Research Analyst

Are you seeking to build a career as a research expert within life sciences, using your critical analysis and research expertise to advance the healthcare and life sciences industry?

Are you looking to work collaboratively within a fun, friendly and supportive team in which you will learn, develop and grow into an exceptional research and insights specialist?

If so, come and join us and be part of the next cohort of Research Analysts in our research centre of excellence in the heart of Birmingham.

To support the continued growth of our business, we are recruiting life sciences graduates and post-graduates
, looking to apply their expertise in a commercially driven research environment. Working as part of our inspirational and incredibly supportive team across a broad range of therapeutic areas, you will play a crucial role in helping some of the world’s top healthcare and life sciences organisations understand how to overcome their biggest challenges.

Solici is the strategic competitive intelligence division of Cambridge Healthcare Research. Founded in 2013, CHR gives healthcare decision makers the power of knowing by providing critical insights, analysis and interpretation that informs pivotal decisions that advance healthcare. CHR is now a Global Data Healthcare company, expanding our diverse employee base with over 20 languages spoken, with a footprint in Europe, USA and Asia, providing further opportunities to support the growth of our team.

Our expertise in competitive intelligence and life sciences combined with the power of Global Data's proprietary data and technology solutions means we can deliver strategic value across the breadth of our clients' CI needs.

Our vision at Solici is to help the brightest ideas reach patients. We achieve this by combining research excellence with deep subject matter expertise in a range of therapy areas and a passion for enabling our clients to deliver innovative products and services to those who need them.

Our values enable us to embed considered and curious teams at the heart of any client challenge:

• Collaboration – We build strong connections to achieve more together
• Excellence – We aim for greatness in everything we do
• Community – We deliver beyond work for our people, our clients, and wider society
• Courage – We embrace challenges as opportunities for growth
• Integrity – We always do the right thing

As a Research Analyst
, you will be part of our research team, supporting the creation and delivery of research outputs across multiple projects through conducting high-quality desk-based secondary research, and summarising and analysing your findings. You will be part of project teams providing industry, market and product level research to consulting colleagues.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Secondary research – Developing expert-level understanding on therapeutic areas through identifying and accessing relevant data sources for insights on changes to the competitive landscape.
• Content development – Analysing gathered research to prepare time-sensitive notifications on major and relevant events within the target landscape and develop PowerPoint decks covering key findings.
• Primary research support – Establishing baseline knowledge of the key intelligence topic to support the development of primary research guides and questions.
• Research planning – Helping consulting colleagues to develop robust research plans, including key milestones and deliverables, to support the successful delivery of projects that maximise client satisfaction.
• Consulting support – Preparing consulting colleagues for conferences by contributing to the creation of pre- and post-conference materials and supporting business development through researching and developing analyses to underpin proposals for new client work.
• Project team and client interaction – Attending internal meetings with project teams and [as required] external meetings with colleagues and clients.
• Quality control – Peer reviewing work to ensure outputs are of the highest quality.
• Continuous improvement – Using expert knowledge and keeping abreast of developments to both leverage existing data sources…