Data Scientist - Associate Analytics

Location:

Singapore

Geography:

Asia Pacific

Capabilities:

Technology & digital

Industries:

Technology industries

Who We Are

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact.

Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives that question the status quo and spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting, technology and design, and corporate and digital ventures. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, fueled by the goal of helping our clients thrive and enabling them to make the world a better place.

Practice Area Profile

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

Given the technical specialization needed for this role, it will be housed within BCG X, BCG’s cutting-edge group of computer science, statistics, AI and machine learning experts with deep industry expertise. These teams own the full analytics and product development 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. While housed within BCG X, This role will partner closely with our BCG Tech Capital commercial due diligence consulting teams to drive insights across integrated commercial and product diligences with close alignment with our Principal Investors and Private Equity Practice.

What You'll Do

POSITION PROFILE

We’re looking for a passionate and talented Analytics Associates 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 YOU:

  • Can break down a problem and structure an analytical approach to solving it
  • Have a deep understanding of modern machine learning techniques and their mathematical underpinnings, and are able to translate this into business implications for our clients 
  • Are comfortable manipulating and cleaning large data sets with a variety of tools
  • 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)

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

JOB REQUIREMENTS:


  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field and a minimum of 2-3 years direct relevant experience OR Master’s degree program in a field linked to computer science, applied mathematics, statistics, machine learning, or related data centric field is required; advanced degree is preferred
  • Strong record of extracurricular activity, professional accomplishment, and leadership
  • Fluency in at least one scripting language (e.g. Python, R)
WORK ENVIRONMENT:

  • Fast-paced, intellectually intense, service-oriented environment
  • Position is located in Singapore
  • Expect up to 60-80% of time spent traveling

Date Posted:

12-Sep-2018

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
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