Quantcast
To post a job ad, Click here.

Sunday, October 24, 2010

System of interrelated methods in advanced statistics (Palm Beach, FL)

System of interrelated methods in advanced statistics that has the following components: 1. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) 2. Design of Experiments 3. Principal Components Analysis (PCA) 4. K-Means Cluster Analysis

I am working on a personal project that involves machine learning for prediction. I am at a stage that I need to refine the model. I am not a statistician nor do I have a strong background in math. I am however becoming versed in the language very quickly and I am also a master of the data set that I am dealing with. This seems to be a plus in the process so far. The following would be very helpful.

  • What software do you have in your possession for these methods
  • What certification do you have for the software of choice
  • How many years of experience do you have with these methods
  • What experience do you have in using these methods to refine predictability
  • How efficient are you with your time
  • How many other projects are you currently working on
  • Would you be able to devote several weeks to this project
  • What is you hourly, weekly, monthly rate

Advanced Analytics/Data Mining Consultant - Blacklight (Austin, TX)

Fast growing consulting company in Austin, Texas has an opening for a Senior Consultant to join the Advanced Analytics team. We work with customers to solve hard, data intensive problems. Our work includes predictive analytics, fraud detection, and optimization projects for a client base consisting of software companies and Fortune 1000 clients.

We are seeking a consultant who can join our team and work directly with our clients on active projects. The ideal candidate has the following qualifications and skills:

  • Masters in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, or similar field of study
  • Strong software development skills, BI experience and data architecture experience a huge plus
  • Experience with software packages such as SAS, R, Rapid Miner, SPSS, etc
  • Familiarity with CRISP-DM, PMML
  • Machine learning experience
  • Previous client facing consulting experience

Analytics Director, Market Research (Cincinnati, OH)

Base $125k -$140k + 24% bonus Reports to Group Director, Retail Analytics Local candidates only; must be US Citizen, PR or Green Card Holder

Corporation owns and operates the world's largest, transaction-level, shopper-data warehouse- powering media networks to intelligently connect CPG, health care, and retailer marketers with specific audiences. .

Summary

The Analytics Director is within Analytical Services - Consumer Insights/ Targeting/Testing and is responsible for managing analytical support within regional office, working closely with Sales VP's to provide support to key clients to acquire and maintain business and to identify key client issues and address them with analytical solutions. This role is 50% client facing (going on client sales calls with Acct Mgt); 50% hands-on data mining.

RESPONSIBILITIES: This position is responsible for conducting sophistical quantitative analyses of the impact of previous Marketing events as well as for identifying future opportunities to leverage the Corporation network and going on external client facing calls with Exec Dir of Business Development.

http://www.datashaping.com/jobs18491x.shtml

Senior Biostatistician - StatWorks (Research Triangle Park, NC)

StatWorks, Inc. is a high quality specialty provider of biostatistical analysis and consulting, clinical data management, and report writing services focused exclusively on clinical trials and drug development. We are looking to grow our team of talented and experienced professionals by seeking a Senior Biostatistician.

The Senior Biostatistician will provide biostatistical and other technical support to the design and analysis of clinical studies.

Responsibilities:

  • Assists the project team with designing clinical studies to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of health care products. Activities include protocol development, definitions of endpoints, sample size estimation, plans for data analysis, and case report form design.
  • Assists with study implementation, which may include randomization scheme generation; and data base design through CRF design, variable name assignments and edit specifications.
  • Develops detailed analysis plans, oversees or conducts these analyses, and provides statistical interpretation of results.
  • Determines reporting requirements for clinical studies and, with the Programmer, designs appropriate reporting systems in SAS or other appropriate software. Writes programs, primarily in SAS, to produce these clinical reports. Reports include tables and graphs summarizing descriptive and inferential statistical analysis of clinical study results, or data management reports.
  • Drafts text for inclusion in documents including protocols and study reports.
  • Communicates with client and other project team members’ regarding project-related, technical matters.
  • Assist with data base management, as required.
  • Manage preparation of entire products – such as clinical protocols, clinical/statistical reports, or regulatory submissions – consistent with individual capabilities.
  • Review documents for appropriateness of employed statistical methods.

Sr SAS Programmer (Research Triangle Park, NC)

StatWorks, Inc is a high quality specialty provider of biostatistical analysis and consulting, clinical data management, and report writing services focused exclusively on clinical trials and drug development. We are looking to grow our team of talented and experienced professionals by seeking a Senior SAS Programmer.

The Senior SAS Programmer will provide computer programming and quality control support for data management and statistical analysis of clinical research data for a growing Clinical Research firm.

Responsibilities:

  • Performs necessary quality control reviews of project results to verify accuracy prior to delivery to client.
  • Performs quality control reviews of own work before forwarding on to other team members.
  • Provide statistical programming support for projects. This includes data management programming, database manipulation such as analysis files construction and integrated databases, external file management, statistical summary tables and figures programming, data listing and patient profile production.
  • Communicates with Project Lead and other team members regarding status and deadlines of programming tasks.
  • Provides input from a programming perspective in planning for database design and/or analysis.
  • Documents all programs and procedures to ensure an accurate historical record of work completed on assigned project.
  • May write programming specifications for analysis files, tables, data listings, and patient profiles.
  • Act as a technical resource for programming development.
  • Write and maintain project macros to increase efficiency of project work.
  • Provide programming and procedure training to less experienced employees.

Senior Quantitative Research Analyst (Dublin, Ireland)

Based in Irish Life Investment Managers, Lower Beresford Place, Dublin 1.

Irish Life Investment Managers (ILIM), the investment management company within the Irish Life & Permanent Group manages assets of circa €30bn and provides fund management services to a large domestic and multi-national client base. We provide investment products to both institutional and retail clients, offering a full range of products from our value driven active and indexed fund management processes.

We are seeking a Senior Quantitative Research Analyst to support and develop quantitative equity stock selection models.

The Job

He/she will work within the Quantitative Research team and also with portfolio managers in building long/short as well as high frequency equity selection models.

