Decision Analytics Consultant

ZS is a place where passion changes lives. As a management consulting and technology firm focused on improving life and how we live it, our most valuable asset is our people. 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. 

Our most valuable asset is our people.  

At ZS we honor the visible and invisible elements of our identities, personal experiences and belief systems—the ones that comprise us as individuals, shape who we are and 

make us unique. We believe your personal interests, identities, and desire to learn are part of your success here. Learn more about our diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and the networks ZS supports to assist our ZSers in cultivating community spaces, obtaining the resources they need to thrive, and sharing the messages they are passionate about.  

Insights & Analytics 

ZS's Insights & Analytics group partners with clients to design and deliver solutions to help them tackle a broad range of business challenges. Our teams work on multiple projects simultaneously, leveraging advanced data analytics and problem-solving techniques. Our recommendations and solutions are based on rigorous research and analysis underpinned by deep expertise and thought leadership.    

What You’ll Do  

• Leverage quantitative skills to derive answers to clients' ongoing business analytics and reporting questions. 

• Work collaboratively with clients to ascertain the client’s specific business information needs. 

• Execute a specific plan for analyzing the data necessary to secure solutions to clients’ particular business information need(s). 

• Discuss and determine with clients which specific data may be best utilized in order to perform the necessary analysis. 

• Evaluate, assess and analyze the data necessary to provide solutions to the client’s particular business information needs. 

• Communicate the data results to the client, with an emphasis on answering the business question as opposed to the analytical and reporting processes used. 

• Gain immediate familiarity with client’s internal processes. 

• Develop expertise within a client analytics area. 

• Be available for clients during regular working hours. 

What You’ll Bring 

• MBA with a bachelor's (and often graduate) degree in a quantitative, analytical discipline, such as Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Management Science, Data Science, Statistics, Econometrics, or Engineering. Alternately, candidates may possess a PhD in marketing, economics, decision sciences or related field with a business application. In lieu of an MBA or PhD, 5-8 years of relevant work experience may substitute.  

• Up to 3 years of post-MBA relevant work experience, and 3-5 years of pre-MBA relevant work experience, with evidence of strong analytic work (including use of advanced modeling techniques and tools such as R, SAS, Tableau, or VBA  

• High motivation, good work ethic, maturity and personal initiative  

• Aptitude for, and enjoyment of, leading and managing teams.  

• Effective oral and written communication skills that enable personal impact with senior-level decision makers.  

• Strong attention to detail, with a quality-focused mindset  

• Analytic problem-solving skills, with a creative and innovative outlook  

• Client service orientation