Senior Analyst, Business Insights

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The Brand Sourcing and Manufacturer Relations (BSMR) team is seeking a Senior Analyst, Business Insights to drive strategic, data-driven decision making and foster innovation. Reporting directly to the Director of Business Insights, this high-impact role blends data platform expertise, advanced analytical skills, and economics acumen to develop and deploy cutting-edge, AI-driven solutions that directly impact manufacturer, customer, and finance relationships.

You will be the key driver for strategic data platform development and advanced analytics to optimize business outcomes across the BSMR team. This involves managing large, complex datasets, building robust data infrastructure and models on cloud-based platforms.

A central focus is the delivery of prescriptive and predictive analytics to enhance efficiency and enable sophisticated negotiation strategies. You will be responsible for architecting and championing integrated, AI-driven solutions that improve operational effectiveness across BSMR, including championing initiatives like AIM28. Furthermore, you will build integrated applications and visualizations, delivering impact through practical applications in Retool.

Success requires significant cross-functional collaboration to address challenges, deliver actionable insights, and tell compelling stories with data for non-technical stakeholders, specifically partnering with the product strategy, finance, and technology teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver actionable analytics and insights to support manufacturer relations, strategic sourcing, and data-driven decision making across BSMR.

• Lead the development and maintenance of Databricks platforms for BSMR operations and analytics

• Build harmonized data assets through HANA to enable integrated business intelligence.

• Design and maintain Retool applications that provide insights, auditing, and financial analysis, supporting Account Managers and Account Directors in negotiation and account management activities.

• Work closely with McKesson Technology to ensure the reliability, security, and ongoing enhancement of Retool, Databricks, and HANA platforms, including upgrades, user acceptance testing, and AI integration.

• Collaborate with AIM28 initiative analysts and data scientists to identify short-term opportunities and develop scalable, AI-driven solutions that advance operational excellence.

• Partner with the product strategy team to analyze brand sourcing profitability and support lever-based negotiation modeling.

• Mentor and train junior analysts, fostering growth in data knowledge, analytics tools, and business insights.

Minimum Requirement

Degree or equivalent and typically requires 7+ years of relevant experience.

Education

4-year degree in Computer Science, related field or equivalent experience

Advanced degree a plus

Critical Skills

• 7+ years of experience in data analysis

• Supply Chain & Business Acumen: Deep understanding of supply chain economics and their impact on manufacturer relations, strategic sourcing, and negotiation modeling.

• Core Technical Proficiency: Advanced proficiency in SQL, data modeling, data mining, and analytics; hands-on experience with Databricks, Snowflake, Retool, HANA, and integrated data platforms.

• Programming & Emerging Technologies:Proficiency in programming languages (Python preferred) for data analysis and automation, alongside experience utilizing or developing solutions on agentic platforms for AI/ML initiatives.

• Data Architecture & Engineering: Expertise in building and maintaining scalable data infrastructure, harmonized data assets, and AI-driven analytics solutions within cloud-based analytics environments.

• Visualization & Application Development: Strong skills in data visualization and application development using tools such as Retool, Tableau, and Power BI

• Financial & Operational Insight: Working knowledge of business functions and financial data

• Collaboration & Leadership: Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams (McKesson Technology, Product Strategy, Finance) and demonstrated capability to mentor and train junior analysts in analytics tools, programming, and business insights.

• Strategic & Innovative Mindset: A proactive mindset with the creativity to connect data across the enterprise, architect innovative solutions, and optimize existing capabilities.

Candidates must be authorized to work in USA. Sponsorship is not available for this role.

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. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations. 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, pleaseclick here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

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