Manager, Analytics Reporting and QA - ASH (San Diego, CA)

American Specialty Health, Incorporated (ASH)

2008 One of the 15 Fittest Companies in America—Men’s Fitness
2008 Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles, Gold—National Business Group on Health
2006 Best Places to Work—San Diego Business Journal and San Diego Magazine

We are seeking an Analytics Reporting & QA Manager for our Health Services Department.

The primary purpose of this position is to manage the reporting requirements for external and internal customers. Review existing reports, existing metrics, and report delivery processes and make recommendations for changes to improve quality of effectiveness and efficiency. Work closely with internal business owners and account managers to assess report requirements and timelines and work closely with the analytics team to implement, conduct quality review, and distribute the reporting deliverable.

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, computer science, information management, data analytics related education or equivalent experience.

EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum 5 years experience in the data analytics discipline and at least 3 years project management experience. Experience in health care or other provider services industry preferred.
• Experience working in a QA capacity in an organization with a high volume of reports and key performance metrics. Auditing experience a plus.
• Previous experience in establishing a reporting QA program by structuring a process including, establishing testing methodologies, measuring quality through metrics and managing the Quality Assurance function.
• Project management certification (PMP through PMI) highly desirable.
• Proficient in MS Office with intermediate experience in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Experience with project management software helpful.

From our corporate-casual dress code, which includes jeans and sneakers, to paid vacation and holidays to company-sponsored social activities, American Specialty Health provides excellent benefits and incentives. Some of the many benefits offered by ASH include:

• Paid Time Off: vacation, sick, and personal time
• Eleven paid holidays plus Floating Holiday
• Benefits include medical, dental, and vision; chiropractic, acupuncture, massage therapy and dietetic counseling coverage with medical plan
• Parking and public transportation reimbursement for downtown location
• 401(k) savings and retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• An onsite fitness center and discounted local gym memberships
• Incentive Program-Employees can earn points toward reward gift cards for practicing healthy habits
• Healthy vending machines stocked with snacks approved by RDs and subsidized by ASH
• An annual “Get Healthy!” award for an employee who achieves a significant wellness goal
• Sports sponsorships
• Onsite health education series
• Wellness fairs
• Run/Walk clubs & Tai Chi club
• Walking challenges
• A holiday weight management challenge
• A wellness committee in which employees meet to brainstorm on a variety of health and wellness activities for employees
• A “Weekend Warrior” club—for employees to meet outside of work for fitness activities

ASH is one of the nation’s premier personal health improvement organizations, providing specialty benefit programs, fitness programs, health coaching and incentives, Internet solutions, and worksite wellness programs to health plans, insurance carriers, employer groups, and trust funds nationwide.

Based in San Diego, ASH has over 680 employees and covers 15.3 million members in specialty network management, fitness, and wellness and prevention programs.

In addition, ASH offers employees many opportunities for education and advancement, plus an awards program that honors employee achievement in the areas of Quality, Customer Service, Teamwork and Innovation.

E-mail resume with position title and salary requirements to: hr@ASHN.com.

If this current position does not fit your area of expertise, please visit us online to view our current list of available positions. www.ashcompanies.com

Equal Opportunity Employer M-F-D-V

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Research Analyst I - ASH (San Diego, CA)

American Specialty Health, Incorporated (ASH)

2008 One of the 15 Fittest Companies in America—Men’s Fitness
2008 Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles, Gold—National Business Group on Health
2006 Best Places to Work—San Diego Business Journal and San Diego Magazine

We are seeking a Research Analyst I for our Health Services Department.

The primary purpose of this position is to support analytics and reporting needs for large scale accounts.

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, data analytics related education or equivalent experience.

EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum 3 years experience in the data analytics discipline. Experience health care or health promotion environment a plus.
• Experience supporting analytics and reporting needs for large scale accounts.
• Experience using Business Intelligence tools.
• Proficient in MS Office.

ASH is one of the nation’s premier personal health improvement organizations, providing specialty benefit programs, fitness programs, health coaching and incentives, Internet solutions, and worksite wellness programs to health plans, insurance carriers, employer groups, and trust funds nationwide.

Based in San Diego, ASH has over 680 employees and covers 15.3 million members in specialty network management, fitness, and wellness and prevention programs.

In addition, ASH offers employees many opportunities for education and advancement, plus an awards program that honors employee achievement in the areas of Quality, Customer Service, Teamwork and Innovation.

E-mail resume with position title and salary requirements to: hr@ASHN.com.

If this current position does not fit your area of expertise, please visit us online to view our current list of available positions. www.ashcompanies.com

Equal Opportunity Employer M-F-D-V

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Assistant Vice President - Data , Quantitative Analysis, and Statistical Support (Cincinnati, OH)

Title: Assistant Vice President - Data , Quantitative Analysis, and Statistical Support
Req Number: chmc-00022861
Department: Data Systems / 11-190300
Job Grade: M-5

Start Time AM/PM: 8:00 AM
End Time AM/PM: 5:00 PM
Work Shift: 1st shift
Hours Per Week: 40

Salary: -
Location(s): Cincinnati OH

PURPOSE OF POSITION: To provide planning, direction and coordination of all activities related to data collection, analysis and reporting to support quality improvement teams, senior management and faculty conducting research in improvement science.

Responsibilities include:

Infrastructure Development:

• Build the infrastructure needed for data, analyses and measurement tracking necessary to assist senior leadership in system-wide strategic planning and transformational change.
• Develop a quality program for data and statistical support for system wide transformations including CCHMC consulting business to support local, state and national efforts.
• Direct the design and implementation of the infrastructure needed for data display, statistical analyses and outcomes tracking needed by the Center for Health Care Quality (CHCQ) and the Physician Hospital Organization (PHO) for local and national collaborative efforts.
• Develop and direct the statistical capabilities needed to support CHCQ faculty in improvement research.
• Provide statistical consultations for CCHMC¡¿s outside consulting business.
• Lead the development and implementation of a strategic plan to build necessary infrastructure to support data and analysis for performance improvement including identifying opportunities for automation, and technology, education, training, and personnel needs.
• Build the infrastructure needed and direct staff to support the measurement and analysis needs of the performance improvement Clinical Systems Improvement infrastructure and strategic priorities, which includes service quality (patient satisfaction), patient safety, clinical and functional outcomes, access metrics and measures of patient flow.
• Coordinate and facilitate the relationships between the various Divisions/departments, committees, and taskforces necessary to implement the performance improvement measurement tools.
• Design and implement system(s) to coordinate, manage, spread and improve the performance improvement measurement efforts as they move forward.
• Work with senior leadership to identify and move toward a future state culture which will support pursuing perfect care through improved data collection and reporting.
• Develop and educate staff and faculty in the methodologies to create and utilize data for performance improvement.

Fiscal Management

• Identify, evaluate and make fiscally responsible recommendations regarding resource and system needs for the department, to include finances, materials, human resources, capital and space.
• Prepare, coordinate, and manage annual fiscal operating and capital equipment budgets for the area, working with the business director of Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness
• Support internal controls to safeguard the financial, information and human resources of Cincinnati Children¡¿s.

