About Throughline Strategy

As a leading healthcare consultancy firm,Throughline Strategy’s sole mission is to help Life Sciences organizations improve experiences and outcomes for people living with illness and those who care for them. Our global clients come to us for our strategic counsel, behavioural and system insights, and implementation science focus — and because we have a ‘roll-up-the-sleeves’ determination to deliver great work that matters.

About the Role

Throughline Strategy is seeking experienced health researchers who are eager to grow in their consulting expertise to support our behavioural and implementation science team. In this role, you will be staffed onto high-impact quality improvement, research and strategy projects with a cross-functional and highly collaborative team, and contribute in the following ways:

- Designing and executing high impact quality improvement projects for scaling across healthcare systems in the United States
- Designing social science-informed project and grant proposals, recommendations, meetings and workshops leveraging an in-depth understanding of healthcare research frameworks and methods
- Executing qualitative and/or mixed methods primary research, co-creation and consulting projects (developing materials for IRB submission, developing interview guides, qualitative coding, analysis and synthesis, developing synthesis of meeting and workshop outputs etc.)
- Project managing the day-to-day execution of primary research and consulting projects (e.g., developing screeners, managing recruiting, document management, building and managing timelines, identifying risks, solving project-related challenges as needed etc.)




- Developing summaries and strategic communications to socialize findings from primary research and communicate complex concepts to a non-academic, business audience
- Facilitating meetings and workshops
- Contributing to the development of case studies and new practice tools and processes informed by social science
- Helping improve workplace culture and space
- Other duties as required

Intrigued and curious if you have what it takes?

At Throughline, we firmly believe that culture is as important as the work we do. We hire for values alignment first and foremost. Our values are centred around what it takes to be a great partner:

1. Move It Forward:

Even when faced with ambiguous, never-seen-before challenges, our people:

- “Make %$ happen” in order to make meaningful change and solve challenging strategic problems. Our team take on every project and task like it’s their baby.
- Bring strong attention to detail and also have the ability to balance a detail orientation with a big picture perspective.
- Thrive working in an applied setting and relish the pace of consulting work and ability to deliver results in weeks (not years)
- Love making presentations and facilitating group experiences that are compelling and memorable and help our client organizations pull-through the insights and strategies to action.

2. Know Yourself





Our team is skilled at assessing what we do well. This increases vulnerability and removes uncertainty in how we operate, creating a more dynamic and sustainable culture of trust, innovation, and teamwork. Towards this, our team:

- All bring a shared passion for improving health outcomes and experiences
- Share an insatiable curiosity. We like to know how people and things work and dig in to find out.
- Are very open to receiving feedback to enhance each of our individual and shared performance.
- Are highly effective working in a self-directed manner.

3. Kindness and Candor:

We share the truth with one another in a way that leaves everyone whole and allows people to quickly act on feedback in delivering their personal best work. As part of this we all:

- Speak well, listen even better. We take the time to understand what people really care about and what motivates them.
- Love collaborating and helping. We are a team culture and roll up our sleeves to get the job done together.

We'd love for you to apply to join us if you have:

- Successful completion of a PhD degree in social science (for example: Implementation Science, Psychology, Sociology, Behavioural Science etc.)
- Solid critical thinking, qualitative analysis, writing, and presentation skills
- Demonstrated experience:
- conducting primary research and/or quality improvement with health care providers, patients, and caregivers in a range of settings and geographies
- applying theory in a practical and applied setting and ‘right-sizing’ concepts to meet the unique needs of a particular audience
- explaining complex theoretical concepts to a lay audience in

📌 Senior Associate Strategist (Toronto)
🏢 Throughline Strategy
📍 Toronto