Analyst / Analytics Manager

The Junior Analyst / Analytics Manager will support the transformation of healthcare, pharmaceutical, and market data into actionable insights that drive strategic decision-making for clients. Working closely with Strategy, CX, Research, and Client Services teams, this role will help uncover commercial opportunities, analyze customer and market trends, and support evidence-based recommendations across the healthcare commercialization lifecycle.

The ideal candidate is highly analytical, naturally curious, and eager to develop expertise in healthcare data, including claims, prescription, patient, provider, and market access data. This role offers significant opportunities for growth and development within a fast-growing healthcare strategy and commercialization consultancy.

Role

• Permanent/Full-time  
• Remote/ Hybrid
• Pay scale: 65-80k CDN

Core Competencies

1. Healthcare Data & Analytics
   Healthcare, claims, Rx, patient, provider, and market data analysis

2. Insight Generation & Problem Solving
   Identifying trends, opportunities, and actionable business insights

3. Market Research & Commercial Intelligence
   Market assessments, customer intelligence, and competitive analysis

4. Data Visualization & Reporting
   Dashboarding, reporting, and data storytelling

5. Collaboration & Communication
   Working cross-functionally to support strategic recommendations

Analytics & Insights

• Analyze healthcare, market, and customer datasets to identify trends and opportunities.
• Support the development of commercial intelligence reports and client recommendations.
• Assist with market sizing, segmentation, targeting, predictive modeling, and customer analyses.
• Conduct secondary research and competitive intelligence assessments.
• Support development of dashboards, reports, and performance measurement frameworks.

Healthcare Data Analysis

• Work with healthcare data sources including:
  
  • Medical and pharmacy claims data
  • Prescription (Rx) data
  • Patient-level data
  • HCP/NPI data
  • Market access and payer data
  • Digital engagement data
    
• Analyze patient journeys, treatment pathways, prescribing behaviors, and customer engagement trends.
• Support strategic planning and commercialization initiatives through data-driven insights.

Strategic Support

• Collaborate with Strategy and CX teams on client engagements.
• Support commercial planning, launch readiness, and customer engagement projects.
• Translate analytical findings into clear business implications and recommendations.
• Contribute to client presentations and deliverables.

Capability Development

• Help build and scale FSi's commercial intelligence and analytics capabilities.
• Identify emerging healthcare data sources, analytical approaches, AI applications, and industry best practices.
• Contribute to thought leadership, frameworks, methodologies, and commercialization products.
• Develop expertise in healthcare analytics, commercialization, and strategic consulting.
• Support the development of FSi's commercial intelligence capabilities and proprietary methodologies.
• Stay informed on emerging healthcare data sources, AI applications, and industry trends.

Healthcare Data & Insights

• Leverage healthcare data sources including:
  
  • Medical and pharmacy claims data
    
  • Prescription (Rx) data
  • Patient-level longitudinal data
  • HCP/NPI data
  • Referral and treatment pathway data
  • Market access and payer data
  • Digital engagement and omnichannel data
• Analyze patient journeys, treatment pathways, adherence patterns, referral networks, and prescribing behaviors.
• Generate insights that inform brand strategy, customer engagement, field force effectiveness, and commercialization planning.

Strategic Consulting

• Partner with strategy and client teams to translate analytics into business recommendations.
• Support commercial planning, launch readiness, market development, and lifecycle management initiatives.
• Develop evidence-based recommendations that drive patient engagement, HCP adoption, and commercial growth.
• Present findings and strategic implications to senior client stakeholders.

Culture  

• Brings a strong growth mindset, with genuine openness to feedback and collaboration as core to learning, improving the work, and supporting one another  
• Relentlessly curious and always looking for the why behind the why behind the why  
• Actively contributes to a team and company culture of care and respect
• Commits to creating an equitable and inclusive environment for members of the team and clients

Experience

• 2-5 years of experience in analytics, market research, consulting, healthcare, life sciences, or related fields.
• Experience working with large datasets and business analysis.
• Experience in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, consulting, or market research is preferred.
• Experience developing predictive models, attribution analyses, or advanced segmentation approaches is preferred

Technical Expertise

Proficiency in:  

• SQL for data extraction, transformation, journey analysis, segmentation, and reporting.  
• Python/R for data cleaning, analysis, statistical modeling, and automation. Experience using pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, tidyverse, or equivalent analytical libraries.
• Cleaning, validating, transforming, integrating, QA/QC large datasets
• Statistical methods including hypothesis testing, regression techniques, correlation analysis, and performance measurement methodologies.

Working knowledge of:

• Predictive analytics and modeling techniques - supervised machine learning techniques including classification, decision trees, random forests, and gradient boosting methods.
• Data visualization, dashboarding & visualization tools
• Marketing analytics tools and platforms
• Market research methodologies
• Healthcare and pharmaceutical industry dynamics

Experience with one or more of the following is considered an asset:

• IQVIA
• Symphony Health
• Komodo Health
• Tableau
• Power BI  

Success Profile

The ideal candidate is:

• Naturally curious and analytical
• Comfortable working with data and ambiguity
• Strong problem solver and critical thinker
• Able to communicate insights clearly and concisely
• Interested in healthcare, commercialization, and strategy
• Collaborative, entrepreneurial, and eager to grow

What Success Looks Like

• Consistently delivers accurate, insightful analyses.
• Helps transform complex data into meaningful client recommendations.
• Develops expertise in healthcare commercial intelligence and strategy.
• Contributes to client growth and successful project delivery.
• Evolves into a trusted advisor and future leader within FSi.

Requirements  

• Legal authorization to work in Canada, without sponsorship.
• Education minimum: high school or CAEC (College or University is an asset)
• Clear background check: Criminal, US Exclusions Database, US Denied Persons List, and EU, UK, and UN Sanctions List.

• FSi offers health insurance and an RRSP matching program for qualified employees.
• We offer a flexible approach to a 4-day work week, typically Monday to Thursday, to support personal flexibility and encourage both professional and personal development.
• Joining our team offers the opportunity for professional growth and adventure. You will work with highly experienced professionals, holding PhDs 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 help grow at FSi.

We look for people who:

• Work in a way that upholds and promotes the FSI core values: Passion, Curiosity, Empathy, Agility and Frankness.
• Contribute to and develop a culture of collaboration, nimbleness, 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.).

Fresh Squeezed Ideas 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 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.

If you are interested in this role and meet the criteria, we would love to hear from you!