Senior Manager - Research Data Science - Professional Services Firm

About The Company:

ARA's Client is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries. They offer Strategy and Consulting, Technology and Operations Services - all powered by the world's largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centres. The 699,000 people stong company delivers on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries, embracing the power of change to create value and shared success for clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities.

The Role:

This role is in the Research Global Data Science Team.

We are looking for an experienced data scientist with business knowledge and research mindset and a passion for data-driven insight discovery

Key Responsibilities:

- Design, lead and deliver high impact data science/econometric projects focusing on business impact.

- Drive innovation on research projects collaborating closely with research leads, economists, survey experts as well as business stakeholders.

- Design and execute groundbreaking and differentiated data science assets.

- Foster the adoption of data science research tools and outputs across the organisation.

- Act as a Subject Matter Expert recognized inside and outside the company.

- Coach and mentor more junior data scientists.

Skills Required:

- Recognized SME (incl. Python, Google Cloud, SQL, NLP, text analytics, data-wrangling, machine learning).

- Exposure to Generative AI algorithms would be a plus.

- Significant track record in leading complex research projects using econometric modeling and data science.

- Strong interest in Technology and Business research.

- Understanding of business dynamics and how to incorporate them into data science models.

- Strong analytical skills and a proven ability to make sense out of data.

- Strategic problem solver with the ability to take an issue and turn it into a researchable question.

- Ability to address complexity in team management as well as project management.

- Strong professional qualities: client focus, decisiveness, integrity, resilience to stress against stretch goals and deadlines.

- Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.

- Solid experience in the presentation of research deliverables to high level executives.

- Excellent leadership and management skills.

- Enthusiasm to work effectively in a global, multi-cultural team.

- Experience in developing and coaching junior data scientists.

Qualifications & Experience:

Masters degree in Economics, Statistics, Data Science, or similar. PhD is a plus.

15+ years of relevant economic research and data science experience