This is a highly exciting and challenging opportunity for the right individual and will be based in Dublin. The ideal candidate will be given the opportunity to help build a range of new active equity models, generate new research ideas, and get involved in portfolio management with the objective of fine tuning models and enhancing performance. There will be further opportunities to develop new strategies across products.

http://www.datashaping.com/jobs18486x.shtml

Business Intelligence Analyst - Burbery (NY, NY)

COMPANY: BURBERRY - LARGE LUXURY RETAIL COMPANY WITH HQ IN UK. POSITION: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ANALYST LOCATION: NEW YORK DEPARTMENT: STRATEGIC PLANNING

The Brand

Founded in 1856, Burberry is a luxury brand with a distinctive British sensibility and strong international recognition. Headquartered in London and listed on the London Stock Exchange Burberry continues to create new opportunities for growth and development. The Role

  • Own & oversee all aspects of business intelligence (data collection, date integrity, systems, data analysis) relevant to business
  • Provide useful insights gained from analytics to the decision making process, to drive execution and business optimization
  • Develop expert knowledge of all internal data collection software & business intelligence solutions, issues & challenges
  • Develop close working relationship with various functions handling business & customer data
  • Using Statistical analysis & Data mining tools perform demographic analysis, customer information analysis and business information analysis to identify business patterns, market gaps & opportunities
  • Create reports to provide valuable, relevant business insights and analytics to various departments
  • Periodic presentations to senior management of analysis, insights and solutions

Senior Statistician - AstraZeneca (Waltham, MA)

AstraZeneca is a major international healthcare business engaged in the research, development, manufacture and marketing of prescription pharmaceuticals and the supply of healthcare services. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. At AstraZeneca, we’re proud to have a unique workplace culture that inspires innovation and collaboration. Here, employees are empowered to express diverse perspectives - and are made to feel valued, energized and rewarded for their ideas and creativity.

AstraZeneca is currently recruiting for a Senior Statistician in our Waltham, MA R&D location.

This position will be joining AstraZeneca's Discovery Statistics group, which works through partnership with a diverse global customer base. The group is actively focused on delivering significant scientific and business benefit through creative statistical solutions to a wide range of problems. Our statistical input helps to exploit the maximum value from research experiments by improving the quality of data generated and the interpretation of results, whilst reducing costs, saving time and contributing to portfolio diversity.

We have initiated a major strategic investment and are now driving forward to build this capability by recruiting ten statisticians globally over 2009 and 2010. We believe we are unparalleled amongst our competitors in developing Discovery Statistics to this level. This, combined with our long-term commitment to the area and our proactive approach to customers, makes these roles industry leading, offering new and varied challenges and opportunities to work both independently and collaboratively across a wide variety of disciplines.

http://www.datashaping.com/jobs18474x.shtml

Staff Risk Analyst, Forecasting - CashEdge (Sunnyvale, CA)

Company: CashEdge Inc. is a leading provider of technology infrastructure for financial institutions ranging from the largest global Financial Institutions to smaller credit unions and investment advisors. CashEdge’s technology enables inter-institution money movement, person to person email payments, instant online account opening and funding and risk management services, processing $50 billion a year. CashEdge also provides account aggregation for both retail end users and investment advisors. CashEdge supports both fully hosted ASP applications and tightly integrated XML API implementations.

CashEdge serves over 175 financial institutions in North America including such leading institutions as Citibank, Royal Bank of Canada and The Vanguard Group. Our POP product allows the transfer of money from your cell phone or email to third parties. Among financial companies, we rank as the sixth largest by the number of web pages served per day.

CashEdge is an exciting, profitable company with offices in California, New York City and India. It is a private company funded by leading venture firms and financial institutions. You may visit our website at www.cashedge.com.

Location: Sunnyvale, California

http://www.datashaping.com/jobs18473x.shtml

Analytics Consultant - Marketing Analytics (Evanston, IL)

Marketing Analytics, Inc. seeks Analytics Consultants for Evanston, IL location. Master’s req’d. Education or exp must include: predictive modeling, marketing optimization, regression analysis, SAS, CPLEX.

Marketing Analytics Inc. is a leader in marketing effectiveness consulting and tools. For 19 years, we’ve helped clients improve their business through data-based marketing. Our Consulting Services group has an open, full-time position in the northern Chicago suburbs for a Consultant. Will develop marketing mix and other statistical models, and consult to Fortune 500 senior and mid-level management on their use and interpretation to quantify what drives sales and use the results to increase market share, revenue, and profit. Responsibilities:

  • Understand client needs for quantitative analysis of marketing effectiveness
  • Develop and test model specifications to meet client needs
  • Write SAS code to read input data and present results in business meaningful formats
  • Develop PowerPoint decks that report results and provide advice, and present to client
  • Use library of company code and presentation templates to assist with all phases of project (data readers, model specifications, automated modeling tools, websites, etc.)
  • Advise Software Engineering on refinement of software and web services tools

Data Mining Engineer - RiotGames (Culver City, CA)

Currently, we have a great opportunity for a Data Mining Engineer in our Los Angeles, CA office. If you are passionate about working in a fun, fast-paced, and creatively challenging environment, this is the place for you! We are looking for someone who manages time wisely, solves development and operational challenges with smart and efficient solutions, meets deadlines, and works in a self-directed manner.

The Data Mining Engineer is responsible to the organization for the integrity, availability, and confidentiality of the persistence systems, data, and supporting services. The Data Mining Engineer is the focal point and technical lead for all data stores, databases, database infrastructure, and supporting services.

Requirements

  • Experience in designing, implementing, and managing persistent data stores for high-traffic transactional systems.
  • Previous experience with "NoSQL" data stores desired
  • In-depth knowledge of MySQL, including high-availability design/operation, performance tuning, capacity planning, automated backup and recovery.
  • Strong DB schema design, query construction and optimization knowledge
  • Demonstrated knowledge of object / relational mapping systems
  • Experience horizontally scaling datastores
  • Ability to work with and support a team of game development professionals, and design engineers.
  • Conceptual knowledge of service-oriented architectures.
  • Positive, team-oriented attitude.
  • B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience. Must be legally authorized to work in the US.
  • Minimum 6 years experience

Saturday, October 02, 2010

Business Solution Architect, Advanced Analytics - Netezza (Cambridge, MA)

Reports To: GM & VP of Analytic Solutions

Primary Objective:

Netezza’s Advanced Analytics business unit has plans to accelerate its rapid revenue growth over the next several years through the creation of industry leading and compelling analytic and optimization solutions via partnerships, in-house development and/or acquisition. In order to achieve these objectives we must grow our team with experienced analytics solution strategy, development and field deployment expertise.

