locals are highly preferred as the second round will be in-person interview
*Job Description:* ** *Position**:* *SAS * *Analyst* * * * * *Duration: * *6 Months+* *Location:** * * **San Jose.* RESPONSIBILITIES: The ideal candidate will: • Be deeply knowledgeable about data mining, modeling. • Invent, develop, and execute innovative approaches to improving the performance of online marketing efforts. • Build relationships with the client and the account management teams. • Participate in the active management and continued development of the analytic team's systems and processes. The ideal candidate will be a valued contributor, leveraging his/her expertise and analytical perspective. • Understand the underlying pains of a client, and then formulate and implement solutions to resolve the client's issues via data and analytics. • Work collaboratively with other analytics team members. Share knowledge across the board. • Provide analytic service: building out the analytic service framework. BASIC REQUIREMENTS: • Experience working with web analytics data or financial data. • Solid understanding of online media, search, digital industry trends, etc. • Superior analytical skills, including experience using detailed data files to answer questions and solve problems. • Exceptional creative and inventive mindset. Strong desire to build unique, world-class analytical solutions. • Strong technical skills, both from a hands-on programming perspective, as well as a "big picture" perspective regarding analytics. • The need to continually develop the analytical knowledge base, and to help grow the team into a best in class search marketing and analytics powerhouse. • Outstanding oral and written communication skills are essential to this position. The candidate will have proven communication skills that demonstrate understanding of complex data or statistical details, clarity of thought, relating complex information to non-technical users, and the ability to persuade others. • Exceptional attention to detail, and a burning desire to make analyses precise. A successful candidate will explore every aspect of the data in an analysis from the observed behavior to the processes that create the data. Skepticism is key. Take proud in delivering high quality results. • Some knowledge of the online space from a marketing perspective. Must HAVE: Candidates with one or more of the following are desirable: • Excellent communications and listening skills to work directly with clients, understanding their needs and then formulating and executing solutions to address those needs. • Experience in R, S+, SAS and SQL programming. Proven product development experience such as automated reporting, scraping tool using R or SAS, etc. • Quantitative degree – advanced degree in statistics/economics preferred. • Substantial work experience in data analytics and modeling - 6+ yrs • Database or direct marketing • Consulting • database and/or business intelligence experience *Thanks and Regards!* *Anil Kumar* IBSS Inc (International Business Software Solutions) Strategic Consulting Division Contact: 609-395-9007 / 732-348-5030 Ext: 470 Email Id: *anil.yerramse...@ibssinc.com* <anil.yerramse...@ibssinc.com> Fax: 732-876-0383 IBSS Inc: 2540 U.S. Highway 130, Suite 101, Cranbury. NJ - 08512 Visit us at www.ibssinc.com