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Avalere Health

Healthcare consulting with advisory, policy, marketing

Head of Compliance & Data Privacy

Full-TimePosted on 10/15/2026
No salary listed
Expert
London, UK+1 moreMore locations: Manchester, UK
Hybrid
Risk & ComplianceRegulatory Compliance & Ethics, Privacy & Data Protection

About the job

Requirements
  • Substantial compliance and data privacy experience gained in-house, in professional services or in a regulated environment, including hands-on experience operating or improving compliance programmes.
  • Practical global data privacy experience with DPIAs, DSR requests, personal data breaches, privacy notices and records of processing activities, with strong knowledge of UK and EU GDPR, understanding of HIPAA, and awareness of other global privacy requirements relevant to an international business.
  • Working knowledge of the EU AI Act and experience assessing AI use cases, advising on implementation and risks, and applying compliance controls within a wider governance framework.
  • Experience of third-party due diligence, anti-bribery and anti-corruption controls, and conflicts-of-interest processes.
  • Strong ownership, follow-through, integrity and discretion when handling sensitive matters, with sound judgement about when to escalate for approval.
  • Ability to advise senior leaders on sensitive compliance and privacy matters and translate material risks into practical business options.
  • Experience setting expectations, reviewing work, managing performance and coaching team members to build capability.
Responsibilities
  • Lead the day-to-day operation and continuous development of Avalere Health’s global compliance and data privacy programmes, helping the business manage regulatory, client and reputational risk through pragmatic advice and effective controls.
  • Work with senior leaders and relevant functions, escalate material risks, and apply group standards while addressing applicable laws, regulations and business needs across relevant jurisdictions.
  • Promote a positive, ethical culture across the business and model expected standards.
  • Lead and develop the global compliance programme; provide pragmatic compliance advice, assess new business initiatives, and escalate material risks to the General Counsel with clear options and business implications.
  • Monitor regulatory developments and support implementation of proportionate controls and governance processes.
  • Manage privacy compliance and risk across the organisation in line with applicable global privacy requirements, escalating significant matters to the General Counsel as appropriate.
  • Advise on responsible data use, privacy by design, safeguards and proportionate controls; assess privacy risks arising from new products, systems, suppliers, services and data uses, including international transfers and third-party processing.
  • Manage or support key privacy processes, including DPIAs, DSRs, privacy notices, ROPAs and personal data incident assessment.
  • Monitor applicable AI legislation, regulatory guidance, industry expectations and client requirements, and translate them into proportionate, practical compliance processes and controls for services, internal AI use, suppliers and business development activity.
  • Support assessment of AI use cases, including risk identification, documentation, human oversight, data protection considerations, vendor due diligence and approval requirements, working with the AI governance team, Legal, Information Security, Technology and business stakeholders to embed AI compliance requirements.
  • Advise on and support effective anti-bribery and anti-corruption controls, including conflicts of interest, gifts, hospitality and interactions with third parties.
  • Oversee proportionate, risk-based due diligence on clients, suppliers and other third parties; identify, document and escalate concerns, ensure required mitigations and approvals are in place, and refer matters outside delegated authority.
  • Complete relevant sections of client questionnaires and due diligence materials and support KYC and KYV processes.
  • Maintain and evolve compliance, privacy and AI compliance policies, procedures, guidance and governance frameworks; manage training, completion monitoring, records and targeted awareness activity.
  • Coordinate compliance, privacy and AI compliance monitoring, control reviews and assurance activity; prepare clear reporting and insights on material risks, incidents, trends, outstanding actions and lessons learnt for senior leadership and governance forums.
  • Manage reported compliance, privacy and AI compliance concerns, incidents and investigations.
  • Work with stakeholders and subject-matter experts to preserve records, document findings, identify root causes, track remediation and coordinate compliance and privacy responses to regulators, auditors and substantive client requests as applicable.
  • Provide clear direction, supervision and development support to direct reports.
  • Build effective working relationships with senior and non-specialist stakeholders, adapting communication to the audience and securing engagement with compliance, privacy and AI compliance requirements.
  • Work closely with Information Security, Technology, People and other functional teams to ensure compliance, privacy and AI compliance input supports fair, consistent and commercially practical outcomes.
  • Translate complex compliance and privacy issues into clear, actionable advice that supports informed decisions and balances commercial objectives, risk and ethical standards.

