US Market Access Associate Consultant at Lane Clark & Peacock

Location - Remote (in US) with quarterly trips to Charlotte NC office and any other travel associated with projects

In 2020 LCP launched our Heath practice, providing analytical and research services for organizations across the life sciences and healthcare industries. Our team brings together scientists, clinicians, statisticians, epidemiologists, health economists, bioinformaticians and health data specialists alongside our established actuarial, analytics and technology teams to deliver innovative solutions to 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. We have already developed a track record for leading approaches to market access strategy, real world evidence generation and health economic modelling.

In 2025, we launched our US Practice to complement our existing UK-based expertise. Alongside collaborating with UK-based services, the US Practice has additional focus across pricing and reimbursement, patient services, and trade and channel strategy. We are growing quickly in response to strong demand for these offerings and are seeking an Associate Consultant to join our team.

This position will support the delivery of strategic and analytical projects for life sciences clients, helping them navigate the US healthcare system and improve access to innovative therapies. You will bring a broad understanding of the US healthcare ecosystem, including the ways in which market access, patient services and and trade and channel considerations interact to affect patient access. Under the guidance of senior colleagues, you will develop clear, accurate and client-ready analyses and materials.

This is an opportunity to join a dynamic team at an exciting stage of its growth, build broad consulting skills and develop specialist expertise across US healthcare and life sciences.

Our work

LCP’s Health team works globally 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 client projects you may support include:

• Healthcare system, market landscape, and stakeholder assessments

• Market access and reimbursement strategy

• Patient services strategy (US focused), design, and optimization

• Trade and channel strategy (US focused), channel operations reviews, and distribution assessments

• Global pricing, contracting and gross-to-net impact analyses

• Value communications development, global value dossiers, value messaging and value driver analysis

• Primary market research, including interview-guide and screener development, stakeholder interviews, and synthesis of findings

• Development of client presentations, playbooks, training materials, and executive summaries

Your role

As an Associate Consultant in the Market Access team within LCP’s Health Department, you will contribute to a diverse range of client projects and internal work. Your responsibilities will include:

• Conducting targeted secondary research to develop an understanding of healthcare and pharmaceutical landscapes, including payers, providers, pharmacies, wholesalers, specialty distributors, PBMs, GPOs, health systems, patient support providers, and other relevant stakeholders appropriate for the target jurisdiction

• Supporting qualitative and quantitative analyses to identify opportunities, risks, and practical implications for pharmaceutical and life sciences clients across market access, patient services, and trade and channel topics

• Supporting analysis and interpretation of market, access, operational and financial data, including reimbursement, patient journey, channel, distribution, and gross-to-net data where relevant

• Contributing to primary research activities, such as developing discussion guides and screeners, conducting, or observing stakeholder interviews, documenting findings, and synthesizing insights

• Developing clear, accurate and visually engaging client-ready materials, including research summaries, analysis workbooks, presentation decks, strategy documents, and executive summaries

• Supporting the development of market access, patient services and trade and channel strategies, with consideration of the interdependencies between these areas

• Working collaboratively with colleagues across disciplines to deliver high-quality work to agreed timelines and standards

• Supporting project management activities, including maintaining workplans, tracking actions, monitoring deliverables, and escalating risks or issues appropriately

• Participating in internal knowledge development, including research, tools, frameworks, training materials, and thought leadership relating to the US healthcare system

• Contributing to proposal development, business development activities and other practice-building initiatives as opportunities arise

• Building trusted working relationships with colleagues, US and globally, and, where appropriate, client stakeholders

Essential

• Typically, you will have 2-3 years of relevant experience in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, consulting, market research, analytics, patient services, market access, or a related field
• Awareness of the roles and interactions of key stakeholders, such as payers, PBMs, providers, health systems, pharmacies, wholesalers, specialty distributors, GPOs, and patient support providers
• Foundational understanding of the US healthcare system and the pharmaceutical product journey from manufacturer to patient
• Ability to translate research and analysis into clear, practical, and actionable insights
• Demonstrable ability to support the delivery of projects to agreed timelines, including organizing tasks, tracking actions and communicating progress clearly
• Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to work with qualitative and quantitative information and draw well-supported conclusions
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex healthcare concepts clearly and concisely
• Excellent PowerPoint presentation skills, with the ability to develop structured, visually clear slides and reports for client audiences, along with general Microsoft package skills
• Comfortable receiving feedback, asking thoughtful questions and taking ownership of workstreams with appropriate support and guidance
• A proactive approach to identifying questions, risks, and opportunities, and to suggesting practical solutions
• Excellent attention to details
• Ability to manage multiple tasks, priorities effectively and deliver high-quality work to deadlines
• Commitment to producing high quality client work on time and within set budgets, this may involve additional hours from time to time

Desirable

• Exposure to one or more market access, reimbursement, patient services, trade and channel, commercial operations, pharmacy, payer or healthcare provider settings
• Understanding of the core concepts of market access, including payer dynamics, coverage, reimbursement, pricing and patient affordability
• Experience producing high-quality written, analytical, and slide-based deliverables
• Interest in supporting proposal writing, research and pitch development