Statistician - Marketing ROI Analytics Development job at Nielsen

Job Description

Nielsen is a recognized leader in market response modeling. Our Marketing ROI analytics development organization in Evanston, Illinois has an open position for a Statistician. The team focuses on research and development of innovative analytics used globally by Nielsen to build ROI for the world’s top companies. The ideal candidate must have work experience in the development of econometric and/or optimization models, expertise in modern analytics programming, and the capacity to work in an agile development environment alongside software engineers and analysts.

Responsibilities:

Design market response analytics models and approaches
Design and write SAS modules for Nielsen’s analytics platforms
Partner with software engineering to build best-of-breed analytics solutions
Document and present methodology inside and outside the company
Create various prototypes for research and development purposes

Qualifications

Requirements:

5-7 years of experience in related field
Graduate degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Business (with quantitative emphasis), or related field
Experience writing production grade code on a standard statistical platform (SAS, SPSS, R)
Work experience in quantitative marketing analysis
Exceptional problem solving skills
Well-organized and capable of handling multiple mission-critical projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines
Excellent oral and written communication skills

Desired:

Experience in marketing mix modeling with Nielsen or IRI syndicated data
Experience in operations research
Experience with attribution modeling, big data analytics and/or machine learning
Short release lifecycle experience (agile processes, including Scrum)
Experience with .Net development

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