Senior Research Analyst - US Hours

Cambridge Healthcare Research; London; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

We’re a fast-growing, purpose-driven team that thrives on collaboration, excellence, and courage. As a Senior Research Analyst you will be part of a project team providing industry, market and product level research to consulting colleagues.

Solici is the strategic competitive intelligence division of Cambridge Healthcare Research. Founded in 2013 and having grown to over 150 staff today, CHR gives healthcare decision makers the power of knowing by providing critical insights, analysis and interpretation that informs pivotal decisions that advance healthcare.

Our vision at Solici is to help the brightest ideas reach patients. We achieve this by combining research excellence with deep subject matter expertise in a range of therapy areas and a passion for enabling our clients to deliver innovative products and services to those who need them.

Our values enable us to embed considered and curious teams at the heart of any client challenge:

• Collaboration – We build strong connections to achieve more together
• Excellence – We aim for greatness in everything we do
• Community – We deliver beyond work for our people, our clients, and wider society
• Courage – We embrace challenges as opportunities for growth
• Integrity – We always do the right thing

The Opportunity

As a Senior Research Analyst specifically serving our US-based clients, you will work remotely within the UK during afternoons and evenings [from 14:30 to 23:00 GMT/BST].

Affiliated to our Research Centre of Excellence based in Birmingham, UK, you will support the creation and delivery of research outputs across multiple projects, specifically for US-based clients. You will do this by conducting high-quality desk-based secondary research, and summarising, analysing and explaining your findings instantly and directly to clients.

What you will be doing

• Secondary research: Identifying and accessing relevant data sources, including monitoring news and social media, searching specialist pipeline, trial and market access databases. Covering investor/earnings calls, for insights on changes to the competitive landscape, to update and inform changes to your assigned projects. Developing expert-level understanding on therapeutic areas to curate background material.
• Content development: Gathering and analysing research to prepare time-sensitive notifications on major relevant developments within a therapeutic area of interest to the client. Will also contribute and develop content as part of PowerPoint reports for clients which are easy-to-navigate, concise and client ready covering key findings to support project deliverables.
• Primary research support: Establishing baseline knowledge of the key intelligence topic to support the development of primary research guides and questions for colleagues.
• Research planning: Helping consulting colleagues by creating or proposing robust research plans, including key milestones and deliverables, to support the successful delivery of projects that maximise client satisfaction.
• Consulting support: Supporting, and where required, leading activities relating to in-person conferences attended by consulting colleagues, through contributing to the creation of pre- and post-conference materials, and business development through researching and developing analyses to support proposals for new client work.
• Project team and client interaction: Attending internal meetings with project teams to discuss project progress and external meetings with US-based clients to directly provide real-time analysis and explanation of research findings.
• Quality control and colleague development: Peer reviewing work and coaching and supporting junior colleagues, to ensure outputs from the Research Centre of Excellence are of the highest quality.
• Continuous improvement: Using expert knowledge and keeping abreast of developments to both leverage existing data sources [e.g. databases] and recommend better sources to enhance the quality of research outputs that support our consulting teams.

Who will thrive in this role

To succeed as a Senior Research Analyst, you will need have a Bachelor’s or postgraduate degree in life sciences. You will have previous experience in a similar role conducting scientific research and insight generation and have developed the following capabilities and skills over 2-3 years.

• A collaborative and solution-focused attitude to achieve success as part of a team and with other teams
• Critical thinking to use appropriate judgement in a variety of situations
• Growth mindset with an openness to accepting and acting on constructive feedback to improve one’s capabilities
• Proactivity and using initiative to deliver beyond expectations
• Motivation to develop specialist expertise relevant to allocated projects and the role more widely [e.g. therapeutic areas, data sources, etc.]
• Resilience, motivation and general capability to successfully work independently both remotely and outside of colleagues’ normal working hours
• IT skills across the Microsoft suite [especially Excel and PowerPoint] and in using databases
• Planning, organising and prioritisation skills to successfully create research plans, complete deliverables within a fast-paced reactive environment and achieve milestones in a timely manner
• Secondary research skills to identify appropriate data sources and information
• Analytical skills to convert gathered research into key outputs
• Written and verbal communication skills to develop impactful and user-friendly client-ready materials and collaborate effectively with others
• Interpersonal skills to interact with clients professionally and explain technical analyses in an easy-to-understand manner
• Coaching and mentoring skills to support the development of junior colleagues
• Attention to detail to ensure one’s own and others’ outputs are accurate and of the highest quality

Who We Are

At CHR, we pride ourselves on a culture that nurtures the talented and the curious, helping the inquisitive and the ambitious to develop skills which enable them to grow as people, within a dynamic team environment.

CHR for Society: We believe that a great business is not just about revenues and profits. It’s also about using our expertise and resources to have a positive impact on society and the environment. At CHR we are fully committed to driving positive change in the world – we want our employees to not only build fantastic careers, but also to know they have the ability to positively impact society along the way.

Compensation & Benefits

CHR's head office is in Shoreditch, London. We offer a collaborative and stimulating environment with an opportunity to make and influence decisions that will drive CHR forward, as well as a competitive salary and benefits package that includes:

• Base salary depending on prior experience
• Annual bonus
• 25 days holiday per year (with an additional day per year of service, up to 30 days) plus all bank/public holidays and Christmas/New Year closure
• Private Healthcare and Life Assurance
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Mind & Body allowance to support activities that proactively support your health & wellbeing (such as gym membership or wellbeing apps)
• A collaborative and stimulating leadership environment
• An opportunity to make and influence decisions that will drive CHR forward

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and make all employment decisions without regard to age, national origin, race, ethnicity, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.