Pricing Solution Delivery Specialist - Growth Marketing & Sales

Your Growth You will be working in one of our North American offices as part of our Growth, Marketing & Sales practice. Periscope by McKinsey is the technology backbone of McKinsey’s Growth, Marketing & Sales Practice. Founded in 2007, it combines world-leading intellectual property, prescriptive analytics and cloud-based tools, with expert support and training. This unique combination drives revenue growth – now, and in the future. We enable our clients to make better commercial decisions faster by uncovering actionable insights. Periscope’s suite of solutions helps organizations accelerate and transform their category management and revenue growth management. It combines world-class IP, enriched data, cloud-based tools, and end-to-end capability building to create actionable insights and new ways of working. This combination helps to drive lasting performance improvement, a 2-7% increase in return on sales (ROS), and margin management. With experts and analysts around the world, the portfolio of solutions is comprised of: Marketing Solutions, Customer Experience Solutions, Category Solutions, B2C Pricing Solutions, B2B Pricing Solutions and Sales Solutions. These are complemented by ongoing client service and custom capability building programs. Periscope has a presence in 28 locations across six continents, 35+ capabilities, and a team of 800+ technology and business professionals and 300+ experts. To learn more about how Periscope’s solutions and experts are helping businesses continually drive better performance, visit www.mckinsey.com/periscope. Your ImpactYou will work in teams to tackle key strategic, organizational, and operational challenges faced by our clients. You will collaborate within a team to deliver capabilities that transform how our clients establish and execute their merchandising and/or pricing strategy. Our clients benefit from our collective experience in bringing the best of McKinsey strategy together with our best-in-class Periscope Pricing Solutions. You will be expected to collaborate with client business and technical stakeholders to deliver end to end solutions. We are looking for talented individuals who have a strong sense of ownership, accountability, and a desire to deliver high quality end to end intuitive and impactful analytic products using advanced data driven approaches. This role provides exposure to multiple client business and technical leaders. You will work within a cross-functional team of data scientists, solution analysts, data engineers and product experts to execute solution deployments, analysis, and/or upgrades. You will master the analytics and methodology embedded into the solutions and the data concepts related to the sector domains. You will also develop a deep understanding of the domain/function (across pricing, promotions, loyalty, trade promotion management and/or assortment), to clearly articulate the benefits of Periscope to clients, both external and internal, and how they are implemented in an organization. This involves engaging with client sponsors on a regular basis to discuss how to drive user adoption and helping them with questions they might have regarding the solution and its impact to their business. Your qualifications and skills • 5+ years of experience in the field of consulting, analytic pricing, merchandising and/or technology delivery • Bachelor’s degree in business or in engineering (MBA is a plus) • Experience working with analytical topics, data science, data visualization tools and statistics, within CPG, and/or Retail organizations preferred • Able to articulate solutions to stakeholders with different degrees of business and technical knowledge • Proven experience working in complex and diverse delivery environments • Able to work well in highly entrepreneurial environment with teams and with client sponsors on a regular basis • Proven problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly process complex information and present it clearly and simply. Some experience of leading a team, collaborating with or managing junior resources. Able to identify requirements and translate into actionable design documentation • Consistently delivers exceptional results and and generate great ideas, while working independently and as part of a team • Curious and committed to personal development • Comfortable navigating ambiguity. Ability and experience to make decisions based on assumptions, data-led hypothesis testing and pro’s/con’s analysis • Excellent written and oral communication and data presentation skills, with the ability to communicate technical concepts / solutions to business partners • Experience with managing large scale projects, leading multiple workstreams and working with multiple business stakeholders in a matrixed environment to influence decision-making • Solid understanding and hands-on experience working with large data sources and proficiency in latest cloud based advanced tools and platforms • Experience working with product owners, project managers, business analysts, SMEs and data team to collaboratively design, configure and deliver solutions Apply Job!