Director - Management Science & Integration - NBCUniversal - New York

Job description

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, and world-renowned theme parks. It is the policy of NBCUniversal and NBCUniversal's affiliated businesses to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Responsibilities:
Project leader on a team within Corporate Strategy focused on developing the appropriate methodologies, tools and services to enable deeper, quantitative business analysis across the NBCUniversal portfolio
Design and develop advanced data mining, inference/prediction and optimization models and systems
Drive the collection and manipulation of new data and the refinement of existing data sources
Partner with associated technology and research teams within NBCUniversal and manage external vendor relationships
Manage multiple priorities across a mix of ad-hoc and operational projects
Translate complex problems and solutions to all levels of the organization


Basic Qualifications:
Minimum 6+ years of experience in an advanced analytics or consulting role or similar experience in academia
Master's or PhD with a specialization in Statistics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Economics, Data Science, Mathematics or other quantitative field or equivalent
Advanced knowledge of at least one of the following analytics environments: SAS, Python, R, MATLAB, SPSS or similar
Familiarity with relational databases and SQL
Experience with data visualization techniques and concepts
Team-oriented and collaborative approach with a demonstrated aptitude and willingness to learn new methods and tools Eligibility Requirements:
Interested candidate must submit a resume/CV through www.nbcunicareers.com to be considered
Must be willing to work in New York, NY
Must be willing to submit to a background investigation
Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States
Must be 18 years or older

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with natural language processing (NLP) and text analytics
Experience working with distributed data and computing tools (e.g., Hadoop, MapReduce, Datameer, etc.)
Working knowledge of at least one of the following programming languages: Python, R, SAS, Julia, Java or similar

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