Sr. Research Analyst, Strategy Catalyst

The Health Management Academy • Full-time • Arlington, VA, US • 16m ago

About The Academy:

The Health Management Academy (THMA) brings together health system leaders and innovators to collectively address the industry’s biggest challenges and opportunities. By assisting executives in cultivating peer networks, understanding key strategic trends, establishing pragmatic partnerships, and developing next-generation leaders, our members are better positioned to lead industry transformation.  

THMA offers a dynamic atmosphere with significant opportunities for employees. If you are interested in contributing to a member-centric, creative, and collaborative workforce while deeply influencing top leaders and institutions in healthcare, The Health Management Academy could be the right place for you!

Position Summary:

Sr. Research Analysts are key team members who support research projects, content development, and other member-facing initiatives that support our health system and industry member executives. This individual will help at each stage of the research process, ultimately synthesizing key takeaways derived from these member interactions into digestible, must-read content for our members, as well as help create larger-scale research deliverables including webinars and in-depth reports.Sr. Analysts are primarily responsible for developing deliverables (e.g., written reports, presentations, online content), insight generation, and supporting qualitative and quantitative research. This role will also work closely with the Member Insights Director and member organizations on the strategy and execution of custom webinars.

In this role, you will support the core products of our Strategy Catalyst business team: Guiding the path for health system transformation in site-of-care and ambulatory strategy. Purpose-built for strategy leaders and their team, Academy Strategy Catalyst makes sense of the market forces driving change, provides deep disruptor analysis, synthesizes outcomes from promising innovations, and gives strategy leaders resources to drive organizational alignment. Academy Strategy Catalyst is the strategy leader’s solution for de-risking investment and speeding time to decision.

Examples of past projects include surveying decision-makers to understand purchasing trends of health systems, creating content related to the COVID response for our member-facing newsletter, and quarterly webinars recapping the latest top-of-mind challenges and priorities for health system executives (e.g., growth strategy, digital transformation, organizational alignment, market intelligence, innovation & outcomes, etc.).

Primary Job Duties:

Assist the Director in developing research agendas and project scope
Conduct primary and secondary research

Participate in interviews with executives from health systems and industry organizations
Build qualitative and qualitative survey instruments and other data collection methodologies
Support analysis of qualitative and quantitative data collected from interviews, literature reviews, surveys, etc.
Synthesize, write, and present captivating research-based content (e.g., written deliverables and presentations) for member organizations and internal teams
Assist with logistics and events planning

Cultivate and maintain relationships with Academy members and other client stakeholders
Provide input to team leadership on opportunities for improving value delivery to member organizations

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree required

4+ years of healthcare experience in a research setting, or graduate degree in healthcare administration, health policy, health technology, business, or a related field
Subject matter expertise in health care systems, market intelligence, or market surveillance
Excellent quantitative and qualitative research skills, including the ability to synthesize key finds, translate data into insights, and create member-facing deliverables.
Strong writing and communication experience in healthcare
Project management experience, including efficient planning, organizing, and managing multiple projects simultaneously with limited supervision or direction

Experience in client support and service delivery
Experience collaborating with commercial teams (e.g., marketing and sales) to develop product positioning and messaging

Interpersonal Skills & Attributes:

Ability to work independently and as a team member

Comfort with quick turnarounds and deadlines
Highly adaptable to change
Customer service focused
Time management focused
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail

Collaborative
Creative & strategic mindset
Ability to communicate persuasively with senior executives
Self-directed and resourceful

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, and distance vision.

Notice of Equal Opportunity Employment:

The Academy is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, The Academy will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. The Academy’s goal is for our people to reflect the communities in which we live and serve and to ensure the representation of women, people of color, veterans, and individuals with disabilities in our organization.

Compensation:

Starting salary of $80,000 and up plus benefits.