About the company

Avalere Health is a healthcare consulting firm that provides advisory, medical affairs, and marketing services to providers, payers, and life sciences companies. Its offerings help clients navigate the healthcare market through a proprietary SenseMaking model that combines data analysis, policy expertise, and market insights. This approach supports areas such as market access and reimbursement strategies, policy analysis, and government affairs, with revenue generated from consulting fees. The company differentiates itself by applying its SenseMaking framework to deliver targeted, data-backed recommendations across the healthcare ecosystem, integrating policy, market, and clinical considerations for each client. Its goal is to help clients make informed decisions, optimize performance, and achieve their business objectives in a complex and evolving healthcare environment.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Acquired

Total Funding

$140M

Headquarters

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Founded

2000

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What believers are saying

  • May 20, 2026 'Within Reach' deepens oncology thought leadership and client intimacy.
  • Matt Kazan returned December 16, 2025, strengthening policy ties before 2026 drug reforms.
  • Avalere Health ranked in MM+M 100 on February 12, 2026, signaling market traction.

What critics are saying

  • Part D reimbursement upheaval and Medicare negotiations compress advisory timelines through 2027.
  • Japan expansion on May 11, 2026 faces entrenched domestic rivals and pricing complexity.
  • A single-brand, services-heavy model depends on pharma budgets; budget cuts hit utilization fast.

What makes Avalere Health unique

  • One-brand, end-to-end advisory, medical, and marketing model spans lifecycle execution.
  • Avalere Health's policy engine publishes 2026 Medicare, Part D, and oncology analyses weekly.
  • Japan launch on May 11, 2026 adds localized access expertise for biopharma clients.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Wellness Program
  • Paid Vacation
  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Hybrid Work Options

Company News

Pharmaceutical Executive
May 15th, 2026
Why 75 top pharma execs are ditching fragmented marketing stacks.

