Associate Strategist, Strategic Foresight

We are seeking a dynamic, detail-oriented, highly motivated Associate Strategist with a background in Strategic Foresight to join our team. In this role you will use your foresight analytical skills and human behaviour research skills to help launch, execute, analyze and deliver insights in pharmaceutical market research and consulting projects. This role is ideal for those who are passionate about exploring emerging trends and future possibilities that will shape human behavior and the pharmaceutical landscape.

• Assist Strategists/Project Leads during primary and secondary research studies, which includes, but is not limited to:
  
  • Conducting foresight scans, meta-analysis, and academic literature reviews
    
    • Creating presentation decks to share findings
  • Back-rooming (note taking) during interviews & data coding
  • Programming online activity exercises on various platforms
  • Managing online activity/communities
  • Conducting simple interviews with modeling
  • Conducting the first draft analysis of primary research transcripts and homework analysis (e.g., identifying themes, behaviors, quotes)
  • Collaborating during story emergence sessions
  • Collaborating and writing early drafts of debriefs
  • Accesses relevant thinking models and frameworks to help gather and frame data collection
  • Creating video scripts based on interview transcripts and working with video editors to produce documentary-style research videos
• Contribute to proposal development (e.g., building out methodology slides, writing perspectives, etc.)

Core Competencies

• Ability to systematically scan across diverse domains—including social, technological, economic, environmental, and political trends—to identify emerging signals and drivers of change that may influence pharmaceutical markets
• Proficiency in developing multiple future scenarios to highlight business opportunities, strategic pathways, and potential market implications for pharmaceutical clients
• Excellent communication skills for presenting complex insights to both internal teams and external pharmaceutical stakeholders in accessible, actionable formats
• Strong organizational and multitasking abilities
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Great problem-solving skills
• Team player and great collaborator
• Great prioritization and time-management skills
• Detailed and action-oriented toward project goals
• Proactive risk management
• Accountable, self-motivated, independent
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams)

Requirements

• Legal authorization to work in Canada, without sponsorship.
• Ability to work within Eastern Time zone business hours.
• Minimum of a Masters degree with a focus on or additional training in Foresight / Futures / Futurology / Futuring / Futuristics
• Clear background check: Criminal, US Exclusions Database, US Denied Persons List, and EU, UK, and UN Sanctions List.

We look for people who:

• Are intellectually curious about complex systems, comfortable navigating uncertainty and ambiguity, and thrive on synthesizing diverse signals into strategic insights.
• 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, 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 four Quarterly Town Halls in-person per year (held on Fridays) in Toronto.
• 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.).

• This is a remote (based in Canada) full-time permanent position in the salary range of $60-$80k.
• FSi also offers health insurance and an RRSP matching program for qualified employees.
• FSi operates a 4-day work week, from Monday to Thursday, with mostly meeting-free Flexible Fridays 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 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 grow at FSi.