Staff Management

• Ensure that a sufficient number of qualified and competent persons are available to accomplish the goals of the department.
• Manage the selection, development, motivation, evaluation and discipline of reporting personnel. Ensure that job requirements and goals for each position are clear to employees. Determine and document the qualifications and competence on a continuing basis.
• Provide leadership, mentoring and coaching of reporting personnel with the goal of developing the skills needed to facilitate achievement of team goals and enterprise-wide strategic priority goals.
• Ensure that orientation, in-service training and continuing education are provided to division personnel to achieve satisfactory levels of competence.
• Supervise all Quality Improvement Analysts, including those located in other departments/divisions. (ie. CHCQ and PHO)
• Oversee data center for CHCQ.
• Develop management staff to maximize the strengths and abilities of each.
• Determine and monitor implementation of continuing education goals of the division. Promote professional input to in-service training programs, both for clinical and non-clinical staff.

GENERAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and implement policies and procedures that guide and support the provision of services.
• Maintain quality control programs. Ensure that quality control checks are conducted, records are maintained and that corrective action is taken as necessary.
• Assure compliance with the standards of accrediting and regulatory agencies.
• Assess, develop, implement and maintain appropriate divisional policies, procedures, job descriptions and philosophy as consistent with CCHMC policies and values.
• Manage attendance at required CCHMC training sessions, including radiation safety, laboratory safety, bloodborne pathogens and OSHA. Enforce compliance with Infection Control policies and procedures.
• Serve as the clinical services administrative representative on appropriate committees.
• Enhance professional knowledge by attending seminars and professional meetings. Implement knowledge into the Division of Patient Services' procedures.
• Participate in professional leadership activities, including community education programs, faculty relationships, professional association contributions and presentations on the state and national level.
• Understands, adheres to and models Core Standards as defined organizationally and specifically within the department/unit.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required:

• Master's degree in statistics, quantitative analysis, business, health care administration or related discipline.
• Minimum of 10 years experience coordinating/leading/facilitating large-scale survey/data development and analysis processes in a medium to large organization.
• Minimum of five years experience reporting senior leadership.

Preferred:

• PhD in statistics, quantitative analysis, business, health care administration or related discipline.
• Experience within a healthcare system, hospital or medical center.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage a department of at least 15 people. Proficient team leadership skills ¡V goal setting, and evaluating, coaching, guiding, mentoring and rewarding employees.
• Demonstrated organization, leadership, data management, quality improvement and management skills.
• Demonstrated skills in building positive relationships with senior leaders, managers and employees, and community leaders and members.
• Proficiency in the application of quantitative methods in quality improvement.
• Effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and Access.
• Demonstrated diplomacy, tact and a professional demeanor.
• Ability to relate to individuals of diverse age groups and demographic backgrounds.
• Ability to interpret, implement and develop Cincinnati Children¡¿s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) policies and procedures.

Apply Online or by email to:
Nancy.Leyritz [at] cchmc.org (replace [at] with @)

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Sr Software Performance and Monitoring Analyst - Seven Networks (Redwood City, CA)

Senior Software Performance and Monitoring Analyst

SEVEN Networks, Located in Redwood City, CA has an opportunity for a Senior Software Performance Monitoring Analyst.
With billions of transactions through SEVEN products by users around the world, we are at the forefront of the wireless communication revolution. Our premier enterprise customers and global consumer adoption is growing rapidly, and our increasingly active users are driving a significant growth. The ability to identify and develop in-depth understanding of trends, issues, and system and user behavior from a rich set of data of a large scale distributed software system in near real time, and swiftly improving the system and business performance based on timely, reliable information is central to our success. SEVEN is seeking a unique individual that has both the engineering skills to understand the fundamentals of our products as well as the data analysis background to influence strategic business decisions based on analysis of user data as well as system performance. You will lead a cross functional team in building the next generation of capabilities, tools and processes to improve system and business performance through collecting and transforming rich data into reliable, timely information and fact-based decision making both at operational and executive levels..

Primary Responsibilities

• Design and implementation of metrics, tools and processes for timely measurement of past, current and prediction of future performance of large scale distributed software systems and their users, and fact-based decision making both at operational and executive levels
• Lead a cross functional team to design and implement operational intelligence in monitoring complex systems and their users to identify and detect situations relating to inefficiencies, opportunities and threats
• Design and perform multi-dimensional analyses, including real-time monitoring, correlation of events, root cause analyses and time series and trending analyses
• Evangelize the rich data and metrics to both internal and external audiences

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience in system design, testing and performance analysis for large scale distributed systems
• Java skills and object-oriented design experience in a UNIX environment
• Excellent knowledge of relational databases, SQL, ETL and OLAP
• Demonstrated clear and thorough logical and analytical thinking, as well as problem solving skills - can find root causes from symptoms and drive short and long term programs to address them
• Hands-on experience in conducting systematic exploratory data analyses and developing algorithms and tools for data mining is essential.
• Superior and proactive communications skills, including verbal, written, and presentation to explain technical issues in plain English
• Attention to details and data accuracy

Desired Qualifications:

• MS in Applied Mathematics, Computer Science/Engineering, Statistics, or equivalent; PhD a plus
• Fluency in statistical and quantitative analysis methods
• Expertise in business intelligence tool packages
• Cross-functional leadership skills and track record of achievements in helping businesses improve and transform processes with bottom-line impact
• Experience in working for a venture backed company

SEVEN Networks Inc. is an equal opportunity employer: www.seven.com

Submit resumes to: uscareers@seven.com

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Senior Scientist - Click Forensics (Austin, TX)

We are looking for a Senior Scientist who can build predictive models to detect online fraud and measure traffic quality. We are looking for special talent that can help build the core intellectual property of our company. Become a leader in an already strong team of statisticians, data miners, and fraud specialists. You will be at the center of an exciting new company that is early in the market but already has a strong leadership position and is rapidly accelerating its dominance of the market. Click Forensics is the acknowledged leader in click fraud prevention and traffic quality management solutions for online advertisers, publishers and ad networks.

Job Responsibilities include:

• Build working models that can predict traffic quality in online advertising
• Analyze data to find patterns of click fraud
• Communicate complex statistical analysis techniques to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Test efficacy of models
• Propose strategies based on research the broad spectrum of approaches to solving business problems
• Work in an agile development environment by continuously adding value to products

Experience:

• Ph. D in Machine Learning, Statistical or related fields is desired.
• Strong MS candidates will be considered as well.
• Significant industry experience (more than 5 years) in real world applications.
• Prefer to have worked on very large data sets
• Prefer to have exposure to online advertising data
• Prefer strong SQL skills
• Must have experience with open statistical computation software packages
• Prefer experience in programming of commercial products.
• Prefer a familiarity with anomaly detection and time series analysis.

Click Forensics is an exciting Austin startup well funded by Austin Ventures & Sierra Ventures. We create solutions used by online advertisers, publishers and ad networks to detect click fraud in their online pay per click campaigns. Austin is a fantastic city with a great culture, amazing cost of living, family friendly atmosphere, wonderful climate, first class restaurants, and a growing economy. Come join us.

Contact: e-mail resume to: peter.norwood [at] clickforensics.com (replace [at] with @)

Keywords: Web Analytics, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Scientist, SAS, Splus, SPSS, Clementine, Enterprise Miner, Scoring, Scorecards, Design of Experiments, Multivariate Analysis, Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Predictive Modeling, Text Mining, Computer Science, Time Series, Forecasting, Search Intelligence, Online Advertising, Fraud Detection, Odds Ratio, SVM, Neural Networks, Artificial Intelligence, Operations Research, Statistical Modeling.

