Tuesday, July 17, 2007

ORACLE

Oracle Retail:

Oracle Retail's industry-leading suite of Merchandise Optimization solutions helps retailers make more profitable merchandising decisions. The suite, based on the company's 20 years of experience providing analytical solutions for critical merchandising issues, is focused around four central merchandising processes: assortment planning, allocating, pricing and promoting. Oracle Retail has delivered fast, flexible solutions with significant financial benefit to industry leading retailers such as American Eagle Outfitters, AnnTaylor, Bloomingdale's, Charming Shoppes, The Children's Place, Famous Footwear, Gap Inc., including Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy; JCPenney, New York & Company, Marshall Field's, Meijer Stores, Northern Group Retail, Sears, ShopKo Stores, and Toys R Us. For more information about Oracle Retail, please visit

http://www.oracle.com/industries/retail/index.html.


Our Culture:

Oracle Retail provides a unique opportunity for quantitative professionals to truly leverage their academic training while helping solve real world business problems. Oracle Retail also represents a highly dynamic, exciting, entrepreneurial career opportunity for high-energy, motivated individuals. We constantly set aggressive targets at Oracle Retail and then strive to exceed them. As Oracle Retail continues its growth, the firm expects its associates to play critical roles early in their careers. The key is contribution - how your efforts contribute to the success of our clients, and in turn, to the success of this talented, fast paced, high achieving team.

Scientist Position:

The Analytical Science department is comprised of world-class PhDs and analysts from a variety of disciplines such as statistics, econometrics and math. We are problem solvers on the cutting edge of technology, using advanced modeling and optimization techniques from Bayesian forecasting to non-linear curve fittings. Our solutions run on a robust data analysis platform, employing algorithms to accurately configure complex demand models of retail merchandise behavior.

We have recently setup analytical science group for oracle retail at Bangalore in India and this position is based at Bangalore.

Scientist Responsibilities:

Understand and contribute to the problem definition and hypothesis formulation of client situations
Communicate with clients as needed to verify/define data and review analytical findings
Analyze data for trends and relationships
Formulate and refine hypothesis
Deliver results to the Oracle Retail team and support formal presentation of results to clients

Scientist Qualifications:

Mathematically literate with a PhD in econometrics, operations research, mathematics, economics, statistics, or a related field.
Consistantly outstanding acdemic record from top tier institutes.
1-2 years of very recent experience in data mining / data analysis involving large amount of transactional databases in demand forecasting, revenue optimization preferably in retail, airlines, supply-chain domains is highly desirable.
Computer literate and proficient with relational database and spreadsheets
Experience with statistical software (SAS, Splus/R or Statistica) and large quantitative datasets is a plus
Knowledge of SQL and Visual Basic is desirable
Excellent written, verbal communications and analytical skills as scientists are expected to create and deliver concise, logical presentations and must be able to handle client contact
The ability to take on significant responsibility quickly is a must for this position

Additional Information

Experience: 0 - 4 years
Education: Phd
Job Category: Software, Hardware, EDP
Job Location: Bangalore
Key Skills: Data Mining, Statistics, Mathematics
Job Ref code: Scientist

After submitting the resume Search for the job ID :3930612

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