NOTE: We will start interviewing for this position in June.

Overview

Health Advances offers a unique opportunity to use your technical and clinical skills while honing your business acumen and industry insight necessary to become a well-rounded consultant. At Health Advances, you will enable companies to commercialize new products and formulate business strategies. Your understanding and appreciation of technical expertise areas differentiates our firm’s ability to create value for our clients. Join colleagues who seek to combine their scientific rigor with business interests and a passion for healthcare.

Health Advances is committed to continuous learning and the growth of its staff at all levels. Each senior analyst has a vice president or partner assigned as a formal mentor so that each individual has a tailored development plan and a defined path to promotion. Senior analysts leverage prior knowledge in addition to current casework to develop the necessary skills for transition into levels of increased responsibility. More than 30% of our consulting staff is a PhD or MD. With the right training, apprenticeship-type learning, and professional development, our PhDs and MDs become confident team leaders and successful directors, vice presidents and partners at Health Advances.

All interviews are case-oriented and provide the opportunity to work through actual examples of our projects.

As part of the case team, the Senior Analyst will work on projects to:

• Assess market opportunities
• Develop commercialization strategies
• Develop portfolio and life cycle approaches
• Develop market access and Health Information technology (HIT) strategies for pharma, medical technology and diagnostic companies

Working on all of the above, the Senior Analyst will be:

• Conducting technical product assessments
• Reviewing clinical literature
• Performing in-depth qualitative research with clinical and industry experts
• Collaborating with team leaders to select appropriate analytical approaches
• Creating and presenting sections of client presentations

Qualifications

An ideal candidate has the following qualifications:

• Must be currently living in the Zurich area and have authorization to work in the EU
• Master’s degree in the life sciences or economics
• 2-3 years of experience in the healthcare industry (medtech, biopharma, diagnostics) or in consulting in this industry
• Solid understanding of European healthcare landscape
• Fluent in English and at least 2 other languages, preferably German, French, Spanish, or Italian
• Position requires travel within Europe and to the US periodically
• Willingness to come to the Boston area for initial 2 weeks for training
• Strong quantitative skills
• Excellent oral and written skills
• Desire to work in a team environment
• Flexibility to respond to changing client needs
• Ability to focus time effectively to meet multiple client-driven objectives
•  Must be available to start in September 2021

Health Advances has openings for our Zug office for September 2022. At this time, Health Advances will only consider candidates for the senior analyst position who have work authorization to work in the Zug office.

Employment is contingent on disclosure of your COVID-19 vaccination status and, if relevant, proof of vaccination or have an approved religious or medical exemption.

Health Advances may use third party service providers to assist us in recruiting talent, administering and evaluating pre-employment screening and testing. By submitting your application, you acknowledge your information may be sent to those providers who are assisting in the specific search and agree to these terms.

Health Advances provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.