Analytics Manager for Vodafone

Job description / Role

Analytics Manager for Vodafone Qatar

Role purpose: To manage all cross company analytical requirements

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:
• Use all sources of data to improve analytical capability for the company
• Proactively identify new business opportunities through analytics
• Create the appropriate analytical environment for the company
• Plays key role in developing and documenting new methodologies for analytics and knowledge transfer.
• Work with companywide cross-functional teams to design, implement, and test new data methodologies.
• Assist in the design and testing of data collection, visualisation and insight consumption methodologies.
• Provide research support for the identification and implementation of methods and best practices to improve telco data product quality for business

Requirements

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
• Strong analytical knowledge and problem-solving skill using different statistical techniques like predictive modelling, machine learning, and data mining.
• Awareness of the data analytics standards and modelling methods like the CRISP standard.
• Hands on with various data science paradigms like exploratory data analysis, Interactive Data Visualization, Big Data, NLP, ML and AI.
• Knowledge of Telecom business data and best practices used telecom analytics and modelling across the industry.

Must have technical / professional qualifications:
• Identification/evaluation of data sources, authoring methodologies, and building out data product features that uses ML, AI and NLP techniques.
• Lead and support prototyping and pilot programs for identifying new insights that can be taken from an exploratory stage to business consumption. This may include new data products, platforms, trend analyses, identifying gaps for improvements in coverage, representation/sampling, bias reduction, indirect estimation, data integration, automation, generalization, harmonization as well as working with different data sources.

Budget owned:

Key performance indicators:
• Improve forecasting capability
• Meet cross company demand for analytics
• Identify new revenue streams Direct reports

About the Company

Vistas Global is a diversified group of businesses with interests in technology (Vistas Global WLL, Momenta WLL), human capital, media (Vistas Media ME-FZ LLC), digital, food & beverage (Nushi, Haagen Dazs, Caliburger, Kamats), engineering (Vistas Security, Vistas Engineering) and real estate.

The group was founded by Suraj Thampi, an entrepreneur who pioneered the business process outsourcing concept in the Middle East in 1998. Having successfully built and sold three companies previously, Vistas is now his fourth venture in the region. In a short period of time, Vistas has emerged as one of the largest professional service companies in the region, employing over 1,300 people across 5 continents, 8 Offices and 5 Time Zones.