Director, Data Science

Company Description

Merkle is a leading technology-enabled, data-driven customer experience management (CXM) company. For over 30 years, Fortune 1,000 companies and leading nonprofit organizations have partnered with us to build and maximize the value of their customer portfolios.

Job Description

The purpose of this role is to develop best in class strategies and management of all Insights and Analysis activity on assigned clients, to manage and develop the team and serve as a point of escalation as needed. This is a remote position for candidates residing in the United States and will report the VP, Analytics.

Qualifications

Duties & Responsibilities

• You will look for ways to improve and streamline processes to not only deliver a superior service to our clients, but also to improve our efficiency and profitability.
• You will mentor/manage Data Science team members
• You will partner with your Group Director to educate clients on the value of adding Data Science products to their business, capturing & defining needs and solutions
• You will synthesize needs and create functional design documents which can be used to build analysis and data models around.
• You will assess data for validity regarding predictive capabilities, required feature engineering, opportunities for data widening, or alignment to business requirements
• You will develop, implement, and support methodologies, standards, and tools for analysis and data science work.
• You will build cooperative, productive relationships with clients and vendors by utilizing excellent communication skills, while also interacting effectively internally and externally.
• You will research, prototype, and explore future, non-standard analytics approaches that push the limits of current analysis output. This will include exploring novel machine learning techniques which enable our teams to tackle segmentation, clustering, and predictive models used in several areas.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degreein Mathematics, Statistics, Business Analysis or related
• 5+ years’ experience as an Analyst / Data Scientist
• 2+ years’ of managerial and leadership experience
• Advanced knowledge of R, Python or SAS for model development
• Previous experience with web analytics tools such as Adobe Marketing Cloud, Google Analytics
• Extensive experience with statistical modelling techniques
• Experience connecting Tableau or other visualization systems and using for dashboarding or analysis
• Self-motivated and ability to work independently in meeting deadlines
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills and is comfortable working with remote teams
• Previous experience with marketing analytics including database marketing techniques, campaign lift, attribution and media mix modelling
• Familiarity with analyzing data for digital marketing and ecommerce, as well as all other non-digital aspects of a business
• SQL skills
• A solid knowledge of ETL tools
• Understanding of how to deal with larger data sets and parallel computing problem

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Additional Information

The anticipated salary range for this position is $136,000-$219,650. Salary is based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, knowledge, skills and other factors permitted by law. A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and/or other benefits also are available. For more information regarding dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com.

About dentsu
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