Quantamental Researcher (Healthcare or Industrials)

The opportunity

A leading global multi-strategy hedge fund is hiring Quantamental Researchers with specialist expertise in either Healthcare or Industrials. The successful candidate will combine fundamental sector understanding with quantitative research, alternative data and modern analytical methods. Working directly with investment teams, the researcher will identify differentiated insights that can improve security selection, portfolio construction and investment decision-making.

Key responsibilities

• Develop original, investment-relevant research within Healthcare or Industrials.
• Source, evaluate and analyse structured and unstructured alternative datasets.
• Translate sector knowledge into systematic features, forecasts, screens and decision tools.
• Partner with Portfolio Managers, fundamental analysts and data scientists to test and implement research ideas.
• Assess data provenance, quality, bias, coverage and stability before using information in live investment processes.
• Build reproducible research pipelines and communicate findings clearly to both technical and fundamental audiences.
• Monitor the live effectiveness of signals and refine models as market structure, company behaviour and datasets evolve.

Candidate profile

• Deep domain expertise in either Healthcare or Industrials, developed through investing, equity research, consulting, industry or specialist data work.
• Strong quantitative research skills and fluency in Python or a comparable analytical language.
• Experience working with large, complex or unconventional datasets.
• Ability to connect company- and industry-level information to tradable equity insights.
• Strong statistical judgement, including awareness of overfitting, data leakage and changing data regimes.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence an investment process.
• A high-quality academic record in a relevant quantitative, scientific, engineering, economic or financial discipline.

Preferred experience

• Buy-side quantamental, alternative-data or equity-research experience.
• For Healthcare: experience with areas such as pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, providers, payors or healthcare services.
• For Industrials: experience with areas such as aerospace, transportation, machinery, capital goods, logistics, construction or industrial technology.
• Experience with NLP, machine learning, web-derived data, geospatial data, transactions, claims, supply-chain data or other specialist datasets.
• A record of research that influenced real investment decisions or generated measurable alpha.

What the firm offers

• Direct exposure to leading Portfolio Managers and fundamental investment teams.
• Access to extensive alternative datasets, engineering support and institutional research infrastructure.
• The opportunity to define how sector-specialist quantamental research is used across the platform.
• No fixed compensation ceiling for exceptional candidates; details will be discussed privately.
• Visa sponsorship and relocation support may be available for exceptional candidates, subject to eligibility.

For more information: elaine@pointonetalent.com