Position: Statistician Location: San Carlos, California Reports to: Director or Manager of Analytical Operations Please email resumes to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Overview DemandTec offers a breakthrough pricing and promotion optimization service for e-commerce and traditional retailers that allows them to identify optimal pricing and promotion combinations for their products. The service uses sophisticated analytical techniques to optimize price and promotion as a single system, taking into account the interdependencies between both complementary and substitute items. The Operations Department has the primary responsibility to ensure the consistent and reliable operation of the processing functions that support the corporation’s products and services. Statisticians within Operations at DemandTec execute statistical analyses in a production environment, and collaborate in the development and enhancement of the econometric modeling engine. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with constructing SAS datasets from a variety of customer data sources, developing an understanding of that data through the use of SAS tools, presenting data to end-users using SAS reporting tools—experience in list management (merging, sorting, matching, creating extracts and reformatting) in a large dataset environment is essential—running pre-defined statistical models, and analyzing modeling results prior to delivery to end-users. Responsibilities Develop an expert understanding of the existing modeling infrastructure and process Develop an expert understanding of the relationship between the econometric modeling and decision support application databases Write customer-specific code to read data from a variety of sources; create analysis datasets; execute, summarize, and communicate analyses Perform ad-hoc analysis of results to support multifunctional team (Professional Services, Sales, Science) Collaborate on the research and development of future methodologies and products Identify and assist in the implementation of process improvements Minimum Requirements MS in Statistics preferred; will consider MS in Operations Research or BS in Math/Statistics 1 to 3 years prior work experience Demonstrated analytical skills and great comfort with handling vast quantities of data Strong SAS programming skills Experience in working with large datasets for list management: merge/purge, data extracts and reformatting, sorting, matching Knowledge of PROC MEANS, SUMMARY, FREQ, SQL . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
