Driving lasting impact and building long-term capabilities with our clients is not easy work. You thrive in a high performance/high reward culture - doing hard things, picking yourself up when you stumble, and having the resilience to try another way forward.

As a Senior Data Scientist and Analytics Product Owner for Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG) clients, you will focus on Innovation Leadership and help drive an innovation agenda for CPG Analytics across sciences, talent and tools by defining analytics use cases and aligning with a partner stakeholder group on prioritization. Your responsibilities include:

• Contributing to the roadmap for analytical code innovation and bringing in additional analytical features.
• Evaluating the benefits and risks of alternative modeling platforms and technologies and making recommendations for future use.
• Providing expert leadership in client projects through engaging directly with clients and consulting teams to shape analytics approach and finalize client-facing recommendations.
• Coaching clients, consulting team members and Periscope leads to drive knowledge and adoption of analytical best practices.
• Driving analytical innovation while engaging clients and McKinsey consulting teams with in-project expert leadership.

• Advanced degree in applied math, economics, statistics, or other quantitative science.
• 5+ years of experience in consulting and/or development, retail pricing or promotional management with practical data analysis experience.
• Experience with advanced analytics techniques to model, forecast, and optimize decisions, particularly in pricing and promotions; includes econometric modeling, ML modeling techniques XGBoost and decision trees, and use of a Solver for optimization.
• Experience developing analytical solutions for internal or external usage.
• Advanced knowledge in statistical packages and comfort working with teams that make heavy use of Python and R.
• Experience collaborating with a team of statistical analysts.
• Highly proficient at problem-solving challenging business issues with clients and McKinsey consultants.
• Ability to juggle overlapping and frequent challenging commitment timelines and reprioritize as necessary to meet evolving business objectives.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills that can be employed when partnering with clients and other partners to build relationships and achieve goals.
• Ability to critically evaluate and communicate business issues/risks with conviction to clients and partners.