Associate Manager- Data Scientist

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Bengaluru - India

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: Yesterday
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

We are looking for a Data Scientist with strong analytical foundations and hands-on experience in marketing analytics especially Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) attribution forecasting optimization and business experimentation.

This role sits at the intersection of data science econometrics AI-enabled analytics and business strategy. You will work with marketing sales retail and consumer datasets to help brands optimize media investments improve commercial performance and drive measurable business outcomes.
The ideal candidate combines statistical rigor with modern AI tooling understands how marketing ecosystems are evolving and can translate complex analyses into business-ready recommendations for senior stakeholders.

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities

Marketing Mix Modeling & Measurement

  • Build maintain and enhance MMM frameworks across digital offline retail and trade channels
  • Develop econometric models to quantify media effectiveness incrementality halo effects and ROI
  • Design approaches for granular optimization across geography channel SKU audience and funnel stage
  • Evaluate short-term vs long-term media impact saturation adstock carryover and diminishing returns
  • Support budget allocation and scenario planning using optimization techniques

Advanced Marketing Analytics

  • Build attribution propensity segmentation pricing and forecasting models
  • Develop KPI frameworks across brand performance commerce and retail execution ecosystems
  • Support analytics for launch planning product-market fit and customer lifecycle optimization

AI-Enabled Analytics & Automation

  • Leverage modern AI/LLM tools to accelerate insight generation code development QA documentation and storytelling
  • Build reusable analytics pipelines and modular modeling frameworks
  • Explore applications of GenAI agents for automated reporting scenario generation simulation and insight synthesis
  • Work with cloud and modern data stack tools to improve scalability and speed-to-insight

Stakeholder Management & Storytelling

  • Translate analytical outputs into clear business narratives and strategic recommendations
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with consulting media engineering and business stakeholders
  • Create impactful visualizations and executive-ready presentations

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelors / Masters degree in Statistics Economics Mathematics Engineering Computer Science Data Science or related quantitative field
  • 2-5 years of experience in marketing analytics econometrics commercial analytics or applied data science
  • Hands-on experience building or supporting MMMs and marketing effectiveness studies
  • Strong understanding of statistical modeling and machine learning concepts

Technical Skills

Core Analytics

  • Regression modeling time-series analysis forecasting optimization clustering
  • Causal inference experimentation Bayesian methods hypothesis testing
  • Understanding of media metrics marketing funnels and commercial KPIs

Programming & Tools

  • Strong proficiency in Python / R
  • SQL proficiency for large-scale data manipulation
  • Experience with libraries/frameworks such as: PyMC Stan statsmodels scikit-learn TensorFlow/PyTorch
  • Familiarity with cloud ecosystems such as AWS GCP or Azure
  • Experience using BI and visualization tools such as Power BI Tableau Looker or Streamlit

Modern AI & Workflow Tooling

  • Familiarity with LLM-assisted workflows AI copilots and modern analytics automation tools
  • Understanding of retrieval-augmented systems prompt engineering and AI-assisted coding workflows is a plus
  • Experience building scalable and reusable analytics workflows is preferred

What Were Looking For

  • Strong problem-solving and structured thinking ability
  • Ability to balance analytical rigor with business practicality
  • Curiosity around how AI is transforming analytics and consulting workflows
  • Strong communication and storytelling skills
  • Ability to work in fast-paced ambiguous environments

Preferred Experience

Candidates with experience in any of the following will have an advantage:

  • FMCG / Retail / Consumer Goods analytics
  • Media effectiveness and budget optimization
  • Retail execution analytics and demand forecasting
  • Multi-touch attribution and customer analytics
  • Consulting or client-facing analytics environments
  • Building analytics products accelerators or internal tools

Location:

Bangalore

Brand:

Dentsu X

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent

Required Experience:

Manager

We are looking for a Data Scientist with strong analytical foundations and hands-on experience in marketing analytics especially Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) attribution forecasting optimization and business experimentation.This role sits at the intersection of data science econometrics AI-enabled a...
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Dentsu is an integrated growth and transformation partner to the world’s leading organizations. Founded in 1901 in Tokyo, Japan, and now present in approximately 120 countries.

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