Industry Principal - Healthcare Consulting

Overview

Our Client's Healthcare & Life Sciences Growth Opportunity Analytics Practice is currently seeking a Research Manager or Industry Principal Professional (depending on experience). This position will establish the client as the pre-eminent provider of intelligence in Digital Health & Medical Technologies market, serving the needs of global customers and engage executives prefer through written content, interactive briefings, and other avenues.

Responsibilities

- Domain Expertise - Become a thought leader in the team, delivering value via strategic research, client engagement, global press, and social media outreach.

- Intellectual Property and Strategic Evaluation - Develop actionable, strategic, insightful, up-to-date market intelligence based on primary and secondary market research on the technologies, and services that the digital health industry sells to the enterprise and consumer markets.

- Business Development - Maintain business relationships with global technology vendors by regularly participating in briefings and working under the guidance of program/practice area leader to conduct business needs analysis for clients.

Qualifications

The successful candidate will have an educational background in business, market research, economics, journalism, or technology with an enthusiastic curiosity about the critical role medical device and digital technologies plays in enabling business around the world. A proactive, methodical, and innovative - thinking outside the box - working practice is essential, with the ability to deliver accurate, high impact results in a fast-paced team-focused environment.

Essential

- A relevant university degree (BA, BS) in arts, science, business administration, marketing, market intelligence, market research, journalism, psychology, sociology, or technology.

- Minimum 6-8 years of analyst/consulting working experience within a research and/or advisory services business environment.

- The ability to research and write a coherent story on digital health topics in grammatically correct English is critical.

- A foundational understanding of consulting/research/investigative journalism methodologies and business modelling (primary/secondary research, linear story development).

- A foundational understanding of the Healthcare, Digital Health or Medical Technologies industry, such as industry structure, operational practices, business functionalities, and competitive landscapes.

- Desire, curiosity, and enthusiasm to build your expertise in the healthcare and life sciences domain to become a respected thought leader in the eyes of global technology vendors.

- The ability to network to create new vendor relationships and to proactively manage ongoing relationships to stay relevant to healthcare technologies vendors.

- Enthusiasm for supporting business development initiatives that benefit the entire team.

- An analytical thought process, with outstanding written and verbal communication skills and business level fluency in English.

- The desire to learn public presentation skills in front of an audience and a video camera.

- Confidence to present your work to a group of peers or a client and defend your analysis in a calm and professional manner.

- A team player who views team collaboration as an important path to professional development.

Desirable

- A relevant post graduate qualification (MA, MBA) or equivalent experience, e.g.: Market intelligence, market research analyst, consulting, or journalism focused on business issues, advisory services, and/or consulting.

- A foundational understanding of key issues in one or more of the following areas:

Clinical Care Pathways

Healthcare Provider IT Transformation

Medical Devices Disruptive Business Models,

Hospital Management Solutions

Applications of artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud, big data analytics to healthcare industry.