Job Order: 5757
Staff Representative: Tim Jadwin
Position: Analyst
Location: New York
Company Summary:
A full-service advertising agency specializing in the health-care industry. They provide a wide range of marketing, educational, media, and creative services directed at healthcare professionals, providers, business-to-business targets, and consumers.
Description:
Our client is seeking an Analyst to join Platform Advisors in our New York offices for roles focusing on delivering full service, strategic consulting services; including in licensing, valuation, due diligence, and commercial brand strategy. They must be leaders with strong entrepreneurial leanings to develop this concept from an early-stage business to a major element of the client offerings.
The Analyst focuses on assisting consulting teams with the sourcing and analysis of facts to help solve specific strategy and business problems. To that end, the individual is responsible for collecting, summarizing, analyzing, and synthesizing facts that serve as critical inputs to the consulting teams. Analysts are expected to develop a good knowledge of key sources and contribute to building a distinctive service culture.
Responsibilities:
- Supporting consultants to articulate, scope, and prioritize their research needs related to a wide range of strategic business issues
- With guidance from more senior colleagues; determining the most appropriate, cost-effective, and timely research solutions to meet the consulting team’s needs
- Efficiently gathering the necessary raw information, partnering with other medical staff (medical directors, APMs) to leverage the full range of relevant sources
- Organizing, analyzing, and synthesizing facts into targeted, formatted end products in the form of single exhibits, written summaries, basic fact packs, and spreadsheet
- Developing sufficient expertise to process new documents, manage the knowledge collection, identify practice expertise, and serve as specialized point of contact
- Managing and maintaining any specialized databases, systems or collections for the service line and helping to develop new knowledge assets
- BS/BA, preferably in business or life sciences. Relevant experience 0-3 years.
- Outstanding academic record (Bachelor’s degree required)
- Solid analytical background and comfort with using data and information to create specific analyses
- Demonstrated research experience in an academic or business setting is preferred
- Interest in business strategy and in stories, cases, and anecdotes that illustrate strategic success and failure; strong interest in business news
- Understanding of economic, financial, and general business concepts and terminology
- High levels of proficiency with Excel, Word, PowerPoint
- Professional attitude and service orientation; team player
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Inquisitive, investigative nature
- Strong multi-tasking abilities
