Market Access Business Analyst - Remote or Onsite to Fosters City CA

Role Summary

We are 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.

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

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.
  
  

  
  Writeup skills:

  
  
  
  
  • Model N Revenue Management / Channel Management
  
  
  • IQVIA Data (LAAD, Claims, Prescription Data)
  
  
  • Salesforce / Veeva CRM
  
  
  • Power BI / Tableau
  
  
  • SQL & Data Analysis Tools
  
  
  • JIRA, Azure DevOps, Confluence
  
  
  • SAP, ERP Integration Concepts
  
  
  • Managed Markets, Contracting, Rebates, Pricing Operations
  
  
  
  

   

  
  

  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.

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.