Manager, Advanced Business Analytics

Genuent is hiring a Manager of Advanced Business Analytics for our direct client in Irving, TX. Qualified candidate should send their resume (Word format) to Kristen Silguero at

Manager Advanced Business Analytics
Full-time - Shift - Days
1 day work from home a week

Job Summary:

The Manager Advanced Business Analytics would be a business oriented, results driven, self-starter leader, who would take end-to-end ownership of achieving business objectives through the development, application and deployment of advanced analytics models. In order to succeed in this role the applicant should be a very strong team player, eager to take on challenges and responsibility of increasing complexity, have impeccable attention to detail, be fully accountable for business outcomes, able to successfully complete analytics projects within time with the business outcome in mind, apply scientific rigor to analyses and models, be able to improvise and solve problems in the absence of perfect data, be able to simplify and communicate complex results to key business stakeholders via presentation and visualization tools, and effectively lead a team of data scientists.
Excellent leadership, communication, project/time management and inter-personal skills are vital to success in this role.

Job Description

Overview:

Advanced Business Analytics would be a business oriented, results driven, self-starter leader, who would take end-to-end ownership of achieving business objectives through the development, application and deployment of advanced analytics models. In order to succeed in this role the applicant should be a very strong team player, eager to take on challenges and responsibility of increasing complexity, have impeccable attention to detail, be fully accountable for business outcomes, able to successfully complete analytics projects within time with the business outcome in mind, apply scientific rigor to analyses and models, be able to improvise and solve problems in the absence of perfect data, be able to simplify and communicate complex results to key business stakeholders via presentation and visualization tools, and effectively lead a team of data scientists.

Responsibilities:

* A person in this role is expected to lead advanced analytics solutions to business problems

* Must demonstrate business value from his/her models and ensure that stakeholders are aligned with the expected and actual results

* Must take end-to-end ownership of the value/impact of advanced analytics projects

* Must be able to demonstrate accountability for projects owned by each team member that he/she leads

* Eager to learn, assimilate constructive feedback and grow through roles of greater responsibility

* Must be an independent thinker, with a strong bias towards action and avoiding analysis-paralysis.

* Excellent attention to detail necessary.

* Passionate about solving real business problems via advanced analytics and data science.

* Collaborates effectively with stakeholders to plan and implement solutions.

* Must have strong presentation and business writing skills. Must be able to create effective documentation.

Requirements:

* Masters degree or PhD in Mathematics, Machine learning, Operations Research, Statistics or a related discipline

* 8-10 years for Masters degree candidates

* 5-7 year for PhD Candidates

* Solid theoretical background in mathematics, statistics, database technology mathematical optimization, graph algorithms and related disciplines

* Strong computer programming skills in a high level programming language, preferably SAS, SQL and Python, refined via professional experience, PhD research, collaboration in an impactful open source project or a well known predictive modeling open competition

* Strong experience building original and impactful models with one or more tools for creating predictive /machine learning/operations research models, refined via professional experience, PhD research, collaboration in an impactful open source project or a well known predictive modeling open competition

* Strong leadership & project management skills

* Innovative problem solver who can handle both high breadth & depth of advanced analytics problems

* Consulting experience desirable