Associate Consultant, Life Sciences Consulting
Job Description
Job title: Associate Consultant, Life Sciences Consulting
Company: Kx Advisors
Job description: This opportunity is targeted towards undergraduate students currently enrolled in University and graduating this December or next Summer 2024.
Kx Advisors is seeking to expand its ranks with an ambitious and motivated Associate Consultant. Kx Advisors provides strategic support to executives at leading Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, and Health IT companies. Our work leverages primary research, data analysis, and knowledge/learnings from previous engagements to support critical commercial decisions for Global 500 corporations in the healthcare sector through portfolio strategy, market and opportunity assessment, commercial due diligence, go to market strategies, competitive strategy, and product commercialization.
With a strong focus on strategy, we offer development opportunities, accessible senior leadership, and minimal travel.
The primary role of an Associate Consultant is to support engagements by driving the research and fact-gathering process, analyzing, and synthesizing findings, and developing deliverables for clients. Associate Consultants contribute to engagement teams through the creation of creative and impactful presentations.
As an Associate Consultant, you’ll:
- Have direct access to clients and senior-level leadership
- Distill actionable and intriguing insights from research using relevant quantitative techniques and appropriate analytical frameworks
- Effectively communicate our conclusions directly to clients through the creation of creative and impactful presentations
- Be supported by an unparalleled group of peers and leaders throughout each engagement
Required Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have demonstrated a high level of academic achievement at a four-year college or university. They will have 0-2 years of prior relevant internship or project-based work experience in strategy consulting or market research. They are expected to be able to work in teams and bring excellent communication skills, confidence, and a ‘can-do’ attitude.
- Required: B.S./B.A. degree from a 3-year accredited college or university in any discipline
- 0-2 years, including internship experience, of strategy consulting, market research, or other relevant project-based work experience
- Demonstrated success in gathering primary and secondary research through a range of research methodologies
- Demonstrated success in analyzing and synthesizing information to draw accurate, logical, and actionable conclusions
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Demonstrated experience exercising critical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Foreign language skills preferred, but not required
- Strong computer skills (Excel, PowerPoint, MS Word)