Why 75 top pharma execs are ditching fragmented marketing stacks. At the Doceree Makers Summit, leaders from Sanofi, Bristol Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, and others backed a new pharma marketing operating model to replace fragmented legacy softwares. A coalition of 75 pharmaceutical brand, commercial, and agency executives publicly endorsed a new marketing operations platform, underscoring growing pressure across life sciences organizations to simplify fragmented commercial technology systems and improve omnichannel marketing execution.[1] The announcement was made during the inaugural Doceree Health Decode: The Makers Summit 2026 in New York, where senior leaders from companies including Sanofi, Bristol Myers Squibb,, Avalere Health, and Deerfield supported Daily Command, a platform developed by Doceree.[1] According to Doceree, the executives collectively oversee more than $40 billion in annual pharmaceutical brand spending and are advocating for a more unified operating model designed to replace multiple disconnected systems across commercial functions, including targeting, CRM, analytics, media planning, and medical-legal-regulatory review.[1] "This isn't a product launch. It's the industry deciding, in public, that it is done with the way things are," said Harshit Jain, MD, founder and global CEO of Doceree, in the release.[1] "When seventy-five of the people who actually run pharma's biggest brands stop asking their vendors to do better and start co-building the replacement themselves, that is not a market trend. That is a market correction." The endorsement reflects a broader shift in pharma marketing commercialization. While omnichannel engagement has become a strategic priority, many organizations continue to operate across fragmented technology environments that limit speed, coordination, and consistency in execution. Why is pharma moving past fragmented commercial tech stacks? The Doceree announcement arrives at a time when pharmaceutical companies are continuing to invest heavily in digital transformation initiatives, yet still struggle to operationalize omnichannel strategies at scale. A 2025 Boston Consulting Group analysis found that while 97% of biopharma and medtech leaders view omnichannel capabilities as critical to commercial success, most organizations continue to face structural and operational barriers that prevent full integration across systems and workflows.[2] The report also highlights a persistent gap between ambition and execution. Only 10% of organizations reported having fully integrated data platforms that support omnichannel engagement, while the remaining majority cited siloed systems as a significant constraint.[2] These fragmentation issues can result in duplicated effort across teams, inconsistent reporting metrics, and delays in campaign activation. Why is fragmentation a commercial execution risk? As pharmaceutical companies are increasingly expected to deliver personalized, compliant, and timely engagement across healthcare professionals, patients, and payers, operational inefficiencies are becoming more visible and consequential. When core commercial functions, such as marketing, analytics, field operations, and compliance, operate across disconnected tools, execution slows and coordination becomes more complex. Campaign insights may be delayed or inconsistent, while measurement frameworks can vary significantly between systems. The industry response has increasingly shifted away from simply "adding more tools" toward reevaluating the underlying operational architecture that connects them. How is Daily Command a unified operating layer? Doceree described Daily Command as a shift toward a unified workflow environment intended to consolidate fragmented commercial processes into a single interface.[1] The company characterizes the platform as a "system of work" designed to bring together campaign planning, activation, measurement, and optimization. Daily Command also integrates Doceree's Clinical Intent Suite, which the company says uses behavioral and prescribing-decision signals to inform healthcare marketing engagement strategies.[1] The initiative reflects a broader effort to address inefficiencies in commercial execution by reducing reliance on multiple standalone systems that require manual coordination and data reconciliation. Agency and consulting leaders involved in the announcement highlighted similar challenges in current commercial ecosystems, particularly the operational burden created by disconnected systems and fragmented decision-making workflows. "Every category-defining software company in enterprise has been built on the same insight: own the surface where the work actually happens. In pharma marketing, and especially in full-service agencies like Deerfield, that surface has never existed," said Bill Veltre, Deerfield's chief media officer, in the release. Rather than replacing existing tools entirely, the platform is positioned as a centralized operational layer intended to unify workflows while maintaining interoperability with external partners and technologies. What does this mean for the industry? The Doceree initiative reflects a broader industry shift from expanding fragmented marketing toolsets toward consolidating workflows into more unified platforms. Doceree said Daily Command will enter closed beta in June with five pharmaceutical manufacturers and agency partners, followed by a broader release in July.[1] The coordinated endorsement from senior pharma marketers highlights a clear industry concern: in commercial technology is becoming a structural challenge affecting speed, visibility, and execution across commercialization.

PR Newswire
May 11th, 2026
Avalere Health launches Japan office led by industry veteran Junji Yokokawa

Avalere Health has launched its Japan office in Tokyo, led by industry veteran Junji Yokokawa. The move expands the global healthcare strategic partner's footprint into the Japanese domestic drug market, which is experiencing significant growth driven by oncology, diabetes, immunology and rare disease treatments. The new office offers integrated services combining market access, medical and marketing expertise to support biopharmaceutical companies throughout the product lifecycle. Unlike traditional agencies, Avalere Health Japan was designed from inception to provide end-to-end solutions for navigating Japan's complex regulatory, pricing and patient engagement landscape. CEO Amar Urhekar, who previously spent a decade in senior Asia-Pacific roles with McCann Healthcare Worldwide, said the expansion aligns with Avalere's commitment to reaching every patient possible globally.

PR Newswire
Jan 14th, 2025
Policy Strategists To Debate 2025 Impact Of The New Administration And Market Changes To Healthcare

Avalere, part of Avalere Health, convenes eleven strategistsWASHINGTON, Jan. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Eleven leading policy strategists are scheduled to debate how market changes and the Trump administration will shape 2025, impacting drug pricing, health plan design and patient access to needed therapies. The annual live webinar, "2025 Healthcare Industry Outlook: Opportunity Through Uncertainty" is scheduled for Thursday, January 23 at 11:00 a.m. ET

PharmaLIVE
Dec 12th, 2024
Amar Urhekar named CEO of Avalere Health

Urhekar joined Avalere Health in 2023 as Chief Operations Officer (COO) to unify the organization and build a global interdisciplinary offering across the product lifecycle.

MM+M
Dec 12th, 2024
Avalere Health elevates Amar Urhekar to CEO post

Avalere Health promoted COO Amar Urhekar to the CEO post on Thursday morning.