Accountability/Scope (range of responsibilities):

This role is responsible for assisting Netezza’s GM & VP of Advanced Analytics in the business strategy, design, development, delivery and management of solutions and sales enablement tools for Netezza’s Advanced Analytics global business unit in order to help rapidly grow this business unit.

Essential Functions/Major Responsibilities:

  • Solution strategy, market analysis, revenue planning and competitive analysis
  • Solution partner identification, solution packaging, value proposition and messaging...

Advanced Analytics Engineer - Netezza (Cambridge, MA)

Primary Objective:

Provide pre-sales technical expertise and product knowledge in the area of advanced analytics (products including SAS, R, SPSS, S+, and others) to assist in Netezza sales efforts and partnering activities.

Accountability/Scope (range of responsibilities):

Specialist would support field sales in engagements where advanced analytics will be utilized or is a key to the sales cycle. Also would provide corporate based resources with hands-on knowledge of customer requirements and current technology trends.

Essential Functions/Major Responsibilities:

Work with various Netezza account teams to provide technical sales support in sales/product presentations, product positioning, product demonstration, and implementation. Serve as the corporate product specialist and functional expert for a wide range of analytic tools that interoperate with Netezza. Build proof-of-concept analytic applications based on customer requirements to demonstrate feasibility of the application, often requiring rapid prototyping. Provide advanced analytics product evaluation support, product installation, application prototyping and benchmarks, often times in conjunction with a technology partner....

http://www.datashaping.com/jobs18466x.shtml

Data Mining Expert, Online Advertising - Resonate Networks (Reston, VA)

Resonate Networks, a data driven and rapidly growing online advertising company, is seeking a highly talented, creative and motivated Data Mining expert. This person will be responsible for analyzing Resonate’s many data sources that include online browsing behavior, search terms, online and offline purchasing, campaign performance and survey responses, in order to enhance Resonate’s unique online ad targeting algorithms. We are looking for someone who enjoys the challenge of a fast-paced start-up environment, likes to break innovative new ground, and possesses a proven ability to balance theory with pragmatic problem solving skills.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build predictive models from Resonate’s multiple data sources, develop advanced algorithms that extract and classify information from large, noisy, unstructured datasets
  • Create adaptive models that generate high-value data elements (e.g., performance predictions, behavior classifiers) for inclusion in Resonate’s online display and video campaigns..

Risk Management, Risk Analysis - Citi (NY, New York)

Get the inside track with a global, industry-leading organization! Citi is now looking to pre-identify people whose skills and experiences may be a strong fit for positions we may potentially look to open in the near future. We'd like to get to know you and start building that relationship now.

At Citi, we offer the challenge, responsibility, and global perspective of a career in financial services. With industry-leading advanced technology and a strong worldwide presence we have a comprehensive global infrastructure that none of our competitors can match. And the depth of our experience across geographies and markets allows us to develop complex, innovative solutions that our customers just can't get anyplace else.

Business and Technical Requirements:

  • 5+ years of experience in project management or business/functional role involving significant project management responsibility.
  • With 3+ years hands-on quantitative analysis & statistical modeling experience.
  • Degree in Quantitative Fields such as Statistics, Econometrics, Business Finance, Or Mathematics (Masters or PHD preferred)....

Statistical Professionals - Takeda (US, US)

Takeda has built a solid foundation on successful products, principles, people, and research. We currently have the following positions available:
  • Statistician/Senior Statistician
  • Statistician/Senior Statistician – Safety Statistics
  • Senior Statistician/Project Statistician
  • Manager, Statistics/Senior Manager, Statistics
At minimum these roles require:
  • Ph.D. in statistics or biostatistics or equivalent or MS in statistics or biostatistics or equivalent with minimum of 2 years of relevant experience...

Mathematical, Statistical Engineer - Corning (Corning, NY)

Scope of Position:

Improving manufacturing capability (e.g. efficiencies, yields, cycle time, and/or material utilization) by identifying and eliminating root cause(s) of variability * Problem solving and/or process improvement using a structured methodical approach and appropriate application of statistics (e.g. Six Sigma) * Evaluating impact on the product/process from new or existing: raw materials, processes, and/or equipment parameters * Evaluating measurement systems to improve quality and/or reduce inspection costs * Designing experiments to identify key process inputs/interactions and impact on product

Day to Day Responsibilities:...

http://www.datashaping.com/jobs18462x.shtml

Research Mathematical Statistician - CDC (Atlanta, GA)

Vacancy No. HHS-CDC-D1-2010-0467 Department: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) Salary: $101,035.00 to $131,343.00 Job Title: Research Mathematical Statistician, GS-1529-14 Department: Department Of Health And Human Services Agency: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Sub Agency: Department of Health and Human Services - CDC Series & Grade: GS-1529-14/14 Who May Be Considered: This job is open to U.S. citizens.

The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) is the agency Americans trust with their lives. As a global leader in public health, CDC is the nati...

http://www.datashaping.com/jobs18461x.shtml

Quantitative Analyst - Waterfront International (Toronto, CA)

Waterfront International is a Toronto-based financial consulting firm, specializing in developing computer based statistical trading strategies. Waterfront’s selective hiring process considers only highly talented individuals with a history of exceptional professional and academic achievement, and solid real-world experience.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Developing, testing and implementing quantitative trading models.
  • Models will be based on quantitative data analysis rather than qualitative analysis.
  • Research strategies in equities and other markets.
  • Perform historical backtesting to determine optimal strategy parameters.
  • Generate new indicator ideas...

