Associate Strategist

About the position

We are seeking a dynamic, detail-oriented,highly motivated Associate Strategist to join our team. In this role you willuse your analytical skills to help launch, execute, analyze and deliverinsights on pharma market research and consulting projects. This role is idealfor those that are passionate about understanding human behavior, adaptable,and excel in a collaborative and fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities & Duties

Assist Strategists/Project Leads duringprimary research studies, which includes, but is not limited to:

  • Conducting meta-analysis
  • Conducting academic literature reviews
  • Conducting desk research & foresightscans
  • Back-rooming interviews & data coding
  • Conducting the first draft analysis ofprimary research transcripts and homework analysis (e.g., identifying themes,behaviors, quotes)
  • Programming online activity exercises onvarious platforms
  • Managing online activity/communities
  • Collaborating during story emergencesessions
  • Collaborating and writing early drafts ofdebriefs
  • Creating video scripts based on interviewtranscripts and working with video editors to produce documentary-styleresearch videos
  • Conducts simple interviews with modeling
  • Accessesrelevant thinking models and frameworks to help gather and frame datacollection[AF1] 
  • Contributes to proposal development (e.g.,building out methodology slides, perspectives)

Experience & Qualifications

Required Strengths

  • Effective, efficient communication skillswith internal and external stakeholders
  • Strong organizational and multitaskingabilities
  • Flexible and adaptable
  • Great problem-solving skills
  • Team player and great collaborator
  • Great prioritization and time-managementskills
  • Detailed and action-oriented toward projectgoals
  • Proactive risk management
  • Accountable, self-motivated, independent
  • Proficient on all Microsoft Software

We look for people who:

  • Work in a way that upholds and promotes the FSi Strategy core values: Passion, Curiosity, Empathy, Agility and Frankness.
  • Contribute to and develop a culture of collaboration, care, and respect.
  • Create an equitable and inclusive environment for members of the team and clients.
  • Understand that Friday is flexible, not guaranteed time off (while we strive to maintain a 4-day work week, we ask that team members are flexible around client needs).
  • Can attend Quarterly Town Halls in-person (held on Fridays)
  • Understand that we are consultants and, while we strive for typical business hours, sometimes work extends beyond the 9–5 workday.
  • Assist colleagues outside of the current project you are working on (e.g., proposal development, brainstorms, thought leadership, etc.).

Compensation and Work-Life Balance

  • This is a remote full-time permanent position.
  • FSi offers health insurance and an RRSP matching program for qualified employees.
  • FSi operates a 4-day work week, from Monday to Thursday, to provide personal flexibility and support professional and personal development for team members.
  • Joining our team as an Associate Strategist offers the opportunity for professional growth into the Strategist role and beyond. You will receive guidance from highly experienced professionals holdingPhDs in Behavioral Science, Medical Anthropology, and other fields. You will benefit from these experts' decades of experience in healthcare market research and consulting, to expand your own capabilities and grow at FSi.

Applying

FSi celebrates diversity in both its innovative solutions and its workforce. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities who are eligible to work in the USA or Canada.We understand that experience comes in many forms. We’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team - so if your experience is this close to what we’re looking for, please consider applying.

We thank all candidates for their interest, but we will only reach out to those candidates that are under consideration.

At FSi Strategy, our vision is to help lead the critical transformation from a healthcare system to a HumanCare experience.  We are redefining Human Centricity and putting the power of HumanCare at the center of how we solve business challenges.

Thank you for considering Fresh Squeezed Ideas for your next home.

We are a global insight, foresight and strategy consultancy, founded in 2006, serving pharmaceutical clients in the US, Canada and globally. Using proprietary frameworks, based on Experience Design, Foresight, and Human Sciences, we decode the human experience to reveal and better understand people’s experiences living with (and caring for those living with) disease. Our goal is to instill in our clients, genuine empathy for the total human experience so that the most favorable, care-centric health outcomes are achieved.