Decision Analytics Consultant – RW; Evanston, IL

Job Description

ZS is a place where passion changes lives. As a management consulting and technology firm focused on improving life and how we live it, we transform ideas into impact by bringing together data, science, technology and human ingenuity to deliver better outcomes for all. Here you’ll work side‑by‑side with a powerful collective of thinkers and experts shaping life‑changing solutions for patients, caregivers and consumers worldwide.

ZSers drive impact by bringing a client‑first mentality to each and every engagement. We partner collaboratively with our clients to develop custom solutions and technology products that create value and deliver company results across critical areas of their business. Bring your curiosity for learning, bold ideas, courage and passion to drive life‑changing impact to ZS.

Salary: $155,000 to $190,000 per year

Location:

Evanston, IL and various, unanticipated locations throughout the United States

Benefits:
Compensation package offers min/max salary + COLA, leave policies, bonus incentives, relocation, medical/dental/life insurance, retirement benefits.

Zs’s U.S. Industry Pharma Neighborhood focuses on helping pharmaceutical and biotech companies bring cancer treatments to market by leveraging data, analytics, and strategy. Formulate and apply mathematical modeling and other optimizing methods (e.g., data science, business analytics, quantitative methodologies, algorithms and data structures, predictive modeling, and statistical analysis) to develop and interpret information that assists management with decision‑making, policy formulation, or other managerial functions and directly oversee, manage, and provide technical and quantitative guidance to junior team members (10%).

Manage all aspects of quantitative and data‑focused projects, including defining project scope, developing strategies, and creating detailed project plans, requiring ability to analyze and quality check primary and secondary data, perform predictive modeling, and develop reports and recommend operational strategies based on analysis (5%). Provide leadership and management within projects and practice areas to ensure that project deliverables are completed with an appropriate level of analytical rigor and are delivered on time and within budget (10%).

Manage the design and execution of quantitative and qualitative analyses to understand and address key project issues while helping clients to improve their commercial effectiveness (10%). Create detailed project plans, direct project timelines, and manage internal and external deliverables by developing timelines and guiding quality assurance team members in early stages of project lifecycle to identify technical or data‑related issues (5%).

Synthesize data findings, develop recommendations, and communicate results by reviewing insights synthesized by teams, recommending additional analysis, and reviewing and providing feedback on team’s deliverables (5%). Conduct issue analysis and develop hypotheses on key client issues by analyzing strategic and tactical methodologies, tracking progress of solutions, and reviewing findings and recommending strategies to senior ZS partners (5%). Serve as a key point of contact for project requests and engage with internal Expertise Centers to develop and deliver best‑in‑class projects by outlining client needs/requests/inputs for team to incorporate into projects, sharing project updates with client, presenting findings and recommendations, and making final decisions on client deliverables (5%).

Conduct team status meetings to coordinate sub‑projects and tasks across team members while ensuring the quality of all project deliverables by assigning and tracking project deliverables and conducting daily meetings to solve quantitative issues (10%). Manage both internal and external team communication, and communicate any changes in deadlines, scope, and timing to client project managers (5%). Lead project task execution by ensuring progress, organizing project plans and coordinating team meetings (5%).

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