Senior Data Scientist

Quantium Analytics; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Quantium Analytics in Hyderabad is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to lead delivery on multiple FMCG analytics projects. You will manage a small team and translate client questions into actionable analytical solutions.

You will collaborate with data scientists and consultants, guide methodology, and provide estimates of effort, timeframes and resourcing to ensure client value.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a highly technical analytics environment with data analytics work.
• Strong SQL coding skills and ability to handle large datasets.
• Experience transforming client questions into analytical solutions and scoping projects.
• Experience in FMCG/CPG or Retail is preferred.
• Experience in supervising others as a senior team member or project lead.
• Experience working with stakeholders to deliver projects on dynamic deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for analytics quality and delivery of key FMCG projects.
• Transform client questions into analytical solutions with Consultants to scope and deliver value.
• Oversee and delegate technical tasks among data scientists.
• Lead a small team of technical analysts (1-3 direct reports).
• Provide estimates of work effort, timeframes, costs and resourcing.
• Ensure solution design, methodology and QA for analytical projects.

Skills

SQL

Data analytics

Team leadership

Data science

Consulting

FMCG/CPG experience

Education

Engineering/Math/Stats

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

Role Summary

The Senior Data Scientist is a technical leadership role with direct accountability for the delivery of multiple projects within FMCG including the management of the analytics quality on these projects. The Senior Data Scientist collaborates closely with other Data Scientists and consultants on projects (across the FMCG client portfolio) to transform client questions and issues into analytical solutions.

Key responsibilities

• Accountable for the analytics quality and delivery of key FMCG projects
• Transforming client questions and issues into analytical solutions, through partnering with Consultants to scope solutions and ensure projects are successfully delivering value to clients
• Task management including overseeing and delegating technical tasks amongst data scientists
• Team management: leading a small team of technical analysts (~1-3 direct reports)

Key activities

• Accountable for the analytics quality and delivery of key FMCG projects
• Delivery and build of analytical solutions, transforming transaction- or customer-level data sets into client ready strategic insights e.g. data exploration, cleansing, manipulation, extracting insights, and clear presentation via spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and self-service analytical visualisation tools
• Task management including overseeing and delegating technical tasks amongst analysts within project team, including reviewing code, analysis and outputs
• Design and be accountable for solution design, analytical methodology / technique and quality assurance for analytical projects
• Providing estimates of work effort, timeframes, costings and resourcing for analytical tasks
• Partnering with consultants to ensure projects are successfully delivered and providing value to clients
• Convert data into meaningful, actionable recommendations for Quantium's clients
• Transforming client questions and issues into analytical solutions, through project scoping and solution design
• Team management: leading a small team of Data Scientists
• Directly manage all direct reports, managing on-boarding, driving their performance, supporting their development & progression and managing the formal performance review process
• Provide technical guidance for direct reports and other analysts within the project team as needed / on a day to day basis
• Support team initiatives, such as interviewing candidates, facilitating team training or knowledge sharing, or organising events
• Be a role model of Quantiums DNA and support a culture of collaboration, innovation, high-performance and fun

Experience and education required

• Approximately 5+ years’ experience in a highly technical analytics environment, carrying out data analytics or data science work
• Strong coding experience in SQL
• Experience in working with large datasets to solving commercial business problems (customer-level and/or sales transaction-level datasets preferred)
• Advanced knowledge of technical analytics discipline, including data preparation, feature engineering and foundational analytics concepts, model development and model training
• Well-developed commercial acumen to understand business needs and be able suggest the commercial impacts of different analytics solutions or approaches
• Experience transforming client questions and issues into analytical solutions, through project scoping and solution design
• Experience in FMCG/CPG or Retail industry (preferred)
• Experience working in consulting environment (preferred)
• Experience in supervising the work of others as a senior team member, project manager or team leader
• Experience with successfully managing either internal and external stakeholders, delivering against projects, tasks and activities in a dynamic deadline driven environments
• Experience and interest in people management, mentoring and development
• Tertiary qualifications in engineering, mathematics, actuarial studies, statistics, physics, or a related discipline