Solution Consultant - Statistical Modelling/Data Mining/Predictive Analytics/Machine Learning - BFSI/Telecom/Retail

PRIMARY RESPOSNISBILITIES:

- Work with clients to understand their business challenges and formulate business problems - travel to client locations, as per the requirements, for scoping, reviews, workshops etc

- Define project scope and deliverables that support business goals; collaborate with delivery team and analytics practice lead to deliver projects

- Design analytical solution to client's problems, identify data requirements, delivery results in a time-bound fashion in collaboration with direct and indirect teams

- Work with teams based out of global competence center to solve client business problems by translating them into an analytics problem solving framework

- Identify the right data elements that help in arriving at the solution

- Augment the offshore team by providing business context

- Present results to senior management through insightful recommendations

- Ensure service delivered is consumed and tangible business value is created

- Client relationship management: Build deep client relationship, network & be a thought partner. Anticipate business problems & deliver par excellence

- Actively focus on opportunities to grow the client along with the regional delivery head and account management team.

CAREER EXPEREINCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:

- Possess strong foundation and understanding on Statistical Modelling, Data Mining, Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning and Optimization

- 4+ years of experience in advanced analytics/ predictive modelling in a consulting role. Candidate should have worked hands on in analytics in some of these areas - cross-sell / up-sell strategies, market segmentation, price optimization, price optimization, revenue optimization etc. for industry verticals such as BFSI, Telecom etc.

- Domain understanding of at least two verticals amongst Technology, Telecom, ecommerce or Retail & BFSI

- Demonstrated excellent communications skills, both written and spoken, as well as being able to explain complex technical concepts

- Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and a comfort interacting with clients from the C-suite to marketing managers to technical specialists

- Demonstrate strong analytical and storytelling skills andthe ability to present results of statistical models in business language

- Demonstrated knowledge of analytical/statistical techniques and their applications; a working knowledge of/experience in SAS, R, Python & advanced analytics/Statistics Techniques such as general linear model, decision trees, linear regression, Bayesian etc

- Knowledge of any one visualization tool such as Tableau, Spotfire or equivalent

- Graduate in Computer Science, Mathematics, Operational research, Statistics. (MS or MBA preferred)

MANDATORY SKILLS :

- Technical: statistic techniques such as Time Series, Statistical Modeling, Predictive Analytics, Forecasting, Data Extraction, Data Processing, Process Design, Variance Analysis, R, SAS, and Python

- Business: Intellectual Curiosity, innovation, business acumen, communication skills, teamwork, time management.