Decision Science Lead

2 weeks ago

Minneapolis, United States Concord Full time

About us

Concord isn't your typical consulting firm; we're an execution-focused company passionate about delivering results. Our mission is to help clients enhance customer experiences, optimize operations, and revolutionize product offerings through seamless integration, optimization, and activation of technology and data.

Our services and solutions include Digital Experience (Salesforce, Headless Commerce, UI/UX), Data and Analytics (Snowflake, Databricks, Martech Analytics), and Engineering and Application Services (Application Modernization, Greenfield Apps, Portal Buildout, etc.).

We are seeking for Decision Science Lead for our growing Data & Analytics practice. In this role, you will be responsible for delivery excellence for large-scale projects in the realm of Analysis & Experimentation, Data Science & AI, and Technical Program Management as well as for growing the Decision Science body of work via presales support for the Concord Sales team, and for growing the Decision Science team through people and technical leadership. We expect our leaders to be skilled practitioners who are willing to jump in when needed.

What you will be doing

  • Provide oversight to key client work, ensuring project strategies and methodologies are sound, ensuring appropriate consultant teams are assigned and enabled to deliver excellence, and aligning both client and internal teams to a shared high- value vision.
  • Deeply involved in executing client engagements, including leading assessments and developing strategies to create roadmaps for strategic projects. Responsible for guiding a large team of consultants, program managers, decision scientists, and analysts.
  • Focus on continuous learning and keeping yourself up to date with market trends and emerging technologies.
  • Partner with Sales executives to strategize new business opportunities, provide subject matter expertise throughout the sales cycle (exploratory calls through pitch presentations), and collaborate on pitch material development. Preferential consideration will be given for candidates with subject matter expertise in one of our core business pillars: retail, finance, manufacturing, and healthcare.
  • Lead people (or partner closely with a Team Lead) both as a manager and as a manager of managers, and provide mentorship across the organization when needed in support of career pathing and skills development
  • Develop scopes of work, including resource plans, effort estimates, timelines, and budgets in support of new project opportunities.
  • Build relationships with senior client contacts and prospects.
  • Collaborate with other Decision Science leaders on go-to-market messaging for the
  • practice. Develop and maintain offerings, case studies, POVs, and blogs.
  • Drive strategic initiatives on behalf of the Data & Analytics business unit in support of elevating our work, elevating our people, and elevating our market positioning.
  • Engage with the community to represent Concord at user group events and conferences. Involve in designing and conducting workshops and implementing creative strategies to enhance the Concord brand.

What we are looking for

  • 10+ years in the Data & Analytics space, preferably with consulting experience.
  • Solid ability to translate between business needs and advanced analytic techniques. Our clients may be from Marketing, IT, or Analytics.
  • Strong understanding of the data lifecycle and building client roadmaps.
  • Strong communication skills, verbal and written, and enjoys talking shop with others. Comfortable with both technically oriented and business-oriented audiences.
  • Ability to orchestrate complex projects, spotting dependencies, risks, and opportunities, so that both people and workstreams come together seamlessly in support of broader goals
  • Ability to problem-solve in a dynamic, changing environment. Ability to think on your feet in consultative conversations.
  • Ability to prioritize and manage multiple competing responsibilities while delivering quality outcomes.
  • Track record of proactive, value-added contributions to internal and client teams.
  • An understanding of the art of the possible with various platforms to support analytics strategies, measurement plans, AI roadmaps, and experimentation programs. You should be able to speak to the following areas with heavy expertise in at least one: Personalization & Experimentation Platforms, MarTech Platforms, Emerging AI Technologies, Program & Project Management Platforms, Cloud Platforms and Business Intelligence Platforms
  • Guide an end-to-end Analytics Roadmap, coordinating with Data & Analytics practice areas as well as client stakeholders. Practice areas include: Analysis & Experimentation, Data Science & AI, Technical Program Management, Business Intelligence, Data Management, Data Governance and Analytics Development.
  • Passion for people development and building high-performing teams.
  • A love for data, and sound belief in its possibilities.

Additional information

  • Employment type: Long-term full-time role.
  • Location: Prefer candidates located in Minneapolis or Kansas City. Occasionally visiting the offices at Minneapolis or Kansas City might be required. If remote, preferred locations include: San Diego, San Francisco, Dallas, Atlanta or Denver.
  • Requirements: must be authorized to work legally in the US without sponsorship, now or in the future.

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