Senior Consultant, HTA & Market Access

Senior Consultant, HTA and Market Access

Position Overview

As a Senior Consultant on the HTA and Market Access team, you will be a client point of contact and carry out the account management responsibilities, oversee projects, lead and manage project teams, and contribute to the development of the HTA and Market Access team within the Putnam Evidence group. You will be responsible for managing, supporting, and providing strategic input on evidence generation and developing value communications in the field of health economics, including disease burden, clinical trials, health-related quality of life and cost-effectiveness evaluations. You will ensure the team produces high quality, client ready materials through providing input at all stages of the project process. You will also share responsibility for leading, mentoring and line managing junior team members.

*This position is available either in Germany (remote) or out of our Newcastle, UK office. 

Skills and Experience

• Minimum of BSc/MSc in life sciences with a minimum of 5-6 years of MA/HTA/SLR/HEOR access experience
  • Also open to a PhD in life sciences and a minimum of 5-6years of MA/HTA/SLR/HEOR experience
• Significant breadth of experience across multiple HTA and market access project types and disease areas or significant depth/specialism in a market access-related discipline;
• An excellent understanding of the global payer environment, including coverage, reimbursement and pricing
• Proven ability to lead teams of scientists and market access strategists in a project-based environment.
• Significant experience in NICE, GBA, and/or JCA dossiers a plus
• Alignment to Putnam Values:
  • Team Orientation: communication, trust, selflessness
  • Excellence: high standards, evidence-based, innovative
  • Strategic Mindset: critical thinking, creativity, solution orientation
  • Passion: driven, curious, care deeply
  • Diversity: inclusion, respect, better for it

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Day to day project management and client point of contact/key account management with responsibility for the sign-off of deliverables for:
• pragmatic and systematic literature reviews of clinical efficacy/effectiveness, health related quality of life, health economics, epidemiology and treatment guidelines;
• performing and drawing conclusions from HTA reviews;
• medical writing including value dossiers and peer-reviewed manuscripts;
• developing and testing value propositions and related value messaging to support market access for our clients;
• value communications projects such as global value dossiers and objection handlers to support market access;
• landscaping analysis, HTA and pricing research, and analysis;
• preparing, conducting and summarising primary research;
• supporting development of documents needed for early HTA advice (including briefing book);
• supporting development of market access strategy including positioning scenarios and evidence generation plan;
• Supporting workshops and ad boards preparation and organisation
• Weekly reporting on project progress as part of the research science leadership meetings;
• Management of project budgets, timelines and resource requirements;
• Proactive in identifying and assessing developments in the HTA and payer environment and implementing change as required;
• Client point of contact and management of HTA submissions and HTA submission dossiers;
• Management of project budgets and resource requirements;
• Responsible for the full content, costings and timely delivery of proposals to clients;
• Responsible for identifying improvements in processes and implementing them in discussion with the lead scientific and strategy team;
• Accurate knowledge and use of the company procedures;
• Keeping confidential any information relating to the company;

What we offer you!

• Participation in challenging international and local projects for countries around the globe
• Competitive salary based on experience, skills, and the value you contribute to the company
• Great working atmosphere with balanced support and demand
• Individualized career path in a well-established and international company
• Diverse training and personal development opportunities
• Great company benefits and perks.

Company Description

 Putnam, an Inizio Advisory company, is a leading scientific and strategic consulting partner that helps the global life science community make confident, impactful decisions and develop bespoke solutions that support bringing life-changing innovations to clinicians and patients. For more than 30 years, we’ve taken a client-centric approach uniquely combining our strategic mindset and global cross-functional capabilities to deliver unrivaled depth across therapeutic areas, healthcare sectors, and technology platforms to maximize the human impact and commercial success of client innovations.

We believe that to create real, lasting change on human health, we must bring out the best in our people, in every way and at every level. We offer a boutique-firm feel inside a global enterprise, opening the door to limitless opportunities to kickstart your career or hone your expertise. Built on the pillars of empowerment, collaboration, and meaning, we’re proud to offer a fulfilling environment where world-class advisors can come together to shape the future of healthcare for the better.

Serving the life sciences industry, including the top 20 global biopharmaceutical companies, consistently ranked as one of the top consulting firms by Vault, and maintaining a true global team of experts with 400+ talented team members sitting across 3 continents, we offer a unique opportunity to play a central role in supporting our clients.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are tenets of our core values. We strive to create a culture and environment that fosters belonging and authenticity across all levels and values individuals for their skills, experience, diverse backgrounds, and unique perspectives. Collectively, DEI serves as a foundational element of who we are and how we work with our clients and with each other.

Our core values:

• Team
• Excellence
• Strategic
• Passion
• Diversity

We are proudly part of Inizio Advisory, a trusted advisor for pharmaceutical and life science companies that turns science into strategy, supporting execution at every stage of the product and patient journey from early commercialization to launch and beyond. Offering market research and insights; strategy, people and transformation consulting; and commercial benchmarking delivered through sector specific connected solutions and intelligence, Inizio Advisory helps create long-term value for clients and their patients.