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Jobs


Date: 29 Mar 2007
Subject: Bellevue, WA: Senior Statistician (STATISTICIAN III) at T-Mobile

T-Mobile USA is a national provider of wireless voice, messaging, and data services capable of reaching over 268 million Americans where they live, work, and play. In a world full of busy and fragmented lives, we at T-Mobile USA, Inc. have the idea that wireless communications can help. The value of our plans, the breadth of our coverage, the reliability of our network, and the quality of our service are meant to do one thing; help you stick together with the people who make your life come alive. That's why we're here.

T-Mobile is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). We strongly support diversity in the workforce.

STATISTICIAN III

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.
Experience
  • 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.
T-Mobile USA offers a full range of comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, as well as matching 401(k), generous paid time off programs, mobile phone and service discounts, tuition reimbursement, free parking - not to mention a fun and business casual work environment.

Contact:
For information and to apply, please visit us at www.t-mobile.com/careers and reference # 148325. EOE.


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