Gerson Lehrman Group - Research Manager - Healthcare

Research Manager - Healthcare

Overview of the Role :

Research Managers in the Healthcare (HC) practice work directly with institutional investors, professional service firms, and life science corporations, by managing and executing primary research deliverables. They are responsible for supporting the growth of the healthcare India practice, building strong client relations, delivering high quality and timely research solutions, and establishing and cultivating relationships with healthcare service professionals and industry experts across India.

Key Responsibilities:

Research Managers are responsible for driving Gerson Lehrman Group's underlying business processes, fulfilling timely client research requests, including high-level project execution and management, and facilitating in-person interactions between GLG's clients and Council Members.

This includes:

- Facilitating educational interactions between members of the GLG expert network and our clients, to permit our clients to make more informed and more confident investment decisions. Research Managers are tasked with fulfilling time sensitive research requests by analyzing client requests, and building and qualifying primary populations of topic experts. Most GLG client - expert interactions consist of telephone consultations but also may consist of surveys, research travel programs, and in-depth engagements.

- Programming live meetings. Client-facing Research Managers part of the HC practice are responsible for organizing and hosting small group conversations between GLG healthcare industry experts and GLG clients.

- Enhancing the GLG Councils. Developing relationships with GLG's most respected thought leaders and KOLs in the HC sector, as well as recruiting new senior executives and leading consultants into the GLG Councils through research, networking, and direct outreach.

- Growing GLG client relationships. Developing relationships with GLG clients, who are primarily lead investment professionals, consultants and life science commercial heads across India. This relationship development will stem from in-person client meets, project execution, and telephone interactions.

- Team-wide collaboration. Research Managers are expected to help mentor and manage junior colleagues, especially those colleagues in our operations offices with whom they are collaborating. They also work closely with our Business Development team and other sector-specialized Research Managers to develop customized products for GLG clients.

- Leading and owning GLG compliance standards. Clearly communicating to GLG clients and experts the integrity of the GLG platform as a key differentiator of our business and understanding the additional compliance considerations for the HC segment.

Research Manager are expected to cultivate close relationships with and emerge as thought partners with GLG's financial services clients in HC and execute against the tasks detailed above by exercising excellent communication, good judgment, high quality execution, effective collaboration, business ownership, and by adhering to GLG's internal compliance policies and procedures.

Candidate profile:

Gerson Lehrman Group attracts employees from the most distinctive professional and academic backgrounds. Across all of our positions, we insist upon integrity, creativity, intensity, flexibility, and professionalism.

For this specific position, the following factors will strengthen an applicant's candidacy:

- Bachelor's degree or higher from a top tier academic institution.

- Masters in a health care/ life science from a top-tier university is preferred

- 4-6 years of applicable work experience preferred

- Prior experience in healthcare related industry, consulting, market research or financial services firm experience will be a plus

- Demonstrated entrepreneurial/leadership skills

- Superior communication and interpersonal skills, including demonstrated oral, written and presentation abilities

- Experience interacting with senior executives

- Successful track record working in complex multi-task-oriented team environment

We seek bright, positive and flexible people who also:

- Act with the highest integrity and professionalism in all their endeavors;

- Utilize superior analytical and problem-solving skills;

- Think creatively and focus on opportunities for growth, and lead others to do the same;

- Express a strong desire to work in a team;

- Respond effectively to management direction and clients- needs;

- Demonstrate the ability and initiative to handle increasing responsibility over time.

About GLG / Gerson Lehrman Group

GLG is the world's leading platform for professional learning. Business leaders, investors, consultants, social entrepreneurs, and other top professionals rely on GLG to learn in short- and long-term engagements from a membership of more than 400,000 experts. Clients partner with GLG to address their most complex strategic challenges, make better business decisions, and advance their careers through conversations, mentorships, small group convenings, surveys, and other interactions- all within a rigorous compliance framework. Global, technology-driven, and nimble, GLG's 1,000 employees work in 22 offices in 12 countries.

We believe strongly in our mission- and values-driven culture. Our core values drive our success. They are: learning & curiosity, responsibility, courage, judgment, fresh perspective, service, and integrity.

Notes: GLG does not allow employees to trade stocks or certain other securities to avoid appearances of conflict of interest. GLG also requires that all employees sign a confidentiality and non-competition agreement with our firm. We conduct background checks on all prospective new hires.

EEO Policy Statement

GLG is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, race, religion, color, marital status, disability, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classification protected by federal, state, or local law.