11/22/2011
Affinion Group

Company Information: Affinion Group is a leading membership-based, consumer services company that provides access to identity protection, travel, shopping, auto, dining, timeshare exchange, financial, and other services to more than 69 million consumers worldwide. Affinion Group works in partnership with leading banks, retailers, oil companies, credit unions, charities, and other organizations to offer consumer convenience and significant savings when purchasing a wide array of high quality goods and services.

Position Title: Statistician or Senior Statistician

Duties & Responsibilities: We seek creative and well-rounded self starters who have both qualitative and qualitative aptitude to excel in a challenging, highly competitive, and rewarding environment. The position is located in Stamford, CT. If you are ambitious, self driven and self motivated with strong work ethics, personal integrity, interpersonal skills, unparalleled business knowledge, and technical skills, this would be an excellent opportunity for you to join us to make a difference. As a member of the marketing analytics and modeling team, the statistician works closely with a cross functional team to develop strategies to target the most profitable prospects, to retain valuable customers, and to promote profitable customer behaviors. RESPONSIBILITIES: Develop predictive models for customer acquisition using advanced statistical techniques and tools to target the most profitable prospects for direct mail, telemarketing campaigns, other channels. Engage in model deployment, model performance tracking and validation. Analyze customer behaviors and patterns; Develop customer engagement strategies. Conduct clusters and profiles analysis of prospects and customers for product design and marketing strategies. Develop and implement test designs, champion and challengers for marketing programs. Conduct ad-hoc data analysis and develop ad-hoc reports related to database marketing and customer segmentation. Utilize large volume of internal and external data sources in model development and statistical analysis. Identify data sources, develop data queries, and conduct data exploration and data mining.

Position Qualifications: Ph.D. in Statistics or related fields. In-depth and extensive knowledge of statistical techniques and tools including the following, but not limited to, regressions, cluster analysis, factor analysis, and survival analysis. 1-7 years working experience in model development and analytics in areas such as Direct Marketing, Database Marketing, Customer Acquisition and web analytics. Have strong model development disciplines: model approach, transparency, interpretation, implementation, documentations, and compliance management. Superior analytical, research and problem solving skills. Superb SAS skills in Data Management, SQL, BASE, Data Step Programming, Macros, Procedures. Excellent project management skills to build and execute project plans with clearly defined deliverables, timelines, and ownerships. Provide prompt and timely update with progress, issues, and risk mitigations. Experiences in UNIX and Mainframe environment. Experts in MS Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio).

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Web Site: www.affiniongroup.com

Application Address: Ivy Peng, Ph.D.

Contact Email: ipeng@affiniongroup.com

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