Senior Analyst, Investor Relations and External Communications

Precision AQ•New York, NY

4d•$77,000 - $107,000

About The Position

This is an exciting opportunity to intern with a team that has a long track record of providing best-in-class investor relations counsel to leaders across biotech and healthcare. The Investor Relations and External Communications (IREC) group at Precision AQ is a well-established leader in providing IR services to biotechnology and healthcare companies, representing public and private companies of all sizes and therapeutic areas. In collaborating with our clients on their larger corporate strategy, we provide a range of services to achieve key investor relations goals, including effective messaging and positioning, enhancing visibility, improving institutional ownership and sell-side coverage, preparing for financings and IPOs, developing good guidance practices, and managing communications around M&A, binary events, and other strategic initiatives. A successful Senior Analyst candidate will help to advance IREC mission to provide best-in-class, thought-leading investor relations counsel to biotechnology and healthcare companies. You will work closely with senior account leads in an agency setting to manage client engagements, build and execute investor relations programs focusing on strategic advice and tactical execution, track sector trends and gather and analyze data and plan client events, while supporting the larger business through various marketing initiatives directed towards clients and industry leadership.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree
Minimum of 1 year work experience in a service industry requiring direct customer contact
Displayed interest in healthcare and/or equity markets
Strong analytical, research, and writing skills, including highly nuanced and technical language
Excellent communication skills; confident and professional phone and e-mail communication
Detail oriented, highly organized, and able to multi-task efficiently in a dynamic team environment
Dedication to accuracy, deadlines, and high-quality work; high ethical and professional standards
Comfortable learning new software technology and platforms
Knowledge of Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Strong team player with a positive attitude; excellent cross-functional collaborator who inspires confidence and trust
Proactive self-starter who takes initiative and works well with little supervision while making judgment calls under pressure
A problem solver who is resourceful and creative

Nice To Haves

Prior experience in investor relations, life sciences, consulting, banking, or financial services
Leadership experience, including network and relationship building
Intermediate Excel skills (formulas and graphs for reporting)

Responsibilities

Supporting Client Leads on the development and execution of IR strategies to support clients’ corporate goals, including fundraising and marketing the company to the investment community and other audiences.
Providing daily logistical and strategic IR support to assigned client accounts.
Preparing client deliverables, including backgrounder documents, shareholder reports, analyst models, short interest reports, industry benchmarking reports, competitive intelligence research, quantitative data analyses on peer ownership from SEC filings (targeting), and other research projects.
Developing corporate communications and presentation materials including press releases, conference call scripts, corporate overview and Board of Directors PowerPoint presentations and Q&A and messaging documents,
Support the logistical planning and execution of earnings calls, roadshows, industry conferences, medical meetings and other investor events.
Assist with day-to-day communications with contacts in the life sciences investment community.
Database maintenance and entry.