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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Senior Analyst, Market Research Analytics - Takeda (Deerfield, IL)

Uniquely Takeda…it’s a commitment to helping people worldwide.

At Takeda, we’re building our company the right way by putting people first. It’s a commitment to the patients we serve and to the employees who share our passion for making a difference. We’re working together to improve life worldwide. And we’re inviting you to join us.

We have an excellent opportunity for a Senior Analyst, Market Research Analytics at our corporate headquarters in Deerfield, IL.

You will perform the following functions in this key role:

  • Serve as internal consultant to provide leadership in areas of critical business need, including project planning, meeting management, and presentation of analysis from secondary market data sources.
  • Work closely with brand teams, sales and finance to provide business critical insight and coordination of cross-functional teams.
  • Lead others in the performance of secondary market data analyses in the areas of market forecasting, segmentation, customer targeting and program ROI.
  • Lead the team development of a deep understanding of specific therapeutic areas including current and future market trends, and adds significant insights into future market direction.
  • Apply model building and coding skills to conduct various kinds of analysis on market dynamics such as resource allocation and forecasting using techniques such as optimization, regression, and Monte Carlo simulations.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and timelines simultaneously.
  • Prepare and give presentations to senior management on matters concerning market planning and analysis, product selection, and changing business environment.
  • Ability to use market knowledge to guide senior teams' strategy.
  • Manage vendors on analytic plans, methodologies, and final deliverables.
  • Lead recruiting efforts for new analysts.
  • Responsible for mentoring associate analysts and providing performance feedback.

You must possess the following requirements and experience to succeed in this position:
  • Bachelor's degree in an analytical field such as statistics, operations research, management science, industrial engineering, economics, math, etc.
  • Minimum of 4 years market research or quantitative experience.
  • Complete understanding and application of quantitative principles, concepts, practices, and standards surrounding the use and manipulation of secondary market data sources.
  • Extensive knowledge of market research principles and practices including industry.
  • Project planning and management skills.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills.
  • Vendor and budget management.
  • Basic people and team management skills including measuring and delivering performance feedback.
  • Ability to manage internal and external resources (people, information, technologies, time, and capital); allocate resources appropriately, given organization, group and individual goals and objectives to align with business goals.
  • Knowledge of coding techniques in SAS and VBA, and advanced Excel skills.
  • Proficient in one or more of MS Office, MS Access, VBA, SPSS, or SAS programming.

Email your resume to mflaskamp@tpna.com and start a quality career with Takeda!

We are an equal opportunity employer.
www.tpna.com
No Phone Calls or Recruiters Please.

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Saturday, December 15, 2007

DataShaping Job Alert - December 2007

About the DataShaping Network

Our network now consists of

  • DataShaping.com: Main site, meta job board, comprehensive job listing, resume listing, various other resources (salary surveys, job board directory, etc.)
  • AnalyticTalent.com: Our blog for job seekers, with featured job ads, monthly job alert
  • AnalyticBrain.com: Our blog for recruiters
  • AnalyticGroup.com: Google group where job seekers can subscribe to receive more frequent job alerts (daily or weekly). Featured job ads, and a few job ads submitted by recruiters and not available on DataShaping (job posting is free but moderated).
  • Other resources, such as our data mining meta directory or open book project.
Why choose DataShaping for your career search?
  • Many jobs from the hidden job market, thanks to our numerous contacts
  • Relevant job ads
  • Fresh job ads, very few duplicates, large spectrum of industries, companies and areas of expertise
  • Many job ads have a direct link (e-mail) to the hiring manager
  • Job alert sent once a month
  • Accepted resumes are published in nice HTML format, at no cost
What does Data Shaping mean?

 
The term was created in 1999 to fill a gap between data mining and statistics. Data shaping is about employing advanced statistical techniques to problems usually handled by computer scientists (machine learning, knowledge discovery, artificial intelligence, web mining). A data shaper is a true software engineer or computer scientist, and a true statistician at the same time, capable of extracting actionable information from large data sets, in production mode, to optimize business.

Data Shaping Certification

We will launch our certification program in 2008. Professionals with an approved resume will be able to display our logo with the mention Data Shaping Certified on their resume, at no cost. We will create a repository of certified professionals, accessible to employers. For a preview, click here.

Featured Jobs

More than 100 job ads have been added since our last job alert. More than 1,500 analytic job ads from hundreds of companies have been published in 2007.

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Monday, December 10, 2007

Database Analytics Consultant (Arlington, VA)

Join our dynamic company, a lead provider of litigation support services in the United States and abroad. Servicing over 1500 clients and corporations, including a majority of the AmLaw 200 index of top law firms in the U.S. ONSITE3 provides digital imaging, electronic data discovery, computer forensics, coding, litigation copying, digital and offset printing services.

Are You or Someone You Know Interested In An Excellent Opportunity?

