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McKinsey & Company

Pricing Solution Delivery Specialist - Growth, Marketing & Sales

Posted: 11 hours ago

Job Description

Who You'll Work WithDriving lasting impact and building long-term capabilities with our clients is not easy work. You are the kind of person who thrives in a high performance/high reward culture - doing hard things, picking yourself up when you stumble, and having the resilience to try another way forward.In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we'll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities you need to become a stronger leader faster than you ever thought possible. Your colleagues—at all levels—will invest deeply in your development, just as much as they invest in delivering exceptional results for clients. Every day, you'll receive apprenticeship, coaching, and exposure that will accelerate your growth in ways you won’t find anywhere else.When you join us, you will have:Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions for our clients. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.World-class benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well-being for you and your family.Your ImpactYou will work at the core of bridging client business challenges with the capabilities of our Periscope ® solution. You will be required to master the methodology embedded into the solutions and develop a deep understanding of the domain/function (across pricing, promotions and/ or assortment), to clearly articulate the benefits of the solution to clients, both external and internal, and how they are implemented in an organization.In this role, you will collaborate closely with Periscope® leadership and client representatives to tackle complex business challenges through joint problem-solving sessions. You will play a key role in driving process improvements to enhance efficiency and accelerate the transition to a steady state. By engaging with the product development team, you will provide ongoing feedback to refine solutions and identify opportunities to enhance or add features, ensuring Periscope® delivers actionable insights aligned with client needs.You will support clients in their usage of Periscope® solution and engage with client sponsors as well as program leadership on a regular basis to drive user adoption and drive the process of converting and enriching client raw data and deliver the insights related to the business challenges at stake.You will act as a bridge to client requirement and solution capability and structure and configure the Periscope® solution as per client needs. For this, you may have to master analytics/methodology embedded and the data concepts related to Periscope® functional or sector domains.You will also facilitate client user acceptance testing (“UAT”) to help client with any tool-related issues and work closely with internal product team members to ensure issues reported get resolved on priority.You will be responsible for analyzing information on client needs and sales opportunities, providing insights into key market trends and product competitiveness, identifying opportunities for upgrade or additional training, and working with the digital delivery team to align execution dates and operative tasks.You will be based in our Costa Rica office, working as part of the Periscope® team—a dynamic, fast-growing, and highly visible group within our Marketing & Sales Solutions practice and the broader firm. As a member of the data delivery team, you will have the opportunity to develop deep expertise in the domain and contribute to impactful client outcomes.The Marketing & Sales practice strives to help clients in both consumer and business-to-business environments on a wide variety of marketing and sales topics. Our clients benefit from our experience in core areas of sales and marketing topics such as sales and channel management, branding, customer insights, marketing ROI, digital marketing, CLM and pricing. Our practice offers an exceptional opportunity to work at the intersection of sales, marketing and consulting. Focusing on issues like redefining sales and marketing operations and commercial transformation, our people help clients build capabilities and transform how companies go to market-moving them to customer-centric organizations.Periscope® is the technology backbone of McKinsey’s Sales & Marketing practice. Founded in 2007, it combines world-leading intellectual property, prescriptive analytics and cloud-based tools with expert support and training. This unique combination drives revenue growth – now, and in the future. The platform offers a suite of Marketing & Sales solutions that accelerate and sustain commercial transformation for businesses.Periscope® leverages its world-leading IP (largely from McKinsey but also other partners) and best-in-class technology to enable transparency into big data, create actionable insights, and new ways of working that drive lasting performance improvement, and typically sustain a 2-7% increase in return on sales (ROS). With a truly global reach, the portfolio of solutions is comprised of: marketing solutions, customer experience solutions, category solutions, B2C pricing solutions, B2B pricing solutions and sales solutions. These are complemented by ongoing client service and custom capability building programs.Periscope® has a presence in 27 locations across 16 countries with a team of 800+ IT and business professionals and a network of 300+ experts.Your Qualifications and Skills5+ years of professional work experience in the field of IT, consulting and/or business intelligenceBachelor’s degree in engineering, business or computer science; master’s degree is a plusExpert communicator (verbal and written) with the ability to facilitate discussions and conduct trainingTrack record of completing projects successfully on time, within budget and as per scopeAbility to thrive in a flexible and collaborative environmentTrack record of strong problem-solving, requirement gathering and leading by exampleProficiency data modeling principles (database structure, entity relationships, UID) and software development principles (modularization, testing, refactoring)Experience in deploying ETL/data pipelines and workflows in cloud technologies and architecture such as Azure and Amazon web servicesIntellectually curious and enjoys problem-solving, requirement gathering, and adaptive to lead with exampleExcellent written and verbal communication skills in English, pricing experience in a B2B or B2C environment is ideal

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