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At PwC our people in data and analytics focus on leveraging data to drive insights and make informed business decisions. They utilise advanced analytics techniques to help clients optimise their operations and achieve their strategic goals.Focused on relationships you are building meaningful client connections and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations you are growing your personal brand deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity you are comfortable when the path forward isnt clear you ask questions and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.
Examples of the skills knowledge and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:
Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives needs and feelings of others.
Use a broad range of tools methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
Use reflection to develop self awareness enhance strengths and address development areas.
Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance) the Firms code of conduct and independence requirements.
Position: Associate
Industry: CPG & Retail
Domain: Range of Analytics (Descriptive to Advanced) depending on the client problem
About Acceleration Center Bangalore
At PwC we connect people with diverse backgrounds and skill sets to solve important problems together and lead with purposefor our clients our communities and for the world at large. It is no surprise therefore that 429 of 500 Fortune global companies engage with PwC. Acceleration Centers (ACs) are PwCs diverse global talent hubs focused on enabling growth for the organization and value creation for our clients. The PwC Advisory Acceleration Center in Bangalore is part of our Advisory business in the US. The team is focused on developing a broader portfolio with solutions for Risk Consulting Management Consulting Technology Consulting Strategy Consulting Forensics as well as vertical specific solutions. PwCs high-performance culture is based on passion for excellence with a focus on diversity and inclusion. You will collaborate with and receive support from a network of people to achieve your goals. We will also provide you with global leadership development frameworks and the latest in digital technologies to learn and excel in your career. At the core of our firms philosophy is a simple construct: We care for our people. Globally PwC is ranked the 3rd most attractive employer according to Universum. Our commitment to Responsible Business Leadership Diversity & Inclusion work-life flexibility career coaching and learning & development makes our firm one of the best places to work learn and excel.
We are looking for experienced professionals with a strong data science background (and overall data science experience of 4 years) to work in our Analytics Consulting practice in Mumbai and Bangalore.
Senior Associates will work as an integral part of business analytics teams in India alongside clients and consultants in the U.S. leading teams for high-end analytics consulting engagements and providing business recommendations to project teams.
Education: Advanced Degree in quantitative discipline such as Computer Science Engineering Econometrics Statistics Operations Research or Information Sciences such as business analytics or informatics.
Required Skills: Successful candidates will have demonstrated the following skills and characteristics -
Must-Have (Senior Associate - CPG & Retail Analytics)
Hands-on experience with CPG & Retail data assets such as point-of-sale (POS) transactions loyalty-program histories syndicated panel data (NielsenIQ Circana/IRI Kantar) e-commerce clickstream and supply-chain sensors/IoT.
Deep understanding of predictive modeling for purchase propensity demand forecasting promotion uplift assortment and customer lifetime value in omnichannel retail environments.
Proficiency in machine learning techniquesclassification regression clustering recommendation engines and advanced time-series forecasting applied to sales and inventory data.
Strong command of statistical methods including A/B & multivariate testing price-elasticity modeling market-basket analysis segmentation and causal-impact evaluation.
Expert programming in Python or R plus SQL with retail-specific data-wrangling libraries (pandas dbt) across cloud warehouses (BigQuery Redshift Synapse).
Hands on BI fluency in developing interactive visualizations in Power BI Tableau or Looker that turn SKU-level data into actionable stories for category trade-marketing and supply-chain teams.
Exposure to big data & real-time analytics stacks used in retail (Spark Kafka Delta Lake Snowflake Streaming Google Vertex AI).
Ability to translate insights for merchandising marketing supply-chain and store-operations stakeholderscommunicating clearly with both technical data teams and business leaders.
Nice to have
Exposure to ML engineering (Azure ML AWS SageMaker GCP Vertex AI)
Experience blending retail-media impression/click logs with sales to calculate ROAS and incrementality or to build MMM-lite dashboards for brand teams.
Roles and Responsibilities
Assist analytics projects within the CPG & Retail domain driving design development and delivery of data science solutions
Develop and execute on project & analysis plans under the guidance of Project Manager
Interact with and advise consultants/clients in US as a subject matter expert to formalize data sources to be used datasets to be acquired data & use case clarifications that are needed to get a strong hold on data and the business problem to be solved
Drive and Conduct analysis using advanced analytics tools and coach the junior team members
Implement necessary quality control measures in place to ensure the deliverable integrity like data quality model robustness and explainability for deployments.
Validate analysis outcomes recommendations with all stakeholders including the client team
Build storylines and make presentations to the client team and/or PwC project leadership team
Contribute to the knowledge and firm building activities
Education (if blank degree and/or field of study not specified)
Degrees/Field of Study required:Degrees/Field of Study preferred:Certifications (if blank certifications not specified)
Required Skills
Optional Skills
Accepting Feedback Accepting Feedback Active Listening Algorithm Development Alteryx (Automation Platform) Analytic Research Big Data Business Data Analytics Communication Complex Data Analysis Conducting Research Customer Analysis Customer Needs Analysis Dashboard Creation Data Analysis Data Analysis Software Data Collection Data-Driven Insights Data Integration Data Integrity Data Mining Data Modeling Data Pipeline Data Preprocessing Data Quality 33 moreDesired Languages (If blank desired languages not specified)
Travel Requirements
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