Job Description

Employment Type: Full-time Location Type: Remote Salary:

Company Description

West Europe Marketing Science team is a specialist business unit providing consulting and advanced statistics across the NIQ SA&I portfolio. We act as consultants for statistical/ technical advice, input into client proposals, as well as support to research teams in the design & execution of all client projects. The team, spread across Europe, share the same vision to learn, develop and share the latest cutting-edge methods. Working with colleagues across country borders, we promise a rewarding career progression: developing, customizing, and applying leading edge techniques across international markets, covering the full range of research applications across a wide range of industry sectors.

Position Overview

Reporting to the head of Brand & Media Marketing Science team, you have a strong background in statistics and complex analytics. You will be responsible for running analytic projects, with support/ supervision from senior staff where needed. You will make useful contributions to discussions with clients and researchers and will recommend appropriate methodologies to design analytic/ research programs which address the client’s marketing/business problems.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor or master’s degree in a field that emphasizes the learning of modelling, statistical or mathematical skills (PhD is a plus).
• Experience: 3-5+ years of work experience.
• Expertise:
  • Expert modelling skills and statistics knowledge (essential).
  • Expert statistical skills and knowledge of econometric techniques in:
    • Survey/polling statistics (sampling, non-response adjustments, Bayesian statistics).
    • Econometric modelling (program evaluation, forecasting, economic theory, panel data).
    • Observational causal inference (potential outcomes, structural equation models, instrumental variables).
  • Experience in and strong interest in the following fields: pricing research, brand management, digital behavioral analysis, segmentation, media effectiveness, etc.
  • Expert knowledge of analytics programming languages (e.g., Python, R) and the respective tool ecosystem (e.g., R-Studio Server, Spyder, Jupyter, POSIT Workbench).
  • Solid experience visualizing and communicating results of data analyses with the ability to think beyond the numbers while addressing real-world business problems.

Desirable Skills

• Experience in open data sourcing (Google Trends, Social Mentions, etc.).
• Experience using version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Basic knowledge of Data Science such as Big Data Analytics (Machine Learning, Hadoop, Map Reduce, Hive, Spark, etc.).
• Basic knowledge of cloud computing environments and tooling (AWS, Azure).
• Basic SQL skills with regards to working with relational databases.
• Basic knowledge of programming in VBA.

Soft Skills

• Mathematical thinking.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proven client-facing skills: translate and cle... (content truncated)

Responsibilities

• Deliver analytics projects to a high quality that meet internal stakeholders’ and clients’ requirements.
• Maintain good working knowledge of statistical analysis techniques, both current and emerging.
• Effectively manage own workload & be responsible for managing projects.
• Maintain a broad and deep understanding of quantitative research techniques, to be able to mention appropriate solutions to client problems in a convincing way.
• Develop an understanding of the possibilities and limitations of techniques and software packages.
• Ensure high quality of all finished documents.

About the Job

We are looking for someone with experience with applying a diverse range of advanced analytics to survey research and other data sources, with excellent knowledge of Regression (Logistic, Linear, Non-linear), Factor analysis, Mapping… Knowledge of other areas such as Bayesian Networks, econometric modelling, segmentation, data integration, marketing mix modelling. We are looking for someone who is self-motivated, pro-active, creative, and eager to learn.