Data Mining Analyst - Waterfront International (Toronto, CA)

Waterfront International is a Toronto-based financial consulting firm, specializing in developing computer based statistical trading strategies. Waterfront’s selective hiring process considers only highly talented individuals with a history of exceptional professional and academic achievement, and solid real-world experience.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Perform financial market data research and analysis to identify and resolve data issues using advanced data mining techniques.
  • Develop proprietary data mining tools and applications.
  • Develop predictive models.
Requirements of the Candidate include:...

Director, Decision Science - E Trade (Jersey City, NJ)

Professional Area: Marketing Internal Code: IRC27058

Company Overview

In 1983, the first online trade was placed using early E*TRADE technology. Today, E*TRADE FINANCIAL is a global financial leader, delivering value and innovation to millions of customers in more than 40 countries worldwide.

We are looking for highly energized, dynamic professionals who are ready to join a fast-paced, world leader in the financial services industry. We move at the speed of the Internet. Our work culture fosters an incredible exposure to innovative ideas and challenges that create experience and opportunity. Many have risen through the organization to become industry leaders, in both the financial services world and in the community at large. E*TRADE is made up of some of the brightest and most talented people in the industry - are you ready to join the industry leader?

Job Description

The Director, Decision Science is responsible for managing a team in developing and operationalizing analytical strategies for customer acquisition, retention and engagement. Implementation of these strategies will include, but not be limited to, online display, paid search, direct mail, email, etrade.com, customer service and sales. Team leverages complex predictive models using cutting edge techniques in statistics, econometrics and/or computer science to forecast product preference, response behavior, and usage pattern of existing and prospective customers as well as creating metrics to track and measure effectiveness of predictive models...

http://www.datashaping.com/jobs18453x.shtml

Chief Statistician (Huntington, NY)

Title: Chief Statistician - Survey Science or Market Research This Client is among the leading longitudinal consumer insights providers in the United States. The Client provides the highest quality, actionable consumer. The consumer data is the raw material that powers the insights and solutions that the Client delivers its’ respective clients. Their mission is to provide the most complete view into consumer’s purchase and attitudinal behavior in the marketplace. RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Apply/build statistic techniques and models to provide practical and actionable insights into consumer’s purchase and attitudinal behavior.
  • Direct the overall operations of a key statistical functional area and provide technical/academic expertise critical to the continuous improvement of an ongoing statistical survey of consumers.
  • Lead, direct, and coach a small team of technical professionals
  • Manage Key Performance metrics for sample maintenance and resolve all variances through root cause analysis

Executive Director, Hotel Revenue Analytics - MGM Resorts International (Las Vegas, NV)

JOB DESCRIPTION:

It is the primary responsibility of the Executive Director of Business Insights – Revenue Management to contribute to the success of the Company by providing critical strategic, tactical and operational recommendations that support the Company’s decision making process as it relates to revenue management initiatives. Specifically, he/she is responsible for directing and managing the reporting, analytics and predictive modeling for the revenue management team, and executes the strategy defined by the executive leadership team. All duties are to be performed in accordance with departmental and MGM Resorts International policies, practices, and procedures.

Specific Job Functions:...

http://www.datashaping.com/jobs18446x.shtml

Medical Informatics Project Manager, Clinical Systems (New Hyde Park, NY)

Transforming care, Transforming careers.

You will plan, manage and coordinate activities including the design of predictive analytics and forecasting models in support of data-driven healthcare delivery for departmental processes, clinical outcomes and health policy analysis. You will also drive implementation of clinical and operational workflow plans, and ensure that goals and objectives are met within prescribed time frames and funding parameters.

Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Statistics or related technical field and at least 5 years of progressively responsible experience in statistics, data analysis, statistical computing and programming. Strong project management skills and experience with Microsoft Business Intelligence Suite including SQL Server 2005/2008, IIS, SharePoint and .NET are also required. A Master's degree and knowledge of Radiation Oncology clinical and operational disciplines are preferred.

This is a full time position loca...

http://www.datashaping.com/jobs18445x.shtml

Quantitative Analyst - D.E. Shaw (NYC, NY)

The D. E. Shaw group, a global investment and technology development firm with approximately US $29 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, analyze, and implement statistical models for our computerized financial trading strategies. Keen insight and innovation are imperative for creating solutions for trading profitably in markets around the globe. 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 exceptionally talented students at the top of 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....

http://www.datashaping.com/jobs18444x.shtml

Sr SAS Programmer / Sr Data Analyst - Synchrony Solutions (Los Angeles, CA)

Description Position will support the development of databases which support complex market research studies conducted on behalf of our clients. We are looking for a candidate who has a passion for data development and data integrity. We are looking for someone who has the following characteristics:
  • Strong project management and communication skills
  • Strong experience working with large databases
  • Responsible, accountable and detail-oriented
  • Feels comfortable working in a small, fast-growing and innovative environment
  • Has an interest in marketing, market research and marketing data
  • Has a long-term interest in development as a database developer or marketing analytics professional
Role: This position will report to the ETL Manager and will work with a team of database developers in the Data Department. On project, the senior data analyst will work with a senior project manager, statisticians and other database developers...

Research Engineer - Chomp (San Francisco, CA)

Chomp is building a social app discovery engine to help people find the apps they need and don't know they need now. We have been gaining significant traction on the iPhone platform since launching in January of this year by combining a unique search and recommendation experience for apps. As the most mature mobile app market, the iPhone and iPod Touch currently nets Apple more than 1 billion app downloads every 60 days. The strategy of the company is to expand to other platforms (Android, iPad, Web-HTML5) and thus build a destination portal for users to discover mobile apps. As apps become an increasingly favorable method with which users consume content on their devices, we believe we're building an important product within the app discovery space that extends to all app platforms.

We're currently applying topic modeling to app meta data to build a better search experience for users finding apps. That is, being able to search for apps by functionality or topic area as opposed to keyword based on the app title or description. Check out our recent press on MobileBeat.

The company is backed by a number of top tier VCs with a small and exceptional team that consists of folks from successful companies such as Google, YouTube and AdMob. We're looking for the early members of our research engineering team to build a team (rivaling that of Aardvark whom Ben Keighran , Chomp CEO advised, and was subsequently acquired by Google early in 2010) to help develop our recommendation and search engine that would allow consumers to discover apps on these various platforms.

