Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Job details

  • Job Number: 28859675
  • Santa Clara Valley, California, United States
  • Posted: Sep. 12, 2013
  • Weekly Hours: 40.00

Job Summary

The WW Sales and Operations Decision Support team is seeking a Senior Analyst with experience in data mining and statistical techniques to join its WW Sales Reporting and Analytics team.

Key Qualifications

  • Graduate degree required in Business (with quantitative emphasis), Statistics, Econometrics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, or related field
  • Strong grasp of statistics, experience building advanced regression using SAS PROC MIXED
  • Strong knowledge of data mining and reduction algorithms including decision trees, probability networks, association rules, clustering, factor analysis and principal components analysis.
  • SAS programming skills, including SAS/BASE, SAS/STAT, SAS/MACRO and SAS/ SQL
  • Solid technical database knowledge (Oracle, Teradata, data modeling) and experience optimizing SQL queries on large data
  • Passionately analytical and curious with strong out-of-the-box thinking
  • Able to develop and present conclusions based on analysis to senior executives
  • Outstanding written, verbal, and presentation skills
  • Excellent project management and consultative skills
  • Able to work effectively within an fast changing environment, tight deadlines, priority changes and multiple constituencies
  • Experience working in a sales and/or retail environment a plus.

Description

- Conceive and design end to end advanced analytic solutions using SAS to support business units and initiatives - Conduct regular and ad-hoc analyses and data mining on Customer and Transactional data to provide actionable insights at tactical and strategic levels - Perform Geographical analysis to identify coverage area opportunities, utilizing data mining and statistical techniques to automate and standardize analyses - Act as a liaison between the Sales Reporting and Analytics team and internal clients - Strong understanding of business needs, proactive analytical approaches and ability to present actionable insights to Management required - Work closely with data warehouse architects and software developers to generate seamless business intelligence solutions for end users

Education

- Bachelors degree required, Masters degree preferred

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