Role: Statistical Modeler/Data Analyst 3
Location: Warren, MI
Duration: Long term
Rate: Market
The Role
• The Data Analyst will have a unique opportunity to be the business facing representative of our Analytics shared services that will develop technical strategies and drive value from a big data approach to advanced analytics, machine learning.
• The successful candidate will support a team that will develop data driven products by synthesizing data from such sources as vehicle telematics, driver behavior, mobile applications, in vehicle applications, digital behavior and external data sources.
• As such, they must have both strong quantitative and analytical skills, as well as strong business acumen and communications.
• This individual must be proficient in IT terminology and advances in technology, but simultaneously know the business language and dynamics to address business challenges.
• They must be able to work efficiently with large data sets to derive insights and answer business questions through a data driven approach.
• Finally, they must know how to communicate these insights to business partners through compelling data visualizations in a simple and concise manner.

Role Responsibilities
• Support diverse technical teams to ensure project deliverables fulfill business needs, are on-time, and meet business requirements
• Coordinate with marketing to develop data driven strategies: plan, implement and execute
• Contribute to the definition of an overarching big-data-driven approach to advanced analytics strategy
• Work with cross-functional teams to discover and develop actionable, high-impact data analytics need and data opportunity statements in a variety of core business areas
• Create breakthrough solutions, performing exploratory and targeted data analyses to drive iterative learnings
• Work with business domain, IT and data experts to identify detailed data needs, sources, and structure to support solution development
• Delivering ad-hoc analysis

Qualifications
Demonstrated leadership and interpersonal skills:
• Strong business acumen, and the ability to translate "data" to a "business story" and effectively communicate it to business stakeholders and partners.
• Experience with A|B testing
• SME with Tableau and Alteryx
• Collaborative team player orientation towards work relationships, strong culture awareness
• Skilled in project management and oversight skills
• Skilled in priority setting and alignment of project priorities with business strategy
• Ability to break down complex problems and projects into manageable goals
• Ability to influence people across the organization. Ability to act as a change agent.
• Skilled in communicating the benefits of Data analysis to business line professionals to create a value proposition, including executive level audiences.
• Effectiveness in building trust, respect and cooperation among teams
• Experience supporting diverse and creative technical teams in a fast-paced environment

Technical Skills:
• Data integration using SQL in Oracle or SQL Server environments
• Business Intelligence / Reporting Tools: Tableau, Power BI, Excel, SAS, SPSS
• Ability to identify useful information in data sets and suggest conclusions that support decision making
• Strong analytical capabilities
• Understanding of data gathering, inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and analyzing techniques
• Communication skills with the ability to distill complex subjects to a wider audience.
• Excellent collaboration and project management skills

Experience
• 3-5 years' experience translating business needs to data requirements, turning data into compelling stories, and completing the full cycle from data to measurable outcomes.

Education
• Bachelor's degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, information technology, business, engineering or related field
• No Degree beats proven experience!