Payer Strategy Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $300/hr Part-time

Obsidian; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 83,000 - 138,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a US-based payer/market access expert for a paid pilot evaluating drugs and drug-development programs. The project focuses on rubric creation and critical evaluation of gross-to-net, rebates, and formulary tiering by drug class. Remote work is available for the US-based professional.

Responsibilities include developing rubrics, testing payer behaviors, and applying findings across the pilot's drug set, with potential for recurring engagements for strong contributors.

Qualifications

• US-based payer/market access professional with 5+ years experience.
• Familiarity with biotech/pharma development programs.
• Hands-on experience with gross-to-net, rebates, and formulary tiering by drug class.

Responsibilities

• Create and critique rubrics that analyze commercial drugs and drug-development programs
• Set and pressure-test gross-to-net and formulary-tier assumptions by drug class
• Judge whether coverage, rebating, and tiering assumptions reflect how payers actually behave
• Apply this across the pilot's set of drugs and drug classes

Skills

Payer experience

Market access

Pricing knowledge

Reimbursement

Job description

Mercor is partnering with a biotech and pharma research team on expert human-evaluation work — creating and critiquing rubrics that analyze commercial drugs and drug-development programs. We're seeking a payer / market access expert for a paid pilot, with the potential to continue as the work scales.

Responsibilities

• Create and critique rubrics that analyze commercial drugs and drug-development programs

• Set and pressure-test gross-to-net and formulary-tier assumptions by drug class

• Judge whether coverage, rebating, and tiering assumptions reflect how payers actually behave

• Apply this across the pilot's set of drugs and drug classes

Requirements

• US-based payer / market access professional

• Familiarity with biotech/pharma development programs

• Hands-on with gross-to-net, rebates, and formulary tiering by drug class

• 5+ years in market access, pricing & reimbursement, or managed markets

Engagement Details

• Duration: Approximately 10–20 hours over a 1–2 week pilot

• Remote — US-based

Why Participate

• Help improve expert AI evaluation of drugs and drug-development programs

• Recurring engagement for strong contributors