Lead , Strategic Business Insights at McKesson in Irving, Texas

Job Description:

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.


We are looking for candidates with a blend of business acumen and technical skills. The team builds models that help our organization expand margin and invest in programs that lead to financial savings for our customers. We move healthcare forward by using data science to improve decision making.


This position will work closely with leaders across the organization in CSI Commercial Strategy and Innovation. The objective of the strategy is to effectively develop new tools and bring data from information to insights in order to bring new products to market, sustain and enhance customer compliance and growth and bring synergies between various teams.


The Lead Business Strategic Insights will be involved in the full lifecycle of the solutioning. This role is focused on using analytics to help McKesson continue to win in the market place.



Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement heuristics and optimization models across customer and product categories to improve business outcomes


• Utilize qualitative and quantitative customer and industry data to synthesize hypothesis, pilot proof of concepts, iterate solution to production and scale solution/ analysis across the organization


• Use data science techniques and analysis to understand market trends, process gaps, strategic synergies and provide actionable plans to leverage insights


• Assist with digital data acquisition/integration strategy. Build scalable data pipeline that complements existing data assets


• Leverage CSI's large data infrastructure to build next generation models focused on margin expansion and savings for customers


• Develop data science solutions as currently defined by the existing product roadmap


• Increase access to complex analysis across the organization by providing self-serve decision support tools and parametrized procs


• Decompose complex problems into scalable workstreams. Socialize the solution and key tasks across multiple teams and partner with stakeholders promote solution to production system


• Develop models into user friendly Python API's for use in heterogenous ERP's or web applications

Minimum Requirement

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent


• 7+ years of related business experience

Critical Skills:

• 5+ experience in analytics or related field


• Prior experience using analytics to create business value


• Good understanding of software engineering frameworks and use of API to commercialize data products


• Excellent communication skills- verbal, written and presentation


• 3-year Hands-on Python coding skills and familiarity with Scikit, Pandas


• 4-year Hands on SQL skills


• Deep understanding of at least two or more ML algorithms- clustering, regression, outlier detection, deep learning, time series analysis etc.

Additional Skills:

• Strong desire and ability to use data to solve business problems


• Good business acumen

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. 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



$130,400 - $217,400



McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer



McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees and is committed to a diverse and inclusive environment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age or genetic information. For additional information on McKesson's full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.



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