Market Access Associate Consultant

Licensed sponsor London and Winchester Posted 2 weeks ago

Location - London or Winchester

Hybrid working - as per departmental requirements

In 2020, LCP launched its Health practice, providing analytical and research services across healthcare and life sciences. Our team brings together clinicians, statisticians, epidemiologists, health economists and health data scientists, alongside LCP’s established actuarial, analytics and technology expertise, to develop innovative solutions to some of the most important challenges in health.

In addition, in 2025, we launched our US Practice to complement our existing UK-based/ global expertise. The US Practice at present has a focus on market access focused services, including access strategy, pricing and reimbursement, patient services, and trade and channel strategy. Coming into this role will, you will work across both global and US-focused projects, interacting with the market access team based in both geographies.

To be considered for the role you will need a minimum of 2-3 years of relevant experience in market access, ideally in a consulting environment. This is an exciting opportunity for you to join a dynamic team at an exciting time in its growth, build broad consulting skills and develop specialist expertise across global and US healthcare, pricing and reimbursement systems and the life sciences sector in general.

What do we do?

LCP’s Health team works across the healthcare and life sciences markets, combining health expertise with innovative approaches from our work in other sectors to tackle leading health issues. Some examples of the types of projects that the Market Access team undertake for our clients include:

Providing strategic recommendations on global clinical trial design to enable HTA and reimbursement success
Payer evidence gap analysis
Identifying optimal routes for access in different markets
Market Access/ pricing strategy development
Landscape assessments, including pricing and reimbursement, competitive and HTA landscape
HTA strategy and submission support
Trade and Channel strategy support
Pricing research and strategy development

And much more!

Your key responsibilities

As an Associate Consultant in the Market Access team in LCP’s Health Department, you will be involved in a diverse range of projects, covering both client and non-client work.

Your key responsibilities will be to

Conduct targeted secondary research utilising a wide variety of sources to address specific research questions i.e., understand disease and competitor landscape, current treatment pathways, pricing and reimbursement processes etc.
Conduct thorough payer research and analysis to identify opportunities and challenges for client products in various healthcare markets
Systematically search for qualitative and quantitative evidence to make strategic recommendations for clients
Develop market access strategies, including pricing and reimbursement strategies, to optimise product commercialisation
Develop value messages, dossiers and other related payer value communication materials e.g. payer value decks, toolkits and internal training materials
Support the preparation of client-facing presentations and reports, effectively communicating complex market access concepts to diverse audiences
Contribute to all stages of projects including:
- Proposal development
- Secondary/ desk research
- Market research and advisory boards
- Project management
- Report writing
Demonstrate and develop your expertise by contributing to thought leadership activities
Work collaboratively with colleagues across disciplines to deliver high-quality work to agreed timelines and high standards
Participate in internal knowledge development, including research tools, frameworks, training materials and thought leadership related activities

What skills, experience and qualities are we looking for?

A minimum 2:1 degree in a science subject, and a science/health-related Masters degree or PhD
Experience in a market access role, preferably in a consultancy setting
A good understanding of health economic concepts along with a thorough knowledge of pricing and reimbursement processes and pathways in key global markets including, but not limited to EU4, UK, and US
Experience specifically in US patient support and/or trade and channel projects is highly desirable
Knowledge of how a healthcare product is likely to be priced along with an understanding of concepts such as value-based pricing, price referencing, MFN, HTA etc.
Excellent grounding in relevant quantitative and qualitative methods (e.g. the running of payer research studies) with demonstrable experience in delivering previous market access focused research
Experience of developing strategic payer value communications
Excellent communication skills coupled with excellent presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex issues to others
Excellent report writing skills
Initiative and creativity
Highly competent user of the whole Microsoft Office suite
Excellent organisational skills, able to multi-task
Keen to join a dynamic and growing department
Commitment to delivery of excellent client work to agreed budget and timescales

What’s in it for you?

Take a look at our Glassdoor and Career stories pages to see why our people love being here! As well as joining a certified B-Corp, multi-award winning, fun, collaborative, people first organisation where your personal and professional skills will be developed to make you the best you can be, we offer an attractive benefits package designed to promote your overall wellbeing so that you are able to perform to your full potential both in and out of work. Currently our core benefits package includes:

For you:

Hybrid working (see top of the advert for details)
Professional study support (where applicable)
Access to our internal Wellbeing, LGBTQ+, Multicultural and Women’s networks

For your family:

Life assurance
Income protection
Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption and shared parental leave

For your health:

26 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time working) plus bank holidays (most of which can be taken flexibly!) with options to buy & sell holiday
Private medical insurance
Discounted gym memberships, critical illness and dental insurance through our flexible benefits
Eye care vouchers
Cycle to work scheme
Digital GP services

For your wealth:

Competitive pension scheme
Discretionary bonus scheme
High street discounts
Season ticket loans

For others:

Volunteering opportunities

For the environment

Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme (qualifying period applies)

And much more!

We continuously strive to build an inclusive workplace where all forms of diversity are valued, including age, background, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or sexual orientation.

LCP is committed to making our opportunities accessible to all and welcome you getting in touch to let us know if an adjustment can be made to help with your application. This may be extra time for assessments, pre-interview site visits, interview structure or questions, or asking us about building accessibility. Whatever it may be, please get in touch via our dedicated email address - [email protected] to discuss how we can support you with your application.

Recruitment agencies

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We do not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from agencies who are not part of our current PSL. LCP only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place, and the agency has been instructed by a member of our recruitment team to supply CVs via the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) for a legitimate, open vacancy. If this process is not adhered to, LCP reserve the right to contact these candidates directly and have discussions with them without paying any agency fees.

We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles are submitted to any employee or Partner at LCP.