Market Access Business Analyst - Remote or Onsite to Fosters City CA

Role Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated Business Analyst with strong Market Access domain expertise to support business initiatives across Pricing, Contracting, Government Programs, Rebates, Gross-to-Net (GTN), Managed Care, and Market Access Operations.

Domain: Life Sciences / Pharmaceuticals / Market Access / Pricing & Contracting

Why This Role Matters

This is one of the most important engagements for our customer.

Job Description Of Role (What You'll Do)

• Business Requirements Management: Partner with Market Access stakeholders to understand business objectives, challenges, and opportunities.
• Prioritization: Gather, document, and prioritize business requirements for Market Access initiatives.
• Artifact Creation: Create BRDs, financial specifications, use cases, user stories, process maps, and business workflows.
• Alignment: Ensure business requirements are complete, traceable, and aligned with organizational goals.
• Market Access Process Analysis: Analyze current-state Market Access processes and identify optimization opportunities.
• Initiative Support: Support initiatives related to pricing, contracting, rebates, chargebacks, formulary management, and payer performance tracking.
• Impact Evaluation: Evaluate business impacts of process changes and technology enhancements.
• Solution Recommendation: Recommend solutions to improve operational efficiency and reporting accuracy.

What Success Looks Like (6–12 Months)

• Independence: Independently manage business analysis activities for assigned Market Access initiatives.
• Quality Documentation: Deliver high-quality requirements documentation with minimal rework.
• Testing Support: Successfully support testing and business validation activities.
• Risk Closure: Drive closure of requirement-related risks, issues, and dependencies.

Writeup Skills

• Model N Revenue Management / Channel Management
• IQVIA Data (LAAD, Claims, Prescription Data)
• Salesforce / Veeva CRM
• Power BI / Tableau
• SQL & Data Analysis Tools
• JIRA, Azure DevOps, Confluence
• SAP, ERP Integration Concepts
• Managed Markets, Contracting, Rebates, Pricing Operations

Primary Skills (Must Have)

• Market Access Domain Expertise: Strong understanding of the US Pharmaceutical Market Access ecosystem.
• Program Experience: Experience supporting Managed Care, Payer, PBM, Government Programs, and Specialty Pharmacy processes.
• Financial Calculations: Knowledge of Pricing, Contracting, Rebates, Chargebacks, and Gross-to-Net calculations.
• Program Compliance: Understanding of Commercial, Medicare, Medicaid, and 340B programs.
• Formulary Knowledge: Knowledge of formulary management and payer access dynamics.
• Sales Alignment: Familiarity with pharmaceutical sales and market access business functions.
• Business Analysis Skills: Requirement elicitation and stakeholder management.
• Process Design: Process mapping, workflow analysis, and gap assessment.
• Documentation: BRD, FRD, User Stories, and Acceptance Criteria preparation.
• Problem Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Optimization: Business process improvement and optimization experience.

Soft Skills & Other Skills

• Communication Skills: Communicate effectively with internal and customer stakeholders.
• Communication Approach: Verbal, emails, and instant messages.
• Interpersonal Skills: Strong interpersonal skills to build and maintain productive relationships with team members.
• Feedback Delivery: Provide constructive feedback during code reviews and be open to receiving feedback on your own code.
• Problem-Solving: Capability to troubleshoot and resolve issues efficiently.

Mindset: Analytical mindset.

Secondary Skills (Good To Have)

• Experience with Model N applications.
• Knowledge of Gross-to-Net forecasting processes.
• Experience working with Specialty Pharmacy and HUB Operations.
• Understanding of Patient Access and Patient Support Services.
• Experience supporting Government Pricing programs.

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