Who we're looking for:...

http://www.datashaping.com/jobs18442x.shtml

Sr Marketing Database Analyst - Oriental Trading (Ralston, NE)

Find out what segmentation and squirt guns have in common! Join the fun at Oriental Trading Company!

Recognized as a Top 50 Internet and a Top 50 Catalog Retailer, we promote fun in how we take care of our employees, empower our employees take care of our customers, and trust our customers to take care of spreading the word. Everything else simply takes care of itself.

So grab this opportunity and transform the "daily grind" into a thriving career, where fun is all in a day's work!

As our Sr Marketing Database Analyst you will recommend, develop, and execute customer segmentation and selection procedures utilizing Unica Affinium - Campaign Management tool or similar Campaign Management tool. Additionally, you will expand upon current knowledge of campaign segmentation through improved technologies and process flows resulting in time/cost savings and more profitable customer segmentations for catalog mailings and email campaigns. Communicate key findings within team and to customers; anticipate and solicit feedback on changes. Best of all, you will work proactively with marketing database analysts, circulation and ecommerce teams (housefile, acquisition, new initiatives and email) to improve process and workflow procedures that optimizes productivity and enhances marketing results.

Here's what you need to join the fun:...

http://www.datashaping.com/jobs18441x.shtml

Monday, September 13, 2010

Systems Engineer Analytics, SAS, S+, R, SPSS (Boston, MA)

Provide pre-sales technical expertise and product knowledge in the area of advanced analytics (products including SAS, R, SPSS, S+, and others) to assist sales efforts and partnering activities.

Responsibilities:

  • Specialist would support field sales in engagements where advanced analytics will be utilized or is a key to the sales cycle. Also would provide corporate based resources with hands-on knowledge of customer requirements and current technology trends.
  • Work with various account teams to provide technical sales support in sales/product presentations, product positioning, product demonstration, and implementation. Serve as the corporate product specialist and functional
  • Expert for a wide range of analytic tools that interoperate with our product. Build proof-of-concept analytic applications based on customer requirements to demonstrate feasibility of the application, often requiring rapid prototyping. Provide advanced analytics product evaluation support, product installation, application prototyping and benchmarks, often times in conjunction with a technology partner.
Skills:
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to speak to technical and business stakeholders and users
  • Solid understanding of support/sales/account management workflow
  • Detail-oriented; passion for getting involved with many different products, as well as understanding their form and functionality at a detailed level
  • Proven track record of excellent presentation, documentation, and customer interaction skills
  • Demonstrated experience in successfully advocating customer needs
  • Knowledge of leading-edge statistical and quantitative analytical methods and experience with statistical analysis tools such as SAS, SPSS, S+, and R
  • Ability to partner with customers, technology partners, and internal teams to define implementation strategies, review best practices, prototypes, and deliver initial solution implementations
  • Experience with parallel database technologies helpful
  • Experience implementing advanced analytic applications in a customer and partner environment.

Senior Data Warehouse / BI developer - Avvo (Seattle, WA)

Avvo, Inc. (www.avvo.com), the world’s largest legal directory, is currently looking for a world-class VP of Marketing. Avvo’s mission is to empower consumers to handle their legal matters with confidence. We do this by providing consumers more information and better guidance regarding lawyers and legal matters than they’ve ever had access to before. This includes rating and profiling 90% of the lawyers in the United States, client reviews, peer reviews and attorney disciplinary records. We also offer an industry-leading question and answer forum and legal guides that help consumers get the help they need.

Avvo has gone from concept to market leader in three short years. However we need an experienced and creative marketing mind to help us succeed in our next stage of development. The VP of marketing will be a key member of our executive team, reporting to Avvo’s CEO.

The Senior Data Warehouse / BI developer is a technical leader responsible for designing, developing and maintaining Avvo’s Business Intelligence infrastructure, including the data warehouse, reporting tools, analytic tools, and data integration tools.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Leads the overall design and implementation of the BI and Reporting infrastructure including evaluation and recommendation of software tools, definition of hardware requirements, and system configuration.
  • Leads all data and information centric initiatives including data warehouse structure, ETL processes, and external data interfaces.
  • Interacts with the other departments to understand and identify data needs and requirements. Works with other members of the IT organization to deliver warehouse and reporting solutions to address those needs.
  • Interacts with data analysts in IT and other departments to understand the documentation and training requirements needed to efficiently utilize the BI infrastructure including the development and maintenance of an enterprise metadata repository.
  • Provides ongoing support of production BI environments.
  • Monitors performance of all warehouse and reporting systems; provides ongoing performance tuning, reviews logs, cleans temp files and all other administrative issues required to ensure applications and databases are performing efficiently.
Requirements:...

Lead SAS Analyst, Credit/Fraud & ScoreCard (Telecommute, US)

Headquartered in Wichita Kansas, Client is a rapidly growing provider of consumer financial services. Since opening their first store in 1997 in Riverside, California, they have successfully expanded to nine states and eighty-two retail locations. Client is currently the leading small short term lender in the brick and mortar store market place in terms of top line revenue and bottom line profitability. In the last 12 months Client has also developed and is rapidly expanding an online loan businesses with intentions of achieving superior market share in this space in the next 24 months.

This role will assist the Director Analyst developing, implementing and monitoring loan approval models that will result in increased acceptance rates and lower default rates of our various consumer loan products. The objective of the role will ensure development, implementation, monitoring of client’s credit risk strategies to help manage and grow the loan portfolio by optimizing values of each loan application and customer. The business operates in “test and learn” culture, where for each of our key credit risk decisions you will assist the new Director Analyst to help develop challenger strategies, rolling out successful strategies to champion status, pulling unsuccessful ones quickly and helping develop new challengers.

