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

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 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

• Salary: Competitive base salary of £36,500 with access to our bonus scheme.

  • In Year 1, an average performer can expect to earn at least £40,000 OTE but our top performers make more!

• Vacation: 25 days (which increases to 28 days after 2 years of service) plus UK Bank Holidays
• Learning: personal development allowance of £750 per year
• Health and wellbeing: private medical insurance and healthcare cash plan, a variety of health and wellbeing events to focus on mental health, Ride to Work scheme (savings on bikes and accessories)
• Future and family: pension contributions of 4% (increases with tenure) and life insurance of 4x of your base salary
• Flexibility: work from anywhere for one month per year, 2 annual volunteer days, 2 personal days when life throws you a curveball and 'Summer Fridays'
• Rewards: get points through our colleague-to-colleague recognition programme to spend on hotels, gift cards, donations to charity and more
• Social: weekly optional social gatherings, daily breakfast and snacks, social events
• ESG: CSR, Environment and Diversity & Inclusion (including Women at Third Bridge, Pride and Blkbridge)
• Frontline Innovation: your chance to share your ideas for improvement through Hackathons and other events

The successful candidate must, by the start of the employment, have permission to work in the country they are applying.

We know that to be truly innovative, we need to have a diverse team around us. That is why Third Bridge is committed to creating an inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. If you are not 100% sure if you are right for the role, please apply anyway and we will be happy to consider your application.