Senior Consultant - Machine Learning/Data Science - Consulting Firm

We are looking for experienced leaders with a strong analytics background (and overall professional experience of 4 - 7 years) to work in our Analytics Consulting practice

Candidates will work as an integral part of business analytics teams in India alongside clients and consultants in the U.S., leading teams for high-end analytics consulting engagements and providing business recommendations to project teams.

Required Fields of Study:

Computer science, Economics, Data Science, Statistics, industrial/organizational psychology, labor economics, actuarial science, or related field.

Preferred Fields of Study:

Business Administration/Management, Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Mathematical Statistics, Statistics, Human Resources Management, Organizational Behavior Studies, Organizational Management, Industrial Psychology, Data Science, computer science, actuarial science or related field of study

Education:

B.Tech./B.E./Master's Degree/M.Phil./MBA from reputed institute(s) with relevant experience

Required Skills:

Successful candidates will have demonstrated the following skills and characteristics:

- Prior experience of having worked in consulting/analytics environment

- In-depth knowledge of the HR Domain areas such as recruiting, attrition, DE&I, compensation & benefits, performance, learning & development

- Ability to consult with client on People Analytics strategies and solutions, covering business issues, data science and / or technology solutions

- Strong leadership and team-management skills

- Ability to structure projects/engagements for the team

- Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills

- Experience generating meaningful dashboards, analytics reports, generating meaningful insights and discussing it with HR and Business stakeholders

- Experience of engaging with International clients and working in onsite-offshore environment

- Ability to contribute beyond the defined scope of work

- Strong aptitude along with good academic and professional background

- Visualization techniques and tools; (Tableau, PowerBI, etc.)

- Advanced analytical concepts including machine learning concepts, statistical & mathematical concepts (inclusive of predictive analysis, regression, cluster analysis, segmentation simulation, etc.), organizational network analysis

- Database & big data management systems

- Experience working with APIs to pull data from HRIS systems and vendors

- Object-oriented and data manipulation programming languages (Java, Python, R, SQL, NoSQL, etc.)

- Statistical Modeling/Machine Learning/AI/NLP

- Experience with Text and Sentiment Analysis

- Applicable sources of external, internal, or new data sources to support analytic methods and visualization techniques

- Demonstrated experience of contributing in firm and knowledge building

- Ability to mentor and train junior team-members

Roles and Responsibilities:

Leadership :

- Help Information & Analytics Practice make a bigger impact in Firm's overall positioning in the market

- Work closely with Information & Analytics Practice leadership in growing the team

- Coach and collaborate with associates who assist with this work, including providing coaching, feedback, and guidance on work performance;

Project Delivery and Management :

- Select the appropriate analytical techniques for the problem at hand

- Manage communication and project delivery between India and US teams

- Manage client presentations and act as subject matter expert on analytics discussions

- Structure the approach and deliverables for multiple analytics engagements simultaneously

- Manage team members proactively

- Help junior members develop the analytics path to align with overall project objective

- Responsible for checking the methodology and results used by team

- Help assess the impact of work, and conduct so-what analysis

- Develop storylines and make presentations

- Identify and address client needs and build relationships with clients

- Develop requests for information, demonstrate flexibility in prioritizing and completing tasks, and communicate potential conflicts to a supervisor

- Prioritize and handle multiple tasks

Firm Building & Intellectual Capital Development :

- Contribute to research, white papers, blog, and other IC development activities

- Contribute to recruitment efforts in India

Subject Matter Expertise:

- Keep abreast of market developments, identify growth opportunities

- Help Partners/Directors across the firm in selling analytics projects by acting as a subject matter expert on business development initiatives