Senior Data Scientist I Chicago-IL

Company Description

Job Description

• Join our Consumer specialized international team, in a flexible working environment.
• Help to educate our commercial associates and our clients in how to use our innovative Consumer products, from take home panels to receipt capture and beyond.
• Serve as a panel expert, ensuring the design and execution of industry-leading consumer panels.
• Serve as a panel expert, through data client inquiry investigations, and ensuring data quality throughout consumer products.
• Present and communicate findings and recommendations based on research and analysis.
• Develop and implement best practices, documentation standards, and robust methodologies to ensure consistent and scalable approaches across projects.
• Oversee end-to-end validation and projection performance metrics to drive product quality.
• Support production deployment of proposed enhancements/new solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Socio-economics, Data Science or other related field with 3+ years’ experience in data science, analytics, or consumer insights.
• Knowledge of/ Interest in consumers and their behavior and managed consumer related crowdsourced panels
• Experience working with Commercial functions and/or clients
• Strong aptitude for data analysis. Ability to manipulate, analyze and interpret large data sources.
• Eager to continuously learn and adopt and develop evolving technologies and tools
• Excellent communication/writing and collaboration skills.
• Excellent statistical and logic skills. Experience in data cleaning, outlier validation, sampling, bias reduction, indirect estimation, data aggregation techniques.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality work.
• (nice to have) Excellent statistical and logic skills. Experience in data cleaning, outlier validation, sampling, bias reduction, indirect estimation, data aggregation techniques.
• (nice to have) Experienced in Python or another high-level programming language and willingness to learn Python
• (nice to have) Experienced with SQL, working with queries and large-scale databases

Additional Information

This role has a market-competitive salary with an anticipated base compensation of the following range: $81,000 to $91,000. Actual salaries will vary depending on a candidate’s experience, qualifications, skills, and location. This role might also be eligible for a Sales-based incentive or performance-based bonus. Other benefits include a flexible working environment, comprehensive health insurance, industry-leading parental leave, life insurance, education support, and more.

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

About NIQ

NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.

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