Data Science Senior Manager
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You are:
A data expert with serious analytical and statistical chops. You know how to take massive amounts of data and find the insights our clients need to help their companies do more. Preferably, you already have an exposure to retail industry use cases.
The work:
- Understand leading business trends in the retail industry
- Identify key cases and develop solutions/assets that can be used as accelerators for similar problems across clients
- Lead teams to solve complex business challenges using data and analytics
- Design, build and deploy diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive models using statistical modeling, machine learning, and operations research
- Harvest and turn project outputs or deliverables into digital products
- Use structured decision-making to complete projects
- Be an advisor to clients on how best to leverage data and analytics to solve business challenges
Responsibilities:
- Create insights from predictive statistical modeling to deliver client value
- Apply deep statistical and mathematical knowledge, tools, and techniques to find relationships between and among variables
- Develop intellectual property involving specific analytical methodologies, mathematical modeling or optimization techniques and their applications to business issues
- Translate business issues into specific requirements to develop analytic solutions, and identify appropriate data to support the solution
- Collaborate with Accenture and/or external consulting teams to address business issues and influence change using strategy, industry, and analytical skills
- Leverage cognitive services and AI SAAS offerings where applicable
- Data Analysis and Client Value Creation
- Create value for our clients by providing new insights from predictive statistical modeling activities
- Test theories by creating models and experimenting with data
- Design the models, algorithms and visualizations that help companies distill insights from huge volumes of chaotic data
- Involved in gathering big data. Formulating high business impact cluster or nodes and establish performance checks on the large data models
- Source relevant external datasets where applicable
- Data Analytics and Information Technology
- Deliver large-scale programs that integrate processes with technology to help clients achieve high performance
- Design, implement and deploy custom AI solutions
- Implementation of complete Big Data solutions, including data acquisition, storage, transformation, and analysis
- Project Management
- Responsible for the design and implementation of complete big data solutions including data acquisition, storage, transformation, and analysis
- Manage the project end to end from scoping and requirements through deployment either for an entire project or a specific area of a project to solve analytics problems for clients
- Understand the fundamental solution being developed/deployed - its business value, blueprint, how it fits with the overall architecture or business operations, risks, etc.
- Understand industry landscape (preferably retail and CPG) and trends
Here’s what you need:
- At least 5 years demonstrated experience in the application of analytics in sophisticated and complex environments including the use of simulation and modeling tools
- At least 2 years of experiences in identifying key business use cases and developing solutions/assets to drive quick pilot/implementation
- At least 3 years of leading teams and performing data analytics and modeling with advanced languages like Python
- Bachelor's Degree (advanced degree preferred) or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience
Bonus points if:
- You have experience in one of the following:- Retail industry experience
- Customer Segmentation & Lifetime Value, Pricing & Promotions, Real-Time Personalization, Product Recommendations, Marketing Mix, etc.
- You’ve got client facing experience
- You’ve got experience with cloud platforms
- You have a graduate degree
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