Overview
As Principal Consultant, you lead a team delivering strategic market access and commercialization solutions for pharma, biotech, and specialty healthcare clients. You act as a trusted advisor, guiding complex engagements across pricing, HTA, value communication, and launch readiness within a CRO setting. You cultivate client relationships to expand the Parexel Access Consulting brand while collaborating with cross-functional experts. You oversee strategic recommendations, project delivery, and team development to create lasting client value.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex pricing and market access engagements from proposal to delivery
- Develop and present strategic recommendations across global and regional access landscapes
- Drive business development and client relationship expansion
- Mentor and develop consultants and senior consultants
- Collaborate across Parexel functions to deliver integrated access solutions
- Oversee project scope, timelines, budgets, and client expectations
- Lead executive-level meetings, workshops, and client presentations
- Contribute to development of new offerings and market access methodologies
- Support payer value proposition development and evidence generation planning
- Guide HTA submissions readiness and reimbursement strategies
- Participate in cross-functional teams for integrated lifecycle engagement
Key requirements
- 6+ years of pricing & market access experience in a consulting environment
- 3+ years of project management experience in pricing & market access and/or HTA literature reviews
- Reputation as a trusted advisor in market access with strong client value translation
- Proven track record of timely, high-quality client-ready deliverables
- Strong ability to translate client requirements into actionable solutions
- Experience in European HTA, pricing, and reimbursement processes (desirable)
- Strategic market insights across EU and/or US market access environments
- Bachelor’s degree in life science (2:1 or above; higher degree desirable)
- Client-focused relationship building
- Strategic thinking and advisory capabilities
- Leadership and mentoring of teams
- Pricing & reimbursement strategy
- HTA and JCA/submission readiness
- Evidence generation planning (IEGP)
Principal Consultant, Pricing & Market Access in Sheffield employer: PAREXEL
At Parexel, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a collaborative work culture that fosters innovation and professional growth. Our team members enjoy competitive benefits, including flexible working arrangements and opportunities for career advancement, all while contributing to impactful global clinical trials in a supportive environment across the UK, Poland, Serbia, and Hungary.
