Sr. Strategic Data Scientist

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve – we care.

What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow’s health today, we want to hear from you.

The Sr. Strategic Data Scientist at CoverMyMeds makes a significant contribution to the success of our company.  This role is broadly responsible for value proposition refinement and supporting key customer teams by providing world-class analytics and insight into our vast store of live data.    

This position collaborates extensively with business units and channels across the company and supports the business goals of external clients.  

About You:

Our ideal candidate is curious, thrives in a constantly changing environment and seamlessly crafts data narratives to communicate key findings and actionable insights to our customers and colleagues.  

What You'll Do:

• Serve as the lead point of contact for all customer analytics matters and liaise with other data functions as required to connect the dots across data sets.  

• Frequently develops proactive data and storytelling to help anticipate and meet the strategic needs of a customer and Customer Success Team (CST) leaders.  

• Develop trusted advisor relationships with key accounts, customer stakeholders and executive sponsors. 

• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets, track model performance ensuring alignment to business value drivers.  

• Utilize complex statistical and predictive modeling to make predictions about future outcomes and in multiple scenarios.  

• Mine and analyze data from company databases to drive optimization and improvement of product development, marketing techniques, and business strategies.  

• Ensure the timely and successful delivery of our solutions according to customer needs and objectives.  

• Clearly communicate the progress of monthly/quarterly analytics requests to internal and external stakeholders  

• Lead new data-driven insight presentations with customers. 

• Use creative means to proactively identify areas of improvement to enhance product value for clients.  

• Keep abreast on data and analytics challenges and opportunities across products and customer bases.  

• Forecast and track key account metrics (e.g., quarterly sales results and annual forecasts). 

• Assist with challenging client requests or issue escalations as needed. 

• Perform in-depth analysis to identify key business risks and opportunities and make recommendations to improve overall profitability and value.  

• Distill complex data and relationships into clear, concise charts and visualizations.  

• Contribute insight to strategic and tactical decisions that impact competitive position, product design, analytics, and operations.  

• Become a subject matter expert (SME) on CoverMyMeds programs and the pharmaceutical industry.  

• Work on high-profile customer accounts in collaboration with account management teams. 

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