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Health Strategies Group is a long-established consultancy providing innovative sales and marketing research, analysis, and recommendations to a stellar list of pharma and biotech clients. The company's success relies on our talented, innovative and highly motivated associates working together in an environment that values creativity, teamwork, and mutual respect.
We believe how you do your work is as important as what you do and have created an environment that rewards and supports collegiality, team work, and respect for each other. We hire highly skilled, bright, and successful people with unmatched ethics. We respect our commitments to one another and to our customers, delivering to each what we promise, when we promise, and with attention to detail and quality.
If that interests you, we invite you to view our current job postings.
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Consultant, Institutional Provider Systems |
Sales Force Effectiveness |
Lambertville, NJ |
HM-IPS |

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Consultant, Institutional Provider Systems |


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Sales Force Effectiveness |
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Lambertville, NJ |
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Full Time |
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HM-IPS |
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Position Overview
The Consultant develops and leads single-client and/or multi-client projects which provide analysis and actionable business insights that meet clients objectives. Consultants are responsible for the entire process for large multi-client and single-client projects including; meeting with clients to determine project objectives, writing proposals, managing research projects, presenting conclusions and recommendations to clients. This position has sales and client management responsibilities.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
1) Business development and client management—25-35% of time
- Develop business/win projects that are consistent with HSG’s strategic goals
- Meet a specified annual project revenue goal
- Build and develop positive relationships for HSG within assigned client companies
- Determine project/business objectives used to create proposals based on verbally communicated client needs and/or RFPs
- Manage client inquires and questions appropriately
2) Quantitative and qualitative pharmaceutical research project management—30-40% of time
- Interview clients to determine decision support needs and project objectives
- Write proposals/project plans (i.e., develop costs/budget, resource needs and timelines for projects that meet client objectives)
- Develop research objectives and determine appropriate methodologies
- Work with client to solidify research objectives
- Work with other practice areas to jointly field research
- Design research tools (I.e., surveys and discussion guides)
- Lead project teams including developing and communicating budgets, project timelines and resource needs with internal team
- Conduct phone and in-person interviews (45-60 minutes per interview)
- Keep projects within budget and/or estimated timeline by anticipating and resolving issues with fielding, surveys and clients
- Serve as key client contact for project (respond to client questions, provide project specific communications, etc)
3) Project analysis and presentations/client deliverables—30-40% of time
- Utilize research results (primary data), team input, past experience and secondary data to develop final conclusions and actionable client recommendations
- Write presentations and final deliverables based on conclusions and recommendations
- Lead final presentations at client meetings
- Respond to any further client inquiries regarding projects
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Required Skills and Abilities
- Must posses business development and client management skills
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Strong conceptual, analytic skills and problem solving skills
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Critical thinking skills
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Ability to translate data into meaningful information
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Ability to utilize large amounts of data and other types of information from multiple sources to complete a final analysis of a business question/situations and recommendations/suggested actions
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Project Management skills
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Excellent verbal communication
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Excellent presentation skills
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Excellent writing skills
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Attention to detail
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Must have ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines, and work on multiple projects simultaneously
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Must be a team player and be able to effectively interact with staff at all levels of the company
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Must have ability to work independently when necessary
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Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook
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Must be willing and able to mentor Analysts and Associate Consultants
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Willingness and ability to travel approximately 20-30% of time
Preferred skills:
A basic knowledge of statistics
Working knowledge of the entire research process
Quantitative and qualitative research skills
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Required Experience
- B.S./B.A in relevant field of study required
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Five plus years of pharmaceutical, medical/health industry-related experience required
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Two plus years of internal or external business/project development experience required
Preferred experience:
Advanced degree (e.g., MBA, MS, MPH)
Two plus years of market research experience
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Additional Comments
Expectations for All Employees:
Supports the organization's mission, vision, and values by exhibiting the following behaviors: Client focus, accountability, innovation, teamwork, honesty, integrity and respect for all team members.

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Research Analyst |
Managed Markets |
Lambertville, NJ |
HM-Anylst |

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Research Analyst |


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| Department: |
Managed Markets |
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Lambertville, NJ |
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Full Time |
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HM-Anylst |
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Position Overview
The Research Analyst will support research activities for our syndicated and single client consulting research projects including project management, analysis, and presentation development.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
1) Manage quantitative & qualitative pharmaceutical research projects—25-35% of time
- Establish and manage project timelines
- Assist with development of data analysis plan
- Assist in creation of surveys and discussion guides
- Test web surveys
- Conduct phone and in-person interviews (45-60 minutes per interview) and create contact reports with resulting detail from interviews
- Assist project leaders in keeping projects within budget and estimated timeline by anticipating and resolving issues with fielding of surveys via communications with the Research Operations group and sometimes clients
2) Data management & analysis—35-45% of time
- Code qualitative survey responses
- Clean/prepare data in SPSS and/or Excel (e.g., merge, append, check frequencies, and dedupe)
- Manage data in SPSS, Excel, and Access
- Analyze data in SPSS (utilizing frequencies, crosstabs, sorts, t-tests, regressions, etc.)
- Analyze data in Excel (creating pivot tables and graphs)
- Identify key findings (relevant data results)
- Create relevant data results in Excel graphs and charts
3) Assist with pharmaceutical research project results analysis & presentation development—10-15% of time
- Identify key research findings for final deliverable
- Assist in creation of small sections of final reports and PowerPoint presentations
- Respond to client phone calls and inquiries regarding any aspect of research projects
- Contribute at client meetings and presentations
4) Conduct secondary research—0-5% of time
- Search Internet for articles, studies, journals, etc. to provide information to assist in the development of single or multi-client deliverables
- Search existing Health Strategies Group documents/deliverables for relevant information
- Assemble relevant information into an appropriate format for the project and/or consultant (compile data into spreadsheets, excel, SPSS, and/or PowerPoint)
- Conduct secondary research to become knowledgeable about relevant category, product, and company prior to project kick-off
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Required Skills and Abilities
- Strong conceptual and analytic skills
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Quantitative skills
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A basic knowledge of statistics
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Project management skills
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Good verbal communication and presentation skills
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Good writing skills
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Ability to translate data into meaningful information
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Attention to detail
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Must have ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines, and work on multiple projects simultaneously
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Must be a team player and be able to interact with staff at all levels of the company and with clients as well
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Must have ability to work independently when necessary
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Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and knowledge of a statistical package such as SPSS preferred
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Willingness and ability to travel approximately 10% of time
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Required Experience
- B.S./B.A in relevant field of study required
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Advanced degree (e.g., MBA, MS, MPH) preferred
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Two to five years of market research or pharmaceutical or medical industry-related experience preferred
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Additional Comments
Expectations for All Employees:
Supports the organization's mission, vision, and values by exhibiting the following behaviors: Client focus, accountability, innovation, teamwork, honesty, integrity, and respect for all team members.

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