AbsolutData - Analytics Manager

Key Responsibilities:

- Managing marketing analytics projects making significant contributions to design of analytical approach and handling the work plan.

- Being responsible for all aspects of project management (including resource allocation, scope identification etc) to ensure that they are on time, on target with client needs, and reflect our high quality standards.

- Handling and building relationships with key strategic accounts.

- Ensuring effective client management including developing and managing internal processes for seamless project delivery, streamlining existing processes, leading/assisting business development initiatives in the company including managing and developing existing and/or new client relationships.

- Managing a medium to large sized team, subject to business requirements and being responsible for people management activities like developing and coaching team members, supporting & implementing processes like appraisals, project dashboards, project effort tracking etc

Technical:

Data Management:

- Planning, guiding & designing data management projects

- Statistical Modelling Experience

- Knowledge of simple and complex methods and techniques and solutioning

Tools:

- Having high proficiency in tools like Excel, SAS, R, SPSS, basic VBA etc

- Statistical Analysis & Design (Modelling Oriented Focus)

- Having an understanding of a few analytics areas & application of myriad analysis methodologies

- Quality/ Process Compliance & Improvement Initiatives

- Having a complete understanding of the various internal processes, ensuring adherence to the same by the team and maintaining and monitoring metrices/SLAs

- Suggesting improvements to enhance the efficiency of various internal processes

Client Servicing:

- Significant client interaction including managing client satisfaction, feedback process, managing services provided to clients and assisting project teams in client communication

- Demonstrating overall responsibility of project level client interaction

- Encouraging teams to achieve high level of service excellence

- Client facing interaction for capability and technical presentations/proposal development/solutioning etc
Project Management

- Being involved in project planning and managing multiple stakeholders

- Being able to assess the feasibility of solutions requested, provide inputs, propose alternate implementable solutions.

People Management:

- Handling a small sized team or managing people on project basis, subject to business requirements

- Being involved in appraisals, mentoring, training etc of team members

- Ensuring effective communication with internal & external stakeholders, managing client interactions

Core Competencies:

- Good Analytical, Problem Solving and Critical Thinking Skills

- Effective Decision Making Skills

- Good Communication Skills: Refers to effective oral, written and presentation skills

- Consulting Skills: Ability to elevate analytics and research findings into business speak and action

Educational Qualifications & Experience

- Degree: Graduates/Postgraduates from Premiere Institutes in Economics, Statistics or other Quantitative disciplines/B.Tech/MBA

- Relevant Experience: Minimum of 5 Years of Consultative experience

About Absolutdata:

Founded in 2001, AbsolutData is an award winning global consulting oriented analytics firm, headquartered in San Francisco, with a global delivery model. We help clients take data-driven decisions, which make them more successful and profitable.

AbsolutData currently partners with more than 15 leading fortune 500 financial services, consumer packaged goods, retail and technology companies globally and was rated as one of the fastest growing research and analytics firm by Inc. 500 & Deloitte and was selected as one of the Top 10 companies in outsourcing marketing services by IAOP.

AbsolutData services are differentiated and provide significant incremental value to our clients by helping them tackle big data challenges, optimize marketing spends, increase campaign ROI and marketing effectiveness, create better customer satisfaction and retention, execute effective targeted marketing, understand and influence consumer behavior, predict future trends, create additional sales opportunities with existing customers, and optimize business results.