Associate Principal - Data Science - Analytics Firm

Our client, a global Enterprise AI and Analytics company is looking for Associate Principal - Data Science. We're looking for diversity profiles only for this particular role.

Must-have skills:

Tech:

- Intermediate knowledge of project management methodologies and tools.

- Intermediate knowledge of Probability and Statistics

- Intermediate knowledge of Practical Machine Learning and awareness of the key-pitfalls in the practice of machine learning and approaches to addressing them.

- Intermediate knowledge levels in SQL and Python.

- Intermediate knowledge of MS Office applications namely MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

Non-tech:

- Strong business acumen with an ability to assess financial impact of decisions - both in the operations of running the delivery team and in the context of delivering solutions to clients.

- Ability to recognize pragmatic alternatives vis- vis a perfect solution and get the delivery teams on-board to pursue them, balancing priorities of time with potential business impact.

- Strong people skills, including conflict resolution, empathy, communication, listening, and negotiation.

- Leadership and mentorship to the delivery team.

- Ability to storyboard presentations effectively and hold conversations with senior executives in client businesses.

- Ability to hold conversations with senior and C-suite level executives in client businesses.

Primary Responsibilities:

- Accountable for delivery quality for all the projects in the account.

- Engages clients in strategic conversations shows thought leadership.

- Builds and maintains strong relationships with clients, understands their needs, manages their expectations, and strives to make them successful in their roles.

- Ensures that client deliverables provide material value or impact to client's businesses, thereby maintaining high levels of contract renewal probabilities.

- Builds and leads high-performing project teams. Provides guidance, mentoring, and coaching to team members. Promotes a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.

- Ensures process for identifying potential risks are in place. Mentors project leaders in the account to develop strategies to mitigate risks.

- Provides both business and technical guidance to the delivery team.

- Leads Monthly Business Reviews with clients and consciously and regularly seeks feedback from clients on the team's performance.

- Manages account delivery within the financial levers that help maintain EBITDA. These levers include Gross utilization, recommended designation mix, and billing Project delivery leads where possible.

- Ensures that necessary structures, processes, KPIs, scorecards, etc., to ensure quality delivery standards, are adopted as a way of working by everyone in the account.

- Looks for improvements in delivery processes, actively seeks buy-in on the improvements from peers and managers, implements them in the team and monitors their adoption.