Strategic Insights Analyst

Strategic Insights Analyst – ClarusOne London

ClarusONE Sourcing Services, LLP, provides strategic generic pharmaceutical services for both Walmart Stores, Inc. and McKesson Corporation. Its' mission is to enable access to affordable medicines, which it has successfully been doing since its inception in 2016.

ClarusONE is a joint venture between Walmart and McKesson, two of the top 10 biggest corporations in the USA, according to the Fortune 500 list. They have more than two decades of history working together to improve the quality and lower the cost of pharmaceutical care to patients. This partnership leverages McKesson's demonstrated strength and expertise in global pharmaceutical sourcing in conjunction with Walmart's strength and commitment to delivering leading health and wellness services to their customers.

The environment in which ClarusONE operates constantly requires the organisation to adapt and change, seeking greater efficiency in how it works through improved process, technology innovation and new ways of working. Delivering these changes with discipline and rigour will ensure that they land with maximum impact, delivering for our Members and for the patients that they serve.

ClarusONE Sourcing Services is headquartered in London and prides itself on its can-do attitude that has ensured millions of Americans pay less when buying generic pharmaceuticals every day.

Role Summary

The Strategic Insights Analyst is a key role in the development, and integration of data analytics and strategic insights necessary for supporting the longer-term vision, strategies, objectives, and goals of the business. This role has the responsibility to drive key data analytics capabilities of ClarusONE, which underpin business decision making and enable the integration of analytics capability within ClarusONE's technology solutions.

This role requires strong communication skills with proven ability to analyse, interpret, and report data along with strong negotiation and relationship building skills. In addition, this role will actively partner with relevant ClarusONE business functions to align and support execution of strategic insight initiatives, transformational data requirements, and data science led project execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Work proactively and cross functionally across the business to develop initiatives that deliver value to ClarusONE members using advanced analytics and insight.
• Leverage analytical capabilities, problem solving skills and with proven ability to make recommendations based on data
• Partner with ClarusONE commercial teams to promote the development and ongoing ownership of advanced analytics solutions to drive strategic decision making
• Demonstrate the ability to independently and quickly identify solutions to complex problems through the use of data driven insights
• Communicate learnings to a wide range of audiences, including leadership positions – influencing strategic initiatives and business decisions
• Support the creation and ongoing management of data and analytics solutions which support the reduction in supply risk linked to regulation, manufacturing constraints, market dynamics and supplier financial stability.
• Work with the product delivery and programme management team to scope, develop and embed (advanced) analytics and strategic insight capability within the technology platform.
• Support the development and ongoing ownership of supplier and product segmentation's to support strategic decision making.
• Support the development of 'next best action' analytics solutions, to empower a greater degree of sourcing effort towards pro-active product and supplier management.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelors degree (Masters or PhD preferable) in Mathematics or a heavily quantitative field
• Strong commercial mindset, with the ability to translate data insights into actionable business recommendations showcasing consistent creative problem-solving capabilities
• Track record of making proactive, strategic recommendations based on data analysis.
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills both written and verbal, flexible and adaptive to changes in the business.
• Experience in applied analytics for business problem solving with proven ability to research, analyse and problem solve.
• 5 years' + experience in a senior analyst / insight manager type role – preferably in a large retail or sourcing organisation
• Advanced data analysis skills (SQL and Python required) and visualisation skills (e.g. Tableau and ThoughtSpot),
• Organisational and project management skills are critical using a consultative approach.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience in the healthcare field, preferably in generic pharmaceuticals (sales, purchasing or distribution) preferred
• Experience of cloud-based data solutions such as Snowflake R, Python or another core data science language is preferable
• Specific Experience in applied analytics such as: analytics solutions for pricing, segmentation, A/B testing, risk modelling
• Knowledge of retail pharmaceutical products and program offerings a plus.
• Knowledge of retail / pharmaceutical supply chain risk and / or experience of developing analytics risk models would be an advantage