To help realize the client’s objectives, this Lead Analyst role will have a vital part to play. The role will be challenging on the Credit side of scorecard development, but also, rewarding from being mentored by the Director Analyst to fully support deliverables to individual business units’ Risk Data Management teams, with the aim to make all risks transparent and understood. Various responsibilities starting in Business and Finance and ending in Information Technology. Assist in the Start Up, Launch, and, Enhancements of new product development to meet loan regulatory and compliance requirements for new Internet Lending Practice. Web originated loan underwriting will be an eLoan / Web 2.0 consumer lending product. Work extensively with client’s Lead Credit Analyst, to assist in their own critical Credit ScoreCard development - From Chief Internet Officer’s desk : "Put another way, consumer lending companies are becoming much more interested in understanding their customers’ lives and psyches, because, the theory goes, knowing what makes cardholders tick will help firms determine who is a good bet and who should be shown the door as quickly as possible. Luckily for the industry, small groups of executives at most of the large firms like ours, have spent the last decade studying our customers from almost every angle, and collection agencies have developed more sophisticated dunning techniques. We have sought to draw psychological and behavioral lessons from the enormous amounts of data the credit- lending companies collect every day. They’ve run thousands of tests and crunched the numbers on millions of accounts. " Must be a US Citizen, or, have a Green Card. Strong preference to candidates willing to...

http://www.datashaping.com/jobs18434x.shtml

Analytical Modeling Staff Scientist - SAS (San Diego, CA)

You will work from the SAS office in San Diego, California. As a member of the Financial Services Modeling team, you will analyze customer data and build high-end analytical models for solving high-value business problems, such as credit card fraud, credit risk, network security, tax fraud detection, and revenue and collections optimization.

Your duties will include analyzing large volumes of customer data for accuracy and consistency, as well as novel and useful information; building high-end analytic models for problems, such as credit card fraud detection; interacting with customers from the data analysis stage to the final report presentation and assisting in technical sales support as needed; building new variables by interpreting underlying data in novel ways; improving modeling techniques to improve model performance; maintaining and improving the processes and procedures for building high-end analytic modeling solutions; writing coherent reports and making presentations on high-end analytical projects; leading a group of scientists through project completion as needed; and performing other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Master's degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science, engineering, or the physical sciences.
  • Experience analyzing data and building analytical models.
  • Ability to work from the SAS office located in San Diego, California.
  • Excellent programming skills with knowledge of multiple operating systems, scripting languages, and the ability to deal with very large volumes of data.
Additional...

Analyst, BI - J.P. Morgan Asset Management (New York, NY)

J.P. Morgan Asset Management is a leading asset manager of choice for institutions, financial intermediaries and individual investors, worldwide. With a heritage of more than two centuries, a broad range of core and alternative strategies, and investment professionals operating in every major world market, we offer investment experience and insight that few other firms can match.

Clear focus on managing client assets and delivering strong risk-adjusted returns

More than 650 investment professionals providing over 200 different strategies spanning the full spectrum of asset classes, including equity, fixed income, cash liquidity, currency, real estate, hedge funds and private equity

Leadership positions in America, U.K., Continental Europe, Asia, and Japan

Role Objectives:

The Marketing Strategy group works within Funds Distribution (JPMorgan's Retail Asset Management Business). Interactions occur across sales, marketing, operations and finance to build frameworks, design processes and provide metrics that drive our business forward. This role is for an analyst with strong programming skills within the Business Intelligence (BI) segment of Marketing Strategy. BI focuses on bringing analysis and insights regarding our sales and marketing processes in an effort to improve our strategic approach and enhancing our selling effectiveness.

The primary focus of the role will be to work within the BI team to develop a strategic framework across all of our sales channels and within distribution strategy. The objectives will include:

  • Leading BI efforts in targeted marketing campaigns
  • Developing and implementing hypotheses around Financial Advisor segmentation models
  • Creating a test and learn feedback loop around contact strategies
  • Measuring the success of our marketing events or sales programs
  • Assessing and checking data integrity on internal data sets
In addition, the Business Intelligence group will be working within the JP Morgan Funds group management team to define the long-term strategy for our business.

Finally, the individual will build a long-te...

http://www.datashaping.com/jobs18432x.shtml

Advanced Analytics Math Modeler - Dow (Michigan, MI)

Dow Business Services has an exciting and challenging opportunity for an Advanced Analytics Math Modeler. This position is located in the Advanced Analytics group within the Six Sigma Consulting and Expertise Center. Dow's Six Sigma commitment coordinates with and builds on other quality initiatives. The rigor and datadriven decision making of Six Sigma is at work in every Dow business and function, driving out defects and variation.

This role has been created to assist businesses and functions in applying mathematics for decision support. There are two basic frameworks to support - data mining and then mathematical modeling. Data mining is generally used, from a Six Sigma perspective, in 3i and Opportunity Identification projects. Mathematical modeling is used for a specific point in time or ongoing decision when risk, uncertainty and/or complexity are self evident since the application of the math models are intended to reduce risk, describe uncertainty and understand the complexity.

This individual will provide the technical expertise necessary to perform a detailed mathematical analysis of various critical Business problems. The purpose of these analyses is either the identification/discovery of value creating opportunities needed to populate our Six Sigma project pipeline as well as generating opportunities for various project methodologies or to build a specific mathematical model to answer a particular question.

Responsibilities

  • Acquire working knowledge of statistical and machine learning tools and techniques identified for data mining and modeling applications. To accomplish this, specific training in data mining and modeling techniques and prior experience in statistical, machine learning and operations research techniques is required.
  • Assure alignment of Advanced Analytics activity with Business or Functional Strategy/priorities (e.g. MI Plan) with input from relevant leadership.
  • Identify and document systems to be studied, identify relevant databases for targeted mining efforts, and determine and validate quality of needed data in those databases.
  • Perform necessary pre-processing and harmonization of data to create a modeling data set utilizing the most effective methods available.
  • Select the proper mathematical method(s) for the problem at hand.
  • Select the proper technology to implement the method/problem at hand.
  • Perform detailed machine learning, statistical analysis or operations research analysis of targeted databases for the purpose of opportunity identification/discovery or specific decision making.
  • For Opportunity Identification, gather baseline data required to ground/support opportunity so that Local Champion can draft preliminary project charters. For each charter, provide links to databases mined to identify the opportunity.
  • For Math Modeling in decision support, deploy the model in a user friendly environment and provide assessment of the quality of the model and tracking therein.
Qualifications...

