Sr. Manager, Applied Analytics

Key Skills

Apache Hadoop, C Programming, C++, Data science techniques, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, MapReduce, Python Programming, PyTorch, R Programming, Scala Programming, SQL, TensorFlow

Job Description

Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the worlds best entertainment and online experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career opportunities across a wide range of locations and disciplines. We are at the forefront of change and move at an amazing pace, thanks to our remarkable people, who bring cutting-edge products and services to life for millions of customers every day. If you share in our passion for teamwork, our vision to revolutionize industries and our goal to lead the future in media and technology, we want you to fast-forward your career at Comcast.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Summary

The Applied Analytics team provides deep insights and advanced analytics to senior leaders across Comcast’s internet, video, mobile, voice, and home security product portfolios. As internal consultants, we support the strategic decisions that drive Comcast’s growth, improve its products, and improve its customers’ experiences. Our team is looking for a Senior Manager who can leverage Comcast’s abundant data assets to become a trusted partner for our business leaders and solve their most complex problems. The role is highly visible and provides exposure to a broad range of Comcast’s product and functional areas.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

• Develop deep working relationships with business stakeholders to become a trusted partner for their data and analytical needs.
• Promote and evangelize a culture of excellence, data driven discussions, healthy skepticism, intellectual curiosity, knowledge sharing, and teamwork, while maintaining an environment that is upbeat and fun.
• Demonstrate ‘big picture’ understanding of Comcast’s business drivers and develop innovative analytical frameworks to address them.
• Proactively identify, prioritize, and conduct analyses that drive meaningful change on key objectives established by senior Comcast leadership.
• Build custom datasets to support analytic activities utilizing assets from across the organization. Partner with subject matter experts to ensure metrics align with enterprise goals.
• Communicate findings clearly and concisely through narrative-driven presentations and effective data visualizations to Comcast executives and decision makers.
• Develop and communicate goals, strategies, tactics, project plans, timelines, and key performance metrics to reach goals.
• Collaborate with analytic teams across business units to promote best practices and a common metrics foundation as defined by the Enterprise Business Intelligence (EBI) team.
• Lead and contribute to high level solution designing, test planning, and platform decisions.
• Establish policies, standards, practices, and security measures to assure effective and consistent information processing operations and to safeguard the information resources.
• Regular, consistent, and punctual attendance. Must be able to adapt to variable schedule(s) as necessary, and work through other duties and responsibilities as assigned 

Primary Competencies

• Communicate and collaborate effectively with teammates and business stakeholders.
• Deeply understand the business challenges faced by Comcast leadership, and their context.
• Incorporate business acumen into analytical work: make the right assumptions, control for the right variables, and interpret results from the perspective of the business stakeholder.
• Generate insights from large data sets that are actionable and add value to the business.
• As needed, learn and deploy advanced analytical techniques or data science approaches, including natural language processing, neural networks, random forests, clustering algorithms, graph theory.
• Able to filter through the ambiguity of business problems to be able to produce a high-quality analysis.

Other Competencies

• Exploring the unknown, brainstorming new ideas, building things, breaking things, and tireless attempting to identify business solutions.
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Effective communication skills; ability to “tell the story”.
• Proficiency in SQL, R, and/or Python.
• Ability to learn and apply data science, machine learning, or other advanced analytical techniques.
• Strong business acumen & demonstrated aptitude for analytics that incite action.
• “Lean forward” bias to find opportunities and drive results.
• Exceptional attention to detail and ability to progress multiple analyses in parallel.
• Ability to work effectively across functions, disciplines, and levels.

Education and Experience

• Minimum: BA/BS degree in marketing, economics, statistics, psychology, engineering, computer science, mathematics, or finance
• Preferred: MBA, or MA/MS degree in a quantitative discipline
• 7+ years of relevant work experience in analytic role, including time spent pursuing advanced degree.

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
• Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
• Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
• Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
• Drive results and growth.
• Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Disclaimer:

• This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Relevant Work Experience

7-10 Years

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