Market Access Expert Advisor (Independent Contractor)

WLH Consulting and Learning Solutions is seeking a Market Access Expert Advisor to join our bench of senior experts on a part-time, project-based basis. You will bring deep payer, health system, and value-based care expertise to client proposals, strategy conversations, and webinars for life sciences clients. Ideal for a seasoned market access leader looking for flexible, high-impact advisory work.

About WLH

WLH Consulting and Learning Solutions specializes in organizational change, strategic execution, commercial excellence, leadership development, and human capital optimization within the pharmaceutical and life sciences industry. We partner closely with clients, immersing ourselves in their culture, priorities, and challenges, to design solutions that elevate commercial performance and drive sustainable transformation.

Role Summary

The Market Access Expert Advisor is a part-time contract role for an experienced market access leader who brings subject matter expertise in the pharmaceutical customer landscape, including payers, PBMs, health systems, and IDNs. Specifically, this expert advisor must possess acumen about how these customer stakeholders are evolving and how to counsel/advise pharma/biotech commercial organizations to most effectively engage them.

This person will be one of WLH’s senior market access experts who lend credibility and depth to our client work.

Additionally, this contractor will:

• · Join client calls and workshops to provide expert perspective on payer, health system, and organized customer dynamics
• · Be featured in proposals and client materials as a named expert
• · Advise project teams on market access strategy, account planning, and customer engagement approaches
• · Deliver webinars and presentations on current market access topics
• · Review and pressure-test deliverables for accuracy, credibility, and real-world applicability
• · Share insights on emerging topics, including but not limited to value-based care, population health, health system evolution and the use of AI in healthcare

The ideal contractor has spent years doing this work, whether inside a payer, PBM, health system, or ACO, or leading health system, population health, or market access work at a pharmaceutical company. They can explain how these customers work in plain language and help WLH teams and clients put that knowledge to use.

The role starts as a part-time contract.

• Role type: Part-time independent contractor (1099) to start
• Time commitment: Typically 10 to 20 hours per week during active engagements, with lighter periods in between
• Location: Remote within the US, with occasional travel for client sessions and workshops

Requirements

• 10+ years experience in market access, payer strategy, health system strategy or related roles at payer, PBM, health system, pharmaceutical or biotech company.
• Working knowledge of payer and organized customer decision-making, including formulary and coverage management, contracting, and integrated delivery networks
• Familiarity with value-based care models and population health management
• Practical understanding of how AI and advanced analytics are being applied in healthcare and access decisions
• Strong communication skills and comfort presenting to external audiences
• Experience with account management or customer engagement in a market access context
• Direct involvement: Experience taking part in real decisions between pharmaceutical companies and payers, PBMs, or health systems, such as formulary reviews, contract negotiations, value-based agreements, or IDN account strategy
• Organized customers: Experience with large, complex organized customers such as health systems, IDNs, large group practices, and payers
• Preference for: prior experience as a speaker, panelist or advisory board member.