Senior Manager - Retail Analytics - Analytics Firm

Client/Location :

Our client is one of the prestigious global analytics company and this position is based out of Gurgaon.

Role & Responsibilities at job :

To be a Leader and Manager who can work on multiple project streams for a client and applies Analytics for better business decision making especially in the area of retail domain.

Key Responsibilities :

Leadership :

- Lead & guide the team independently or with little support to implement & deliver complex project assignments.

Project Management :

- Get accurate briefs from the Client and translate into tasks for team members with priorities and timeline plans.

- Must maintain high standards of quality and thoroughness. Should be able to monitor accuracy and quality of others- work.

- Ability to think in advance about potential risks and mitigation plans

Logical Thinking :

- Able to think analytically, use a systematic and logical approach to analyze data, problems, and situations. Must be able to guide team members in analysis

Handle Client Relationship :

- Manage client relationship and client expectations independently. Should be able to deliver results back to the Client independently. Should have excellent communication skills

Eligibility Criteria :

Required Experience :

- Minimum of 7-15 years of experience in data analytics

- Desired 2-4 years of relevant experience in retail/media domain.

- Technical

- Must have 2-4 years of hands on experience in one or more tools like SAS or R Or Python

- Intermediate to Advanced expertise with MS excel

Must have experience in using Statistical techniques like:

- Clustering / Segmentation

- Linear / logistic regression

- CHAID

- ANOVA

- Time series modelling

Functional :

- Nice to have experience in development or maintenance of processes to manage and improve sales and marketing operations such as

- Sales Force Sizing

- Territory Alignment

- PRM

- Business Reporting

Desirable qualities :

- Customer Focus - Dedicated to meeting the expectations of internal and external clients.

- Problem Solving - Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions. Probes all fruitful sources for answers. Is excellent at honest analysis. Looks beyond the obvious and doesn- t stop at the first answers.

- Learning on the Fly - Learns quickly when facing new problems. A relentless and versatile learner.

- Drive for result - Able to set priorities; pursue tasks tenaciously & with a need to finish. Able to overcome setbacks which may occur along the way.

Qualification :

- B-Tech or BE or Bachelors in a quantitative discipline such as Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Operations, Research, Economics or Econometrics from a premier/ Tier 1 College with a minimum of 7-15 years of relevant experience in data analytics