Research Analyst - Healthcare

Role: Research Analyst

Job description

As a Research Analyst, you will be responsible for obtaining, reviewing, and collating information from a variety of credible sources to create or update unbiased medical device content for our online research application. Doctors, nurses, and health system executives rely on our team s research to make informed product selection and utilization decisions that improve patient outcomes and reduce costs.

The successful candidate will be a naturally curious, self-starter with a diligent attention to detail and a passion for learning and understanding medical device technology.

Responsibilities include:

- Conduct thorough research on market conditions, industry trends, and economic factors to assess the potential risks and impact on credit ratings and economy

- Prepare detailed credit rating reports, including credit analysis, financial ratios, and industry trends, industry risk assessment to support credit rating recommendations

- Collaborate with internal teams to provide industry risk measurement inputs

- Monitor and evaluate changes industry trends, regulatory environment and economic conditions

- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of industry regulations, market trends, and economic factors that may impact credit ratings

- Guide and mentor junior research analysts, providing training and support to develop their analytical and industry knowledge skills

- Conduct regular knowledge sharing sessions with the Rating team

- Perform secondary research by navigating to and extracting relevant data from FDA databases, manufacturer websites, clinical trial databases, and other credible sources.

- Collect, structure, and maintain product-specific data from various sources into appropriate fields on the Lumere research application.

- Understand the function and intended use of different medical devices to identify technical and clinically relevant product attributes as well as group similar devices together.

- Apply critical thinking, creativity, and resourcefulness to make decisions pertaining to data discovery, acquisition, and classification.

Qualifications:

- College Graduate or higher degree in biomedical engineering, medical sciences/technology, nursing, or a related field required.

- Experience performing secondary research using web-based resources required.

- Experience working with medical devices, understanding of FDA regulatory pathways, and/or working in healthcare settings is strongly preferred.

- Strong attention to detail, comprehension skills, and problem-solving ability

- Excellent English verbal and written communication skills

- Ability to multi-task and work both independently and systematically