Data Science Analyst, Equity Research, Healthcare Team
About the role
The Data Science Analyst (Science Analyst) will join the Healthcare team within Global Investment Research. This team manages over $100B in healthcare investments across 50 Portfolio Managers globally. The Science Analyst will collaborate closely with Global Industry Analysts and Portfolio Managers, leveraging data science, AI, and alternative data to generate differentiated investment insights.
Responsibilities
- Work as an integral part of the Healthcare team, partnering directly with Global Industry Analysts and Portfolio Managers.
- Translate broad investment questions into testable data science workflows and analytical outputs.
- Apply AI and agentic tools to streamline research workflows and contribute directly to investment idea generation.
- Communicate results clearly, including limitations, confidence levels, and interpretation risk.
- Serve as an experienced data science resource across the Healthcare team's coverage areas.
- Rapidly get up to speed on new companies, sub-sectors, datasets, and business models as the need arises.
- Assess and sequence incoming requests based on expected investment impact, feasibility, and how repeatable the resulting work would be.
- Develop differentiated signals and analytical frameworks from alternative and structured datasets relevant to healthcare investing.
- Evaluate dataset quality, coverage, bias, and signal durability.
- Build repeatable tools, screens, and research outputs that can be used across companies and themes within the sector.
- Partner with Data Engineering to productionize high-value signals where appropriate.
Qualifications
- 3-5+ years of experience in data science, alternative data, investment research, healthcare analytics, or a related analytical role.
- Prior experience working with investment teams, research teams, or senior business stakeholders.
- Strong Python and SQL skills.
- Comfort with AI/LLM tooling and agentic workflows, and the ability to apply them to streamline the research process and support idea generation.
- Experience working with large, messy, real-world datasets.
- Hands-on experience with a variety of alternative datasets, including a track record of sourcing and evaluating new or emerging data, not just working with what's already established.
- Strong ability to evaluate dataset quality, bias, representativeness, and signal robustness.
- Genuine investment acumen and curiosity about markets, companies, and how data translates into an investment thesis - not just a technical interest in the data itself.
- Ability to translate ambiguous investment or business questions into concrete analyses.
- Strong communication skills and ability to present nuanced findings to senior stakeholders.
- High judgment and comfort operating independently in ambiguous environments.
Location
The Data Science Analyst will ideally be based in Wellington's Global Headquarters in Boston, MA. Location in the New York, NY office will also selectively be considered.
Benefits
- Base salary range: USD 90,000 - 180,000
- Discretionary Corporate Bonus and/or Incentives, if eligible.
- Comprehensive and high-value benefit package including:
- Retirement plan
- Health and wellbeing
- Dental, vision, and pharmacy coverage
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending accounts and commuter program
- Employee assistance program
- Life and disability insurance
- Adoption assistance
- Back-up childcare
- Tuition/CFA reimbursement
- Paid time off (leave of absence, paid holidays, volunteer, sick and vacation time)
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