Business Analyst- Market Access

Job Title: Business Analyst- Market Access

Location : Fosters City CA (Onsite)

Job Type : Full-Time

Domain: Life Sciences / Pharmaceuticals / Market Access / Pricing & Contracting

Primary Skills (Must Have)

• • Market Access Domain Expertise: Strong understanding of the US Pharmaceutical Market Access ecosystem.
  • Program Experience: Experience supporting Managed Care, Payer, PBM, Government Programs, and Specialty Pharmacy processes.
  • Financial Calculations: Knowledge of Pricing, Contracting, Rebates, Chargebacks, and Gross-to-Net calculations.
  • Program Compliance: Understanding of Commercial, Medicare, Medicaid, and 340B programs.
  • Formulary Knowledge: Knowledge of formulary management and payer access dynamics.
  • Sales Alignment: Familiarity with pharmaceutical sales and market access business functions**.**
  • Business Analysis Skills: Requirement elicitation and stakeholder management.
  • Process Design: Process mapping, workflow analysis, and gap assessment.
  • Documentation: BRD, FRD, User Stories, and Acceptance Criteria preparation.
  • Problem Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Optimization: Business process improvement and optimization experience.

Soft Skills & Other Skills

• • Communication Skills: Communicate effectively with internal and customer stakeholders.
  • Communication Approach: Verbal, emails, and instant messages.
  • Interpersonal Skills: Strong interpersonal skills to build and maintain productive relationships with team members.
  • Feedback Delivery: Provide constructive feedback during code reviews and be open to receiving feedback on your own code.
  • Problem-Solving: Capability to troubleshoot and resolve issues efficiently.
  • Mindset: Analytical mindset.

Role Summary

Client is seeking a highly motivated Business Analyst with strong Market Access domain expertise to support business initiatives across Pricing, Contracting, Government Programs, Rebates, Gross-to-Net (GTN), Managed Care, and Market Access Operations.

Why This Role Matters

This is one of the most important engagements for our customer.

Job Description of Role (What You'll Do)

• • Business Requirements Management: Partner with Market Access stakeholders to understand business objectives, challenges, and opportunities.
  • Prioritization: Gather, document, and prioritize business requirements for Market Access initiatives.
  • Artifact Creation: Create BRDs, financial specifications, use cases, user stories, process maps, and business workflows.
  • Alignment: Ensure business requirements are complete, traceable, and aligned with organizational goals.
  • Market Access Process Analysis: Analyze current-state Market Access processes and identify optimization opportunities.
  • Initiative Support: Support initiatives related to pricing, contracting, rebates, chargebacks, formulary management, and payer performance tracking.
  • Impact Evaluation: Evaluate business impacts of process changes and technology enhancements.
  • Solution Recommendation: Recommend solutions to improve operational efficiency and reporting accuracy.

What Success Looks Like (6-12 Months)

• • Independence: Independently manage business analysis activities for assigned Market Access initiatives.
  • Quality Documentation: Deliver high-quality requirements documentation with minimal rework.
  • Testing Support: Successfully support testing and business validation activities.
  • Risk Closure: Drive closure of requirement-related risks, issues, and dependencies.

Secondary Skills (Good to Have)

• • Experience with Model N applications.
  • Knowledge of Gross-to-Net forecasting processes.
  • Experience working with Specialty Pharmacy and HUB Operations.
  • Understanding of Patient Access and Patient Support Services.
  • Experience supporting Government Pricing programs.