Associate Analytics Consultant
Alexandria, Virginia
McChrystal Analytics /
Full-Time /
On-site
McChrystal Group’s Associate Analytics Consultant plays a central role in the execution of people analytics and survey-based consultative engagements with clients focused on data-driven organizational change efforts. They help plan project stages, report on progress to assure deadlines and standards are met, and play a pivotal role in the data analysis that drives business outcomes for clients. In this capacity, they work under an Analytics Project Lead and operate at the nexus between the MG Analytics team, the client, and other internal stakeholders during day-to-day project activities. Core areas of focus include basic data analysis, survey science and statistical analysis, data visualization and presentation design, and most critically, data-driven story telling in communications with client leaders, as well as standard consultative skills.
Our work is focused on leveraging data-driven insights, leadership training, and our Team of Teams methodology to transform the people, processes, and technology of our partners to enable them to be more adaptable, agile, and effective in an ever-more-demanding market climate. Put simply, we enable our clients to outpace their environment, their competitors, and their next challenge.
Expect that you will be a part of a dynamic, high performing team and have direct engagement with internal and client senior level leaders - from Manager to C-suite - at a regular cadence.
Responsibilities:
- Assists in planning, designing, and executing end-to-end analytics projects with clients, including research design, data collection, analysis, presentation, recommendations, and follow-up consultation
- Assists with designing focus groups and interview sessions with clients
- Performs data cleaning and analysis of survey results
- Analyzes and manipulates client HR/demographics data sets to contextualize survey responses by demographic cohorts
- Prepares client-ready presentations
- Uses data trends to tell a story and helps craft narrative-driven presentations for executive-level buyers
- Supports delivery of client presentations to executive-level stakeholders
- Applies statistical methods and/or proprietary models to report accurate results, on schedule, and in standard formats
- Communicates how data was analyzed using easy-to-understand language
- Manages relationships with internal stakeholder teams to ensure timely project execution and coordination with Analytics team leadership
- Demonstrates innovation through research and contribution to new products, visualizations, tools, etc.
- Performs other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of relevant professional experience, or a Master’s degree and 2 years of relevant professional experience
- Previous project management and planning experience
- Ability to effectively coordinate with internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to juggle multiple projects and respond to conflicting needs
- Strong analytical, research, writing, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to synthesize and simplify complex data into high-level narratives
- Advanced proficiency with MS Office Suite, especially Excel and PowerPoint
- Experience analyzing survey questions and responses, including basic statistical techniques and significance metrics
- Experience in, or willingness to learn, Python and/or R for basic data manipulation and statistical analysis
- Experience in, or willingness to learn, SQL or other relational database querying for basic data retrieval and reporting
- Experience in, or willingness to learn, data visualization tools such as Power BI or D3.js is a plus
- Ability to support the coordination and maintenance of client relationships
- Ability and desire to travel up to 25% of the time
Benefits:
- Exceptional Access to Senior Leaders
- Comprehensive Benefits Plan
- Responsible PTO Policy
- 401(k) Plan with Company Match
- Family Leave
- Mentor Program
- Focused Professional Development Programming
- Bi-Annual All Hands
- Headquartered in Old Town Alexandria
- Metro-accessible, Free on-site Parking
McChrystal Group helps organizations drive the results that matter by unleashing the power of your teams. That's why we’ve been helping organizations get their teams working better, smarter, and faster for over a decade. Forged in combat and proven across industries, we use our Team of Teams® framework to help organizations get the most out of their teams, turning them into powerful engines of meaningful change. LI-DNI
McChrystal Group is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our goal is to embody and embrace a diverse workforce that is representative, at all levels, of the customers we serve. We are committed to cultivating an environment of mutual respect and all employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool and encourage applications of all backgrounds without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.
If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or need an alternative method for applying, you may contact team.people@mcchrystalgroup.com for assistance.
