Consulting Associate

Summary

Join M3 USA, a healthcare innovation leader, as a Consulting Associate at Michael Allen Company! This role involves hands-on execution of analytical solutions, from secondary data analysis to market modeling. You will formulate hypotheses, structure project approaches, and build datasets. The position requires a Master's degree in a quantitative field and two years of relevant experience. Excellent communication and teamwork skills are essential. M3 USA offers competitive wages and benefits, including health and dental insurance, life insurance, a 401k plan, paid time off, and more.

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
• Two years of relevant work experience as an analyst with demonstrated performance in a healthcare professional services firm, healthcare sciences product company or related organization
• 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
• Exposure to primary market research instrument design and data collection, management, analytics and reporting
• Working knowledge of commonly used complex biopharmaceutical industry data sources such as claims data, EMR, APLD, panel and registry data, behavioral and chronic disease surveillance studies, prescription and prescriber data, managed care and formulary data etc
• Strong analytic and quantitative reasoning and enjoy problem solving
• Knowledge of drug development, business commercialization and marketing processes in biopharmaceutical industry
• 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
• Proficiency in MS Office products required, experience developing Excel-based spreadsheets with macros and visual basic
• Experience with statistical packages required e.g., SPSS, SAS, R, or STATA

Responsibilities

• Formulate hypotheses against preset issues
• Structure approaches and timelines for areas of direct responsibility
• With minimal guidance help develop and execute search strategy to acquire project data
• Build datasets for project-specific modeling including cleaning, restructuring and validating data
• Demonstrate expertise in either quantitative or qualitative analysis
• Identify meaningful findings and significant insights
• Prepare report outlines and draft conclusion sections of assigned areas of analysis
• Contribute to formulation of recommendations in assigned areas
• Use exhibits creatively to support findings and conclusions and organize and write sections of presentations, following the report outline
• Lead internal discussion and present sections of client presentations to facilitate client buy-in to analytic approach and results
• Facilitate client buy-in to analytic approach and results
• Make substantive contributions to project in terms of facts and analytic techniques
• 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
• Participate in project management function for own areas of responsibility and third parties within broader project scope

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to and experience across various functional areas including market research, business analytics, marketing, marketing science, etc
• Exposure to Big Data and Business Intelligence tools exposure e.g., SQL, Vertica, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Tableau; capable of efficiently and effectively programming queries, running analytics and producing report output
• A genuine passion for applying innovative analytics to solve real-world business problems

Benefits

• Health and Dental
• Life, Accident and Disability Insurance
• Prescription Plan
• Flexible Spending Account
• 401k Plan and Match
• Paid Holidays and Vacation
• Sick Days and Personal Day