Principal – Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics Intern 2020
What you’ll be doing...
At Verizon, Finance is leading the formation of an advanced analytics arm that delivers world-class insights in driving business impacts through a data driven approach. This is a unique opportunity to be a subject matter expert, hands-on and contribute the experiences you’ve gained in your academic program. You'll learn from the best minds in the industry and improve your knowledge regarding strategic business problem solving, data analytics, and strategic change initiatives in an environment that’s dedicated to industry superiority.
In this role, you may have the opportunity to:
- Drive advanced analytics and embed Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) techniques in to business decisions
- Translate predictive insights from complex analytical frameworks to provide executive level recommendations
- Participate in the design, implementation, and interpretation of experiments/trials for continuous refinement of on-going strategies
- Contribute and learn from a group of fellow advanced analytics practitioners on latest technologies and techniques
Sample Projects:
- Identify customer growth opportunities from new 5G revenue models
- Optimize Marketing Investments, Promotions and Pricing decisions to drive profitable growth
- Detect fraud across all channels and optimize customer experience
- Optimize credit decisions/collections strategy using customer behavioral data science
- Optimize digital growth by balancing omni-channel experience and profitability
- Build product and channel level churn prediction models
What we’re looking for...
You’re a motivated self-starter. Never satisfied with the status quo, you’re always trying to beat a personal best. You thrive in a fast-paced environment where new challenges come up every day. You are flexible, dependable and work well in varying environments. Learning quickly is personally rewarding and inspires you to take smart risks.
You’ll need to have:
- Current enrollment in a MBA, Masters, or Ph.D. degree program with a concentration in Finance, Economics/Econometrics Strategy, Design, Marketing, Data or Business Analytics, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Operations Research or a directly related area with an expected completion date between December 2020 and June 2021
- Three or more years of work experience in Corporate Strategy, Operations, Data Analytics, Management Consulting, Finance, Quantitative, Marketing, Business Modeling, or a related field
- Hands on usage of one of SAS/R/Python and ability to program in SQL required
- Prior experience in using ML techniques to solve business problems
Even better if you have:
- Experience developing and implementing advanced analytical solutions to complex business problems/opportunities
- Experience in Hadoop Clusters/Hive/Scala/Spark
- Experience with data management, analysis, and visualization to realize absolute and incremental commercial gains
- Ability to demonstrate strategic thinking, relationship management and attention to detail
- Strong analytical, communication, leadership and presentation skills
- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-moving, team environment
- Experience in telecom, high-tech, or related industries
- High proficiency in MS Office Suite of Products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
When you join Verizon...
You’ll be doing work that matters alongside other talented people, transforming the way people, businesses and things connect with each other. Beyond powering America’s fastest and most reliable network, we’re leading the way in broadband, cloud and security solutions, Internet of Things and innovating in areas such as, video entertainment. Of course, we will offer you great pay and benefits, but we’re about more than that. Verizon is a place where you can craft your own path to greatness. Whether you think in code, words, pictures or numbers, find your future at Verizon.
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