Research Associate (Remote)

M3USA•Fort Washington, PA

1d•Remote

About The Position

M3 USA is a leader in healthcare innovation, providing digital solutions across healthcare, life sciences, and pharmaceuticals since 2000. Its mission is to leverage the internet for a healthier world and more efficient healthcare systems, achieving growth through trusted digital platforms that engage physician communities for medical education, job placement, and market research. M3 USA fosters a dynamic and innovative work environment, contributing to global health advancements. This role is with Michael Allen Company, a Healthcare management consulting firm in Darien, CT, specializing in accelerating client growth through improved market and customer insight. With a forty-year track record, the firm uses unique analytic capabilities and experienced Consultants to help global healthcare firms with pipeline product planning, growth management, marketing and sales effectiveness, resource allocation, and growth strategy development. They work with traditional pharmaceutical companies, biotech firms, and medical product manufacturers, leveraging industry data to find innovative commercial strategies that maximize resource efficiency and effectiveness for products and services that enhance/extend/save lives.

Requirements

Master’s degree in biostatistics, statistics, epidemiology, economics, mathematics, engineering, operations research, health informatics or related quantitative field from an elite institution, including Ivy League institutions, with a strong academic record.
Demonstrated analytical skills—understands the advantages and limits of different analytical approaches and studies and their findings including regression, significance testing, clustering algorithms and modeling techniques.
Strong analytic and quantitative reasoning and enjoy problem solving.
Exposure to healthcare, econometric or statistical large scale data set management and analytics in classroom or internship setting.
Excellent interpersonal skills.
Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively - both verbally and in writing.
Ability to work well on teams demonstrating leadership qualities.
Ability to handle multiple commitments and frequent deadlines.
Capable of collaborating with client teams members from varied functional areas including market research, business analytics, marketing and market science.
Genuine passion for applying innovative analytics to solve real-world business problems.
Proficiency in MS Office products.

Nice To Haves

Relevant work experience as a teaching or research assistant while pursuing an advanced degree or during summer internships.
Familiarity with healthcare industry stakeholders, issues and events.
Experience developing Excel-based spreadsheets with macros and visual basic.
Experience with statistical packages (e.g., SPSS, SAS, R, or STATA).
Exposure to Big Data and Business Intelligence tools (e.g., SQL, Vertica, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Tableau).
Fundamental understanding of data management principles and programming experience.

Responsibilities

Identify and acquire project data with clear guidance.
Build datasets from secondary sources and/or primary research for project-specific modeling, including cleaning, restructuring and validating data.
Design instruments, perform survey QC and testing, and conduct analysis and reporting for primary research projects.
Conduct prescribed analysis accurately.
Identify potentially meaningful findings and significant insights from analysis.
Fill data holes as needed to support conclusions.
Prepare simple charts, graphs and supporting report materials for assigned project areas.
Write key findings.
Summarize findings clearly and contribute to internal discussions.
Identify ways to work more efficiently.
Abide by firm operating procedures and client policy requirements including pharmacovigilance.
Work both independently and as part of a project team to deliver high quality, error-free work in an efficient manner.
Report to Consultants, Managing Consultants and/or Executives during the course of an engagement.
Work simultaneously on multiple client engagements, demonstrating solid project management skills.