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The Advanced Analytics team at T-Mobile USA is looking for a Senior Statistician with experience working with real data sets to solve business problems. The Advanced Analytics team is a part of the Business Intelligence Competency Center and supports the business as a central consulting resource. The team's responsibilities include statistical analysis and modeling, forecasting, data mining, statistical consulting, and analytical leadership. This role provides the opportunity to work on a wide range of business problems utilizing a variety of analysis techniques.

Responsibilities

• Consult with business units and conduct analysis to provide actionable results.
• Utilize advanced statistical techniques and quantitative analysis to support business needs; may include response models, cross-sell / up-sell analysis, retention models, offer optimization, forecasting, customer value analysis, etc.
• Mentor and teach analysts in partner departments. Provide guidance and tools to enable other teams to "self-service" where appropriate.
• Provide thought-leadership and creativity to identify opportunities to apply statistics, modeling, or analytics to bring value to the business.
• Structure project plans, set expectations, and communicate with business partners. Present and communicate results in manner appropriate for target audience.

• Solid ability to work with business units to understand their needs and to use those requirements to conduct appropriate data analysis to effectively deliver results.
• Broad experience in applying exploratory data analysis, data mining techniques, and/or statistics to real-world data. Familiarity with predictive modeling, survival analysis, and pattern recognition techniques is desirable.
• Experience with data mining tools and statistical packages required. Must have strong SAS programming skills.
• Ability to conduct ad hoc querying and reporting from large databases is required. Oracle and Teradata experience preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal and clear communication skills (both verbal and written) and the ability to communicate with both technical and business audiences are vital.
• Must be able to provide technical leadership and manage multiple projects.
• A Masters degree in statistics other applied quantitative field and at least five years of related experience required.