-: So my name is Seth Shackter.
I am an analyst at Desi BioConsulting.
Desi Bio is a boutique firm
meaning that we're specialized in a specific area.
That area is life sciences.
So the majority of our work focuses around diagnostics
so the easiest example that I usually give is
it's not the pharmaceuticals or the drugs
that patients receive, but it's the tests
in order to tell what drug they should receive
for their treatments.
So, actually, we're more focused on the business side of it.
So even though that's what we're focused on,
usually the questions are more things to the effect of,
what is the market size or what is the next country
that we should go into or how should we modify our strategy
in this company in order to increase our market share.
I think, ultimately, the most important part
of the mission statement is to support the team.
You're the person where generally an analyst is someone,
when you're on a case, you're the one who is
100% allocated to it.
So you're the one who's really in the weeds.
You're doing the primary and the secondary research
so that can take the form of interviewing
key opinion leaders and other people
who are really on the cutting edge of the field,
as well as actually going through guidelines,
regulations, and other factors like that.
So, I guess, your mission is to ultimately
be able to communicate to the senior level team members
what they need to know in a concise manner
so that then they can deliver it to the client.
So, I would split the analyst's role into kind of
four different sections.
When people ask what is a regular day like,
you're never gonna really have a typical day
but you'll have typical tasks.
So the first one, I would say, is sourcing.
So that's actually locating those key opinion leaders
and reaching out to them saying, hey, we're interested
in speaking to you, are you available?
The next one would be conducting the actual interviews
with them.
At our job and throughout a case,
we'll have an interview guide
so we ask everyone the same standardized questions
to make sure we can then aggregate the data at the end.
The third phase would be data analysis.
So once you've gotten a couple interviews under your belt,
actually taking a step back and saying,
alright, well, now what does this all mean.
And then, finally, the last part would be
the actual synthesis which would be the development
of the presentation and taking all of the data
and converting it into a Power Point presentation
that the client can then show to everyone else.