Senior Associate - Policy Analytics

Summary

Join Avalere Health's Policy Analytics group as an Associate/Senior Associate and contribute to shaping and analyzing healthcare policy. You will deliver actionable insights to drive clients' business and advocacy priorities, working on diverse healthcare issues such as Medicare, Medicaid, and the 340B program. This role involves quantitative research, policy modeling, and communicating findings to clients through written summaries and presentations. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, manage multiple deadlines, and deepen your subject matter expertise in pharmaceutical/biotech and health insurance industries. The position is remote (US) and offers a competitive salary and excellent benefits.

Requirements

• A degree in health policy, public policy, healthcare management, public health, public administration, economics, business administration, law, or a relevant discipline is essential
• Strong understanding of government payers including Medicare Part D, Medicare Part B, Medicare Advantage, and Medicaid
• Familiarity with key data sources for healthcare analysis (e.g., Medicare Claims, Medicare Part D data, commercial claims data, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data, or Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) data)
• Demonstrated analytic and quantitative skills
• A strong interest in and knowledge of healthcare policy
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Advanced experience with the Microsoft Office Suite, in particular Excel
• 1-3 years of relevant experience
• Ability to understand and convey data results, including synthesizing analytical results for a non-analytics focused audience
• Outstanding problem-solving and analytic skills with the ability to apply knowledge outside of one’s immediate functional area
• A willingness to learn complex issues relating to the healthcare delivery system
• Initiative, working independently with minimal supervision
• Ability to work in teams
• Experience in managing multiple deadlines

Responsibilities

• Support project teams to help solve complex client problems and engage clients with novel solutions and ideas, through both short- and long-term projects
• Conduct quantitative research on a diverse array of healthcare issues (e.g., policy modeling, statistical analyses, administrative claims analysis)
• Assist in translating and communicating the implications of policy changes on clients’ businesses and strategic priorities
• Draft written summaries, white papers, and PowerPoint presentations to provide strategic recommendations to clients
• Deepen subject matter expertise on policy-related issues impacting the pharmaceutical/biotech and health insurance industries
• Work independently and in cross-functional teams to contribute to the development and delivery of projects to clients
• Draft scopes of work and using subject matter expertise to collaborate and bridge work across teams

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with one or more programming languages (e.g. SAS, SQL, Stata, R) strongly preferred, with opportunities to strengthen and develop skills

Benefits

• A generous company pension/retirement plan
• Private medical insurance
• Comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives
• Compelling time-off policy
• Many other excellent employee benefits