Jobs at MBC Group in the UAE: Senior Data and Analytics Manager

MBC Group is offering a job opportunity as a Senior Data and Analytics Manager to join the team in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 

1. Partner with different business areas to answer complex analytical questions from big data sets and help MBC shape its products in a better way.
2. Manage data team and ensure delivery of data products.
3. Design and develop statistical & machine learning models to inform MBCs decisions.
4. Identify and discover hidden patterns in complex structured and unstructured data sets.
5. Enable look–a-like modelling, propensity to churn, propensity to buy, CLV, clustering, collaborative filtering, RFM, data fusion techniques, predictive modelling and audience profiling.
6. Champion metrics creation, manipulate, transform and verify quality of data.
7. Create and implement Big data analytics roadmap.
8. Work with data governance team to help drive consistency in MDM and data definitions to create a trusted source of data.
9. Make recommendations for data harmonization and customer centricity (ie. Single sign on, Fingerprint ID, unique customer ID).
10. Develop an acute understanding of product, marketing and business needs through constant engagement with internal and external stakeholders.
11. Strong problem solving and decision-making skills.

1. Minimum 9 year’s experience in solving analytical problems through data driven quantitative methodologies.
2. Minimum 5 years’ experience in creating econometric descriptive and predictive models in Digital space. (unstructured data).
3. BS in Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Information Management or Statistics.
4. Proven ability to design and code new algorithms from scratch.
5. Strong analytics skills.
6. Adept at queries, report writing and presenting findings.
7. Experience with Amazon Web Services Big data platform (ie. S3, RS).
8. Solid experience with digital measurement and analytics platforms (ie. Google analytics, Big query, Return path data).
9. Strong knowledge and experience using Big Data programming languages (mainly R and Python).
10. Strong knowledge with Random Forrest, Decision trees, Matrix forecasting, Time series, Bayesian networks, Clustering, Regression and classification.
11. Understanding of standard digital technologies used for commercial VOD, ecommerce and subscription services including cookies, beaconing, working with tag management data and data layers or SDKs and ad-serving technologies.

About MBC:

The Middle East Broadcasting Center (branded as MBC or MBC Group) is the first private free-to-air satellite broadcasting company in the Arab World. It was launched in London in 1991 and later moved to its headquarters in Dubai in 2002. MBC Group provides multiple channels of information, interaction and entertainment.

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