Capability Lead Data Science & Analytics

Job Overview
The Data Science & Analytics Capability Lead is a senior leadership role
responsible for raising the technical depth and solution maturity across MathCo s analytics engagements.

This role exists to:

• Provide expert guidance on complex analytical problems across accounts
• Strengthening solution architecture for industry-level problems
• Engage with senior customer stakeholders as a technical thought partner
• Lead and mentor a pool of high-caliber SMEs who are embedded across client engagements
• Own and drive revenue generated from this capability through billed SME deployments
• Build reusable analytical frameworks, accelerators, and best practices
• Support learning and development of analytics talent across the organization
• Act as the technical conscience of the organization, ensuring rigor, innovation, and quality

Job Responsibilities
Technical Leadership Across Accounts

• Provide advisory support to accounts facing complex modeling and analytics challenges (e.g., MMM, MTA, Forecasting, Pricing, Retail Media
• Measurement, Causal Inference, Bayesian modeling, Neural Networks etc.)
• Review and strengthen analytical approaches, model structures, and solution logic
• Be the go-to expert for problem statements that require depth beyond standard playbooks

Senior Customer Stakeholder Engagement

• Engage directly with senior client stakeholders (Director/VP/Head of Analytics, Marketing Science, Revenue Growth, etc.) as a technical leader
• Represent MathCo s analytical depth in critical client conversations, workshops, and solution discussions
• Build credibility and trust through strong analytical articulation and problem solving
• Support accounts in translating complex analytics into business-relevant narratives for leadership audiences

Own and grow the SME Capability Revenue

• Build and manage a pool of high-caliber SMEs deployed across accounts
• Drive billed utilization of SMEs embedded in client engagements
• Own the revenue generated from this capability
• Ensure SMEs are deployed where they create maximum client and commercial impact
• Track and manage capability pipeline, utilization, and revenue performance

Solution Design, Pilot Success & Pipeline Conversion

• Partner with Growth, Presales, and Account teams to design solutions for complex RFPs and problem statements
• Lead analytical solutioning for pilot and high-stakes projects
• Convert successful pilots and technical interventions into scaled engagements
• Actively contribute to conversion of sales pipeline through technical credibility

Build Analytical Assets & Frameworks

• Develop reusable solution frameworks for key industry problems
• Create modeling templates, code accelerators, and best practice playbooks
• Standardized high-quality analytical approaches across teams

Quality & Rigor Champion

• Act as the review authority for high-impact analytical solutions
• Improve analytical storytelling, documentation, and model defensibility
• Raise the bar for what good looks like at MathCo

Learning & Development Leadership

• Partner with L&D to design capability development programs
• Conduct internal workshops, masterclasses, and technical forums
• Create learning pathways, reference materials, and case studies from real engagements
• Mentor senior data scientists and emerging technical leaders across the organization

Thought Leadership & Innovation

• Stay ahead of emerging analytical techniques
• Drive adoption of modern modeling approaches across teams
• Represent MathCo s analytical thought leadership internally and externally

Key Outcomes & Success Metrics

• Revenue
• Capability Revenue
• Pilot Conversion of new engagements
• Pipeline Conversion
• Fulfilment quality on critical engagements
• Talent development training, assessment, deployment
• Marketing content POVs, Whitepapers etc.
• Billability and Impact of SMEs

Required Experience & Skills
Experience

• Over 12+ years of experience in advanced analytics and data science
• Deep experience in solving complex business problems using modeling and analytics
• Experience working across multiple industries CPG, Retail etc.
• Experience across multiple verticals Marketing, Supply Chain, Sales, Finance etc.
• Experience mentoring senior data scientists and technical teams
• Experience of global delivery setup across US, Europe and/or Asia Pacific

Technical Expertise (strong depth across all or several of these)

• Marketing Mix Modeling, Attribution, Causal Inference
• Pricing & Elasticity modeling
• Forecasting & time-series modeling
• Bayesian methods, hierarchical models, state-space models
• Machine Learning & statistical modeling
• Python and modern data science stack
• Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Transformers etc.
• Familiarity with GenAI applications in analytics (preferred)

Leadership & Influence

• Strong mentoring and coaching capability
• Ability to influence different teams and accounts across the org
• Strong solution design and analytical storytelling skills
• Ability to simplify complex business problems and solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Provide transparency and value reports to executive leadership

Who is this role ideal for-

• The role is ideal for a senior analytics leader who:
• Loves solving hard analytical problems
• Enjoys mentoring and building tech talent
• Wants to shape analytics capability at an organizational level
• Thrives in ambiguity and complex problem spaces
• Is motivated by both technical excellence and commercial impact

Being a Mathemagician

• Understand & embody MathCo s culture and way of working.
• Demonstrate an ownership mindset to drive results, striving for excellence.
• Engage actively and contribute company growth.
• Support diversity and understand different perspectives.

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