Associate Value Consultant

Overview:
**Role description: Associate Value Consultant**

**Business area**: Value Insight & Communication

**Company**:Adelphi Values Limited, part of Adelphi Group (an Omnicom Healthcare Company)

**Job Location**: Based in our HQ office in Bollington, Cheshire, UK or remotely in the UK. Must have ability and willingness to travel as required to deliver to clients.

**Who we are**

Adelphi Values PROVE is a leading healthcare value consultancy that works with a range of healthcare product and service providers, aiding development and commercialisation. We are passionate people working as integrated global teams, growing a respected healthcare value consultancy business that is committed to personal development and rewarding high performance. We are as proud of our culture and our approach to people and their working environment, as we are of our reputation and the things that make us unique.

**What we do**

Our purpose is to improve patients’ lives by informing healthcare decisions. To do this we help our clients bring healthcare products and services to the market successfully by investigating, developing and communicating scientific evidence that defines value and informs decisions.

**Purpose of the role**:
Leading assigned projects and undertaking research and analysis to inform deliverables to inform the development of value propositions and communications to optimise pricing, reimbursement and market access within the Value Insight and Communication 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

**Project activities may include (but are not limited to)**:

- Researching understanding and interpreting disease, therapy and healthcare system information, including extensive and complex material; designing structured search strategies.
- Designing and managing literature reviews to gain insight to the clinical, patient-reported and economic burden of disease, plus the HTA and competitor landscape.
- Developing value propositions and value messages.
- Writing reports, manuscripts and dossiers to communicate healthcare value messages.
- Interpreting and distilling commercial and scientific reports into written executive summaries, slide decks and market access tools.

**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
- Acting as primary point of contact (with appropriate support from senior team members) for the client
- Accurate financial management of projects, including client invoicing, contribution updates and ensuring associated required documentation is completed (e.g. contribution trackers)
- Ensuring the project stays within budget and timelines
- 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
- Monitoring the work of project team members and ensuring delivery is according to the project plan
- 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 teamthrough the deviations processif 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

**After the final PL review the following will be checked and confirmed**:

- The deliverable is formatted correctly and in line with the Adelphi/client templates
- The results shown in the deliverable are aligned with expectations or, if not, a clear explanation can be provided to the client as to the interpretation of the outcomes
- The messages presented align with the client’s expectations and proper strategic insights/recommendations have been provided for clients
- All client comments have been addressed and an appropriate response is included from “Adelphi Values”
- Data presented are accurate and interpreted correc