Consultant

Job Spec: Are you an insightful Senior Consultant looking to innovate market access strategies? Do you excel at creating value with high-caliber pharmaceutical, medical device, and diagnostics clients? Join us at Ipsos where your analytical prowess and collaborative spirit will set the course for impactful decision-making. We are looking for someone to join the team on a fixed term contract for 12 months., Join the thriving Ipsos Market Access team, a global leader in delivering insightful pricing and reimbursement strategies. As a Senior Consultant, you'll spearhead high-impact, multi-country projects and interact closely with payers and senior stakeholders. Your responsibilities will include project management, strategic recommendation delivery, and managing expectations through continuous communication with clients and teams. With opportunities to engage in business development and novel market access strategies, this role promises growth and an unparalleled impact.

Essential criteria:

• Advanced degree (PhD, MD, PharmD, MBA) or a BA/BS/MS degree with experience in market access
• Excellent understanding of healthcare systems and pricing & reimbursement processes
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
• Experience in qualitative and/or quantitative research methodologies
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with tight and immovable deadlines
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English)
• Proficiency in tools such as Excel, PowerPoint
• Advanced degree or significant experience in market access or healthcare strategy.
• Strong familiarity with global healthcare systems and reimbursement processes.
• Exceptional project management skills combined with proven research methodology expertise., Exposure to global or multi-market projects
• Available to start almost immediately. We need someone who can ideally start at the end of June/beginning July.
• Experience contributing to proposals or business development activities
• Familiarity with digital data collection tools and online analytics
• Use of AI tools to enhance research, analysis, or efficiency
• Additional language skills.
Behaviours:
• Analytical thinking
• Resilience, flexibility and agility
• Creativity in problem solving
• Motivation and self-awareness
• Empathy and active listening
• Curiosity and lifelong learning
• Strong collaboration and teamwork
• Effective communication and client focus
• Proactive mindset and ownership.
  
  Ipsos is one of the world's largest research companies and currently the only one primarily managed by researchers, ranking as a #1 full-service research organization for four consecutive years. With over 75 different data-driven solutions, and presence in 90 markets, Ipsos brings together research, implementation, methodological, and subject-matter experts from around the world, combining thematic and technical experts to deliver top-quality research and insights. Simply speaking, we help the biggest companies solve some of their biggest problems, serving more than 5000 clients across the globe by providing research, data, and insights on their target markets. And we are proud of our continuous efforts in making Ipsos the best place to work.
  
  We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you as an individual. Our standard benefits include 25 days annual leave, pension contribution, income protection and life assurance. In addition, there are a range health & wellbeing, financial benefits and professional development opportunities.
We have a hybrid approach to work and ask people to be in the office or with clients for 3 days per week. We appreciate you may have commitments outside of work and will consider flexible working applications - please highlight what you are looking for when you make your application. We are committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views. We recognise that this is important for our business success - a more diverse workforce will enable us to better reflect and understand the world we research and ultimately deliver better research and insight to our clients. We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident scheme, certified as a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. We provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.