STATISTICAL ANALYST Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is a billion-dollar company that is a national specialty retailer of fine quality cooking and serving equipment, home furnishings and home accessories. Combining excellent product design with outstanding customer service Williams-Sonoma is using retail stores, catalogs, and the Internet to build a home-centered business. We are moving in exciting directions, specifically toward the Internet, and our business is growing rapidly. People with exceptional skills are always welcome. JOB DESCRIPTION: * Williams-Sonoma is looking for an individual with a strong statistical background to join its database marketing team. In addition to statistical expertise the ideal candidate will have a passion for marketing and a desire to apply state-of-the-art techniques to solve marketing challenges. This candidate will apply statistical techniques to develop models that drive the targeting strategy for over 180 million catalogs annually. Candidates with experience utilizing large-scale database systems and experience designing highly efficient solutions are preferred. DESIRED SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE: * Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Math, Operations Research, or other similar quantitative field required. Master's degree preferred. * Strong written and verbal communication skills. * Proficiency with response modeling in a direct mail or market research environment. * Familiarity with a wide range of statistical techniques. * 3-5 years related experience in applied statistical analysis and programming in a business environment. * Proficient with SAS programming and/or other statistical software. * Familiarity with relational databases, systems development and business data processing in a UNIX (or similar) environment. Please email resumes to: spike@wsgc.com Stu Pike Williams-Sonoma, Inc. 100 North Point St. San Francisco, CA 94133
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