-2 years of relevant experience

- Demonstrated interest and/or experience in health policy and familiarity with legislative and regulatory processes in healthcare

- Experience rapidly and effectively analyzing policy proposals, legislation, and/or regulation and conveying findings to clients or other stakeholders

Application Requirements and Deadline

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* Applications will be open through March 7th

* Please submit your resume, cover letter, and include a writing sample along with your application

What we can offer

Avalere Health aims to empower every employee to develop and thrive. We empower our team with the tools, skills, and support needed to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges.

At the center of our people-led culture is our Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career. We also pride ourselves on our personalized learning approach to ensure you receive the training you need to help you grow within the company and take advantage of our global scale and scope.

We are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our organization. We encourage diversity of thought, inclusive behavior, and break down barriers to ensure every individual feels valued and encouraged to contribute their unique abilities and potential. As part of our commitment to building a healthier world, every employee is also encouraged to participate in our community engagement efforts, which support a wide range of healthcare programs and wellbeing causes worldwide.

We have city hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization while maintaining and fully supporting flexible working practices. Our compensation and benefits package is benchmarked across the industry. We offer a generous company pension/retirement plan, private medical insurance, comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives, compelling time-off policy, plus many other excellent employee benefits. 

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