Data Scientist Associate

Gurgaon, India
- India
- Platforms and Products
- BHCA - Customer Success
- 19681

**ZS** is a place where passion changes lives. As a management consulting and technology firm focused on transforming global healthcare and beyond, 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 products that create value and deliver company results across critical areas of their business including portfolio strategy, customer insights, research and development, operational and technology transformation, marketing strategy and many more. 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.**Role Overview**

**Associate Consultant, Customer Success, BHCA**: Customer Success - Associate Consultant design, develop and execute high-impact analytics solutions for large, complex, structured, and unstructured data sets (including big data) to drive impact on client business (topline). This person will lead the engagement for AI based SaaS product deployment to clients across industries. Leverage their strong Data Science, analytics and engineering skills to build Advanced analytics processes, build scalable and operational process pipelines and find data-driven insights that help our clients solve their most important business problems and bring optimizations. Associate Consultants also engage with Project Leadership team and clients to help them understand the insights, summaries, implications and make plans to act on them.**Responsibilities**
- ** Deep analytics-tech expertise**:

- Develop and implement **advanced algorithms** that solve complex business problems in a computationally efficient and statistically effective manner **leveraging tools like PySpark, Python, SQL** on Client/ZS cloud environment
- Execute **statistical and data modelling techniques** (e.g. hypothesis testing, A/B Testing setup, marketing impact analytics, statistical validity etc.) on large data sets to identify trends, figures and other relevant information with scalable and operational process implementations.
- Evaluating **emerging datasets and technologies** that may contribute to our analytical platform including good understanding of Generative AI capabilities and SaaS products.
- **Communication, collaboration, unstructured problem solving and client engagement (in a high performing and high intensity team environment)**:

- **Problem solving **and Client engagement**: Understand client business priorities, develop product use cases, do proforma analysis for estimating business opportunity, and deploy the use case for the clients.
- ** Collaboration**: Work in a cross-functional team environment to lead the client engagement and collaborate on holistic solutions comprising of best practices from Frontend and Backend engineering, Data Science, and ML Engineering area.
- ** Storyboarding & impact communication**: Build effective storyboards to communicate solution impact to clients and ZS Leadership
- ** Scaling mindset**: Provide a structure to client engagement, build and maintain standardized and operationalized Quality Checks on team’s work and ensuring high quality client deliverables
- ** Team management**: Export best practices and learnings to broader team and mentor Associates on teams

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or Statistics) from a premier institute, and strong academic performance with analytics and quantitative coursework is required
- Knowledge of programming - Python (Deep Expertise), Pyspark, SQL
- Expertise in machine learning, regression, clustering, and classification models (preferably in a product environment)
- Knowledge of big data/advanced analytics concepts and algorithms (e.g. social listening, recommender systems, predictive modeling, etc.)
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Strong attention to detail, with a value-addition mindset
- Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills
- High motivation, good work ethic and maturity.
- 1-3 years of relevant post-collegiate work experience, preferably in industries like B2C, Product companies, in execution r