LEK Consulting - Research Analyst

Job Title: Research Analyst

Research analysts will be reporting to the Team Lead and will be collaborating and effectively working with internal consulting staff throughout our U.S. offices to help support them on key deliverables.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

Primary research

- Support internal consulting staff on projects by sourcing content experts and key opinion leaders (e.g., with LinkedIn, expert networks, cold calling, etc.)

- Perform internet research to help find contact information for top published experts (e.g., email addresses in medical journals or on hospital websites)

- Write solicitations for experts to conduct interviews with case teams, and custom solicitations for key opinion leaders (e.g., referring to papers he / she has published)

- Conduct local / international interview campaigns

- Summarise key takeaways from the interview campaigns and translate them into insights

Secondary research

- Collaborate with teams to identify secondary research resources that address client areas of interest (e.g., journal articles, marketing / industry reports, government publications)

- Collect and analyse data and information found in databases

- Assemble fact bases and provide counsel to consultants on the data available, business and economic trends surrounding the issue

- Perform basic analysis such as benchmarking, industry profiling, basic market sizing and growth projections

- Confirm/disprove case team hypotheses, deriving insights and patterns from unstructured problem statements using publicly available reports, articles, thought pieces, company filings, etc.

- Produce output through Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

Analysis: Modelling / surveys

- Undertake key data-related activities such as data entry, cleaning and ad-hoc analysis using Excel and analytical tools such as Alteryx, and prepare key output in visualisation tools such as

- Review client data to understand gaps in datasets

- Code, test and analyze customer surveys, producing output in PowerPoint to help prove or disprove case hypotheses - managing the process end-to-end

Slide preparation and quality control

- Create sophisticated visuals in PowerPoint and Tableau for consulting teams to use in client presentations

- Collaborate with Graphic Design team to recommend visually interesting layouts for showing complex data

- Capture high-quality slide visuals from team and convert them into general templates for collection in a repository (e.g., on the firm intranet) for firm-wide use

- Review slide formatting for quality control, making layouts consistent and in line with brand standards (e.g., updating L.E.K. IP to current visual standards)

Case closure support

- Prepare redacted versions of materials for delivery to KM

- Prepare PowerPoint release documents for case team to deliver to client

- Facilitate access agreements process for teams interacting with investors (e.g., as part of a due diligence)