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Director of Analytics - AdKnowledge (Kansas City, KS)

Adknowlege’s Director of Analytics will be responsible for improving revenue by managing a team to apply statistical techniques to very large consumer data sets.

• Team Development: Manage a team of approximately 5 statisticians and 3 engineers including attracting, developing, motivating, and retaining highly talented individuals.
• Analytics: Gather business requirements from key stakeholders and turn them into actionable analytics projects. Prioritize, set deadlines and mentor a team of statisticians. Create predictive consumer models, analyze traffic patterns and quality and model a large advertiser marketplace.
• Data Management and Warehousing: Work with very large data sets (10TB+) and architect a distributed data management architecture that can scale to handle rapid growth.
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• Project Management: Institute lightweight processes to manage projects and provide visibility to upper management on project status and prioritization.

Additional duties include:

• Articulate strategic technical objectives (quarterly, annual, long-term), and lead the group to achieve them.
• Interact with internal and external customers to ensure continuous customer satisfaction, modifying plans and processes when necessary to maintain reliability and performance.
• All other duties as assigned

CANDIDATE OVERVIEW
The successful candidate will be an analytical, thoughtful and business-minded leader with at least:

• 3+ years of fundamental people management (hiring, coaching, firing).
• 3+ years of experience involved in revenue impacting analysis of very large data sets including data mining, statistical tests and/or simulations.
• Proven experience translating requirements into solutions.
• Strong familiarity with Linux/UNIX, SQL and R.
• Background in software engineering strongly preferred with experience developing in Java.
• Degree in computer science, mathematics or related field.

The successful candidate will also demonstrate the following abilities:

• Communication Skills: Be comfortable interfacing with senior management, understanding complex business requirements and presenting the pros and cons of various technologies and statistical techniques to nontechnical managers.
• Leader/Builder/Recruiter: Able to attract, motivate and build a disciplined and goal-focused team.
• Resourceful: figure-it-out-and-get-it-done mentality.
• Analytical: An intelligent decision maker.
• Fast Paced: Enjoy rapid change within a small, entrepreneurial, technology-driven culture
• Strategic Skills: Have a superior business intellect and understand what to pursue and what to defer within an opportunity-rich environment.

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Sr. Quantitative Analyst - New Directions Behavioral Health (Overland Park, KS)

New Directions Behavioral Health, an EOE Overland Park, KS company, has the following open position:

SR. QUANTITATIVE ANALYST

The Sr. Quantitative Analyst independently develops reporting and analytical tools to support the company’s current and future business. Works with requesting departments to understand business issues and develop appropriate management solutions. Assists staff by performing basic workflow analysis and understanding departmental reporting and analytical needs.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Master’s degree in business, economics, statistics or related field. Three to six years experience in a comparable position in the healthcare industry. High level of proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint. Should be able to prepare SQL queries of moderate difficulty. Should have exposure to a major analytical package such as SPSS, Stata or SAS. Must be able to analyze, organize and present data in a manner which can be used by an operating department or management staff to effect change. Proven written and oral communication skills, organizational skills, problem solving and demonstrated willingness to work within a collaborative, team-oriented environment.

New Directions offers a very competitive compensation and benefit package. For consideration, please submit a confidential resume (no phone calls please) to hr@ndbh.com or fax to (913) 982-8205.

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Informatics Analyst - West Asset Management (Omaha, NE)

More than a job

What’s the difference between a job and a career?

Passion—and people invested in your success. At West Asset Management, we love what we do, and we’re looking for passionate people like you to join our close-knit team. At West Asset Management, we’re more than just coworkers—we’re a team of professionals committed to helping one another succeed. This is more than a job…it’s a career.

Informatics Analyst
We are currently seeking a statistical innovator to research trends and payer procedures to identify inaccurate billing or payment procedures for an assigned department. West Asset Management has created their own, in-house analytics (SAS) shop in which small entrepreneurial ideas are expected. This open and collaborative environment, allows individuals to grow professionally and interact with all levels of the business and external clients. We are constantly seeking ways to become better, faster and smarter and more efficient, setting us apart from the competition. Previous exposure to medical claims is a plus!

Major Accountabilities:
- Participate in brain storming sessions to develop data information identification opportunities
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of changes in health care and payer community related to payment procedures, practices, and products
- Submit business rules to the appropriate department to address and resolve any problems expected with data outcome.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in MIS, Computer Science, Business Administration, Statistics, or related field required. Master’s degree in MIS, Computer Science, Business Administration, Statistics, or related field preferred. Equivalent work experience in a similar position may be substituted for educational requirements.
- Minimum four years increasingly responsible experience in research tasks involving the health care and medical insurance industry required.
- Advanced knowledge of various platforms, functions, and software (e.g., AS400, SAS, SPSS, SQL, etc.) required.

West Asset Management offers comprehensive benefits, including health, vision and dental insurance, paid vacation, tuition reimbursement and 401(k) plan. Enjoy a flexible schedule and early-out Fridays.

Check out our opportunities and see the difference a career can make.
www.westassetmanagement.jobs
Job requisition # 925882

You must apply online to be considered.
West Asset Management. Achieve more.

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Benefits

At West Asset Management we offer a variety of benefits to our full and part-time employees based upon their position and tenure, including competitive compensation, health coverage, a 401k retirement plan, tuition reimbursement and paid holidays and time off. And because we want our employees to build their careers as far as their skills and hard work take them, we promote training and professional development and offer a wide variety of opportunities for career advancement. When you apply today at West Corporation you'll find we've really got you covered!

How To Apply?

By E-mail
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Sr. Director of Analytics - Walmart (Bentonville, AR)

Sam's Club

As a most unique and forward-thinking retail employer, Sam's Club helps our members live better by providing them great value on the things they need — both for their businesses and their homes. What makes Sam's Club unique is the format we use to serve our customers. Our membership-based clubs give members access to a wide selection of large-volume items at value prices.

Today, we have over 600 clubs and continue to grow. Whether small business owners shopping for products for their business or the head of a household shopping for a family, we aim to provide our members with solutions that simplify their lives — saving them money and time, while helping the environment, too.

Working at Sam's Club Corporate means joining us in Bentonville, Arkansas to work behind the scenes of a unique retail operation. The decisions to best serve our members have a profound impact on millions of people. We pride ourselves on our progressive environmental practices and the ability to change with the times. We look for people who can think creatively, make smart decisions, and anticipate future trends in retailing. If being part of this unique retail experience and a part of the Wal-Mart family interests you, read more about the career opportunity awaiting you at Sam's Club.

Summary

The Sam's Club Member Insight & Innovation team is responsible for helping our entire business understand what our members value most. We use that insight to inform business, marketing, membership, and merchandising strategies that create great value and service for our members.

Detailed Description

The Senior Director of Analytics in our Member Insights & Innovation team is responsible to ensure Sam's Club has best-in-class analytics, measurement, and data strategies to inform enterprise-wide business initiative focused on enhancing the overall member experience.

