Sr. Strategic Data Scientist

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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. 

Candidate must be based in the metropolitan area of our hub city Columbus, OH. Position will primarily allow for remote working, but candidate must reside in the Columbus, OH area and be willing to come into the office from time to time for key meetings and face time. 

We are unable to provide sponsorship now or in the future for this position.  

Minimum Qualifications: 

Degree or equivalent and typically requires 7+ years of relevant experience 

Education: 

• BA/BS required in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Public Health Information, Bioinformatics, or equivalent quantitative field. 

• MS or Advanced degree preferred 

Critical Skills You’ll Need: 

• 5-7 years' of experience in an analytics role. 

• 5-7 years' Statistical Software experience (PYTHON, R, MATLAB, SAS, etc.) 

• 2+ years' experience with transactional data management. 

• Demonstrated data mining technical knowledge and skills for use in decision trees, multivariate analysis, segmentation modeling, factor analysis, regression analysis, forecasting, machine learning, etc.  

• Proven ability to transform large transactional datasets into meaningful outcomes. 

Preferred Skills: 

• Curious problem solver by nature; able to quickly make sense of complex data issues. 

• Driven, self-motivated, team player adept at working in environment with competing priorities.  

• Strong experience with data mining, analysis, and providing insights.  

• Adept at creating queries, writing reports, and presenting findings. 

• Advanced proficiency in SQL. 

• Advanced proficiency in data visualization tools e.g., Excel, Tableau, R Studio, etc. 

• Proven ability to create meaningful data science tools, apps, and/or models that leads to improved business decisions.  

• Able to communicate and manage expectations. 

• Excellent communication and presentation skills including to senior leadership and C-Suite external stakeholders; able to “think on your feet” and respond to questions where the answer is not known or not straightforward. (able to provide complex analysis in layman’s terms – at varying levels of audience, from peer set to C-suite). 

Additional Skills: 

• Industry Expertise – Insurance, Pharmaceutical, or Healthcare. 

  • Specific preference for pharmaceutical claim adjudication experience. 

• Collaboration – Key success factors in this role include leading without direct authority, building relationships across multiple functions, and listening to input and perspectives from across the organization, customers, and industry stakeholders.  

• Passion - The candidate should have a passion for improving US healthcare and a desire to join a team that focuses every day on enabling healthier lives through the work that we do.  

Starting Pay is between $125,000 to $130,000 based on skills and qualifications for this role in Columbus, OH. 

We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

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