Associate Director Data Science | Nagoya | Tokyo

Job: Permanent Contract
Location: Nagoya, Tokyo
Capabilities: Big data & advanced analytics, Technology & digital

Organisation

This consultancy firm partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. They started in business strategy. Today, they help clients with total transformation – inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Their diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. They deliver solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

You will work here

The department you will work for combines innovative skills in computer science, artificial intelligence, statistics, and machine learning with deep industry expertise. The team is comprised of world-class data scientists and business consultants who specialize in the use of advanced analytics to get breakthrough business results. They own the full analytics value-chain end to end: framing new business challenges, building fact-bases, designing innovative algorithms, creating scale through designing tools and apps, and training colleagues and clients in new solutions. You’ll have the chance to work with clients in every region and every industry area. They are also a core member of a rapidly growing analytics enterprise – a constellation of teams focused on driving practical results for their clients by applying leading edge analytics approaches, data, and technology.

You are going to do this

We’re looking for a passionate and talented Associate Director, Data Science to join our rapidly growing team. In this role, you’ll have the chance to roll up your sleeves and apply data science methods and analytics to real-world business situations across a variety of industries. Successful candidates are intellectually curious builders who are biased toward action, scrappy, and communicative.

Who you are

• Are comfortable in a client-facing role with the ambition to lead teams
• Can distill complex results or processes into simple, clear visualizations
• Are able to explain sophisticated data science concepts in an understandable manner
• Love building things and are comfortable working with modern development tools and writing code collaboratively (bonus points if you have a software development or DevOps experience)
• Have significant experience applying advanced analytics to a variety of business situations and a proven ability to synthesize complex data; as well as a deep understanding of modern machine learning techniques and their mathematical underpinnings, and are able to translate this into business implications for our clients
• Have strong project management skills

Your qualifications

• Recent PhD or Master’s Degree in computer science, applied mathematics, statistics, machine learning, or other data centric disciplines with 12+ years of relevant industry work experience providing advanced analytics solutions strongly preferred.
• Strong record of extracurricular activity, professional accomplishment, and leadership
• Additional experience in core analytic methods such as predictive modeling, customer segmentation/clustering, network analysis, supply chain optimization, etc.
• Fluency in at least one scripting language (e.g. Python, R, SAAS , STATA)
• English: Professional level
• Japanese: Professional level – JLPT N2