The Position

Position Title: Senior Analyst
Reporting to: Associate Director
Location: Guangzhou - China
Travel required Yes 20%

About the Company

Overview
Fractal Analytics

Fortune 500 companies recognize analytics is a competitive advantage to understand customers and make better decisions. We deliver insight, innovation and impact to them through predictive analytics and visual story-telling.

We are growing quickly around the globe to meet the fast-paced demand for analytics with offices in San Mateo, New Jersey, Toronto, UK, Rome, Singapore, Guangzhou, Dubai, Mumbai, and Delhi.

Our mission is to help companies move toward higher levels of sophisticated and institutionalized use of analytics. We solve problems, operationalize solutions to drive results, and drive organizations toward fact-based decisioning including.

Our analytics solutions are delivered as Global Analytics Partnerships (GAP) or customized analytics programs: 1) Customer Insights and Analytics, 2) Marketing Effectiveness, 3) Business Intelligence, and 4) Pricing Analytics

Industry & Clients Our large enterprise clients are household names in consumer goods, retail, financial services, insurance, technology and telecommunications, and are breaking into entertainment, media, and life sciences.

Recognition In June 2013, global private equity firm TA Associates acquired a minority stake in Fractal for an investment of $25 million. We’ve been on the INC 5000 list twice and USPAACC named us among the fastest 50 growing Indian-American owned private businesses. Our teammates won the innovation analytics award at the 2013 DMA.

Information technology and research advisor Gartner named Fractal as one of the top five "Cool Vendors in Analytics, 2013,” featured in UK-based analyst, Ovum On the Radar, and other analyst reports by ValueNotes, HFS Research, CIOL and Wikibon.

We’ve been covered in key business publications including: The Wall Street Journal, Forbes US and India, San Francisco Business Times, Economic Times, Times of India, Hindustan Times, Business Standard, CFO India Magazine, LiveMint, DataInformed, Datanami, CMS Wire, and more.

Position Expectations        The Senior Analyst will be part responsible for completing business analysis in CPG domain and support language capabilities in Mandarin

Delivering Insight, Impact, Innovation
•        Solve business problems using advanced analytics, develop sophisticated solutions & actionable insights
o        Knowledge of consumer marketing in the CPG/Retail space for Mainland China
o        Knowledge of Databases - Consumer Research & BASES from Nielsen as well as non-standard Chinese language survey data
o        Knowledge of tools such as Spotfire, Advanced Statistics and ETL tools like SQL (good to have)
•        Be client trusted advisor
o        Excellent communication skills (Mandarin and English) and strong ability to work closely and collaboratively with clients in both languages
o        Strong analytical thinking skills - ability to creatively solve business problems, innovating new approaches where required
o        Exhibit expertise in industry/domain/ analytics techniques and statistics tools
o        Entrepreneurial nature and innovative in approach
o        Comfortable with working in an onsite-offshore engagement model
•        Understand client(stated and unstated) needs, their pain areas and lead client engagements
•        Work towards developing the structure complex business problems using problem solving techniques such as issue tree and MECE approach
•        Develop and conceptualize sophisticated and innovative analytical solution and actionable insights with high client and business understanding
•        Support the team on project management – adherence of timelines and quality of delivery, forecast people requirement, business needs, manage and communicate with stakeholders, ensure that the teams follow operational discipline
•        Lead knowledge sharing sessions in the team, participate in developing white papers and share new trends in analytics with colleagues and evolve one’s own opinion on the concepts

The Person

Qualification & Experience
•        R language is a must
•        2 – 3 years of experience solving business problems in CPG/ Retail with advanced analytics techniques and solutions
•        Ability to spot opportunities from nebulous conversations and leverage previous experience to ideate Analytical, flexible, cross functional and creative thinker with a collaborative approach
•        Strong interpersonal, written and oral communication skills
•        Good logical thinking and problem solving skills
•        Ability to think on his/her feet and engage with both the business and analytical community

Education MBA/Engineer/Masters in Economics/Statistics

Interested applicants can email CV to : xiongj@fractalanalytics.com