Sunday, September 05, 2010

Manager, Program Management Statistical Analysis - Asurion (Nashville, TN)

This role will lead the detailed statistical analysis of subscriber claims behavior. The insight from this analysis will be used to drive decisions on pricing, program design and financial planning. In order to do this, the position will create and statistically analyze large data sets of internal and external data and communicate the results across the organization in a way that drives the organization to action.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Develop analytic programming and manipulate and analyze large datasets using advanced statistical software packages and advanced analytic features of Access and Excel
  • Work across various business units to build large-scale, multi-variable databases
  • Identify statistical analysis techniques (e.g. cluster analysis, time series, multi-variable regression, etc.) required to deliver insight on key strategic questions
  • Support interpretation of statistical data in order to identify significant differences, relationships, and trends in data, as well as factors that could affect the results of research. Report results of statistical analyses in the form of graphs, charts, and tables.
  • Summarize written findings, publicize results, and participate and share with senior leadership as appropriate
  • Advance the use of complex analytical techniques and statistical thinking across Program Management
  • Execute project plans/ timelines, identify resource requirements and manage project to deliver high quality output
  • Own and optimize existing statistical models (e.g., incidence rate forecast) to drive meaningful increases in program profitability
  • Serve as an active participant on cross-functional project teams and provide guidance and training to teams in asking appropriate questions, interpreting data, and translating into action
  • Anticipate data and information needs and integrate into operational programs/plans.
  • Provide leadership in the identification and description of data elements and data files/tables required to complete assigned projects and make recommendations regarding the creation of analytical reports to achieve client, program, and business objectives
PROFESSIONAL COMPENTENCIES:
  • Strong quantitative and analytical skills
  • Demonstrated ability to build complex statistical models needed to understand issues at a detail level and forecast impacts of change
  • Ability to communicate complex statistical concepts and output to non-experts in both a written and verbal manner
  • Exceptional business insight and strategic orientation
  • Critical thinking skills in formulating hypotheses, interpreting results, and being able to make educated guesses when data may be sparse or unavailable
  • Intellectual curiosity and ability to handle high levels of ambiguity
  • Ability to work under pressure and within tight deadlines
  • Ability to anticipate problems and opportunities and the initiative to pursue solutions
  • Attention to detail
QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

A Bachelor’s Degree in a mathematical field such as Statistics, Operations Research, Actuarial Science or Applied Mathematics is required for this position. A Masters Degree or PhD is preferred. It is also required to have 3 to 7 years of related experiences.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

This position requires advanced statistical skills and experience with advanced statistical software package like SPSS, SAS, Minitab, etc. Strong SQL skills are required. Basic to intermediate PowerPoint skills are required.

URL: http://www.datashaping.com/jobs18426x.shtml

Director of Consumer Marketing - Avvo (Seattle, WA)

Avvo has gone from concept to market leader in three short years. However we need an experienced and creative marketing mind to help us succeed in our next stage of development. The Director of Consumer Marketing will report to Avvo's CEO.

This is a role for those marketers who revel in guerrilla marketing, especially to consumers. Your primary focus will be consumer acquisition -- i.e., building quality consumer traffic for the Avvo.com website. If your primary expertise and consistent acquisition strategy is to build consumer brand by spending millions of dollars, this role is not for you.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Primary manager and strategist in all consumer and business-to-business marketing for Avvo's lines of business.
  • Oversee the following primary marketing functions:
  • Online marketing focused on traffic generation and sales, including SEO, SEM and social media
  • Syndication of the company's information to third-party websites
  • Offline marketing, including consumer PR and branding
  • Development of the Avvo brand
  • Manage a significant budget and successfully forecast and manage ROI for all consumer marketing programs

Sr Research Analyst - Wellpoint (Wilmington, DE)

HealthCore, Inc., a health services research firm headquartered in Wilmington, DE, is seeking a Research Analyst or Senior Research Analyst with experience in epidemiology and biostatistics to join our dynamic company. Founded in 1996, and now an independently-operating subsidiary of WellPoint, Inc., HealthCore provides the health care system, biopharmaceutical industry, academia, and the Federal Government with "real-world" data to improve the quality, safety, and affordability of healthcare. HealthCores projects range from retrospective to large-scale, prospective studies in the areas of drug, vaccine, and medical device safety surveillance, risk management, pharmacoepidemiology, health outcomes, pharmaeconomics, and comparative effectiveness research. We are currently seeking a Research Analyst or Senior Research Analyst for the Safety and Epidemiology Service Team to work in our Wilmington, DE or Andover, MA or new in autumn in Washington DC area.. The Research Analyst or Senior Research Analyst will collaborate with the research team, including clinicians, epidemiologists, biostatisticians, programmers, and others to conduct safety and risk management research projects for the pharmaceutical, biotech and device manufacturers line of business. Responsibilities vary with the positions and include:
  • Performing safety surveillance, risk management, and pharmacoepidemiology research activities under the direction of senior staff;
  • Supporting research activities in statistical analyses, statistical expertise, reporting and communication of results;
  • Contributing to the development of proposals, protocols, and statistical analysis plans;
  • Conducting review of administrative claims data and statistical output to ensure accuracy of results;
  • Performing project management, with a focus on timeline and budget adherence;
  • Mentoring Research Analysts on service team.
Qualifications This position requires a masters or doctoral level degree or relevant education and/or equivalent training in health services research, epidemiology, biostatistics, or a related field. Experience with advanced statistical techniques, such as propensity score matching, marginal structural models, spatial analysis, survival analysis, and/or signal detection techniques preferred. Strong study design, analytic skills, and proficiency in programming with one or more statistical applications (SAS, Stata) are required. Experience with health plan administrative databases (pharmacy and medical claims) is a plus.