ONSITE3 needs a Data Mining Analyst to work in our Arlington, VA location!

The Data Mining team plays an integral role within the organization. In this role, someone must be a proven problem solver and possess the keen ability to utilize cutting edge tools in data mining and analytics. Someone who is very experienced gathering, organizing and comparing information in preparation of discovery and pre-litigation.

Database Analytics Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Filter the databases to target specific information
  • Create queries to generate pattern recognition results
  • Normalize data whenever necessary
  • Create database reports for logical output to attorneys
  • Design or customize components of the data mining software to perform the purported functions necessary for this project
  • Communication (verbal and written) to other consultants at ONSITE3 and potentially to our clients
  • Ability to mine and analyze transactional electronic data
  • Transform data from multiple platforms/environments into usable reports for a large scale litigation matter to allow decision making from the Attorneys

Experience
  • Minimum: Bachelor of Science in engineering, mathematics, or computer science
  • Minimum of 3-5 years in the following:
  • Experience with SQL, Oracle, Crystal Reports
  • Experience with Perl, VBScript, and PL/SQL a plus
  • Analytics/Problem solving experience a must
  • Data migration experience essential
  • Data warehousing/business intelligence experience a plus

Our company offers competitive salary, excellent benefits and unlimited potential for growth in a high-speed work environment. Onsite is committed to providing a safe and healthy work environment therefore enforces a drug free workplace policy.

Send resume to: MDrummond [at] onss.com

URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs16636x.shtml
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Friday, December 07, 2007

Senior Executive, Data Analytics (New York, NY)

Company: global telephony/information services provider
Position: Senior Executive - Data Analytics
Location: New York

Key executive responsible for analyzing company-generated and third party data in order to identify new business opportunities for the company.

Responsibilities

  • Develop a world-class data analysis environment that ensures the attainment of corporate business objectives.
  • Develop a process by which all of the company-generated, and third party, data can be properly filtered and analyzed, so that new business opportunities can be identified, on a regional/ global basis.
  • Once a potential new business opportunity has been identified, the individual will promote it to whichever departments are most relevant. The individual should feel comfortable in championing and presenting their own findings and ideas.
  • Provide strong business leadership through collaboration with key executives, particularly the CEO Technology.
  • Enhancing a data-centric approach to new ideas. This will allow the company to create better, richer services that will further enhance current offerings.
  • The individual will help to shape the corporate strategy and focus.
  • Ideally, will identify several significant new business opportunities per quarter.
  • Provide input into the development of corporate strategy from a data analysis perspective.
  • Rapidly assimilate and comprehend the company's current product portfolio, architectural heritage, product development processes and its core IP.

Qualifications & Experience
  • Should have worked at a consumer focused company that leverages technology to enhance revenue streams
  • Ability to develop and prototype new services/products in support of strategy
  • Expertise with data warehousing, data mining and analytics. Expertise with SQL
  • Expertise with High Volume Data applications
  • Experience with multiple data formats (SMS, voice, etc.)
  • Experience with advertising relevancy / targeting engines
  • Experience/familiarity with website and Internet technologies
  • Experience deploying new consumer-based products via the internet and/or mobile networks
  • Understanding of and familiarity with voice recognition, text-to-speech and speech-to-text technologies

Skills & Personal Characteristics
  • Create an environment for innovation
  • Ensure employees feel "bought in" to the strategy
  • Highly creative; ability to understand how future technology trends can/will drive the business
  • Highlight problems quickly; identify potential solutions and present all options/recommendations
  • Develop a highly-collaborative environment where anyone (from all levels/departments) can present ideas
  • Ability to identify when decisions need to be made and then quickly executing against agreed upon strategy
  • Understanding of global strategy
  • First-rate technical skills must be combined with a sound understanding of business requirements. Candidates must display the intellectual stretch to understand each functional area from a business/customer perspective rather than just a technical perspective.
  • Be comfortable as an individual contributor (roll up his/ her sleeves) or managing a small, highly talented team
  • Will display a real hunger for success and will work with aggression, energy and an expectation that others will do the same.
  • Highly self-motivated and objective driven. Will demonstrate a hunger to win.
  • Relentless pursuit of hitting objectives
  • Sense of Urgency
  • Be willing to raise issues that impact business (productivity, efficiency, cost-management, strategy)
  • Champion change

Contact: Jim Frye. E-mail: jaf [at] execuseek.net

URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs16601x.shtml
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Chief Scientist for a Hot Online Advertising Company (Bay Area, CA)

OfferPal Media is a Web 2.0 online advertising start-up that provides an innovative online consumer acquisition service, on a pay-for-performance basis. OfferPal Media enables online merchants and advertisers to grow revenues, acquire quality customers and maximize brand reach through blogs, websites and social networks.

We are a fast growing startup company founded by successful serial entrepreneurs and funded by top-tier VCs. The company is still in stealth mode with a broader public launch planned for Q108.

