Market Access - Associate Consultant

Location \- London or Winchester

Hybrid working \- as per departmental requirements (currently a MINIMUM of 2 days per week in\-office with Tuesday as a team day)

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.

We have grown rapidly in response to strong demand for our services and are now looking for a Market Access Associate Consultant to join our team of experts and strengthen our capabilities in this area, where you will play a key role in providing strategic advice to life science clients to help them achieve rapid, broad and sustainable access to their innovative products. We are looking for someone who understands the needs of HTA and payers across the globe and can bring a high level of scientific rigor to the advice we provide our clients.

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. As an experienced hire this is also an opportunity to help shape the growth and development of the team.

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

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


• 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 \- accessibilityaware@lcp.uk.com to discuss how we can support you with your application.

Recruitment agencies

LCP operates a Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for recruitment agencies which is reviewed annually. 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.

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