About Avalere Health
Driven by a single mission to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE, our Advisory, Medical, and Marketing teams work seamlessly together to ensure every patient is identified, supported, treated, and cared for—without exception.

Avalere Health is a global strategic partner designed to address the most significant challenges in healthcare quickly and at scale. Connected across the full product lifecycle, we are uniquely equipped to understand every dimension of life, health, and the human experience. In collaboration with our clients, we aim to build a world where healthcare is accessible to all and no patient is overlooked.

Our work is fueled by our proprietary model, SenseMaking. By blending strategic tools with human insight, SenseMaking helps convert limitations into opportunities, barriers into solutions, and complexity into meaningful action. Our talented, diverse, and committed team—our SenseMakers—work each day to achieve our mission of making EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE.

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About the Role
Avalere is seeking a Consultant I to join our Healthcare Policy practice. This role provides an exciting chance to help shape and evaluate healthcare policy and deliver insights that advance our clients’ business and advocacy goals. We are looking for a policy professional who enjoys solving complex challenges, can thrive in a fast-paced environment, and values collaboration with expert, driven colleagues.

Avalere’s Healthcare Policy Practice delivers advisory services—such as policy analysis and strategy, data analytics, and quantitative modeling—to clients across the healthcare sector, including life sciences, managed care, healthcare providers, and patient advocacy organizations. Key areas of focus include Medicare (Parts B, D, and Medicare Advantage), Medicaid, the 340B program, ACA health insurance exchanges, and various state-level policy issues such as drug pricing legislation and PBM regulation.

What You Will Do
• Serve as a subject matter expert on Medicare Advantage and/or Medicare Part D issues affecting insurers, pharmaceutical companies, providers, and patients
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative research, including interviews, literature reviews, and more, on diverse healthcare topics
• Manage projects and help maintain project-based client relationships
• Monitor federal and state legislation and regulatory developments and assess the potential impact of proposed policies
• Prepare written summaries, white papers, and presentations offering strategic guidance to clients
• Use subject expertise, attention to detail, and strong proofreading and layout skills to develop client deliverables
• Help communicate how policy changes may affect clients’ businesses and priorities
• Work independently and collaboratively across teams to support project development and delivery
• Draft scopes of work and collaborate with teams using your policy expertise

About You
• Degree in a relevant field such as health policy, public policy, healthcare management, public health, public administration, economics, business, law, or similar
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly convey complex ideas
• Experience managing projects
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, especially in PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
• Strong organizational and multitasking abilities
• Self-motivated and able to work both independently and collaboratively
• Excellent interpersonal skills with a team-oriented, solutions-focused mindset
• 4–6 years of relevant professional experience, which may include roles in government agencies, Capitol Hill, trade groups, law firms, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, think tanks, or advocacy organizations
• Experience with Medicare Advantage and/or Medicare Part D is preferred
• Ability to quickly and effectively analyze policy proposals, legislation, or regulations and communicate findings to stakeholders

All applications must include a cover letter and a response to the writing prompt below. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis through March 28, 2025.

Writing Prompt:
Describe a recent health policy development and how it may affect health insurers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, or providers (maximum 250 words).

What We Offer
Avalere Health is committed to supporting every employee’s growth and development. We provide the tools, training, and support needed to think differently and solve healthcare’s most difficult challenges.

Our people-first culture is supported by our Career Experience team, whose goal is to help every employee build a purpose-driven career. We take pride in offering tailored learning opportunities that help you grow within the company and benefit from our global presence.

We are dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion throughout our organization—encouraging diverse perspectives, inclusive behavior, and equal opportunity for everyone to contribute their unique strengths. We also support employee involvement in community engagement and global wellbeing initiatives.

We operate city hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia to support collaboration, training, social connection, and global teamwork, while also supporting flexible working arrangements. Our compensation and benefits are industry-competitive and include a generous retirement plan, private medical coverage, comprehensive wellbeing programs, a strong time-off policy, and many additional benefits.

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