Company Description
Ugam, a Merkle company, is a leading analytics and technology services company. Our customer-centric approach delivers impactful business results for large corporations by leveraging data, technology, and expertise. We consistently deliver superior, impactful results through the right blend of human intelligence and AI. With 4600+ people spread across locations worldwide, we successfully deploy our services to create success stories across industries like Retail & Consumer Brands, High Tech, BFSI, Distribution, and Market Research & Consulting. Over the past 21 years, Ugam has been recognized by several firms including Forrester and Gartner, named the No.1 data science company in India by Analytics Insight, and certified as a Great Place to Work®.
The name Ugam comes from the ancient Sanskrit language and means “source” or “origin.” Ugam seeks to be the source of solutions for the complex problems of retailers, brands and market research firms worldwide. The name signifies the company’s position as a pioneer in the market for data and analytics, and the source of relevant actionable insights for clients.
Location: San Francisco, Bay area preferred but will consider remote anywhere in the US
Ugam, a Merkle company and part of Dentsu, is looking for
Manager (Analytics – Pricing Analytics)
This role (remote now) is responsible for managing competitive pricing analytics engagement for one of the largest US based retailer. In this role, you will engage and partner with client’s ‘Pricing and Assortment’ leaders. You will manage an innovative pricing analytics team to help create newer perspectives and capabilities with high degree of data and process-build rigor.
This will involve problem solving and solutioning skills, project management and business finance understanding pertaining to retail. Some of your key responsibilities will be overseeing design, estimation, review and tracking of work across teams based out of US and India to drive end-to-end delivery of multiple initiatives involving managing existing capabilities, new builds, and high visibility analytical asks from senior leaders.
The team will involve members from Merkle’s data scraping team. You will work with these teams to innovate and design scraping strategies to harvest competitive product listing, pricing, and inventory data; this is vital to the analysis and insights being delivered to client’s pricing and merchandising stakeholders.
Delivery Management:
- Mentor, coach and guide junior members of the team to increase operational efficiency, quality of the solution and to provide upskill opportunity where needed.
- Ensure high client success scores with near to zero escalations due to schedule slippages and or subpar outputs.
- Manage engagement and delivery for a million-dollar pricing analytics SoW with highly demanding stakeholders expecting proactive engagement and quick response.
- Pressure test estimates to avoid under/over commitment of timelines and help scope work-effort and develop plans involving a global team.
- Setup and run working rhythms within the team; Focus on analyst efficiencies and drive automation of commonly occurring requests.
- Have keen eye to spot issues in numbers represented and sense check outputs for accurate story telling with transparency in assumptions, computations and methodology.
- Set & adopt practices to do better inquiry of business questions; ensure reviews (code reviews, analytical insight read out on PowerPoints and dashboards) and detailed progress tracking of various initiatives, client requests and feedback.
- Conduct team performance reviews and provide consistent & constructive feedback to grow team’s capabilities.
- Ensure documentation of all analytical data sets, processes and methodology that are ready for client business and analytics team consumption.
Client Engagement:
- Consult on data strategies and own the execution of those strategies.
- Write analytics readout stories (PowerPoints) that are clear, easy to understand for business users and demonstrate high degree of finesse.
- Engage with the SoW sponsor to present biweekly insight readouts and provide progress updates.
- For complex, high visibility and quick TAT needs, execute end-to-end analytical tasks independently supporting senior client stakeholders.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- Preferred Master of Science in Statistics, Business Analytics, Data Science, Computer Science, Information Technology, and related fields)
- Bachelors in computer science (preferred), Statistics/ Economics (preferred), any other engineering
- Preferred MBA with Concentrations in Analytics related fields
Experience
+8 years in analytics & consulting services, demonstrating:
- Applying basic statistical techniques to business problems
- Extensive hands-on analytics project work
- Engaging with, and presenting to senior leaders
- Competitive intelligence experience using scrape data is a plus
- Managing teams oversees with an offshore onsite model
- Building compelling self-serve analytics tools (dashboards)
- Experience managing global teams of over 5 direct reports is a must
Technical/Domain
- Exposure in statistical modelling using Python/R/SAS/any other math libs
- Good data story telling skills using PowerPoint
- Good understanding of Business finance
- Proficiency in Tableau (or PowerBI / Spotfire / Looker)
- Proficiency in complex querying, joining, and manipulating raw datasets for analysis using SQL
Behavioral
- Curious minded and detail oriented
- High engagement skills, led by good communication & listening skills
- Must be able to work with tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Must be pro-active and determined (Initiates action, Analytical and problem solver)
Additional Information
Additional Information
The anticipated salary range for this position is $78,000 - $121,500. Salary is based on a range of factors that include relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications, and geography. A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and/or other benefits also are available. For more information regarding dentsu benefits, please visit dentsubenefitsplus.com
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
About Dentsu
Dentsu is the network designed for what’s next, helping clients predict and plan for disruptive future opportunities in the sustainable economy. Taking a people-centered approach to business transformation, dentsu combines Japanese innovation with a diverse, global perspective to drive client growth and to shape society www.dentsu.com.
We are champions for meaningful progress and we strive to be a force for good—for our people, for our clients, for the industry and for our society. We keep our people at the center, creating space for growth, understanding and learning so they can thrive. We embed diversity, in our mindset, in our solutions and in our teams to empower an inclusive, equitable and culturally fluent environment. Building this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators with each other and with our clients, driving better outcomes for all.
Dentsu (the "Company") is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee of the Company, on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done that will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing an undue hardship on the Company. Please contact your recruiter if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process or to request or discuss an accommodation in connection with a job at the Company to which you are applying.
About Dentsu
Dentsu is the network designed for what’s next, helping clients predict and plan for disruptive future opportunities in the sustainable economy. Taking a people-centered approach to business transformation, dentsu combines Japanese innovation with a diverse, global perspective to drive client growth and to shape society www.dentsu.com.
We are champions for meaningful progress and we strive to be a force for good—for our people, for our clients, for the industry and for our society. We keep our people at the center, creating space for growth, understanding and learning so they can thrive. We embed diversity, in our mindset, in our solutions and in our teams to empower an inclusive, equitable and culturally fluent environment. Building this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators with each other and with our clients, driving better outcomes for all.
Dentsu (the "Company") is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee of the Company, on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done that will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing an undue hardship on the Company. Please contact your recruiter if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process or to request or discuss an accommodation in connection with a job at the Company to which you are applying.
