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Role: Consultant I – Project Manager, Healthcare Quality and Value
Salary: $Competitive + excellent benefits
Location: Remote or Washington, DC
About the role:
Avalere Health is seeking a Consultant I with experience in project management within healthcare research, operations, or consulting to join our Evidence & Strategy practice. The ideal candidate has demonstrated leadership and strong communication skills in client-facing roles, with prior experience in quality measurement and reporting programs, patient-centric studies, shared decision making (SDM), public opinion polling, digital technology, health equity, and/or evidence generation.
Avalere Health is a vibrant community of innovative thinkers dedicated to solving the challenges of the healthcare industry. We dig deep into the healthcare system and work closely with clients to develop practical solutions. At Avalere Health, we prize curiosity, resilience, a positive attitude, and an enthusiasm to embrace new challenges. Join us and get ready to make your mark on healthcare!
Avalere’s Evidence & Strategy practice provides exceptional consultation, evidence, and insights on key aspects of healthcare – including patient-centric health economics outcomes research (HEOR), quality, shared decision-making, value-based care, and health equity – and to shape strategy for our clients.
Our mission is to improve quality of care, craft data-driven strategies, drive patient-centric outcomes, and ultimately provide the highest value to all our partners, including life sciences companies, payers, providers, and patient advocates. Our work is focused in 3 intersecting strategic pillars: Patient-Centric Value, Evidence & Analytics, and Healthcare Strategy. Underlying all work is a deep commitment to data-driven insights.
The Consultant I, Project Manager, Healthcare Quality and Value, will support client engagements that inform business and evidence strategy related to patient-centric value, collection of patient insights from surveys, evidence strategy, as well as the development and testing of shared decision-making and other clinical tools.
The ideal candidate would have working knowledge of federal quality reporting programs, designing and implementing real-world evidence studies, translating clinical and practice guidelines, or communicating value for life sciences products, especially how value is defined from all perspectives, including patients and caregivers. They will also have had experience with conducting qualitative research with patients, caregivers, or providers and/or quantitative research.
About Avalere Health:
Overview:
Avalere Health, a Fishawack Health Company, is a leading healthcare strategic advisory firm focused on the intersection of business strategy, research, and public policy. Located in Washington, DC, Avalere works with a diverse range of clients spanning Fortune 500 pharmaceuticals, biotech, health plans, government, providers, advocacy and patient groups, and other organizations who seek to improve the healthcare system. Avalere’s experts span 250 staff drawn from Fortune 500 healthcare companies, the federal government (e.g., CMS, OMB, CBO, Congress), top consultancies, and nonprofits. The firm offers deep substance on the full range of healthcare business issues affecting the Fortune 500 healthcare companies.
About Fishawack Health:
Fishawack Health (FH) is a leading global commercialization partner for the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries.
The future of health is fast-paced and complex, demanding a different approach. Established in 2001, our 1,300+ healthcare experts combine their knowledge and expertise across our 4 core disciplines — Consulting; Medical; Value, Evidence and Access; and Marketing.
Working across the product and service lifecycle, together with our teammates in shared creative teams (Creative Studio, Editorial Services, Motion, Digital, Events, and Media) and Group Services, we engage our collective force to innovate and solve the complex healthcare challenges of today and tomorrow.
We live and breathe our five values in everything we do: We are authentic. We value difference. We play for the team. We own the challenge. We enjoy the journey. At Fishawack Health, we imagine a healthier world and build the connections to make it happen.
What You’ll Do
- Contributes subject matter expertise on key issues and methods associated with defining and measuring patient-centric value
- Work with teams within the Evidence & Strategy practice and across the firm to solve complex client problems and engage clients with novel solutions and ideas
- Serve as a skilled project manager—from start to finish—a broad range of client projects involving diverse, cross-functional, cross-practice teams
- Draft both strategic and tactical recommendations for clients depending on their business needs
- Manage multiple clients and short- and long-term deliverables to ensure that Avalere’s knowledge and expertise are available to meet client needs
- Solve complex client issues in a timely and appropriate manner with minimal management oversight and attention to resources
- Train, supervise, and mentor staff members within the practice and across the firm
About You
Education Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in public policy, public health, sciences, business, economics or related fields required; Master’s degree in public policy, healthcare management, public health, business administration or relevant discipline preferred
Skill Requirements:
- Competency in defining value propositions for life sciences products, including patient and caregiver experience, engagement, quality, treatment cost and affordability, whole-person care
- Ability to analyse research, regulations, health policy, and clinical and other scientific literature; synthesize findings into actionable insights relevant to the client, and convey results to clients and staff in written and verbal formats
- Strong ability to manage complex projects and teams to consistently deliver high-quality work
- Commitment to working in a team environment with an emphasis on collaboration and maintaining positive relationships with colleagues and clients
- Solid communication skills (written and verbal) including the ability to concisely explain complicated concepts to executives within and outside of the firm
- Preferred: Experience in formative research or implementation science, including formulating research questions, designing data collection instruments, and executing studies
Experience Requirements:
- 3-6 years’ work experience with prior consulting experience of relevant work experience, which could include employment by a healthcare provider organization, pharmaceutical or health insurance company, digital health company, healthcare consultancy, public opinion research organization or healthcare-focused research organization
- Experience in another type of organization thinking critically about or working on behalf of the healthcare industry is an appropriate substitute for direct industry experience
- Experience should be focused on healthcare quality, value, patient journey, managed care, or clinical evidence development, ideally involving evaluation of pharmaceuticals or from a pharmaceutical manufacturer’s perspective
What we can offer:
Fishawack 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 to encourage diversity of thought, inclusive behavior, and innovative solutions. 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 offices in 19 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.
Reasonable adjustments:
We’ll consider any reasonable adjustments you’d like us to put in place in the interests of fairness and equal opportunities.
Reasonable adjustments
Fishawack Health is an equal opportunities employer and place where everyone is welcome. We believe success lies in our differences and only by embracing these differences can we build a healthier world together. We strongly encourage people from minority backgrounds, LGBTQIA+, parents, and individuals with disabilities to apply. If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example – she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).
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