The leader in this role is responsible to:

• Lead the design and development of analytical projects designed to understand key business behaviors such as member acquisition, retention, and engagement; member lifetime value; member satisfaction; and drivers of loyalty
• Manage and lead advanced analyses to assess relationships and patterns within member data, and create tools which can be leveraged to build actionable strategies
• Guide continuous innovation and creation of new measurement solutions to accelerate learnings from treatment strategies
• Direct development and integration of advanced analytics, statistical modeling, and offer optimization
• Lead cross-functional teams to implement decision support strategies -- aligning resources from marketing, technology, membership, eCommerce, and external analytics and technology partners
• Direct the development and infusion of advanced measurement capabilities across the enterprise to accelerate the test-learn-modify cycle
• Attract, develop and retain the best talent to the MI&I team

Job Requirements

• Advanced degree in quantitative marketing, statistics, mathematics, economics, or related quantitative field, or significant work experience
• Minimum of 8 years business experience in marketing analysis or analytics consulting leadership
• Expertise in CRM, loyalty marketing, or other customer-centric environments
• Experience managing high-performing teams
• Specific experience in advanced analytic techniques applied to customer valuation, marketing ROI, design of experiment, and segmentation

Contact: Jennifer.Jones [at] Samsclub.com

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Business Intelligence Analyst - Sagence (Chicago, IL or Milwaukee, WI)

Business Intelligence Analyst

Location: Chicago, IL or Milwaukee, WI
Arrangement: Full-Time Employee
Travel Requirements: Up to 100%

Sagence is looking for an experienced consultant to join its Business Analytics Practice. The candidate will have a well-rounded general consulting background with experience in business analytics and business intelligence.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Participate in strategic assessments for clients identifying current business issues and contributing to defining high impact business intelligence solutions with a focus on the quantitative method, modeling and analytical approach.
• Conduct interviews and economic analysis with project stakeholders to determine business opportunities and requirements.
• Lead functional requirements gathering and business scoping activities ensuring solutions support business processes.
• Work in collaboration with information asset management practice teams and technical teams to translate business requirements into an actionable implementation approach and plan.

Skills and experience:

• Analytics – Hands on experience developing models (interpretive and predicative) and using analytics to improve an aspect of the clients operations (e.g. pricing, predictive maintenance for machinery, assortments in direct marketing, etc.). Experience with data-centric statistical techniques and tools.
• Business Analysis – Perform general company and industry research including economic, market and competitive analyses.
• Consulting – Participate in on and off client site consulting teams conducting interviews, data collection and organization, opportunity identification and problem solving.
• Project Management – Demonstrated ability to work in and manage small project teams. This includes planning, task management, status reporting, etc.

Career aspirations and culture:

• Sagence is a small, rapidly growing management advisory and consulting firm that values a strong work ethic, flexibility and collaborative work style.
• The successful candidate will be comfortable working in an entrepreneurial setting in teams with other motivated, intelligent and experienced individuals.
• The firm environment provides a terrific opportunity to learn and assume new responsibilities at a rapid pace.

Position Requirements:

• 5 + years experience as an analyst working in data mining, decision science, business/market analysis and/or similar analytical roles in consulting and/or industry.
• 3+ years working for a consulting firm as a business analyst, project manager or client manager.
• Experience with statistical packages and tools such as SAS, SPSS, etc.
• Experience in data warehouse technologies (ETL, ODS, DBMS) preferred.
• Experience with industry leading BI tools (Business Objects, Microsoft, Cognos) preferred.
• Strong business communication and writing skills.
• BS degree in Computer Science, economics, mathematics or business.
• MBA. (preferred)

About Sagence:

Sagence is a management advisory and consulting firm helping clients improve outcomes through rigorous data analysis and by tackling the technology challenges of acquiring, managing and delivering information. Our capabilities include strategic advisory and planning services to solution architecture and implementation. Learn more about Sagence at www.sagencegroup.com.

Email your resume and cover letter to: beth.reconnu [at] sagencegroup.com (replace [at] by @)

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Marketing/Business Analyst (Austin, TX)

COMPANY:

The National Alliance for Insurance Education and Research, located in Austin, TX, is the leading provider in Continuing Education for insurance and risk management practitioners. For almost four decades we have set the standard of quality in the business and during that time 130,000 people have used and continued to use our programs as the foundation upon which they have built and continue to build their careers and businesses.
Our CIC, CRM, CISR and CSRM designations give national recognition to our 50,000+ designee costumers. www.TheNationalAlliance.com.

JOB SUMMARY:

The Marketing/Business Analyst will be responsible for creating descriptive and statistical business models to strategically analyze financial and operational data; Therefore procuring the achievement of business objectives of The National Alliance. The position requires proactively initiating, developing and maintaining effective working relationships with internal associates and recommending action plans to achieve financial/operational efficiencies. She/he will work closely with cross-functional teams to drive results and anticipate future business directions.

Estimated primary responsibility allocations:

30% - Analysis
15% - Data Management
55% - Report Development including Universe Design

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understands client organization's direction, structure, and requirements
• Analyzes data to determine industry and competitive positioning.
• Develop reports and dashboards that enable data driven decisions using current BI tools. (Business Objects, SAS).
• Actively participate in data management and modeling to develop and maintain effective data repositories including data marts and universes.
• Transforms data and variables for the purpose of further use and analysis
• Participates in the design of operational systems, business processes, and reports.
• Assesses project and/or business needs and produces supporting data and reports.
• Identifies and documents system deficiencies then recommends solutions.
• Prepares reporting requirements, specifications, and recommendations.
• Prepares reports that are easily understood with the operational vision.
• Develop and/or outline strategic action items based on analysis.
• Provides status and information to Management for evaluation and guidance.

EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree.
• 3-4 years of Business Objects design and development of Reports
• Firm understanding of Business Objects XI and its most current features, including Crystal Reports.
• 3+ years designing, developing and interpreting statistical and descriptive analysis/models
• 3+ years of SQL writing experience; can write complex SQL as warranted by a project
• Experience gathering requirements and analyzing data
• Experience building database views and SQL performance tuning as needed
• Ability to manage workload and work effectively with little supervision
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills - Able to multi task, prioritize and coordinate resources
• Application development experience is a plus
• Demonstrated record of translating strategy into measurable outcomes
• Experience exploring relationships between multiple pieces and sources of data.
• Experience in identifying the underlying drivers of performance measures.
• Proven ability in relationship management, interpersonal communication, and self-management.
• Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
• Ability to understand how report results effect business decisions.

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with business intelligence applications (i.e. Business Objects X1 and Crystal).
• Experience with statistical analysis applications (i.e. SAS).
• Experience with business applications (i.e. Microsoft Office, Microsoft Access and advanced Excel).

Email resume to: ASchott [at] scic.com (replace [at] by @)

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Senior Research Analyst (DC, VA)

Resonate Networks is a dynamic online advertising network start-up in Northern Virginia focused on helping Public Affairs & political organizations, as well as corporations, find their desired audiences online based upon the issues they care about – what we call “Attitudinal Targeting ”.

Resonate has developed a proprietary targeting platform that enables this new way to perform online micro-targeting - whether the organization’s concern is targeting those who support alternative energy tax incentives, oppose foreign ownership of US companies, or support universal healthcare, Resonate Networks can pinpoint these kinds of audiences online.

