Market Access and Launch Consultant
Herspiegel is a global life sciences consultancy that guides pharmaceutical and biotech companies through their most decisive moments—powering commercial success and expanding patient access. From early asset strategy to launch readiness and market optimization, we help clients navigate complexity and seize opportunity. Our integrated approach brings together scientific insight, evidence strategy, deep market intuition, and executional precision to ensure brands are built to lead.
In this newly created position, his position combines market access and launch strategy to support our US clients seeking to optimize access for their products going to market.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Support project leadership to define project scope and develop approach
- Provide market insights by leveraging in-depth knowledge of Market Access (Payer, IDN, Trade) landscape, healthcare reform, claims data and managed care data
- Launch readiness capabilities: cross functional planning, asset strategy and stakeholder mapping and launch plan development
- Lead project task execution by ensuring progress, organizing project related findings and coordinating team meetings
- Monitor trends and potential coverage and reimbursement issues, existing and emerging government and payer policies, competitive pricing and contracting strategies, and potential barriers to provider and patient access
- Synthesize findings, develop recommendations and communicate results to clients and internal teams
- Provide thought leadership and innovation within the Market Access practice
- Participate in business and strategy development
Education, Experience and Knowledge:
- Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences or related field required, MBA preferred
- 4 - 8 years relevant work experience in pharmaceutical market access and pricing
- Experience in Product Launch Support
- Experience with payer and pricing research methodologies
- Familiarity with drug registration requirements for government sponsored healthcare programs (primarily Medicare)
- Experience arranging discussion groups, creating surveys, interviewing respondents, analyzing data
- High motivation, good work ethic, maturity and personal initiative
- Superior oral and written communication skills
- MS Office proficient
- Strong attention to detail, with a quality-focused mindset
Additional Information:?25% travel may be required