Post by ncwebcenter on Nov 30, 2008 21:33:52 GMT -5
Accenture Marketing Science - Marketing/SAS Analyst - New York, Chicago, Washington DC-00066547
Description
Organization: New Business/AMS
Location: Chicago/New York/Reston
Travel: 50%
If you join Accenture you can make great ideas happen for some of the world's most dynamic companies. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, we collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results. Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life. Accenture's Consulting workforce is involved in business consulting, process design work and the application of technologies to business. A career in Consulting is varied and stimulating because each project presents a new challenge and will give you exposure to new clients, business issues, technologies and people. We need people who are able to challenge conventional thought, offer unique perspectives and conceive more innovative solutions for our clients.
Scope of Position
The Accenture Marketing Sciences (AMS) practice specializes in the measurement and optimization of a company's return on Marketing and Sales investments. The AMS process involves the use of advanced regression analysis and other statistical techniques to quantify the return on historic Marketing activities, and utilizes optimization techniques to maximize the return on future investments. AMS clients include leading FMCG, automotive and retailing companies worldwide, with good penetration in the consumer electronics, pharmaceutical, and banking sectors.
Key responsibilities may include:
-Development and interpretation of statistical models to quantify the incremental revenue generated by marketing activities. This process
requires the use of advanced time series regression analysis in a marketing-mix modeling context, which involves the following key tasks:
-Data collection, Harmonization and validation
-Time-series regression models and other statistical analysis
-Derivation of marketing sensitivity curves
-Optimization of Marketing-mix allocation
-Ability to meet travel requirements (40%)
-Ability to work overtime when required
-Ability to work from one of the locations indicated on requisition
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- 1 year regression analysis and/or statistical modeling using SAS or other statistical package in an academic or professional setting
- 1 year experience in the analysis of Marketing databases using SAS, SPSS or other statistical modeling tools
- Bachelor's Degree required - preferably in Econometrics, Statistics, Marketing, or Computer Science with emphasis in statistics
Preferred Skills:
-Experienced in the analysis of marketing databases using SAS, SPSS, or other statistical modeling tools
-Excellent written and oral communication skills with ability to clearly communicate ideas and results to non-technical business people
-Ability to validate, and derive insight from large amounts of data from diverse sources
-Strong aptitude, ability, motivation and interest in placing quantitative analysis in the context of marketing and business economics
-Experience in Customer-level data analysis (customer segmentation, predictive modeling, etc.) is a plus
-Understand SQL; experience with SQL a plus
-Experience on analytic projects in the following areas: Applied Statistics/Econometrics, Statistical Programming, Database Marketing Management & Operations, Marketing Intelligence & Competitive Analysis
Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.
Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.
Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Job: Business Analysis
Primary Location: USA-NY -New York
Organization: Consulting
Schedule: Full-time
To apply:
tas-accenture.taleo.net/careersection/10003/jobsearch.ftl?lang=en&location=200000678#
Description
Organization: New Business/AMS
Location: Chicago/New York/Reston
Travel: 50%
If you join Accenture you can make great ideas happen for some of the world's most dynamic companies. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, we collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results. Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life. Accenture's Consulting workforce is involved in business consulting, process design work and the application of technologies to business. A career in Consulting is varied and stimulating because each project presents a new challenge and will give you exposure to new clients, business issues, technologies and people. We need people who are able to challenge conventional thought, offer unique perspectives and conceive more innovative solutions for our clients.
Scope of Position
The Accenture Marketing Sciences (AMS) practice specializes in the measurement and optimization of a company's return on Marketing and Sales investments. The AMS process involves the use of advanced regression analysis and other statistical techniques to quantify the return on historic Marketing activities, and utilizes optimization techniques to maximize the return on future investments. AMS clients include leading FMCG, automotive and retailing companies worldwide, with good penetration in the consumer electronics, pharmaceutical, and banking sectors.
Key responsibilities may include:
-Development and interpretation of statistical models to quantify the incremental revenue generated by marketing activities. This process
requires the use of advanced time series regression analysis in a marketing-mix modeling context, which involves the following key tasks:
-Data collection, Harmonization and validation
-Time-series regression models and other statistical analysis
-Derivation of marketing sensitivity curves
-Optimization of Marketing-mix allocation
-Ability to meet travel requirements (40%)
-Ability to work overtime when required
-Ability to work from one of the locations indicated on requisition
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- 1 year regression analysis and/or statistical modeling using SAS or other statistical package in an academic or professional setting
- 1 year experience in the analysis of Marketing databases using SAS, SPSS or other statistical modeling tools
- Bachelor's Degree required - preferably in Econometrics, Statistics, Marketing, or Computer Science with emphasis in statistics
Preferred Skills:
-Experienced in the analysis of marketing databases using SAS, SPSS, or other statistical modeling tools
-Excellent written and oral communication skills with ability to clearly communicate ideas and results to non-technical business people
-Ability to validate, and derive insight from large amounts of data from diverse sources
-Strong aptitude, ability, motivation and interest in placing quantitative analysis in the context of marketing and business economics
-Experience in Customer-level data analysis (customer segmentation, predictive modeling, etc.) is a plus
-Understand SQL; experience with SQL a plus
-Experience on analytic projects in the following areas: Applied Statistics/Econometrics, Statistical Programming, Database Marketing Management & Operations, Marketing Intelligence & Competitive Analysis
Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.
Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.
Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Job: Business Analysis
Primary Location: USA-NY -New York
Organization: Consulting
Schedule: Full-time
To apply:
tas-accenture.taleo.net/careersection/10003/jobsearch.ftl?lang=en&location=200000678#