Position Title: Senior Research Analyst
Location: Northern Virginia
Job Type: Full Time
Salary:
Commensurate with experience
Attractive benefits package

Travel Requirements: <10% anticipated
Reports To: Vice President of Research

Position Summary

The Senior Research Analyst position will be a critical role in the success of Resonate Networks. This person will be responsible for analyzing data from multiple sources in order to design and implement Resonate’s unique online ad targeting algorithms.

If you enjoy the challenge of a fast-paced start-up environment and like to break innovative new ground, we want to talk to you!

Key Responsibilities

• Incorporate Resonate’s custom survey results, web behavior data, campaign performance metrics and public databases into Resonate’s data warehouse.
• Perform QA and any necessary data manipulation
• Design and implement analyses that enable Resonate to build and execute more effective online advertising campaigns
• Collaborate with Account Management and Ad Operations teams to ensure successful campaigns that meet advertisers’ goals
• Support Resonate Network’s sales team by running ad hoc analyses

Qualifications & Experience Requirements

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Experience with SQL, relational database design and methods for efficiently retrieving data from them
• Experience with statistical software such as SPSS or SAS and statistical modeling techniques a plus
• Experience with online advertising, web analytics, survey data and/or Internet behavior data
• Ability to concurrently manage multiple projects
• 3-8 years professional experience
• Must be able to maintain a “Big Picture” perspective
• Strong attention to detail and quality
• Fast learner with ability to learn new technologies and skills quickly
• Must have entrepreneurial spirit and drive, thriving in a fast-paced environment within a rapidly growing industry

Educational Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required (Statistics, Engineering, Economics, Information Systems, or similar field)

Location

• This position is based at Resonate’s headquarters in Northern Virginia
• No relocation package is being offered for this position

If interested in this position, please contact Nick Tabbal at: Nick.Tabbal [at] resonatenetworks.com or (703) 684-9573.

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Sr. Credit Risk Modeler - First American (San Francisco, CA)

First American is the nation's largest data provider, supplying information resources and services that impact the major economic events of people's lives. We serve mortgage, real estate, and consumer-related businesses, as well as consumers themselves, with the data to help them make decisions, operate their businesses, and advance their lives.

Tracing our history to 1889, The First American Corporation (NYSE: FAF) is based in Santa Ana, California. Today, with revenues exceeding $6 billion, our company has 31,000 employees and 2,000 offices throughout the United States and abroad. For more detailed information about First American, please visit our Web site at: www.firstam.com.

LoanPerformance, a division of First American CoreLogic (FACL), the nation's largest provider of property and ownership information, analytics and services is the leader in mortgage finance, securitization and servicing information and analytics.

We created and maintain the industry's largest and most robust mortgage securities and servicing databases and provide state-of-the-art analytical tools that our banking, investor and regulator clients use to analyze and manage their portfolios.

LoanPerformance uses collected data to be the 'voice' of the mortgage industry. Since our inception in 1983 LoanPerformance has become the "brain trust", the definitive source of expert information about the state of the mortgage securities and mortgage servicing marketplaces.

As a member of The First American Corporation family of companies, LoanPerformance has access to an unrivaled set of data assets, including real estate information representing 99.1% of the population of the United States. For more information, please visit our website www.loanperformance.com.

Join us as a Senior Credit Risk Modeler working among the smartest and most often-quoted mortgage finance professionals in the business. You will develop loan-level, econometric-driven prepayment, default, delinquency, and loss severity models for inclusion in the LoanPerformance RiskModel software (for prime, Alt-A, sub-prime, HELOC and closed-end second mortgages). You will also perform periodic model validation, surveillance, and analysis to track and analyze model performance.

Note: This position can be located in San Francisco, Sacramento or Santa Ana, CA.

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate will have the following:

• An advanced degree (Master's, Ph.D., or ABD preferred) in Economics, Finance, Mathematics or Statistics
• Minimum of 2-3 years experience in mortgage default and/or prepayment loan-level modeling, or in similar consumer-based modeling areas
• Knowledge of statistical & econometric modeling techniques (e.g., logistic regression, survival analysis and Monte Carlo simulation methods)
• Experience in spreadsheet applications and advanced use of statistical applications/databases
• Ability to write customized programs for meaningful data analysis
• Advanced programming ability in SAS
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral), team-driven, and strong innovation/creativity

Preferred:

• Knowledge of model surveillance methodologies and model calibration techniques is a plus
• General knowledge of fixed income modeling, including interest rates and fixed income instruments
• Programming ability in a matrix- oriented language such as Matlab, Gauss, SAS IML, or S-Plus
• Familiarity with general programming languages like C/C++ or Java
• Experience in working with offshore model development teams

Benefits:

The First American Corporation offers a work environment that encourages creativity, initiative and professional growth. Our salary and benefits package is competitive including:

• Health, dental and vision care
• 401(k) retirement savings plan including a company match tied to profitability
• Long-term disability insurance
• Short-term disability insurance
• Discount stock purchase program
• Tuition assistance program
• Title and escrow fee reimbursement program
• Company credit union

The First American Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment and employees are treated during employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, religion, marital status or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.

How to apply: Apply Online

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Quantitative Analyst - D.E. Shaw (New York, NY or Cupertino, CA)

Quantitative Analyst:

The D. E. Shaw group, a global investment and technology development firm with approximately US $30 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.

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Director of Insurance Predictive Actuarial Analytics (Dallas, Texas)

Director of Insurance Predictive Actuarial Analytics - Dallas, Texas

Recognized and growing Property and Casualty Insurance carrier is seeking a Director for the Predictive Actuarial Analytics Group in Dallas. The successful candidate will manage and develop a team of analysts and database information specialists and direct the development and analysis of commercial insurance statistical predictive models of demand and loss cost in a program environment.

Duties and functions:

• Implement modeling outcomes into their strategic decision making, underwriting and marketing processes.
• Provide direction to the actuarial rate making process and develop simulation models to help quantify risk uncertainty.
• Extend the development of quantitative tools and techniques to evaluate risks, profitability and business improvements.
• Develop and implement marketing and underwriting risk data to enhance company models.
• Work with external and internal IT groups to ensure adequate development of underlying data warehouses and IT systems.

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• Master's degree in Information Management.
• 4 years in leading analytical and modeling project teams and in implementing knowledge based target marketing efforts using SQL Server and statistical techniques to include 1 year in developing information & analytical solutions for commercial program business.
• Willing to travel 20% throughout the U.S.
• Strong leadership and communication skills

This position represents a significant career opportunity for the candidate who is looking for an analytics position with a premier insurance company. Salary will range to $130,000 + bonus, depending on experience. Relocation assistance available for qualified candidates. Job 2840.

Contact:

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Email: jnixon@jlnixon.com
Website: www.jlnixon.com

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Data Mining Developer - Click Forensics (Austin, TX)

Data Mining Developer

Click Forensics is an exciting Austin startup well funded by Austin Ventures & Sierra Ventures. We create solutions used by online advertisers, publishers and ad networks to detect click fraud in their online pay per click campaigns. Our products use sophisticated heuristics to find bots and people who are clicking on adds to commit fraud. We provide enormous value to our customers by allowing them to manage their traffic quality - removing fraud and other low quality traffic that negatively impacts their ad spend and their revenues.

