Manager - Analytical Delivery

Manager – Analytical Delivery

Goal of the Position

1. Provide statistical problem solving services i.e. consultancy and execution to a team of dedicated professionals comprising of domain, statisticians and tool experts within the company who service the end client.

2. Play the role of both an individual contributor and a supervisor in the technical area in a particular vertical (Finance, Insurance, Retail, Teleco, High Tech, Entertainment, and CPG).

Essential Functions

- Lead and manage team of smart statisticians and tool experts in executing their day to day work.

- Be able to make analytical choices/take technical calls with simple and complex client problems.

- Be able to identify and correct quality issues in technical analysis

- Be able to communicate technical jargon to clients in non-technical business language.

Have good communication skills oral and written.

- Provide technical thought and guidance to the team and client on client projects from the Business understanding stage to the presentation stage of the project.

- Should be able to bring thought to the proposal stage and generate technical insights from interpretation at the presentation stage.

- Demonstrate thought leadership in coming up with new techniques/innovative applications of statistics to solve business problems.

- Contribute to building business by being a part of the team that showcases company work to clients for new pitches

- Ability to develop technical products(not a necessity unless interested in innovation)

- Ability to standardize technical thought into processes using best approach method

- Should be able to draft a training calendar for internal and external training needs and execute against that calendar using internal and external resources.

- Ability to develop keen domain understanding of vertical space

- Ability to work on his/her own with minimum supervision in day to day tasks.

- Must be able to set career paths and progression and growth for level 1 and 2 technical people

- Must be able to mentor and groom junior statisticians into own role

Minimum Qualifications needed to fulfill the above functions:

- M.Sc. in Maths/Statistics

- Strong conceptual understandings of statistical concepts like probability, hypothesis testing, regression, variable reduction. Time series and segmentation at least.

- Good working hands on knowledge of SAS Base and SAS Stat/Enterprise Miner, SPSS/Clementine

- Strong communication skills both oral and written.

- Team management experience with technical people (minimum team size 10-15 members).

- Prior work experience must be mostly in working with data and statistics in the market research or CRM data space for at least 5 years in a required vertical/verticals.

- Willingness to travel to client locations for interaction (passport should be valid)

Secondary Functions

- Train statisticians in simple and complex analytical techniques.

- Ability to create technical products

- Six sigma training and experience

Minimum Qualifications needed to fulfill the above function:

- At least 4-5 years experience in analytics in the required vertical

- Must have handled team sizes of at least 5-8 people and multiple projects at the same time

- Must be comfortable with unstructured problem solving

- Passport and a US visa

Please mark subject line as 'Manager – Analytical Delivery' and mail to arvind@leadsearch.biz