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From: Irene Sangiorgi
Date: 8 Jun 2009
Subject: New York, NY: Senior Manager- Strategic Analytics at Sirius Satellite Radio

Sirius Position Summary
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 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. As well as also be exposed 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. Requires being creative and resourceful and we will utilize traditional statistical methodologies as well as newer techniques from computational statistics and data mining.

Duties and 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
Supervisory Responsibilities:
  • N/A
Requirements:
  • 6-8 years of general business experience, including 3-4 years of quantitative analysis in a business setting, including building statistical models
  • MS in Statistics, Data Mining, Econometrics or related fields; MBA helpful
  • Occasional travel to Washington, DC may be required.
  • Strong ability to extract strategic insights from large data sets
  • Desire and ability to collaborate with business partners
  • 1 or more years of experience in retail, entertainment or auto industries a plus
  • Must have legal right to work in the U.S.
Technical Skills:
  • Proficient in SAS and SQL
  • Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
  • Systems administration skills a plus
_Contact_:
Please apply directly through the career page at www.sirius.com/careers

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