The position requires experience in data mining, statistical analysis, as well as the development of rule based systems. You will be analyzing data sets using pattern recognition techniques, machine learning and statistical techniques to find patterns of behavior indicative of fraud. You will be designing rules sets to detect fraud and other invalid types of behavior. You will be working with very senior engineers in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities Include:

• Researching new techniques to use to detect click fraud
• Product development including the implementation of techniques

Required Skills/Attributes:

• Experience in developing a classifier using machine learning techniques
• Experience in feature extraction and feature selection
• Experience in predictive modeling with naïve Bayes, Logistics Regression or Support Vector Machines
• Strong background in statistics
• Strong Experience with SQL programming

Desired Skills/Attributes:

• Familiarity with statistical analysis packages such as MS SQL Data Mining, SAS or Clementine
• Familiarity with online advertising
• Familiarity with web analytics products
• Programming skills

More about the Company:

We are located in Austin just off loop 360, just south of Bee Caves Rd. Our company is staffed with seasoned veterans who are self motivated and experienced enough to work in an environment with minimal process and management overhead.

Respond to: peter.norwood [at] clickforensics.com

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SAS Programmer - Fleetcor (Norcross, GA)

The Company

Headquartered in Atlanta, FleetCor is the global leader in processing and managing commercial fleet card programs. Founded in 2000, FleetCor serves 1 million businesses with 3.5 million active cardholders, and processing over 200 million transactions per annum. We employee 900 employes who operate in 18 offices across 9 countries throughout North America and Europe.

Since its inception eight years ago, FleetCor has grown revenue eleven-fold and EBITDA twenty-five-fold, and now has an enterprise value exceeding $1.5 billion. We have been named one of the fastest growing companies in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle for four years running. The company is privately owned by management and a group of blue-chip private equity investors that includes Bain Capital, Summit Partners, and Advent International.

FleetCor operates through three principle lines of business:

• Global Direct Issuing – Serving the needs of fleet operators directly through proprietary and universal branded fuel card programs, such as FleetCards USA, Fuelman, MasterCard, CCS, and PPR.
• Global Fuel Card Services Group (GFCS) – Helping oil companies deliver world class commercial fuel card programs through fully outsourced program management. Major clients include BP, Chevron, CITGO, and Texaco.
• Petroleum Retailer Services Group – Helping independently-owned petroleum retailers service their local commercial clients through innovative fuel card offerings.

FleetCor seeks an analytical thinker who is highly motivated and driven to join the FleetCor team. We offer significant professional and financial growth opportunities.

For more information, visit our website at www.fleetcor.com.

The Position

Title: SAS Programmer (US)
Location: Norcross, GA – Corporate Headquarters
Reports to: John Jelinek, Chief Risk Officer

In this newly created role, the SAS Programmer will play a key role in developing our analytical capabilities in Risk and Fraud for our commercial fuel card portfolio. Primary responsibilities include:

• Designing and devloping standard software and data structures
• Developing and executing statistical programs designed to analyze commercial card portfolios
• Working on cross functional teams to ensure programming / reporting needs are met
• Productionalizing weekly, monthly and quarterly reports as well as developing ad hoc reporting as necessary

Experience and Education

The successful candidate must meet the following criteria:

• BA strongly preferred
• 3+ years of SAS programming experience experience
• Intermediate / Expert knowledge of data steps, SQL and macro programming
• Proven track record of solid documentation / data flow skills
• Expert knowledge of Excel

Personal Qualifications

• Proven ability to work on multiple projects, with changing priorities, in a fast-paced and results-oriented environment
• Ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize work
• Ability to work independently on projects and drive to a desired outcome

To apply: email resume with cover letter to: liz.calkins [at] fleetcor.com

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Senior Statistician - AstraZeneca (Wilmington, Boston or Sweden)

Senior Statistician
Highly competitive packages + relocation assistance
USA (Wilmington / Boston) or Sweden (Södertälje / Mölndal / Lund)

Here is your chance to play a hugely influential role as part of AstraZeneca’s industry-leading Discovery Statistics group.

About the role

We are looking for a number of talented Statisticians to strengthen our global Discovery Enabling Capabilities and Sciences (DECS) Statistics Department , which provides innovative technologies and direct project support to our drug discovery and development activities. Based at one of our key sites across the world, you will focus on integrating statistics fully into the workflow of the Discovery function. It’s a newly created role that will see you ensuring that project teams have the right level of statistical input, and identifying new opportunities for adding value and implementing best practice.

About you

Qualified to at least MSc and preferably PhD level in a subject with a significant statistical component, you’ll have proven technical skills in a similar role. Although experience of the pharmaceutical industry would be a plus, it’s more important that you can show the ability to provide statistical input that delivers real business impact. For roles in Södertälje and Wilmington, experience of regulatory toxicology would be an advantage. Expert knowledge of a package like SAS, R or S-Plus is essential – and so too are the communication, presentation and consultancy skills to work effectively with scientists and managers at all levels of the business.

About AstraZeneca

As one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies, AstraZeneca is focused on providing innovative, effective medicines that make a real difference in important areas of healthcare. We employ 66,000 staff around the world and spend $16 million every working day on research and development.

AstraZeneca’s Discovery Statistics Department delivers creative statistical solutions to a wide range of business problems. Our thinking helps to exploit the maximum value from research experiments by improving the quality of data generated and the consistency of interpretation, whilst reducing costs, saving time and contributing to portfolio diversity.

To apply, click here and search under reference DECS136.

Closing date: 13th Feb 2009

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Research Scientist - Boronia Capital (Sydney, Australia)

Position Title : Research Scientist

Company: Boronia Capital Pty Ltd
Location: Sydney , Australia.
Contact Person: Christopher Mellen

Boronia Capital Pty Ltd (formerly Grinham Managed Funds Pty Ltd) is one of the Southern Hemisphere's largest Hedge Fund Managers. Managing in excess of $1 billion we trade in over 60 futures markets into 9 countries, 24 hours a day. Boronia is committed to the development of statistically robust quantitative investment strategies through a disciplined scientific research process.

We are continuing to grow our research group and so are looking for individuals to fill a new permanent research position. The primary task will be to undertake research into the detection, modeling and exploitation of robust statistically significant patterns within financial time series data. The aim of this research is to develop new automated trading and execution strategies that complement those already in use.

The ideal applicant will have substantial research experience in machine learning, data mining or computational statistics, and a Ph.D. in one of engineering, physics, mathematics, statistics, computer science, finance or a related field. All levels of experience will be considered. Competency in software development is essential and a thorough knowledge of one or more of C, C++, Matlab/Octave or related languages will be required. Past experience with complex systems, large datasets, statistical and numerical analysis, or time series modeling will be highly regarded. Prior knowledge of or experience in finance is not a pre-requisite, though a strong interest in finance is essential. The working environment is informal, relaxed and has an academic feel. Hence researchers within the group have the possibility of publishing results from selected areas of their work, are encouraged to engage in collaborations with groups from outside the company, and are supported in conference attendance. The research group is divided into small teams (3-5), each with close IT support, so successful applicants should be willing to work harmoniously with other researchers and with the I.T. professionals that support the research.

