Analyst - Capabilities & Insights, Marketing & Sales

Job Description

Who You'll Work With

You’ll join the Gurgaon office and be part of the Periscope team, within the Marketing & Sales (M&S) practice primarily supporting the Insights & Analytics (IA) group. Periscope leverages decades of McKinsey’s marketing and sales experience helping leading companies improve pricing, promotion, assortments, and performance management. Periscope’s combination of software, tailored services, and expertise provides our clients with a granular view of their commercial and financial performance by gathering and integrating their landscape of data and information into a central data warehouse. Clients can use our intuitive interface to make decisions based on advanced analytics and can embed new pricing, commercial, and performance management capabilities throughout their organization.M&S Solutions fosters innovation driven by analytics, design thinking, mobile and social by developing new products/services and integrating them into our client work. It is helping to shift our model toward asset-based consulting and is a foundation for –and expands our investment in –our entrepreneurial culture. Through innovative software as a service solutions, strategic acquisitions, and a vibrant ecosystem of alliances, we are redefining what it means to work with McKinsey.As one of the fastest-growing parts of our firm, M&S Solutions has more than 1,000 dedicated professionals (including more than 800 analysts and data scientists) and we’re hiring more mathematicians, data scientists, designers, software engineers, product managers, client development managers and general managers.

What You'll Do

You will work with the Insights & Analytics group and consulting teams to help solve analytically complex client problems in the marketing domain, applying and administrating analytical/modeling tools and techniques and drawing insights through statistical techniques and predictive modeling. Your will primarily focus on client service with additional responsibilities in knowledge development. You will perform general statistical analysis and modeling in client engagements for marketing efforts and develop statistical models to measure and optimize pricing and promotions. As a part of this role, you will also provide expert advice to consulting teams on technique/modeling related issues and provide guidance to teams on analytics projects.Lastly, you will support development and maintenance of proprietary McKinsey marketing techniques and other knowledge development projects and deliver high quality end products on time and perform quality checks wherever required.

Qualifications

• Graduate or post graduate degree in statistics, economics, econometrics, computer science, engineering, or mathematics
• 2-5 years of relevant experience
• Adept in forecasting, regression analysis and segmentation work
• Understanding of modeling techniques, specifically logistic regression, linear regression, cluster analysis, CHAID, etc.
• Statistical programming software experience in R and comfortable working with large data sets; Python, SAS & SQL are also preferred
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to disaggregate issues, identify root causes and recommend solutions
• Excellent time management skills
• Good written and verbal communication skills; understanding of both written and spoken English
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to act autonomously, bringing structure and organization to work
• Creative and action-oriented mindset
• Ability to interact in a fluid, demanding and unstructured environment where priorities evolve constantly and methodologies are regularly challenged
• Ability to work under pressure and deliver on tight deadlines