Project Manager - Advanced Analytics - Retail/KPO/IT/Online

Position : Project Manager - Advanced Analytics

Reports To : Delivery Manager - Advanced Analytics

Experience : 8-10 Years

Education : Economics Engineering, MBA, Masters/PHD (Statistics, Math

Location : Bangalore, Karnataka, India

CTC : Negotiable

Job Responsibilities :

- The ideal candidate would be adept at understanding customer's business challenges. This would require analyzing online retailers and present such findings to senior members of the client team.

- This role would be managing a team of analysts and co-ordinate with other teams on a day to day basis to execute all deliverables.

- Will be required to manage day to delivery activities and guide team in executing analytics (including Statistical Modeling & Optimization processes) projects analyzing large volumes of data.

- This is a hands-on team lead role

- Will be required to understand Pricing & Assortment analytics. Should also understand and possess experience in working on statistical techniques like regression, segmentation, cluster analysis etc. Should be able to discuss and map a business problem to the right statistical method.

- Will be required to write/modify existing SQL queries and pull data from multiple sources to execute such analysis.-

- He / She would be responsible for creating reports, dashboards etc.-

- Required to study, clean data and recommend actionable root causes of issues.-

- This role requires excellent communication skills. Additionally should possess the ability to confidently socialize business recommendations and enable customer organization to execute such recommendations.-

Knowledge, Skills and Experience :

- Should have strong knowledge of with Regression Modeling (including Linear and Logistic), Customer Segmentation, Machine learning, Integer programming, Clustering, Statistical tests, Network analysis etc.

- The candidate should have expert hands on any one of the following: R / SAS / Python.

- Should have worked with R in at least 1 project.

- Strong knowledge of Advanced Analytics Delivery Management processes, tools, onsite-offshore engagement model.

- Should have experience on working in Onsite-offshore model.

- Possess strong SQL skills so as to write queries to extract data from large data bases.

- Should have strong knowledge of SAS/R for executing the analysis.

- Proven experience of using large data for providing Analytics solutions.

- Should have experience in managing analytics project end-to-end and interfacing with clients to deliver insights and recommendation.

- Should possess above par communication and presentation skills and be able to write insights from analysis findings which in turn can be effectively communicated to the customer.

- Must have the proven ability of delivering top quality projects/business analysis in high pressure situations on time, every time.

- Experience in Retail domain is an added advantage.