Head of Healthcare Content and Events
Job Summary
GLG’s Content and Events team is seeking an experienced Healthcare research professional to lead the team designing Healthcare-focused content and events, primarily for Financial Services clients. This includes down-the-line management of the team, driving editorial vision and strategy, and building relationships with clients and content experts to grow the business.
The right candidate for this role will have in-depth knowledge of a broad variety of healthcare topics, with the ability to lead conversations featuring cutting-edge healthcare experts, particularly academic KOLs, as well as investors. This person should be familiar with the key concepts and important players in the healthcare investment space. They have a passion for learning and educating others about healthcare topics, as well as a passion for growing a business.
Specific responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
- Directly engage and build relationships with academic KOLs, healthcare executives, and investors to build the GLG healthcare community
- Hire, mentor, and manage healthcare content professionals
- Own the editorial vision and healthcare content strategy for GLG, including coordinating the team’s primary research into pharma, biotech, medical devices & diagnostics, and healthcare services spaces
- Ensure that GLG healthcare content – both live and on-demand – is best-in-class quality
- Ability to travel and host meetings tied to key global healthcare industry conferences
- In partnership with the GLG’s Head of Content and Events, help to design and maintain a product suite that meets the needs of healthcare investors
- Serve as a leader for GLG’s overall Content and Events team, as well as the broader GLG healthcare community
- Effectively communicate GLG’s Mission, Vision, and Strategy
- Represent the core values that underpin GLG’s culture and brand
Key performance metrics for this role include client content and event consumption and the overall performance of the GLG healthcare business, especially with key healthcare-focused clients.
An ideal candidate will have the following:
- MD, PhD, and/or MBA preferred
- Demonstrated experience with and deep knowledge of healthcare investing and the healthcare investment community
- 15+ years of buy-side or sell-side analyst experience; technical scientific experience; or combination of both
- Must follow a bottoms-up investment research process focused on specific companies
- Demonstrated ability to mentor junior professionals and work as part of a team
- Intellectual curiosity with a passion for healthcare and a desire to learn
- Strong commercial skills with the ability to operate in a fast-paced environment
- Outgoing personality with the ability to build relationships and lead a complex healthcare discussion in a room of experts
What We Offer:
Benefits: All U.S. GLGers also have access to benefits such as:
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage effective on your first day of employment
- Flexible paid time off. No pre-determined limits on vacation time, plus 10 company holidays
- 401(k) and Roth 401(k) plans with an employer match (subject to annual limits & vesting)
- Tuition reimbursement program for eligible courses including language skills courses
- Paid parental leave, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement
- Free wellbeing support with the Calm app, Maven and EAP, and free long-term therapy & counselling assistance through Pathways
- Other work perks and benefits available based on final job location
Compensation: GLG is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual compensation is based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. Certain roles may also be eligible for incentive compensation.
About GLG / Gerson Lehrman Group
GLG is the world’s insight network. Our clients rely on GLG’s global team to connect with powerful insight across fields from our network of approximately 1 million experts (and the hundreds of new experts we recruit every day).
We serve thousands of the world’s best businesses, from Fortune 500 corporations to leading technology companies to professional services firms and financial institutions. We connect our clients to the world’s largest and most varied source of first-hand expertise, including executives, scientists, academics, former public-sector leaders, and the foremost subject matter specialists.
GLG’s industry-leading compliance framework allows clients to learn in a structured, auditable, and transparent way, consistent with their own internal compliance obligations and the highest professional ethical standards. Our compliance standards are a major competitive differentiator and key component of the company’s culture.
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Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. (“GLG”) is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, race, religion, color, marital status, disability, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classification protected by federal, state, or local law.
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Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. (“GLG”) is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, race, religion, color, marital status, disability, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classification protected by federal, state, or local law.