Associate Consultant HE in Bollington

Role description: Associate Value Consultant

Business area: Health Economics and Data Analytics

Purpose Of The Role: Leading assigned projects and undertaking research and analysis to inform deliverables to optimise pricing, reimbursement and market access within the Health Economics and Data Analytics practice.

Area Responsibilities

• Project delivery 60%
  • Responsible for producing each deliverable to a high quality and ensuring that the full review process has been conducted on any work being sent to the senior team for review.
  • On Projects Where Acting As Project Lead, Responsible For:
  • The appropriateness of the deliverable for meeting the client’s needs.
  • Acting as primary point of contact with the client.
  • Project management activities specific to the assigned project, Such As:
  • Ensuring there is an up to date timeline for the project (internal and external) at all times.
  • Accurate financial management of projects, including client invoicing, contribution updates and ensuring associated required documentation is completed (e.g. contribution trackers).
  • Accurate resource planning for the assigned project and inputting to cross-project resource planning and scheduling.
  • Ensuring any change in scope is agreed both internally with the Senior Lead and appropriate senior team members and with the client and clear documentation of the change is shared with the client.
  • Responsible for project team management, including:
  • Briefing project team members on their tasks and monitoring their work.
  • Management of the internal and external timelines to ensure the project is on track as per the agreed resource plan.
  • Managing time spent on the project and highlighting to the business operations and planning team through the deviations process if there are any challenges with the time planned for the project or the time being taken by the team to complete the agreed tasks, proposing solutions to this challenge.
  • Ensuring the project delivery team are not working overtime to complete client requests, and if this is necessary gaining approval from the Senior Lead and business planning teams.
  • Highlighting training needs or challenges on projects that arise through the deviations process.
  • Business Development 15%
    • Contributing to proposal development, where appropriate and where delegated by senior team members.
    • To actively generate new business development opportunities with existing clients, to ensure the operational budget targets are achieved by increased sales.
  • Team development and training 15%
    • Contribute to (and where appropriate, deliver) structured training sessions for junior team members, on assigned topics.
    • To ensure that appropriate guidance, training and development opportunities are provided to more junior members of the team to improve overall operational capacity, reliability, quality and throughput.
    • Acting as a line manager to assigned team members.
  • Innovation and practice area growth 10%
    • To identify and share ideas to ensure our client services/products are continually differentiated in a proactive and innovative manner to improve the rate of business growth via greater sales and market share than our key competitors.
    • Responsibility for leading aspects of strategic initiatives (as assigned by senior team members) to drive innovation.

  Competencies associated with this role

  • Ability to manage members of a project team, providing feedback on tasks completed, ensuring they deliver work of appropriate quality to agreed timelines, and motivating them to feel a sense of pride in the project.
  • Business leadership skills: awareness of the perspective of the management team, and demonstration of appropriate business behaviour.
  • Ability to explain project tasks and to gain the clients’ confidence.
  • Ability to produce health economic models (such as budget impact models, cost-effectiveness models) of high quality, in terms of accuracy, formatting and grammar. Deliverables should require little revision to be client-ready.
  • Ability to produce written documents of high quality in terms of scientific content, style, and grammar, which are focused to meet the needs of the target audience and our clients; such documents should be concise where appropriate. Deliverables should require little revision to be client-ready.
  • Ability to create impactful communication tools and materials such as slide decks to communicate the outputs of Health Economics and Data Analytics deliverables. Deliverables should require little revision to be client-ready.
  • Capability in building structured search strategies and understanding of how to explore the results of such searches, specifically to identify and assess input data for health economic and data analytics projects.
  • Understanding of the perspectives and evidence needs of many of the stakeholders involved in healthcare decision-making.
  • Inputting to cross-project resource planning and scheduling.

  Behaviours and levels (out of 5) associated with this role

  • Work collaboratively
    • Level 1 – You: actively contribute to one or more teams, explore ideas with others, demonstrate respect for others and their views.
    • Level 2 – You Also: proactively share knowledge and ideas, actively seek input from other people or disciplines, appreciate diverse views and incorporate these into decisions appropriately.
    • Level 3 – You Also: understand and respect organisational teams and boundaries, stimulate and participate in beneficial internal and external collaboration, with clear expectations.
  • Develop self and others
    • Level 1 – You: understand your strengths and weaknesses, document, own and follow a personal development plan, continually look to improve by seeking and acting on feedback.
    • Level 2 – You Also: keep aware of the capabilities and behaviours of your colleagues, provide others with feedback, recognition and support.
    • Level 3 – You Also: reward and recognise high performance, inspire others to reach their full potential, set goals and expectations for others.
  • Drive for efficiency and performance
    • Level 1 – You: understand your role and take ownership of appropriate tasks, set yourself high standards and take accountability for delivering quality work efficiently.
    • Level 2 – You Also: take a proactive approach in all aspects of your role, consistently seek out the most efficient ways of working.
    • Level 3 – You Also: drive the delivery of high standards and efficiency, holding others accountable for results in addition to yourself.
  • Build client relationships
    • Level 1 – You: act as an ‘ambassador’ for Adelphi Values through appropriate, clear and effective interactions with current or potential clients.
    • Level 2 – You Also: understand the basic needs of our clients, actively seek to address client needs in a manner that builds confidence and trust.
    • Level 3 – You Also: understand and address the more complex needs of our clients, actively seek to secure follow-on work with existing clients.
  • Decide and do
    • Level 1 – You: make timely decisions with appropriate autonomy and act on them, show an appreciation of when and when not to seek guidance.
    • Level 2 – You Also: demonstrate ownership and accountability for more complex decisions and actions, act with initiative in the absence of all the facts.
    • Level 3 – You Also: demonstrate ownership of significant decisions and actions that directly affect our business, take considered risks.
  • Challenge and innovate
    • Level 1 – You: regularly review your own ways of working, consider changes to your role and responsibilities that may benefit our business.
    • Level 2 – You Also: suggest ways of better delivering against our six key drivers, actively demonstrate critical thinking, developing ideas that challenge assumptions.
    • Level 3 – You Also: take an external perspective and seek to understand the landscape in which we operate, have creative ideas and implement them appropriately.
  • Fuel our passionate culture
    • Level 1 – You: understand your personal impact on others, making every interaction count, demonstrate empathy and personal support for your colleagues.
    • Level 2 – You Also: appropriately share positive news, successes and amusing stories.

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