Market Access Medical Writer (Consultant)

Market Access Medical Writer (Consultant)

Location - London or Winchester with hybrid working as per departmental requirements (currently a MINIMUM of 40% (2 days per week) with Tuesday as the team day.

In 2020 LCP launched our Heath Analytics practice, providing analytical and research services for organisations across the life sciences and healthcare industries. Our team brings together health economists, statisticians, market access specialists, epidemiologists, clinicians, and health data scientists alongside our established actuarial, analytics and technology teams to deliver new solutions for the fundamental challenges in health. Our team’s mission is to help move health systems from importers of illness to exporters of health and to support our clients to deliver value to patients. This is underpinned by our approach to support clients to improve the population’s health and reduce inequalities.

What’s the role?

LCP’s Health Analytics 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. Examples of the types of projects that this role would cover, include, but are not limited to:

• Development of GVDs and other similar documents i.e. early value dossiers, AMCP and other formulary access tools (including payer value decks, US Pre-approval information exchange materials, and HEOR/ access toolkits), payer value propositions/ messages and objection handlers
• Supporting HTA dossier development
• JCA submission dossier development
• Literature review and statistical analysis reports
• Publications including posters, abstracts and manuscripts
• Development of data visualisation/ infographic type deliverables
• Conference, advisory board and other similar reports
• Providing strategic recommendations on global clinical trial design to enable HTA and reimbursement success
• Identifying optimal routes for access in different markets
• Landscape assessment, including but not limited to, competitor, pricing and reimbursement and HTA
• Patient journey mapping
• Secondary and primary research to validate market access strategies
• Payer evidence needs and gap analysis

To support our continued growth, we are looking for an experienced Consultant with a proven track record in medical writing, particularly as applied to market access deliverables, to join our team and play a key role in growing our market access and value communication offerings. You'll have experience in writing and managing the development of a wide variety of market access/ value communication deliverables, including but not limited to, Global Value Dossiers (GVDs), American Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) dossiers, other payer formulary packs, payer value decks, HTA submissions, value driver identification and value story development, objection handlers, white papers, data visualisation tools, medical education, real world study reports, SLR reports, training materials, and market access/ HEOR/ RWE focused manuscripts.

If you are looking to make a tangible impact, help develop a sub-service with an established service area (including team training and development of processes and editorial standards), take on leadership opportunities, and grow your expertise in a supportive and dynamic environment, then this is the role for you!

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Act as lead writer in the delivery of high-quality content which is fully referenced and reflective of the evidence base, and which is tailored to the target audience in terms of its content and style
• Lead market access focused projects including those that have a significant medical writing component. This will include coordination and project management of internal delivery teams alongside client-facing coordination of projects
• Develop Health Analytics team “house style” and similar editorial standards, processes and templates, while also being responsible for reviewing the work of other members of the team and contributing to team training and development of internal resources tools and processes
• People responsibilities including the line management and development of junior members of the team, depending on candidate’s experience and interests
• 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, payer value drivers etc.
• Support the conduct of qualitative and quantitative payer research and analysis to identify opportunities and challenges for client products in various healthcare markets. This may include leading on the design of surveys, conducting 1:1 in-depth interviews, advisory boards, roundtable and other primary research methodologies
• Develop value messages, dossiers, and other related payer value communication materials e.g. payer value decks, toolkits, objection handlers and internal training materials
• Support the preparation of client-facing presentations and reports, effectively communicating complex concepts to diverse audiences.
• Manage projects (administrative and financial) including acting as the day-to-day client contact on projects, while also tracking and closely managing project budgets to ensure profitable and timely delivery
• Contribute to thought leadership, business development and marketing activities

What skills, qualities and experience are we looking for?

Essential

• You should have at least 5 years of experience as a market access medical writer in a consultancy environment, to include preparing market access and HEOR focused medical writing projects (including but not limited to; GVDs, HTA dossiers, early value dossiers, AMCP and other formulary access tools, manuscripts, conference presentations, payer value propositions/ messages and objection handlers)
• A 2:1 degree or better plus a science/ health-related postgraduate qualification (Masters or PhD) in a life-science focused subject or in an English language focused subject, with proven experience of application in the healthcare market access arena
• Demonstrable experience of working in MS PowerPoint and prose-based, MS Word and similar formats is required.
• Confidence in leading the preparation of client-facing presentations and reports, effectively communicating complex concepts to diverse audiences
• Ability to conduct and guide others in targeted secondary research utilising a wide variety of sources to address specific research questions. In addition, you should have a strong grounding in relevant qualitative and quantitative methods as they pertain to primary market research (e.g. the running of payer research studies including some experience of qual and quant pricing research) with demonstrated experience in delivering previous market access focused research
• Ability to develop search strategies and run literature review using widely available scientific/ medical literature tools and databases (i.e., PubMed, EMBASE, Ovid, Google Scholar etc.)
• Demonstrable experience in scientific/ medical writing across a broad range of Market Access/ HEOR communication materials is a key requirement
• 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, HTA etc.
• Comfortable leading on day-to-day project activities and managing the workload of less experienced colleagues
• Creativity in developing original solutions to problems, demonstrating initiative in your approach and a willingness to utilise evolving technologies
• Excellent/ advanced level Microsoft Office skills and be highly competent in the use of Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and relevant reference management software (i.e. Mendeley, Endnote, Zotero or similar)

Desirable

• Experience in developing house styles and editorial standards
• Experience in HTA, and/or systematic reviews
• Experience in business development activities, including proposal writing and pitch presentations
• Line management experience