Strategy Insights & Planning Associate Consultant

Overview

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.

ZS’s Data Strategy and Data Office has two pillars. First, we advise clients across sectors — including Med Tech, Health, Travel & Hospitality, and other data-intensive industries — on all matters related to enterprise Data Strategy. As data volumes expand and AI reshapes business models, Data Strategy has become a critical, board-level priority. The team supports clients in defining data vision and mission, designing operating models and data organizations, establishing governance and stewardship frameworks, shaping data sourcing and generation strategies, enabling robust data architecture and cataloging capabilities, and driving compliant value creation.

In close collaboration with our Digital and Technology practice, we diagnose and execute data strategies, helping clients build data capabilities and products that drive competitive advantage. The second pillar, Data Office, focuses on building and managing strategic relationships with a wide range of data providers to enable differentiated access to data and power innovative ZS offerings and services.

Data Strategy Associate Consultant will be located close to one of our East Coast U.S. offices and will help deliver world-class solutions that shape and execute enterprise data strategies, primarily in the Med Tech, Health Insurance, or Travel & Hospitality sectors. This includes developing data organizations and Data Offices, designing governance and operating models, strengthening AI-ready data foundations, driving data portfolio optimization and value realization, and leading hands-on delivery of data programs.

This individual will have high visibility within the firm and will work collaboratively with the broader Data Strategy team across the Americas, Europe and India, as well as with colleagues across multiple practice areas (e.g., Research and Development Excellence Digital Strategy, Technology Advisory, Compliance, and others).

What you’ll do:

• Build and develop expertise in enterprise data strategy, data ecosystems and AI-ready data foundations across industries, with growing understanding of the U.S. data landscape
• Support (in collaboration with ZS’ internal and client-facing teams) the design and execution of enterprise data strategy engagements, contributing to defining data vision, operating models and transformation roadmaps that address client challenges and strengthen AI-ready data foundations
• Contribute to the design and implementation of strategic data capabilities that strengthen how organizations manage, govern and use data to drive business value
• Own defined work streams and analyses, supporting project leads in delivering objectives on time and within scope
• Partner with senior team members to support project planning, coordination, staffing and risk management activities
• Build working relationships with client stakeholders and support presentations related to project deliverables, brainstorming sessions, discussions and status updates
• Collaborate with an extended global team of diverse skill sets (knowledge management, data technologists, business operations, etc.) to deliver high-quality outputs
• Provide guidance to junior team members when appropriate
• Contribute to building long-term Data Strategy assets and offerings
• Support proposal development, client discussions and thought leadership efforts where data expertise is needed
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