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Sirius Satellite Radio is looking for a resourceful and motivated individual to join our Strategic Analytics team. This team leads the initiative to harness customer data in addressing strategic issues that materially impact our business. The primary responsibility for the Senior Manager/Director role is conducting statistical analyses in support of our marketing and strategic initiatives. The successful candidate will have strong consultative skills in addition to quantitative ability.

Why is it exciting to work here?

This position will expose you to the challenges of using statistics in a business setting, such as incomplete data, biased data, large data sets, low signal-to-noise ratios, high variance and multiple objective functions. You will need to be creative and resourceful and we will utilize traditional statistical methodologies as well as newer techniques from computational statistics and data mining.

Satellite radio is a young but proven market with huge growth potential. This is a great opportunity to get first-hand experience at a fast-moving media company with a rich data set consisting of millions of customers from numerous channels making decisions during their life cycles.

Position responsibilities:

• Develop statistical models to support our marketing efforts, such as customer segmentation, acquisition and retention
• Develop statistical testing programs to measure and improve on-going performance of marketing campaigns
• Apply appropriate techniques, such as exploratory data analysis, regression, bootstrapping, trees, cluster analysis, survival analysis and so on
• Develop and articulate strategic recommendations based on rigorous data analysis
• Partner with Marketing and Finance to understand business problems and marketing strategies
• Partner with IT to implement models and tests

• 3-4 years of work experience in quantitative analysis in a business setting, including building statistical models
• MS or above in Statistics, Data Mining, Econometrics or related fields
• Strong ability to extract strategic insights from large data sets
• Familiarity with SAS and SQL
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Desire and ability to collaborate with business partners
• Experience in retail, entertainment or auto industries a plus

www.sirius.com, search for "Strategic Analytics"