Group Head - Data Science & Modelling - Media Agency

Our client is the second largest media agency network in the world, with domestic and international clients such as Vodafone, L'Oral, IKEA, Paramount Pictures, Chanel, GE, Xerox, Colgate-Palmolive, Chevron, Beiersdorf, Tiffany, Huawei, and Mondelez International.

About The role:

This role is for our Analytics and Data Science practice. Leveraging data throughout every step is critical to achieving our mission. We are looking for a passionate analyst that is excited about the challenge of going from zero to one- and from "one to N- on all things data, analytics, BI, products

- Nurture, support, challenge, and improve upon Wavemaker's technology culture.

- Identify, analyze, model and report on client's business KPIs and performance.

- Work cross functionally with our internal stakeholders, clients and partners to identify trends and insights ranging from analytical consulting to project management.

- Solve ambiguous problems using data and providing practical and actionable insights to multiple stakeholders in the organization as well as to the clients

- Understand business challenges and transform them into advanced analytics machine learning data mining problems; use your analytics toolbox to effectively solve them.

- Design and maintain best-in-class analytical solutions, data workflows and standards

- Conceptualize and build dashboards that are simple, visually appealing, yet showcase a powerful story.

- Comfortable working with both structured and unstructured data to discover actionable insights and provide recommendations.

- Perform hands-on analysis of large volumes of data and across multiple data sets primarily using SQL, Big data technologies, Python, R.

- Establish data quality standards and policies to ensure our data is of high quality and accuracy.

- Consult and support ad-hoc requests for data and analysis.

- Help recruit and mentor a growing team of leading data professionals.

Requirement:

- 4-10 years of professional industry experience in AI-ML based analytical modeling, data analysis, business intelligence, or similar analytics roles, experience at start-ups a plus.

- Experience with modern data analysis tools like SQL, Python, R, and GitHub Experience with the Business Intelligence platforms and concepts, like or similar to- PowerBI or Data Studio or Tableau.

- Experience in manipulating large data sets from multiple sources (SQL, Big data tech), uncovering insights, and providing impactful recommendations to clients.

- Experience driving projects from ideation to production including gathering requirements, wrangling data sources, and presenting results to stakeholders.

- Experience working within a cloud-based infrastructure, ideally AWS or GCP.

- Strong written and oral communication skills.

- Knowledge of advertising and marketing landscape is a plus