Engagement Lead - Decision Science/BI & Analytics - IIM/ISB

Important Note:

This opportunity is available only to those who has valid Work Authorization (minimum requirement is H1B Visa)

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:

- To lead and deliver on client Engagements from an analytics perspective.

AREAS OF FOCUS: What will you do?

- Work with clients to understand their business problems and help articulate the problem within a analytics framework

- Work with onsite and offshore team - based in India, to structure solutions based on analytics tools and techniques

- Develop code, statistical models, dashboards and ppts as per client requirements

- Present the results of the work to client stake holders and give insights and recommendations that have tangible business impacts

- Build relationships with clients to better understand their business, and to enable them to better understand how to use analytics to drive their business

- Successfully leverage ideas across clients to spot opportunities and generate new sales leads.

KEY RESULT AREAS (KRA)

- Client Delivery as per agreed scope

- Compliance of structured problem solving approach and documentation of the same

- Onsite Team Management

- Meet & exceed Finance targets (Billability and Realization)

- Client Satisfaction

Desired Candidate Profile:

Education:

UG: Any Graduate - Any Specialization, B.Tech/B.E. - Any Specialization, B.A - Any Specialization, Economics, Statistics, B.Sc - Any Specialization, Statistics

PG:Any Postgraduate - Any Specialization, M.Sc - Maths, Statistics, M.A - Maths, Statistics, MBA/PGDM - Any Specialization

Doctorate:Any Doctorate - Any Specialization, Doctorate Not Required

EXPERIENCE:

- Overall experience in Analytics Consulting and Professional Services for about 6-10 years

- Onsite Analytics Consulting experience of 2-3 years

- Atleast 2+ years of exposure to Retail and/or Consumer Brands

- Atleast 4+ years on hands on experience on modeling and deploying analytics solutions with clients

COMPETENCIES & CAPABILITIES :

- Ability to apply first principles and structured approaches to problem solving as opposed to relying excessively on past domain expertise alone

- A strong appreciation for Math, Retail Business and Technology

- Hands on in statistical packages like SAS and R

- Hands on experience on dash boarding tools like Tableau, Spotfire

- Good in PPT and Excel

- Ability to write Code /SQL to extract data from clients databases

- A strong quantitative mindset: You dont have to be a Statistics major, but you do have to know how to work with numbers.

- A curious mindset We want someone who asks questions, who asks why something is the way it is.

- Strong ability to Influence

- Ability to make sense of ambiguity: To lead your team thru fuzzy problems and keep the spirits high in the process

QUALIFICATION:

- BE/B.Tech, Masters / Bachelors in Statistics, Economics, Operations Research

- MBA from IIMs OR other tier 1 institutes in US (Preferred )

- Advanced degree in a quantitative discipline, preferably Mathematics/Statistics or similar (Nice to have)

- Valid Work Permit in the US

TRAVEL:

- Local and In-country (US) travel will be required on need basis

- Short-term international travel (2-4 weeks) will be required 1-2 a year