This is an exciting, intellectually challenging and rewarding role for someone with enthusiasm, imagination and a desire to learn more about the dynamics of financial markets. Salary will be commensurate with experience. Bonuses are linked to seniority and performance.

Individuals who are interested may apply by emailing their resume to : Research@boroniacapital.com.au

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DataShaping Job Alert - December 2008

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Statistician and Mathematician, 2 positions - Visual Numerics (Houston, TX)

Visual Numerics, Inc. is currently seeking a Statistician and Mathematician to complete their staff in the Corporate office located in Houston, Texas.

Visual Numerics provides leading technical solutions for numerical analysis and visual data analysis to users in a broad range of industries including High Performance Computing and predictive analytics. Established in 1970, the company has a proven track record of delivering innovative products, The IMSL® Numerical Libraries and The PV-WAVE®Family. The IMSL Numerical Libraries provide a comprehensive set of embeddable mathematical and statistical algorithms, written in C, C#, Java, and FORTRAN and recently we had added Python to our lineup. The PV-WAVE Family of products delivers easy to use software that allows users to quickly understand and visualize data with broad visualization functionality.

Candidates for both positions must possess the ability to read, interpret, and perform software development activities including research, programming (C/C++ or FORTRAN or Java on UNIX and/or Windows environments), consulting, and documentation.

Degree requirements for the Statistician candidate carry a minimum of a Masters degree in Statistics with a PhD preferred. We are looking for people with experience in Bayesian Statistics, CART, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Network, Modeling, and Simulation. The successful candidate will design, develop, debug, and test statistical analysis functions utilized in our software products. This position is also responsible for reviewing current product statistical capabilities and making recommendations to enhance program performance.

A Masters degree in Computer Science is the basis for our Mathematician position. Experience in Parallel Computing and Numerical Analysis is necessary with Statistics and Financial Analysis experience a definite plus. One of the primary responsibilities of the Mathematician position is to develop, debug, and test mathematical and statistical analysis functions used in Visual Numerics’ products. In addition, providing technical leadership and training, writing and reviewing documentation is another main focus of this position.

For consideration please send your cover letter with resume and contact information for three references to:

Human Resources
Visual Numerics, Inc.
2500 Wilcrest Dr., Suite 200
Houston, Texas 77042
Or
E-mail to vnijobs@vni.com

Applications will be considered until the positions are filled. Visual Numerics, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Senior Business Intelligence Analyst (Chicago, IL)

Leading software solutions company seeks top statistician for a highly visible role with many opportunities for growth!

CCC Information Services is seeking a Senior Business Intelligence Analyst who has both a passion for data and strong business acumen. This individual will work with one of the largest data warehouses in the industry to help our customers streamline and improve their business.

The role requires a highly technical person with strong analytical skills. The ideal candidate possesses strong interpersonal skills and the ability to influence others. If you are self-motivated and committed to results, you will find this an exciting opportunity. In addition, this role requires excellent project planning/management skills, creativity, and the ability to think strategically.

Job Summary

The Senior Business Intelligence Analyst works closely with our product management organization to productize predictive models solutions on all aspect of product life cycle – create, plans, design, development and implement. This individual will work collaboratively with clients to understand and define their objectives and goals and to design and lead program strategy based on nature of client data, processes and needs. He/she will work with our client staff to extract available data; devise creative solutions to accommodate partial data sets.

Accountabilities

• Develop predictive models solutions for customers on all aspects of product life cycle - create, plan, design, development and implementation
• Work collaboratively with clients to understand and define objectives and goals.
• Define client objectives and goals and design and lead program strategy based on nature of client datea, processes and needs.
• Monitor, track and understand industry trends and the factors that drive them.
• Troubleshoot technical and non-technical challenges
• Proactively analyze data to identify immediate improvement opportunities.
• Report results to Product Manager, Sales or Customer (depending on relationship) the recommendations from the analysis.
• Develop and present deliverables for a assigned customers
• Provide benchmarking and other comparative analyses of similar companies utilizing data mining tools and other data technology tools

Requirements:

• Advanced degree in statistics, economics or math
• MBA or another business degree (finance, marketing, accounting)
• 6-8 years of research, statistical analysis and business experience required.
• Proficiency in statistical software packages (SAS or SPSS) required.
• Proficiency in SQL and Access required.
• Excellent skills demonstrating high proficiency in statistical analysis
• Excellent communication skills and high profile presentations preferred.
• Business consulting experience in Business Intelligence preferred.
• Automotive and Insurance Industry experience is plus.

About CCC

Founded in 1980, CCC is a well-established software development company characterized by our innovative technology products as well as our dedication to both our customers and our employees. Over time, we have grown from a company helping a handful of insurers value totaled vehicles, to providing our customers with industry-leading software solutions, analytical tools, and comprehensive data. Our solutions help our customers make better business decisions, ultimately getting people back into their cars faster after a collision.

Why Choose CCC

CCC has been recognized as one of the “101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in Chicago,” 2007 & 2008!

Innovative and revolutionary, we believe that our success depends on people making the difference. We pride ourselves on working with goal-oriented, ambitious individuals, people who share our vision of leadership, innovation and commitment to others. It’s hard not to be successful when you recruit and retain the most talented people!

We know that our employees are our greatest assets and want each one to have a long, successful career with us. Therefore, we offer a variety of training programs and career development opportunities, and promote a healthy work-life balance. We offer paid time off, vacation, and holidays. Additional company benefits include an onsite workout facility, medical, dental, and vision insurance, short and long-term disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, tuition reimbursement, and a 401(k) plan!

Last, but certainly not least, we’re located in the Merchandise Mart in the heart of beautiful downtown Chicago! What’s not to love?!

Email your resume to Jennifer: JCoursey [at] cccis.com
Company Website: www.cccis.com

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Head of Data & User Insights (San Francisco, CA)

Head of Data & User Insights

About ShareThis

ShareThis is a service in the emerging social media space. ShareThis enables site publishers to provide a simple one-button option to users to share site content with others through email, social networks, and social bookmarking. ShareThis promotes sharing of interesting content among users connected by a social graph and shared interests. Publisher’s benefit from insights on how their content is shared and disseminated among the user community. Through the share gesture, ShareThis accumulates significant data on sharing behavior, providing insights on interests, and influence circle of users.

ShareThis has experienced significant growth both in adoption by site publishers and share actions by users. Over 60,000 publishers have incorporated the ShareThis widget driving 1 billion+ page views monthly. The business end of ShareThis involves developing informational insights from data that can be used in marketing of products and services.

The company is a group of talented individuals and venture investors with experience bringing world-class solutions to the Web for companies such as Advertising.com, AOL, IAC, Nielsen Buzzmetrics and Yahoo. Investors are Draper Fisher & Jurvetson, Blue Chip Venture Company, DFJ Mercury, Reservoir Partners, Illinois Ventures, Queen City Angels and RPM Ventures.

The ideal profile

The ideal candidate is likely to be a hybrid: part visionary leader/part architect/and part builder. This needs to be an individual who is passionate about the large opportunity associated with online advertising, and social media. As such, it demands a person that is extremely attracted to the opportunity and is never satisfied with the results.

