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From: Jennifer Daniher
Date: 23 Mar 2007
Subject: San Jose, CA: Statistician / Quantitative Analytics Manager at eBay
Primary Job Responsibilities
Major Day-to-Day Responsibilities
Cross-functional liaison: Build and maintain strong relationships
around the company with internal customers and marketing
functions. The quantitative analyst will work as part of the
Cross-Channel Analytics team with Finance and Business Units to
identify and prioritize statistical or analytical needs and modeling
opportunities, and devise suitable reporting solutions.
Situational Framing: Contribute to the conceptual framing of the
analytical issues in multiple marketing channels revenue accreditation
and optimization. The newly formed team is expected to deliver novel
and imaginative solutions to thoroughly analyze and incrementally
optimize critical business functions
Formal technical analysis: Execute sophisticated quantitative analyses
and advanced modeling that use eBay's data and business performance to
derive inferences and insights. This role requires a very strong
proficiency in and experience of in one or more quantitative
disciplines such as statistics, econometrics, applied mathematics,
quantitative methods, research methodology, financial engineering,
etc.
Strong presentation skills oral and written: The analyst will be
required to present to internal customers primarily. This requires
that the analyst have excellent communication skills and the ability
to translate complex quantitative information into presentations that
are easily understood by general management and the broad business
audience with a variety of interests and experience.
Job Requirements
Knowledge, skills, abilities, experience required to perform job
Qualifications
- Master's degree or equivalent advanced certification) or highly specialized quantitative MBA in quantitative methods. A minimum of 5 years' work experience in a relevant area, such as the Statistics, Econometrics, Financial Engineering, or Quantitative Research fields.
- Advanced expertise using statistical analysis tools such as Matlab, SAS, SPSS, or S-PLUS are preferred. Familiarity with data management and related applications such as the following are desirable: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, SQL, and VBA.
- Demonstrated ability to produce complex analyses on a rigorous schedule. Strong written and verbal communications skills and the ability to present to large multi disciplinary audiences on a regular basis.
- High energy and creativity, a clear customer focus, an entrepreneurial approach, and comprehensive understanding of quantitative methods, together with superb attention to detail.
- Ability to participate collaborative in a small but growing team, work independently within clear strategic guidelines and drive for efficient actionable results.
Job Description
The Quantitative Analyst will report to the Director of the Cross
Channel Analytics group. The major functions of the Cross Channel
Analytics team include the following identification of the financial
impact of all major marketing channels, characterizing the influence
of marketing expenditures on resultant revenue payoffs, recognizing
and redeploying suitable methodologies for the decomposition of
multiple marketing channels into optimizable components, creation of
the relevant analytical and statistical tools, and the evaluation of
competing approaches in the context of real business situations.
The success of these efforts will permit a fuller understanding of all
discretionary marketing drivers of activity on the eBay website and
the concomitant performance of the eBay business. The successful
candidate for this role will employ a broad range of quantitative
techniques data programming as well as statistical methods and
mathematical models on a wide range of quantitative projects guided by
the strategic roadmap.
The quantitative analyst primary tasks will be:
- Understanding the broad elements of eBay Marketplaces business, paying particular attention to the objectives and operational details of the entire set of Marketing channels
- Working with marketing teams managers and analysts to identify the as is processes at work in the eBay business domain and devise suitable quantitative models that will deliver clarity of understanding, permit valid inferences, and have functional predictive capability.
- Continuously monitor the instances where selected quantitative modeling tools and statistical data analysis methodologies can contribute effectively to answering significant business questions.
- Assist in devising an appropriate process for defensible and transparent accreditation of relevant drivers to the causal channels that contributed to the observed business outcomes both financial and operational.
- Evangelizing new methods to the business users regarding quantitative analysis methods and providing a general consulting/support function to the various marketing units.
- Creating any required reporting and communication tools that can be used across the company to deliver business inferences that support actionable planning.
Education: Masters Degree or Equivalent
Contact:
Jennifer Daniher, jdaniher@ebay.com
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