Job Description Ford Motor Company's Global Data, Insight, and Analytics (GDIA) organization is looking for a seasoned analytics professional that has a deep business understanding of data science. You will have the opportunity to work with some of the brightest global subject matter experts that are transforming the automobile industry.
The role spans the full lifecycle from analytic question definition, through data gathering, analysis, reporting/visualization development, testing, and operational deployment and support iterations. The incumbent must be able to work with business users to gather goals and illicit requirements, translate those into technical designs, coordinate with multiple source data owners, and then develop the end user friendly reporting and analytics platform of standard reports and self-service analytics interfaces.
This role requires a detail oriented, creative technologist, comfortable working in a highly collaborative, entrepreneurial environment, able to work with a variety of customers and manage and prioritize competing customer demands, while incrementally building an integrated reporting and analytics self-service platform end state vision.
Responsibilities:
Acting as an internal consultant with business partners in the sales and marketing functions in Ford Customer Service Division
Ability to understand how to ingest large data sets from a variety of sources (SQL, Teradata, Oracle, Hadoop, Alteryx, QlikView etc)
Expertise to manipulate data to form unified data sets for analysis
Strong visualization skills (understanding of appropriate visualization techniques based on the data set)
Communicate findings to make data analysis actionable and understandable by business partners
Ability to take complex problems and break them down to create an implement an action plan
Strong understanding of analysis and computational complexity and ability to programmatically solve problems
Strong capabilities at designing visual interface for data interaction
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelors degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Finance, Engineering, or Economics
3+ years of hands-on quantitative modeling skills and SQL, SAS
3+ years of data visualization expertise
3+ years of experience working with descriptive analytics tools
2+ years of experience in a Consultative role
Preferred Qualifications:
5+ years of experience working with descriptive analytics tools
Self-starter, high level of initiative, detail-oriented and ability to multi-task.
Strong collaboration and communications skills..
Strong problem formulation and problem solving skills.
Strong interpersonal skills and leadership behaviors.
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