Senior Analyst - September 2024
Overview
Working at Health Advances allows senior analysts to gain broad exposure to biotech and pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, research tools, and precision medicine, medtech, digital health, and enterprise HIT, and investor sectors as part of a growing firm. Health Advances offers a unique opportunity to use your technical and clinical skills while honing your business acumen and industry insight necessary to become a well-rounded consultant. At Health Advances, you will enable companies to commercialize new products and formulate business strategies. Your background and experience in technical areas differentiates our firm’s ability to create value for our clients. Join colleagues who seek to combine their scientific rigor with business interests and a passion for healthcare.
Health Advances is committed to continuous learning and the growth of its staff at all levels. Each senior analyst has a member of the management team assigned as a formal mentor so that everyone has a tailored development plan and a defined path to promotion. Senior analysts leverage prior knowledge in addition to current casework to develop the necessary skills for transition into levels of increased responsibility. Health Advances provides advanced degree staff with extensive training, apprenticeship-type learning, and professional development opportunities. More than 30% of our staff come from advanced degrees (PhDs/MDs) and have a clear path to develop into confident team leaders and members of senior management at Health Advances.
All interviews are case-oriented and provide the opportunity to work through actual examples of our projects.
Highlights
- Seven-week training program that covers healthcare and business topics, a training project, and case shadow opportunity
- Dual staffing model allows consultants to simultaneously learn about multiple aspects of the healthcare industry
- Strategy-based projects with an average duration of 4-6 weeks increase exposure to a variety of project work and sectors
- Join an internal committee (examples: business development, market research, and business analytics), attend seminars, and present at weekly company meetings
- Opportunities to work on projects that span across offices and/or are global in scope
- Minimal travel requirements
- Collegial culture that encourages both level-specific and cross-level team building
Responsibilities
- Synthesize primary and secondary research into persuasive insights for the case teams and clients
- Create and present portions of client presentations
- Conduct technical review
- Perform in-depth qualitative research with clinical and industry experts
- Execute quantitative market analyses
- Collaborate with team leaders to select appropriate analytical approaches
Qualifications
- Advanced degree in science and/or relevant consulting or industry experience
- Strong quantitative skills
- Excellent oral and written skills
- Desire to work in a team environment
- Ability to prioritize and focus time effectively to meet multiple client-driven objectives
What We Offer:
- Dynamic, Flexible, Hard Working, Team Environment – We are busy, collaborative, growing, and we are doing meaningful work
- Opportunities – We encourage you to grow your expertise and take on new challenges
- Inclusive culture – One that values each employee’s unique perspective and encourages everyone to be their authentic self
- Hybrid Work Environment – The autonomy to both work from home 3 days a week and develop/sustain collegial relationships in the office 2 days a week, or more if desired
- Feedback – We are committed to giving and receiving feedback in a direct, open and supportive manner
- Support – You will be part of a team that cares about you personally and professionally; our success depends on your success
Health Advances also offers a broad and competitive range of benefits depending on your job classification eligibility:
- Competitive bonus programs
- Medical, dental and vision insurance, beginning on the first of the month after hire
- 401(k) with company match
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Paid holidays
- Generous sick and vacation pay
- Employee assistance programs offering six annual therapy sessions
- Summer flex scheduling options to allow for early releases on Friday from Memorial Day to Labor Day
- Paid volunteer opportunities
Health Advances has openings for our September 2024 start date in Newton, MA, and San Francisco, CA. Please specify in your cover letter if you have a preference in office location.
Health Advances will consider H1-B sponsorship for candidates who have PhDs in the life sciences who are eligible for a minimum of 24 months of an OPT (Optional Practical Training) from their start date.
The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The base pay for this role is $102,000 to 120,000 USD. You are eligible for an annual incentive program (with a reasonable first year estimate ranging from $0-$15,000 USD). Both of these are subject to the rules governing the programs, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
Health Advances may use third party service providers to assist us in recruiting talent, administering, and evaluating pre-employment screening and testing. By submitting your application, you acknowledge your information may be sent to those providers who are assisting in the specific search and agree to these terms.
For Californian applicants, pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Health Advances provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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