Junior Analytics Manager

Company: Opera Solutions
Location: San Diego, CA and Jersey City, NJ
Web: www.operasolutions.com

Company Overview
Opera Solutions is a global management consulting firm offering rapid, significant and sustainable profit improvement to companies around the world. We deliver results by unleashing the power of clients' vast reserves of data via proprietary intellectual property and extraordinary intellectual talent.

Opera implements as well as advises, delivering tangible, measurable profit growth to clients. In fact, we often work on a gain-share arrangement based on actual improvements. Our consultants can point to the specific, real impact they have made on clients' bottom lines - cumulatively, $10 billion.

Founded in 2003, we now number 300+ professionals with offices in New York, San Diego, London, Paris, Shanghai, and New Delhi. Our growth provides our employees with opportunities to take on new responsibilities early in their careers and master new challenges every day. People succeed through talent, drive, and passion, and advance based on performance and contribution to our progress. In keeping with the firm's entrepreneurial soul, we encourage our people to take risks and try new pathways.

We are diverse, representing 30+ countries and a wide range of business and academic backgrounds. We staff projects globally, giving consultants the opportunity to live and work in foreign countries. We are passionate and involved individuals, both on and off the job. Our consultants include avid skiers, baseball fans, marathon runners, race car drivers, fiction authors, climbers, hikers, triathlon participants, ballroom dancers and sky divers.

In short, Opera provides a unique environment for professionals to grow, succeed, and make a real difference.

Junior Analytics Manager

The Junior Analytics Manager will help to design, develop and deploy state-of-the-art, data-driven predictive models to solve business problems using the latest and most appropriate technologies in machine learning, statistical modeling and Operations Research. They deliver value in the market place through consulting engagements, new product development and/or through research initiatives.

Junior Analytics Managers are responsible for the quality of analytical projects or a single class of models within a market effort. They experiment with alternative approaches and guide junior staff in their execution, as necessary. Junior Analytics Managers understand the technology and can explain to all internal audiences, and they also assist in the preparation of material for external audiences. In terms of project management, they estimate work effort, assign tasks, and communicate milestones and results. Junior Analytics Managers typically work under the guidance of a senior analytical leader who oversees several projects.

Work will require effective coordination of off-shore analytic resources, software development, clients, and business consultants. Some travel required to client locations.

Requirements:

• Advanced degree (MS/ Ph.D.) in a quantitative field (i.e., Math, Statistics, Engineering, Machine Learning, Physics, Econometrics, etc.)
• Software skills: Experience in Perl, C, Python, C++, or Java

• Demonstrated understanding of analytical process and approaches for at least one class of applications
• Strong UNIX background
• Experience with statistics package, SAS