Market Access Lead

The Fountain Group; Tucson (AZ); Remote; USD 85,000 - 92,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Job summary

The Fountain Group is seeking a Market Access Partnership Lead within the U.S. Market Access team, reporting to the Access & Reimbursement Strategy Leader. This role serves as the U.S. market access lead for pharma/diagnostics partnerships, coordinating with global partners and stakeholders.

You will develop the U.S. market access strategy, create proposals and executive presentations, and lead the workstream to deliver milestones, governance, and partner communications across multiple projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in health economics or related field.
• Five or more years of relevant experience in market access, reimbursement, payer strategy, or health economics.

Responsibilities

• Lead US market access for pharma/diagnostics partnerships across the portfolio.
• Develop and present market access strategies, proposals, and workplans.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and manage timelines, budgets, and governance.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Project management

Communication

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in health economics

Job description

Pay: $62-67/hour W2. Our company offers our consultants a suite of benefits after a qualification period including health, vision, dental, life and disability insurance.

Remote: 100% remote; candidates in Indianapolis, IN are a bonus.

The Opportunity

• The Market Access Partnership Lead is a member of the U.S. Market Access team and reports to the Access & Reimbursement Strategy Leader.
• This role serves as the U.S. market access lead for potential pharmaceutical/diagnostics (pharma/dia) partnerships, working closely with the global function and stakeholders.
• Will develop the U.S. market access strategy, proposals, and presentations for pharma partnership opportunities.
• Will lead the market access workstream and be accountable for the agreed milestones, deliverables, governance, and partner communication.
• Depending on the product, will either lead the access work directly or collaborate with the applicable product Access Strategy Lead (ASL).
• Seeking a strategic market access professional, ideally with experience in both diagnostics and pharmaceuticals.
• Success requires strong cross-functional leadership across U.S. and global teams, sound judgment in ambiguous situations, and the ability to translate market and customer insights into practical, long-term access strategies that support patients, customers, and partners.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the U.S. Market Access lead for potential pharma/dia partnerships, collaborating closely with global PHCS, product teams, Business Development, Alliance Management, and other U.S. and global stakeholders.
• Develop and evolve a broad U.S. market access strategy for pharma across the diagnostics portfolio, with a current focus on Core Lab and Pathology Lab, and assess product-specific reimbursement, payer, evidence, stakeholder, and market-development needs.
• Define market access scope, deliverables, timelines, dependencies, resource requirements, risks, and budget inputs for proposals and statements of work.
• Develop and present partner-ready market access strategies, recommendations, proposals, and executive presentations to pharma partners and internal teams.
• After an agreement is signed, translate commitments into an executable market access plan and lead delivery of agreed milestones, deliverables, workstream governance, and partner communication.
• Lead the market access work directly or collaborate with the applicable product ASL, engaging the appropriate U.S. and global experts and establishing clear roles and accountability for each project.
• Coordinate cross-functional workstreams; track progress, risks, decisions, budgets, and timelines; manage scope changes; and escalation issues that may affect partnership health or delivery.
• Develop reusable market access frameworks, proposal content, work packages, tools, and processes to improve speed, consistency, and quality across future partnership opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in health economics, public health, business, life sciences, a clinical discipline, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Five or more years of relevant experience in market access, reimbursement, payer strategy, health economics and outcomes research, diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, consulting, or a related healthcare field.
• Experience in diagnostics and/or pharmaceutical market access, with a strong preference for candidates who have worked across both industries.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of the U.S. payer, reimbursement, and evidence environment for diagnostic technologies; experience with biomarker or companion diagnostic programs is a plus.
• Proven ability to develop and implement market access strategies that support measurable business, customer, and patient outcomes.
• Experience developing proposals, statements of work, budgets, timelines, and partner-facing deliverables.
• Experience supporting external partnerships, alliances, or client engagements.
• Exceptional cross-functional leadership skills and the ability to influence a broad U.S. and global stakeholder network without direct authority.
• Strong project or program management skills, sound business judgment, and the ability to manage multiple opportunities and workstreams.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, including experience communicating with external partners and senior leaders.

Who We Are:

The Fountain Group is a nationwide staffing firm with over 80 Fortune 100-500 clients. Since 2001, TFG has maintained a consistent standard of excellence, and our work is broadly recognized every year through numerous industry performance awards. Our success is a team effort.

3407 W Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Tampa, FL 33607

“We work in Life Sciences, Clinical, Engineering, IT, and more. Above all, we specialize in people.”