Come join us and help us charter new territory in data science while changing the nature of online advertising! The Chief Scientist will be responsible for designing and developing state-of-the-art, data-driven exploratory system for deriving insights from massive amounts of data. End results include software that makes money and potentially publications. The Chief Scientist will work as part of a team to process data, code algorithms, conduct experiments and analyze and report results. We are looking for a:

  • A keen scientific mind with expertise in techniques for extracting insights from massive amounts of data.
  • A Ph.D. in machine learning with solid background in statistics is a plus.
  • The ability to use object oriented languages such as Java and/or scripting languages to manipulate data, develop and test algorithms is also required.

WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN US?

We offer a flexible, fun and friendly work environment and a great compensation package. We are passionate about providing a great experience to our consumers. We have created an environment where our talented and energetic team can excel and have fun doing it!

Contact: Naghi Prasad. E-mail: nprasad [at] myofferpal.com

URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs16602x.shtml
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Middle/Back Office Software Developer (New York, NY)

The D. E. Shaw group, a global investment and technology development firm, is looking for exceptional software developers to support its proprietary trading and asset management activities. In addition to having outstanding academic credentials and a deep knowledge of computer science, we're looking for individuals who can play a key role in the development of critical portfolio accounting, general ledger, workflow, and document management systems for a fund with approximately US $35 billion in aggregate capital. Promising candidates will have extensive experience with Java, Perl, and SQL; industry experience in a similar role is desirable but not required. Our company culture is focused but informal, which is reflected in our casual dress, relatively flat management structure, and flexible vacation policy, as well as in the high degree to which new employees work closely with senior staff on key initiatives. We strongly emphasize personal ownership of projects, and new hires are given substantial responsibility from their first day on the job. If you're interested in applying your intellect to challenging problems of software architecture and engineering in a stimulating, fast-paced environment, then we'd love to see your resume. To apply, e-mail your resume and a cover letter to DataShaping-MBOProg@career.deshaw.com.

Members of the D. E. Shaw group do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.

URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs16603x.shtml
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Quantitative Developer(New York, NY)

The D. E. Shaw group, a global investment and technology development firm with approximately US $35 billion in aggregate capital, is looking for top-notch, innovative quantitative developers to help create computationally intensive strategies for trading in securities markets around the globe. Quantitative developers bring exceptionally strong mathematical, analytical, and software development skills to bear on interesting and challenging problems in computational finance and automated securities trading, such as the implementation of statistical algorithms for time-series analysis, the creation of new analytics tools, and the development and analysis of statistical models for our computerized financial trading strategies. They also enjoy access to some of the most advanced computing resources in the world. Successful candidates have traditionally been the top students in their respective math, physics, engineering, and computer science programs and have extensive software development experience using C, C++, or Java. To apply, e-mail your resume and a cover letter to DataShaping-QuantProg@career.deshaw.com.

Members of the D. E. Shaw group do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.

URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs16604x.shtml
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Software Developer (New York, NY and Cupertino, CA)

The D. E. Shaw group is looking for top-notch, innovative software developers to help it expand its tech venture and proprietary trading activities. We’re a global investment and technology development firm with approximately US $35 billion in aggregate investment capital and a decidedly different approach to doing business. The application of advanced technology is an integral part of virtually everything we do, from developing computationally intensive strategies for trading in securities markets around the globe to designing a supercomputer intended to fundamentally transform the process of drug discovery. Developers at the firm work on a variety of interesting technical projects including real-time data analysis, distributed system development, and the creation of tools for mathematical modeling. They also enjoy access to some of the most advanced computing resources in the world. If you’re interested in applying your intellect to challenging problems of software architecture and engineering in a stimulating, fast-paced environment, then we’d love to see your resume.

To apply, e-mail your resume to DataShaping-Prog@career.deshaw.com.

Members of the D. E. Shaw group do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.


URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs16605x.shtml
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Quantitative Analyst(New York, NY and Cupertino, CA)

The D. E. Shaw group, a global investment and technology development firm with approximately US $35 billion in aggregate investment capital, is looking for exceptionally talented quantitative analysts. "Quants" at the D. E. Shaw group apply mathematical techniques and write software to develop and analyze statistical models for our computerized financial trading strategies. Specific responsibilities range from examining trading data in an effort to increase profitability, decrease risk, and reduce transaction costs to conceiving new trading ideas and devising the simulations needed to test them. Successful quant candidates have traditionally been the top students in their respective math, physics, engineering, and computer science programs; a considerable number have also competed successfully in the United States and International Math Olympiads as well as the Putnam Competition. To apply, e-mail your resume and a cover letter to DataShaping-Quant@career.deshaw.com.

Members of the D. E. Shaw group do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.


URL: www.datashaping.com/jobs16606x.shtml
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