Blue Ocean - Principal Data Scientist

Principal Data Scientist - Job Description

Do you want to be a Data Scientist?

You enjoy big data, statistics and data mining. You are passionate about working with huge datasets to extract meaningful business insights and drive positive change. You are a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity. You want to make a difference and play a large role in a fast-growing company and industry

Title - Principal Data Scientist

Job Location - Bangalore, India

Manager/Supervisor - AVP/VP

Direct Reports - AVP/VP

Specific Responsibilities - The person will be responsible for designing, developing and maintaining systems, in parts or in whole, involving some or all of the following techniques:

- Large Scale Data Mining

- Analysis

- Modelling

These skills are required for developing predictive models of user behavior and intelligent recommendations, finding anomalies in data or transactions, Mining structured, semi-structured and unstructured data. The person will get the opportunity to contribute to projects with very complex business problems

- Design solutions and lead execution of analytics engagements in various industry verticals by understanding client problems, and identifying most suitable approach.

- Bring in innovation in the way data is analyzed by devising new methods of slicing and dicing data for analysis.

- Sift through massive amounts of data to create analytical framework to understand business better

- Identify patterns, apply context and intelligence to the data being mined and create business storyboards for Top Executives.

- Provide proactive consultation on analytics engagements in various industry verticals by understanding client problems, and devising innovative solutions

- Design and develop new analytics solutions for “go-to-market” for clients.

- Provide technical (Analytics) leadership to project teams of various skill sets who are developing analytical solutions to solve client’s key business needs

- Act and contribute to thought leadership in the space of analytics both within the organization as well as outside

- Work closely with Senior Executives in the organization and act and contribute to thought leadership in the space of analytics both within the organization as well as outside. Additionally strive to be the change-maker in the analytics space

- Consult actively with business users to ensure that solutions are tailored to business needs and will support or result in actionable customer strategies; participate in a consultative role in implementing solutions

- Provide specific support in development of new business strategy, presentations and proposals and provide regular updates regarding competition

- Structure design concepts to create compelling and effective presentations and other visuals that convey solutions and analytical results clearly and effectively to the client

- Consult actively with business users to ensure that solutions are tailored to business needs and will support or result in actionable customer strategies; participate in a consultative role in implementing solutions.

- Ensure detailed project documentation of effectiveness of analytics based strategies in client organization, measuring the value of analytical solutions and reinforcing its value proposition.

- Support in farming existing analytics clients for expansion of Analytics business.

- Support in new client acquisition and new business pitches, identify new opportunities and establish relationships with prospective clients, participate in or lead several new business initiatives simultaneously.

- Provide specific support in development of new business strategy, presentations and proposals and provide training on the fundamentals of customer / marketing / risk analytics and related statistical techniques.

- Be a part of a highly competent & motivated team in delivering best-in-class models resulting in meaningful insights to clients

Scope

- Work on multiple projects simultaneously

- Interaction with clients

Skills & Experience Required

Experience:

- 7-10 years of experience and in-depth understanding of Data modeling, Statistical tools applied in business

- Minimum 6 years of experience in working with tools like SAS, SPSS, R, UNICA etc., including 5-7 years of hands-on experience

- 5-7 years of experience in Retail, CPG,Banking,FMCG and Telecom industry is preferable

- Understanding of Data mart concepts is preferred

- Bachelors or Masters degree in Statistics/ Data Mining from a leading University like IIT, ISI, NIT

Tools and Techniques:

- Knowledge of how to read and interpret statistical outputs from statistical analysis packages such as SAS, SPSS, R, UNICA.

- Should have demonstrated experience with senior level presentations and ability to communicate detailed and technical subject matter to non-technical audience. Experience of working in onshore-offshore environment will be a plus.

- Ability and motivation to work in a “new venture” environment.

Personal Skills:

- Strong work ethic

- Strong analytical ability and problem solving skills

- Strong client service orientation

- Questioning/clarification skills

- Confident written and verbal communication skills

- Prioritizing/time management skills

- Personal motivation skills and ability to function as a team player

- Proactive and flexible

- Logical, accurate, and detail oriented

Additional Skills:

- Experience in working with a broad base of industry verticals, such as CPG/FMCG, IT, Healthcare, Financial services

Company Overview

Website : www.blueoceanmi.com/

Blueocean is a pioneering Market Research & Analytics company with a global focus. We pioneered online market research in India, and are the leading online market research company in the country. We provide offshore outsourcing and paneling services in the market research & analytics domain to global clients in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. We have been rated as a Global Outsourcing 100 Firm [Fortune® April 2006], ranked 4th in Deloitte Fast 50, 2006 India. Recently named as the top Market research KPO by the Black Book of Outsourcing .

We are in the process of setting up best-in-class Analytics organization within Blue Ocean and are looking highly motivated candidates for different roles.