Managing Consultant - Life Sciences Advisory - Global Market Access

Company: Guidehouse
Location: Chicago
Posted on: July 8, 2025

Job Description:

Job Family: Strategy & Transformation Consulting Travel Required: Up to 25% Clearance Required: None Is life sciences in your DNA? Breakthroughs in pharma are helping people live healthier lives, while medical devices enable patients to proactively maintain health – this is undoubtedly a transformative time for health care companies. Guidehouse’s Life Sciences practice is an engine of innovation, helping pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and diagnostic companies develop custom solutions that tackle today’s challenges, while anticipating tomorrows. You will have an immediate impact by partnering with our clients, across all levels, to deliver product planning, pricing, reimbursement, product commercialization, and regulatory and compliance solutions. Do you think you are up for the challenge? We continuously strive to foster an inclusive and diverse work culture and thoughtfully develop our people through challenging work, valuable learning and educational programs. We cultivate a culture of mentorship and feedback for professional and personal growth. We help our clients take control of their future. This mission extends to our employee's careers, health and well-being and by the many ways we give back to our communities. If you’re passionately motivated to make a difference and deliver exceptional work, we invite you to learn more about your career opportunities at https://guidehouse.com/careers What You Will Do: The Global Market Access team focuses on value, access, pricing and commercialization strategy projects for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostics companies. Our client services range from pre-commercialization product opportunity assessments to determining and developing launch pricing and access strategies across major and emerging global markets. Responsibilities: You will be responsible for developing and implementing pricing, value, and access strategies for pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device clients. This will involve working with senior staff to build project proposals, managing consulting teams across multiple large-scale, complex projects to develop and communicate client deliverables, and maintaining client relationships. Key Expectations: - Lead teams to design, execute, and deliver projects across key value and access topics such as pricing and reimbursement studies (inclusive of qualitative & quantitative methodologies), early access opportunity assessments, value communication strategy and payer engagement strategy - Demonstrates strong market research skills, inclusive of primary research qualitative interview as well as quantitative survey experiences and familiarity with various pricing methodologies (i.e., analogue assessment, Van Westerndorp, Gabor Granger, Conjoint, etc) - Understand key access tenets and landscapes across key geographic markets (US, EU, LATAM, APAC) - Leverage work experience, business acumen, and subject matter expertise on global market access topics to determine key approach and develop strategic recommendations that efficiently and effectively address client business questions - Proactively manages own and team members’ time effectively and efficiently across multiple complex projects - Effectively liaise with senior staff to ensure strategically sound and actionable insights are developed as outputs to answer key client business questions on value, access, and pricing - Serves as primary point of contact and engages executive level audience to deliver actionable insights and recommendations - Builds and manages ongoing relationships as client thought partners as well as elevate new business opportunities to senior staff through identification of follow-on projects or new opportunities to further support client needs - Supports the development of new analytical methodologies, capabilities, and intellectual property for use on future client engagements - Develops thought leadership (written or podium) and provides subject matter expertise to clients - Trains and mentors junior team members to enable team development and professional growth What You Will Need: - Requires a Bachelor’s degree. A major course of study in science, biomedical engineering, or healthcare policy and planning - 5-7 years of transferrable consulting or work experience, with demonstrated experience in value, access, pricing and commercialization strategy projects for large global pharma, mid-sized pharma and/or biotech clients. - Strong understanding of the pharmaceutical industry, including drug development and launch. - The ability to analyze complex information, identify key issues, and develop effective strategies. - Excellent communication skills to convey strategic recommendations to various stakeholders, including senior management. - 2-3 years of direct experience in client management and content delivery roles - Experience developing designing and executing value, pricing, and access strategy projects for pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies - Experience in leadership roles and people development/performance management - Must demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills (in English) - Proficiency in Microsoft Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook - Willingness and ability to travel for client work as needed in the 25% range What Would Be Nice To Have: - Graduate level degree in business or other health-related fields (e.g., MBA, MPH, MS, PhD) - Extensive experience as project managers, strong team players, take initiative, and think strategically and creatively - Keen attention to detail - Superior written and verbal communication skills The annual salary range for this position is $102,000.00-$170,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. What We Offer: Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace. Benefits include: - Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance - Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays - Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus - Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance - 401(k) Retirement Plan - Basic Life & Supplemental Life - Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts - Short-Term & Long-Term Disability - Student Loan PayDown - Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities - Skills Development & Certifications - Employee Referral Program - Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach - Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program - Mobility Stipend About Guidehouse Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer–Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation. Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco. If you have visited our website for information about employment opportunities, or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Guidehouse Recruiting at 1-571-633-1711 or via email at RecruitingAccommodation@guidehouse.com. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodation. All communication regarding recruitment for a Guidehouse position will be sent from Guidehouse email domains including @guidehouse.com or guidehouse@myworkday.com. Correspondence received by an applicant from any other domain should be considered unauthorized and will not be honored by Guidehouse. Note that Guidehouse will never charge a fee or require a money transfer at any stage of the recruitment process and does not collect fees from educational institutions for participation in a recruitment event. Never provide your banking information to a third party purporting to need that information to proceed in the hiring process. If any person or organization demands money related to a job opportunity with Guidehouse, please report the matter to Guidehouse’s Ethics Hotline. If you want to check the validity of correspondence you have received, please contact recruiting@guidehouse.com. Guidehouse is not responsible for losses incurred (monetary or otherwise) from an applicant’s dealings with unauthorized third parties. Guidehouse does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Guidehouse and Guidehouse will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.

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