AVP - Statistician - BFSI/CPG/Research

Job title: (AVP) Statistician

Function: Products & Solutions

Reporting Relationship: VP – Products & Solutions Leader

Travel: Yes (Passport MUST)

Location: Bangalore

Summary of Role / Profile:

Focus of the Function:

There are 5 areas that this role will focus on in order of importance:

1. Innovation and Thought Leadership: Work closely with customers and delivery teams to find applications and business use cases for advanced statistical capabilities. Present and publish papers in reputed international conferences and journals,

2. Consultant - Identify and implement specific capability, practices, tools, and people that the organization would need to develop in the area of Stats and Maths.

3. Solutioning - Conceptualize and develop relevant solutions for our Analytic Customers. Envisioning opportunistic areas with our clients by carrying out high level assessment of their needs and executing the associated analytical projects.

4. Pre-Sales – Lead / Collaborate in response to Statistic based RFI/RFP

5. Operational Excellence – Ensure execution of critical Advanced Statistical projects, including driving innovative implementation and insights derived from data

Why does this job exist:

Smart Decision Lab was incubated 3 years back to drive Innovation and Thought Leadership, build new levels of capability, test and experiment with new solution prototypes, and create new application and business use case. Lab has already incubated 3 specific practices – Business Intelligence, Big Data and Text Mining and Solution Accelerators. It is currently looking to further strengthen Lab capabilities by getting resources with super-specialized expertise.

Organization is looking for a Data analytics visionary to make "Analytics to Insights" work with strong understanding of cutting edge tools and methodologies for sophisticated quantitative, business forecasting, data mining, predictive modeling, and decision optimization.

How does the role add value:

Statistician is now understood to be a key enabler for Analytics. Timely Investment in creating the right pool of resources in this area will allow Organization to monetize opportunities in this high growth area. Role would add value in the following ways

- Technical expertise: Provide deep expertise in Statistics, Mathematical modeling and simulation, Numerical Analysis and Differential Equation

- Curiosity: a desire to go beneath the stated client needs and discover and distill a problem down into a very clear set of hypotheses that can be tested.

- Storytelling: the ability to use data to tell a business-outcome impacting story and to be able to communicate it effectively.

- Cleverness: the ability to look at a problem in different, creative ways.

How is this role unique from others:

We are looking for a results driven statistician with proven expertise in the application of modelling/data interrogation across various domain. (S)he should have very strong knowledge of predictive modelling and should have able to generate actionable insight from complex data.

Who are the key relationships for this role:

The role would be interacting extensively with 3 other roles within the organization

1. Sales, Account management and Marketing teams – To commercialise products & solutions

2. Solutioning teams & Practice leaders – To jointly create and develop products & solutions

3. Operating Leaders – To consult them on client requirements and helping them respond to RFP/RFI

What are the minimum prior qualifications to be an applicant for this role:

PH.D in Statistics/Mathematical modeling with 6-10+ years of relevant experience.

Exposure to Analytical Concepts is a must. Full cycle experience desirable in atleast 1 Advanced Statistic project from creating a Business use case,
Assessment/roadmap, Statistical Solutioning, Implementation and Change Management

What are the key initiatives & challenges facing this role in the next six months to three years:

1. To engender Advanced Statistic conversations with existing Organization customer base

2. To nurture and take the existing Statistical projects into advanced levels by sighting and converting business discussions across verticals.

3. To participate in client POC engagements in onshore as well as offshore roles, and drive POCs to conversion.

4. To present and publish papers in reputed conferences and journals

5. To create futuristic advanced statistical capability

Specific competences ( Essential)

Key Skills

- 6-10+ years analytic Solutioning & Consulting experience in verticals such as BFSI, CPG, Research with atleast 3-6 years’ experience in delivering analytics on large structured and unstructured data corpuses

- Super specialization in population estimation, generalized linear modeling, sample selection and extrapolation, weighting, multi-mode survey analysis, and nonparametric regression modeling

- Experience in Pricing, Market Mix Models, Scorecard development, Time series, Forecasting models

- Proven expertise in deriving insights from large distributed databases.

- High degree of skill and experience in the use of SAS (including Enterprise Miner), SPSS, EViews, R, Mathematica, PEPA, among other tools.

- Demonstrated ability to Conduct look-ahead client relevant research with focus on supplementing and strengthening the client’s analytics agenda with newer tools and techniques that can better answer business questions.

- Strong written and oral communications skills

Specific competences (Desirable)

- Ability to Prioritize, Consultative mindset & Time management skills

- Strong research publication record in top international journals and conference.

Contact at sweta.k@mancerconsulting.com