Commercial & Market Access Intern

The Position

The Commercial & Market Access Intern will support Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals’ Commercial and Market Access team by evaluating how payer management strategies influence real-world patient access to therapy. This internship offers hands-on experience analyzing payer coverage dynamics and understanding how tools such as prior authorization, step therapy, formulary placement, and cost sharing affect treatment initiation, persistence, and utilization. The intern’s work will help inform payer strategy, value storytelling, and patient-support approaches for cardiometabolic therapies.

This is an 11-week Summer Internship Program paying $24.00 per hour and requires full-time, onsite work five days per week in Pasadena, CA.

Responsibilities

• Support the Market Access team with quantitative and qualitative analyses related to payer coverage, utilization management, and patient access.
• Evaluate how payer management tools (e.g., prior authorization, step therapy, formulary tiering, cost share) impact real-world treatment initiation, abandonment, and persistence.
• Develop analyses and, where appropriate, quantitative models to project patient access, utilization, and per-member-per-month (PMPM) budget impact under different payer scenarios.
• Gather, organize, and summarize data and literature related to payer policies, benefit design, and medication treatment patterns.
• Contribute to maintaining and updating internal reference materials comparing coverage criteria across payers and lines of business.
• Participate in cross-functional discussions to learn how pricing, HEOR, and market access work together to support product strategy.
• Collaborate with internal partners to validate assumptions and incorporate stakeholder insights.
• Prepare and present project findings and recommendations to the Commercial and Market Access team.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled student at an accredited university or college, with at least one year completed toward a degree in Actuarial Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Economics, or a related discipline.
• Strong interest in pharmaceutical market access, healthcare, insurance, or payer systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and organizational skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel and PowerPoint.
• Willingness and ability to spend 75% of the workday working with data, analysis, and collaboration and 25% in meetings or documentation activities.

Preferred

• Familiarity with healthcare claims data, payer benefit design, or utilization management concepts.
• Coursework or project experience related to pharmaceutical economics, HEOR, or market access.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including formulas, basic data analysis, and charting.
• Interest in cardiometabolic disease areas or population health analytics.