Senior Specialist, Payer Research

Job Description

Senior Specialist, Payer Research and Analytics  

The Payer Research and Analytics Senior Specialist will be responsible for supporting our GMAX and Payer Marketing organizations with primary and secondary payer research.  This person will work closely with the Director of Payer Research and Analytics on a broad range of projects related to summarizing the access landscape for specific disease areas, pricing and contracting and reimbursement, analytics payer projects developing and communicating data-driven and actionable insights to our Company’s Global Market Access (GMAx) organization.

The preferred candidate will have experience in both primary and secondary research in the market access space. The candidate should have an entrepreneurial spirit, consultative mindset, strong understanding of market access data, commercial analytics capabilities, and technology. This person should have the ability to create structure, break down unstructured problem statements into solvable chunks, deliver the appropriate insights, analytics, or data solution.

The person will be required to have a growth mindset and embody a culture of continuous learning. This role will require interfacing and collaborating with many teams. Strong communication skills are essential for a candidate to be successful in this role.

Individuals who will thrive in this role are motivated by developing a deep understanding of the market access environment and possess an ability to define and translate objectives and business questions into solvable pieces, drive solutioning, enable inter-connected problem solving, produce actionable insights and high-quality deliverables.

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Partner with the payer marketing and GMAX teams to lead and manage primary and secondary research projects
• Support  therapeutically aligned Payer Research and Analytics Director (Oncology/Pharma/Vaccine/Early Pipeline)
• Understand business stakeholders' priorities and help develop data and analytical solutions that support business objectives in collaboration with the broader commercial insight teams.
• Develop and shape internal, high quality market access insight deliverables
• Work with global market access leadership to prioritize the work that needs to be done considering the capacity availability within HHDDA. 
• Travel may be required (<20%).

Education Minimum Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree in related discipline required
• MBA or Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Public Health, Policy, Pharmacy, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science preferred

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum of 6+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical/biotech or management consulting industry.
• Strong understanding of market access landscape and commercial analytics capabilities (market research, forecasting, data driven analytics, advanced analytics).
• Self-motivated, proactive, ability to work independently and collaborate seamlessly.
• Ability to understand business process and break down business questions into specific, tangible hypotheses and requirements to guide analysis. Excellent problem-solving skills with an appreciation for data oriented analytical methods.
• Ability to operate in an unstructured environment and have strong organizational skills to create structure and clarity. Excellent organizational skills, with ability to navigate a complex matrix environment and organize/prioritize work efficiently and effectively.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Experience in market access, strategy and/or commercial analytics (market research, data analytics, business intelligence and/or forecasting).
• Experience managing Primary Research projects with external vendors.
• Proficient in program languages for analyzing data and visualization software (Python, SQL, Dataiku, PowerBI etc.) would be an added advantage.

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Employee Status:

Regular

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Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

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Required Skills:

Business Analysis, Marketing, Researching, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Supplier Management, User Research, Waterfall Model

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Job Posting End Date:

03/22/2025

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