Sr. Manager/ Associate Director, Analytics Consulting

Tiger Analytics is an advanced analytics consulting firm. We are the trusted analytics partner for several Fortune 100 companies, enabling them to generate business value from data. Our consultants bring deep expertise in Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI. Various market research firms, including Forrester and Gartner, have recognized our business value and leadership. We are headquartered in Silicon Valley and have our global delivery center in Chennai, India. If you are passionate about working on unstructured business problems that can be solved using data and are excited about building, leading, and enabling a team of analytics professionals toward that objective, we would like to talk to you.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understand high-level business objectives and continually align work with those objectives to meet the needs of the business.
• Communicate effectively with the business on scope changes/timelines and articulate requirements to the team.
• Possess excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with internal stakeholders.
• Discuss key business objectives with stakeholders, understand how business users and customer data is collected, and suggest appropriate data collection methods.
• Work with business executives to understand business constraints that impact data science or machine learning models.
• Examine sample data and prepare a preliminary solution proposal document to present to clients.
• Extract, transform, and organize data into datasets.
• Lead data collection, validation, and analysis activities, including risk, spending, commodity, and supplier information.
• Participate in client workshops to identify high-impact problems that could be solved through AI-based solutions.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into clear analytic problem statements.
• Design a plan to develop and deploy advanced analytics solutions in collaboration with SMEs in Data Science and Engineering.
• Own and drive plan execution by demonstrating techno-functional consulting and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Measure and articulate how analytic results improve clients' business and financial metrics.
• Perform a role that combines hands-on contribution, customer engagement, and team management.

• 10 to 14 years of work experience in Business Analysis/Data Analysis. Should be able to work independently with client business and analytics stakeholders.
• Ability to understand clients' business problems, work as part of a global team, and perform project-related studies and analysis.
• A strong aptitude for storytelling through the analysis of data.
• Experience in Data Analysis to identify which customers got impacted and how to remediate.
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategy into action; excellent analytical skills and an ability to communicate complex issues in a simple way and to orchestrate plans to resolve issues and mitigate risks.
• Ability to discover patterns in data and deliver impactful insights in client decision-making.
• Knowledge of DS / ML / AI techniques - when and why they are used and interpretation of results from a business viewpoint.
• In-depth understanding of how analytics is used in decision-making in one or more industries / functional areas.
• Ability to translate high-level business problems into an analytics problem statement.
• Experience in scoping, development, validation, and deployment of explanatory, predictive, and prescriptive analytic solutions.
• Experience in stakeholder management, driving project governance, and linking analytics to business value delivered.
• Bachelor's or higher in data analytics or equivalent work experience.

Significant career development opportunities exist as the company grows. The position offers a unique opportunity to be part of a small, fast-growing, challenging, and entrepreneurial environment, with a high degree of individual responsibility.