Market Access Expert Advisor (Independent Contractor)

Accountabilities

• Provide expert perspectives during client calls, workshops, and strategy discussions focused on payer dynamics, health systems, pharmacy benefit managers, and other organized healthcare customers.

• Advise pharmaceutical and biotechnology commercial teams on market access strategy, account planning, customer engagement, and evolving healthcare stakeholder priorities.

• Contribute subject matter expertise to client proposals, presentations, and strategic materials, including being featured as a named expert when appropriate.

• Deliver webinars, presentations, and educational sessions on current market access issues, emerging trends, and industry developments.

• Review and challenge project deliverables to ensure recommendations are accurate, credible, practical, and grounded in real-world market experience.

• Share insights into evolving value-based care models, population health management, health system transformation, and the use of AI and advanced analytics in healthcare and access decisions.

• Help project teams understand how payers, PBMs, integrated delivery networks (IDNs), and health systems make decisions about coverage, formularies, contracting, and customer relationships.

• Apply practical experience from market access leadership, payer organizations, health systems, or pharmaceutical commercial operations to strengthen client recommendations.

• Support project teams on an as-needed basis, contributing expertise during active engagements while accommodating fluctuations in workload.

Requirements:

• At least 10 years of experience in market access, payer strategy, health system strategy, or a related field within a payer, pharmacy benefit manager, health system, pharmaceutical company, or biotechnology organization.

• Strong understanding of payer and organized customer decision-making, including formulary and coverage management, contracting, and integrated delivery networks.

• Practical knowledge of value-based care models, population health management, and the evolving healthcare delivery landscape.

• Demonstrated understanding of how pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies engage with payers, PBMs, health systems, and other complex healthcare customers.

• Direct involvement in real-world market access decisions, such as formulary reviews, contract negotiations, value-based agreements, or IDN account strategy.

• Experience working with large, complex healthcare organizations, including health systems, integrated delivery networks, large group practices, and payer organizations.

• Familiarity with the application of AI and advanced analytics to healthcare operations, market access, and coverage or access decisions.

• Experience in account management, customer engagement, or commercial strategy within a market access context.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex healthcare and market access topics clearly to diverse audiences.

• Confidence participating in client-facing discussions, workshops, advisory sessions, and professional presentations.

• Previous experience as a speaker, panelist, or advisory board member is preferred.

• Ability to work independently, provide credible strategic advice, and collaborate effectively with consulting teams and client stakeholders.

• Willingness to work on a part-time, project-based basis, typically around 10–20 hours per week during active engagements, with lighter periods between projects.

• Must be based in the United States and available for occasional travel for client sessions and workshops.

Benefits:

• Flexible, part-time engagement: Independent contractor work designed to accommodate other professional commitments.

• Project-based workload: Typically 10–20 hours per week during active client engagements, with workload varying according to project needs.

• Remote work: Work remotely within the United States, with occasional travel required for client meetings and workshops.

• Senior-level advisory opportunities: Apply your market access expertise to strategic client engagements, proposals, workshops, and industry discussions.

• Professional visibility: Opportunities to contribute as a named subject matter expert and participate in webinars and presentations.

• Industry impact: Help pharmaceutical and biotechnology organizations navigate complex healthcare systems and improve their market access and customer engagement strategies.

• Contract arrangement: The role begins as a part-time independent contractor position under a 1099 arrangement.

• Compensation: Specific hourly rates, project fees, or total compensation ranges were not provided in the job description.

• Benefits eligibility: As an independent contractor position, this role does not include employee benefits.