Senior People Analytics Consultant

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve – we care.

What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow’s health today, we want to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

1. Serve as the client-facing analyst for multiple McKesson business units and functions, consulting with HR and business leaders to scope client needs, understand the root of the client’s challenges, and translate those into research questions that can be addressed with data.
2. Gain a strong understanding of the client’s business goals, strategy, and context.
3. Use analytical skills to make data-driven workforce strategy recommendations that support business objectives.
4. Partner closely with the PA team and HR to provide strategic decision support through data and analytics.
5. Conduct exploratory data analysis, generate and test working hypotheses, and uncover insightful trends and relationships.
6. Communicate analytic findings to other analysts, HR, and business leaders.
7. Tell stories with data and make recommendations by interpreting the “so what” and “now what” from analyses.
8. Develop presentations and present compellingly to a variety of stakeholders across levels.
9. Provide guidance on analytical approaches and methodologies to more junior analysts.
10. Occasionally advise on HR-specific enterprise-spanning analytics work.
11. Contribute to the PA team’s knowledge of analytical approaches, tools, and methodologies.
12. Travel occasionally for team meetings and client-facing presentations (including internationally).

Minimum Requirements

1. 7+ years of experience in a consulting, advisory, or technical role preferred (i.e., People/Business/Financial Analyst, Workforce Strategy, Engineer, etc.), or a job-relevant combination of education and experience.

Critical Skills

1. 7+ years of client-facing Business Intelligence, People Analytics, or Human Capital Consulting experience, working in/with complex organizations.
2. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills – approaches problems logically, systematically, and with a curious mind – looks beyond the obvious and searches for deeper insights.
3. Ability to manage multiple client groups simultaneously.
4. Highly proficient in MS product suite (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
5. Experience with analytics tools (e.g., R/Python/SPSS, Tableau/PowerBI, Alteryx).
6. Good interpersonal, relationship building, and collaboration skills - ability to assess needs, partner with other professionals cohesively, and deliver practical solutions.
7. Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences – tells stories with data that resonate with stakeholders and maximize impact.
8. Highly organized, with strong attention to detail and a drive to deliver.

Additional Knowledge & Skills

1. Experience with Visier and/or Workday a plus.
2. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
3. Good planning, organizing, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
4. Takes initiative and drives for solutions.
5. High learning orientation – exploratory mindset and learning agility to adapt to new approaches.

Education

1. Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Math, HR, Social Sciences, or related field or equivalent experience; Master’s degree in Business Administration, Analytics, I/O Psychology a plus.

We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

$108,000 - $180,000

McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer

McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees and is committed to a diverse and inclusive environment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age or genetic information. For additional information on McKesson’s full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.

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