The ability to apply innovative technology to business problems and execution comes first for this candidate. It is essential for the candidate to have outstanding technical and product sense. From a technical perspective, the ideal candidate must have direct domain experience in data mining of unstructured content, machine learning techniques, deep understanding of algorithms in information retrieval, pattern analysis, and statistical techniques that is unique to processing web content. The candidate must demonstrate first hand experience in building and deploying systems that process large data sets.

The ideal candidate is likely to come from a company involved in search and online advertising.

The job

As the Head of Data & User Insights you will be responsible for building and leading a team of computer scientists and engineers responsible for developing a new platform that captures, analyzes, models various insights from sharing behavior of users. This is a key strategic initiative for the company and means you will have significant visibility at senior levels.

This position reports to the Chief Technology Officer.

Responsibilities of this position include:

• Innovative Product Development: The successful candidate will be responsible for innovating and shaping a new product that benefits users, publishers, and advertisers. You will lead a team to conceptualize product components, technology architecture, implementation and integration between various systems within the company that will collectively work together to deliver a solution. Much of this involves significant innovation and “breaking new ground”.
• Technology Architecture: As the senior technology leader you will own the platform architecture and insure that it is highly scalable, extensible, and adaptive as it evolves through the next 12-18 months.
• Product Rollout: The current plan is to test launch in US in 1H’09. You will work with Product Management and other technology groups in defining the roadmap, scope, deliverables. You will be responsible to drive an iterative approach to rollout in testing, refining, and improving features based on audience response.
• Business Integration: There are a number of ways to develop and grow the Data/User Insight product such as influencing content viewed by users through partnerships with publishers and advertisers. You will develop collaborative relationships with our Business Development & Sales teams to help analyze and scope solutions that impact our customers.

Professional traits necessary for all ShareThis team members:

• Is right a lot.
• Helps hire and develop great technical talent.
• Has relentlessly high standards
• No task is beneath this person.
• Expects and requires innovation of her/his team.
• Has conviction.
• Results oriented.
• Thinks big.

Educational Requirements

M.S/Ph.D in computer science from a leading school and an undergraduate degree in mathematics, computer science, or other technical discipline is preferred.

Contact

Please send your email cover letter and resume with the subject “Your name – Head of Data & User Insights – via ” to jobs@sharethis.com. All communication and correspondence is held in the strictest confidence to ensure that you can connect and learn more without exposure.

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Sr. Home Price Index Analyst - First American (San Francisco, CA)

First American is the nation's largest data provider, supplying information resources and services that impact the major economic events of people's lives. We serve mortgage, real estate, and consumer-related businesses, as well as consumers themselves, with the data to help them make decisions, operate their businesses, and advance their lives. Tracing our history to 1889, The First American Corporation (NYSE: FAF) is based in Santa Ana, California. Today, with revenues exceeding $6 billion, our company has 31,000 employees and 2,000 offices throughout the United States and abroad. For more detailed information about First American, please visit our Web site at: www.firstam.com.

LoanPerformance, a division of First American CoreLogic (FACL), the nation's largest provider of property and ownership information, analytics and services is the leader in mortgage finance, securitization, servicing and real estate information and analytics. We created and maintain the industry's largest and most robust mortgage securities and servicing databases and provide state-of-the-art analytical tools that our banking, investor and regulator clients use to analyze and manage their loan portfolios.

LoanPerformance uses collected data to be the 'voice' of the mortgage industry. Since our inception in 1983 LoanPerformance has become the "brain trust", the definitive source of expert information about the state of the mortgage securities and mortgage servicing marketplaces. As a member of The First American Corporation family of companies, LoanPerformance has access to an unrivaled set of data assets, including real estate information representing 99.1% of the population of the United States.

For more information, please visit our website http://www.loanperformance.com. Join us as a Senior Home Price Index Analyst working among the smartest and most often-quoted real estate analytics professionals in the business. You will develop ZIP code-level, econometric-driven home price models for inclusion in LoanPerformance's industry-leading Home Price Index (HPI) and RiskModel products. You will also perform regular validation and surveillance to track and analyze home price model performance. The position also provides analytical support to our product management, sales and client services teams. Note: This position can be located in San Francisco, Sacramento or Santa Ana, CA.

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate will have the following:

• An advanced degree (Ph.D. or ABD preferred) in Economics, Econometrics, Finance, Mathematics or Statistics
• Minimum of 2-3 years' exposure/experience in housing and real estate economics including home price analytics, valuation and forecasting
• Knowledge of statistical/econometric modeling techniques (e.g., time series analysis, survival analysis and Monte Carlo simulation methods)
• Experience in spreadsheet applications and advanced use of statistical applications/databases
• Experience in working with MS Office (especially MS Excel) and business intelligence tools (preferably MicroStrategy)
• Advanced programming ability in SAS
• Ability to write customized programs for meaningful data analysis
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral), team driven, client-focused and strong innovation/creativity
• Authorship of technical papers, whitepapers, or published analytical studies
• Experience in preparing and delivering presentations both to clients and at conferences Preferred:
• Advanced knowledge of home price index methodologies, including the use of Fast Fourier Transform-based techniques
• Experience in the application of home price models to mortgage portfolios
• Expert-level skills in systems design - to design flexible, scalable, production-ready modules and interfaces for use across multiple platforms
• Programming ability in SQL, C++ or Java
• Programming ability in a matrix-oriented language such as Matlab, Gauss, SAS IML or S-Plus

Note: Position can be located in San Francisco, Sacramento or Santa Ana, CA.

Benefits:

First American offers an empowered work environment that encourages creativity, initiative and professional growth.

Our salary and benefits package is competitive including:

• Health, dental and vision care
• 401(k) retirement savings plan including a company match tied to profitability
• Long-term disability insurance
• Short-term disability insurance
• Discount stock purchase program
• Tuition assistance program
• Title and escrow fee reimbursement program
• Company credit union E.O.E. M/F/V/D

The First American Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment and employees are treated during employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, religion, marital status or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.

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Sr. Clinical Analyst I - St. Jude Hospital (Memphis, TN)

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, located in Memphis, Tennessee, is a premier center for research and treatment of potentially fatal childhood diseases, including cancer and certain blood, genetic, and immunodeficiency disorders. The hospital's mission is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. St. Jude is dedicated to providing unsurpassed patient care and to advancing the health of children through biomedical research.

Currently, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has openings for a Sr. Clinical Analyst I (Job Number 13484).

The Sr. Clinical Analyst I in the Clinical Informatics Department is responsible for day-to-day coordination and development of assigned clinical/patient care applications. The selected candidate will participate and/or lead in the design, development, implementation, evaluation and maintenance of new and legacy systems. This position will have increasing responsibility for the design, development and management of the educational programs for the user departments.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Management Information Systems or in a Patient Care or Clinically Related Specialty such as Nursing, Pharmacy, Laboratory Medicine/Pathology, Respiratory Therapy, etc. is required.
• Registration, certification (or equivalent) in area of specialty preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years experience in a patient care or clinically related specialty such as Nursing, Pharmacy, Laboratory Medicine/Pathology, Respiratory Therapy, etc.
• Minimum of 2 additional years of clinical system application support and/or development experience required.

St. Jude offers a positive working culture, professional advancement, & competitive compensation. Qualified applicants may apply for this position or others via our online process at www.stjude.org/jobs.

www.stjude.org

An Equal Opportunity Employer

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