Senior Consultant

KANTAR IS THE WORLD’S LEADING DATA, INSIGHTS AND CONSULTING COMPANY.

Kantar's Analytics practice creates leading-edge offers focused on Brand and Marketing ROI, Brand Strategy and Innovation, Content Analytics, Data Strategy and Engineering, and Customer Analytics in a way that is unmatched by our competitors. The convergence of unique human understanding and business expertise, coupled with innovative data and technology solutions, allows us to better predict consumer behavior, providing customers the confidence to make bold and complex decisions and optimize priorities for growth.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES • Understand written or oral brief from client (business problem) • Ensure Data Veracity as per problem brief; detect and flag anomalies or errors to Project Manager • Hypothesis building • Statistical model development and ensuring statistical hygiene of models • Follow process to ensure accuracy and deliver projects as per timelines • Write model findings with simple insights which make marketing sense • Try different things to get to the best solution • Train younger team members on the process • Use visualization in Excel / PowerBI to prepare analytics results for clients • Use basic programming to automate simple repetitive tasks in Excel Macros / VBA / R / Python

ESSENTIAL SKILLS • Strong mathematical aptitude • Ability to think logically and solve issues - trouble-shoot problems in code or try a different approach if something is not working in the defined process • Excellent communication skills in English (written and oral) are essential • Ability to document analysis (data and model findings) and simple processes • Good attitude and willingness to learn new things and experiment to get to the best solution • Should be a strong team player - work closely with team-mates and Project Manager • Willingness to stretch to deliver to tight schedules • Demonstrate independence in planning own work and executing it on time and with good quality

QUALIFICATIONS • The ideal candidate will have consistent scholastic performance • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from premiere institute OR Graduate or Post-Graduate in Statistics • Experience and knowledge of MS Office applications like Excel, Word, Powerpoint is a must • Any programming knowledge will be an added advantage. Python / R skills preferred

PRIOR EXPERIENCE • 4 - 7 years of relevant experience (Market Mix Modeling) • Knowledge of data analytics will be an added advantage