Statistical SAS Programmer - Gerard Group (Tempe, AZ)

Founded by Ernest Pineda Gerard Group, Inc., is a niche provider of staffing solutions to leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology, finance, banking, marketing and healthcare companies. Gerard locates, qualifies and places highly skilled consultants to its clients on a nationwide basis. The Company provides professionals in biostatistics, statistical programming, data management, drug safety, medical writing, risk analysis, marketing, outcomes research and utilization. Focused on quality and responsive service, the Gerard Group delivers the skilled professionals its clients need to more quickly and efficiently get their products to market. In addition to full time hourly contractors Gerard also provides our clients with candidates on a contract to hire and full time employment basis.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Candidate will provide statistical programming support to clinical trials for regulatory submission. Support Data Management in data set creations/transfers, integrity checks, and quality audits. Support Biostatistics in statistical analysis, including generating data listing, tables, and figures for clinical trials. Develop and maintain the infrastructure for project files of SAS datasets and SAS codes. Act as a liaison between clinical and subcommittees and project teams on an as-needed basis. Requirements

URL: http://www.datashaping.com/jobs18423x.shtml

Statistician - Ford Credit (Dearborn, MI)

At Ford Motor Company, we are dedicated to designing, manufacturing and selling high quality vehicles that meet the diverse needs of our customers. We believe our employees and the different perspectives that they bring to the business are the driving force behind our success. Come discover a company that is focused on the quality of our vehicles, the environment, the community and the world in which we live.

Responsibilities include:

Global Analytics is looking for a statistician to participate in a wide range of business initiatives at Ford Credit in Dearborn, Michigan. Statisticians at Ford Credit develop, implement and support analytics using advanced statistical/econometric techniques (e.g. logistic regression, time series, optimization, etc). We work closely with our IT and business partners around the globe to embed analytics into critical decision processes. Candidates will be expected to successfully prioritize and manage multiple analytical projects and ad-hoc requests to support business initiatives.

Requirements include:

  • Requires a Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, or Economics.
  • Requires 2-3 years experience applying advanced statistical techniques in a business setting. Preferably will have experience in the financial industry.
Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Sr Analyst - Precision (Dallas, TX)

Summary: Precision is a growing company providing marketing and sales decision support tools and services to Global 1,000 partners. Customers include HP, Kimberly-Clark, McKesson, Philips, MSC and United Stationers.

Responsibilities:

  • Use a variety of methods and tools to deliver meaningful quantitative fact-based models and analyses.
  • Manage multiple projects in a flexible, changing environment, including project and timeline management.
  • Convert large amount of data and complex models into meaningful, actionable executive-level summaries for internal and external customers.
  • Limited travel (
Qualifications:
  • Excellent academic record. 4 year undergraduate degree required. 3.50 (out of 4.0) GPA preferred.
  • 5+ years full-time work experience with data analysis (financial, statistical, market or database):
    • Marketing analytics or consulting experience a plus
    • Comprehensive Excel experience required
    • SAS, SQL Server or Access experience a plus

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Black Belt II - Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida (Jacksonville, FL)

Job ID: B1222JUN10 Type Full Time

Job duties include but are not limited to the following:

  • Complete a minimum of 4 DMAIC and/or LEAN projects per year
  • Actively lead teams and provide individual contribution through problem solving efforts to reduce defects, cycle time, and rework
  • Work with finance and other members of the organization in assessing, tracking and reporting the financial benefit of all improvement projects
  • Identify and work to remove barriers that slow or prevent the successful attainment of process/productivity improvement and administrative efficiencies that will lead to cost reduction and competitive advantage
  • Provide management with project status through monthly project reviews
  • Prepare and write a final report on each project per the BCBSF final project report format
  • Influence leaders to make the necessary changes for improved performance
  • Metric Management Plan preparation and maintenance
  • Support Business Process Management through metric identification, measurement development and periodic Measurement Systems Analysis
  • Identify projects for, and maintain a list of future CI projects to be worked
  • Influence Leaders to make the necessary changes for improved performance
  • Mentor Green Belts and upcoming Black Belts
  • Complete non-project related assignments as requested by Master Black Belt or area VP
Job Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
  • 6+ years business experience with a minimum of 2+ years experience to include quality-related work with both DMAIC and Lean tool sets
  • Black Belt certified
  • Successfully started and completed 2+ Black Belt projects (must have supporting documentation)
  • Must have completed 2+ transactional-type projects
  • Demonstrated mastery of Six Sigma "soft" skill-set including but not limited to Communication Plans, ARMI, Includes/Excludes, and other project planning tools
  • Outstanding presentation skills with abundant experience in communicating with people at all levels
  • Proficient with Excel (specifically pivot tables), Word, PowerPoint and Minitab
  • Excellent written communication skills
  • Ability to quickly analyze data and create succinct presentations tailored to the audience at hand

Consultant, Discover Network, B2B Analytics - Discover (Riverwoods, IL)

Portfolio Analysis (Decision Support & Analytics)

Discover. A more rewarding way to work.

At Discover Financial Services, you'll find yourself in the company of some of the industry's smartest and most reliable professionals. And at a company that rewards dedication, values innovation and supports growth.

Thrive in an environment that promotes teamwork and shared success. Build on a foundation of mutual respect. Join the company that understands rewarding careers like no other, with this exceptional opportunity:

  • The Consultant will nee to be disciplined in quantitative, analytical and computing. M.S. in fields such as Mathematics, Economics, Statistics, and Computer Science, etc.. Have extensive experience using UNIX Shell scripting, VB programming, SQL database programming, and SAS statistical programming. Excel Pivot Table, Charting and Powerpoint presentation skills. Have handled large scale of data efficiently. Be familiar with data operations across different system platforms. Be Capable of turning data into business insights.
  • Have experience in predictive modeling, data mining, and forecasting a plus. Have three plus years of Project Management experience in a high profile, deadline driven environment. They must be able to manage, organize and coordinate multiple, simultaneous projects. The role requires excellent communication and analytical skills, strong judgment skills and the ability to work effectively with senior management, business clients, BT management and staffs. This position will be client facing both internal and external.
Skills

SAS, UNIX shell scripting, Powerpoint, excel, vb, ANSI SQL and microsoft products. Database Marketing background is necessary.

...

Full details at http://www.datashaping.com/jobs18401x.shtml