Senior Manager or Manager - Statistician

Company: Global consulting organization
Location: 8 locations: San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, Philadelphia, Raleigh, or Washington-DC
Web: www.claddaghresources.com

Our client: Large, global consulting organization that is launching a predictive analytics practice is looking to hire 10 immediate Statisticians. Our client's consultants create, design and build new business models and help their clients integrate and operate them. You'll have the opportunity to turn theory into practice and shape strategies right through from inception to execution.

Can be in any of these locations: San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, Philadelphia, Raleigh and Washington, DC

Key Responsibilities: Supporting clients who seek to develop their predictive capabilities and to integrate the business value of predictive analytics into the fabric of business decision making in order to improve their business

This includes the design, creation and delivery of value provided by the application of:

• A rigorous, fact-based appraisal of industry performance drivers and competitive dynamics.
• Structure and perform complex financial analyses and develop business cases in conjunction with industry and/or opportunity analyses.
• The application of innovative as well as established analytical tools to devise a clearly articulated strategy.
• Assessing opportunities and making subsequent recommendations as to the analytical approach; Modeling types may include linear/logistic regression, neural nets, decision trees, fractional factorials, etc.
• Developing, testing, implementing, and potentially maintaining statistical modeling implementations
• Guiding the data formulation process which may include identification of attributes, exploratory data analysis, data transformation, and temporal layout
• Support delivery of client work and development of new client opportunities with both existing clients and prospective new clients.
• Take a rigorous and structured approach to identifying and solving client problems; Interacting with clients of all levels to review expected outputs, applicability to business challenges, and model measurement
• Provide specific guidance to and manage work effort of consultants and analysts on client engagements to ensure that the focus is correct and the work is accomplished on time, and meets or exceeds the highest quality standard.
• Structure and develop client communications, when necessary guiding client teams through difficult paradigm shifts.
• Conduct work in such a way that the results are both of distinctive quality and useful to the client in terms of improving competitive positioning.
• Educate clients and team members from outside the Analytics practice on end-to-end services and software solutions that integrate the business value of predictive analytics into the fabric of business decision making.
• Develop innovative thought leadership and contribute to the creation of points of view on new client Analytics offerings and insights.
• Ability to meet travel requirements, up to 50%

• Master's in Statistics or related field required (PhD is a plus)
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant management consulting experience, industry experience and/or predictive analytic industry experience.
• Experience leading analytic teams in industry or consulting environments.

• 4-8 years of experience leading advanced modeling techniques with the application of statistics/econometrics to business problems.
• 4-8 years of experience in advanced statistics software eg Base SAS, SAS/STAT, and SAS Enterprise Miner
• 4-8 years experience in an analytic "domain" (e.g., Risk analytics, actuarial analytics, etc).
• Familiarity with relational database design
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, PPT, Visio)
• 1-4 years of consulting or industry experience with evidence of:
  • Significant client impact and value creation
  • Issue-based problem solving
  • Structured communications