Sr. Manager – Advanced Analytics | Data Insights Full Time

The Analytics Manager will work within the UAE data & analytics team, to support next generation capabilities that include but are not limited to advanced analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and latest technologies. In addition to these technical elements of the role, the incumbent will also provide significant expertise on business drivers, as well as project management.

What you will do:
Drive data & analytics initiatives across automotive brands, client experience, adopting solutions based on data & analytics, leading to business profitability and customer growth.
Use Machine learning / Statistical techniques to analyze large sets of customer data and produce actionable insights.
Work on projects that promote data-based decision across business strategy, campaign management & customer service
Enhance data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytics systems
Take ownership of data extraction, processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
Proactively seek out best practices and adopt the same in day to day functioning
Incorporate learnings from past campaigns into future campaigns, by providing timely and comprehensive campaign intelligence
Hypothesis generation creating a constant test cycle for the business with the primary end goals being to increase customer acquisitions/retention.
Prepare financial projections related each initiative in order to measure the bottom-line impact at a customer and at a project level
Support regional technology implementation for Analytics infrastructure projects
Support the Head of Data & Analytics in strategic projects – locally and regionally.

Required skills and experience to be successful:
At least 5-7 years’ experience in data science
Good applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression
Strong communication and presentation/story telling skills at senior forums.
Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms
Proficiency in data visualization and scripting / programming languages SQL/SAS/SQL/R/Python/PySpark
Digital marketing analytics and related technologies
Advanced Excel usage
Senior Stakeholders Management Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Finance, Mathematics, Engineering, Operations Research or other related fields, where Master’s degree in any of these fields or an MBA are preferred Competencies:
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with non-technical partners at senior forums
Project Management Self-motivated individuals who are independent and a self-starter and comfortable in a fast-paced environment
Ability to work in teams and in fast paced environments, multitask and respond in short timeframes with strong sense of urgency
Demonstrate a proactive learning attitude along with a structured thought process
Strong sense of ownership, accountability and focus on project delivery & result tracking.