Research Associate, Forum (Healthcare) 2025

Company Description

Third Bridge provides expert research services to the biggest private equity funds, consulting firms, credit, and public equity funds across all regions. Our insights from people help them make fast, high-quality investment decisions.

Founded in 2007, we’ve grown to over 1,300 employees across nine offices worldwide, delivering around-the-clock support to more than 1,000 leading investment funds and consulting firms.

Our commitment to fostering growth, driving collaboration, and rewarding bold action makes Third Bridge the ideal launching pad for commercially driven individuals to thrive in the business world.

Job Description

We are currently accepting applications for all of 2025! Due to high demand, we will prioritize those with earlier start dates.

Please note that if you're applying 3+ months in advance, it may take us some time to review your application. Thank you for your patience during this period.

Forum is a content product that helps investors make better investment decisions faster. We conduct in depth Interviews with senior executives and industry specialists to unearth critical insights and generate unfiltered transcripts. Our 100+strong industry aligned team covers over 3,000 public and private companies, applying data-driven factor models to identify where capital is most likely to be deployed. Our library of over 50,000 Forum Interview transcripts is continually strengthened by the generation of approximately 900 transcripts per month.  

Dive into our comprehensive training program and as you progress from a new hire to a seasoned Associate, you will learn:

• About our business, our team and our clients
• How to Research various sectors and companies globally and help develop strategies to increase the adoption of our products and services
• How to use our proprietary tools and public databases to prospect and recruit specialists who are the most pertinent for each topic
• How to manage projects and develop relationships with experts and internal stakeholders
• Leadership and networking skills to use throughout your career

Responsibilities

In this role your responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Researching companies and topics across Healthcare sub-sectors (biotechnology & pharmaceuticals, healthcare facilities & services, and medical equipment & devices)
• Collaborate with in-house analysts to identify key catalysts driving the performance of companies and industries that comprise a specific sector
• Encouraging these individuals to participate in the interview, while ensuring that their insights are relevant and their fees are within budget
• Developing relationships with existing Third Bridge industry contacts and building new ones with experts you have identified
• Working towards tight deadlines alongside other members of the Forum team

Skills

• Proven experience in communicating effectively and building relationships
• Demonstrable skill in carrying out research with a logical and focused approach
• A solid understanding of the wider business world; an interest in financial markets would be beneficial
•  A resourceful nature, with a diligent and proactive approach to their work
•  The ability to work well within a team, under pressure and with a positive attitude

Qualifications

• Hold a 4-year college degree with strong academic record
• Professional or academic medical experience would be advantageous, including research-intensive experience, Natural Sciences, Biology, Biochemistry, Biomedical Sciences etc.
• Ideally the candidate must have 0-2 years of work experience. The level of experience may vary, but what matters is your curiosity, drive and ambition

Additional Information

We are currently accepting applications for all of 2025! Due to high demand, we will prioritize those with earlier start dates.

Please note that if you're applying 3+ months in advance, it may take us some time to review your application. Thank you for your patience during this period.

Rewarding your hard work. We offer a range of incredible rewards and benefits. These include the basics, which are:

• Competitive base salary of $70,000 with access to our bonus scheme after just 1 month.
• 15 days of vacation (which increases to 20 days after 2 years of employment), plus US Holidays

We're very supportive of your career development here in Third Bridge:

• We create flexible career and development paths, with opportunities to gain a wide range of transferable skills.
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