Remote, Full-time
About the Role
Avalere is seeking a Consultant I to join our Policy practice focused on federal legislative activity affecting health policy, including developments in key committees with jurisdiction over the healthcare policy sector. Other areas of focus may include the 340B drug pricing program, physician payment policy, implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and the impact of elections on healthcare priorities.
The Policy practice focuses on a broad range of issues including: Medicare Part D and the IRA, risk adjustment and payment modeling for Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage, the 340B Drug Pricing Program, drug pricing reform, alternative payment models (e.g., CMS Enhanced Oncology Model, Accountable Care Organizations), PBM reform, vaccines, and state/federal policy developments.
What You Will Do
- Serve as a subject matter expert on the legislative and regulatory policymaking process, policy-related issues impacting the pharmaceutical/biotech and health insurance industries, and federal and state policy/regulatory developments. Expertise on other issues related to 340B, PBM reform, site-neutral payment are other anticipated areas of focus.
- Support and assist in managing project teams to help solve complex client problems and engage clients with novel solutions and ideas.
- Work with a portfolio of clients to identify and deliver on business opportunities and projects that dovetail with Avalere’s expertise and offerings.
- Engages with clients to help identify how Avalere can address their policy and business needs.
- Manage short- and long-term deliverables, to ensure that all of Avalere’s knowledge and expertise are leveraged to meet client needs.
- Solve complex client issues in a timely and appropriate manner with attention to resources and minimal management oversight.
- Contributes to defining the parameters of an engagement for a broad range of client projects involving diverse, cross-functional, cross-practice teams.
About You
Education Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in public policy, public health, public administration, business, law, or related fields; Master’s degree in public policy, healthcare management, public health, business administration or relevant discipline preferred and a minimum of 3-6 years’ of relevant work experience
Skills Requirements
- Strong communication skills (written and oral) including the ability to concisely explain complicated concepts to executives within and outside of the firm
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, including PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
- Government affairs knowledge and experience with legislative and regulatory policymaking.
- Strong understanding of government payers including Medicare Part D, Medicare Part B, Medicare Advantage, and Medicaid.
- Strong understanding of current legislative environment surrounding key health policy debates, including transparency, PBMs, 340B, and the IRA.
Experience Requirements
- Prior project management experience.
- Experience analyzing policy proposals, legislation, and/or regulation and conveying findings to clients and the public.
- Good understanding of policy issues impacting the healthcare sector, as well as how federal and state policy affects the industry.
- Capability to manage or provide guidance to junior staff.
- Experience rapidly digesting new regulations and legislative developments while communicating changes to others.
- Interpersonal skills that translate into positive relationships with colleagues and clients.
- Commitment to working in a team environment with an emphasis on collaboration and maintaining positive relationships with colleagues and clients.
- Problem-solving and analytic skills with the ability to apply knowledge outside of one’s immediate functional area.
About Avalere Health
Established in 2001, Avalere Health is a purposefully built commercialization partner for the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries.
Our 1,500+ experts combine their knowledge and expertise across our core disciplines — Consulting; Medical; Policy; Value, Evidence, and Access; Marketing; and Digital Experience Technology — to create the connections that make better health happen.
Avalere Health partners with its clients to navigate the complex and rapidly changing healthcare ecosystem. Together, our experts help clients connect patients with life-changing therapies, realizing the potential of strategies and solutions to accelerate innovation that improves lives.
We live and breathe our five values in everything we do: We are authentic. We act with integrity. We value difference. We play for the team. We enjoy the journey. At Avalere Health, we imagine a healthier world and create the connections to make it happen.
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.
We encourage all applicants to read our candidate privacy notice before applying to Avalere Health.
I am a pharmacist, community pharmacy consultant, and medical writer with over 12 years of clinical practice experience in community, outpatient health system, long term care, and academic settings. I am also the founder of PharmCompliance.com, a website dedicated to the success of community pharmacy.
As a pharmacy project manager, I led the implementation of new service lines, assist with ensuring legal and third-party compliance for over 70 retail stores, lead quality improvement and medication safety initiatives, write policies, procedures, and best practices for all our retail sites, and help with optimizing revenue cycle and pharmacy profitability. I have been responsible for DMEPOS and vaccine accreditation through CMS, obtaining new licenses and permits, and implementing a prescription drug kiosk embedded in our physician offices.
As a medical writer, my work has been featured in GoodRx, Pharmacy Times, Drug Topics, Patient Care Online, and in peer-reviewed journals. I have also given presentations on a range of topics, from disease state pharmacotherapy for medical residents to updates on the CDC vaccine storage and handling guidelines for a medical-grade refrigerator and freezer manufacturer. I have written and presented continuing education for CEImpact, FreeCE, AchieveCE, Ascension Health, and the Florida Department of Health.
