Merkle is a leading data-driven, technology-enabled, global performance marketing agency that specializes in the delivery of unique, personalized customer experiences across platforms and devices. For more than 30 years, Fortune 1000 companies and leading nonprofit organizations have partnered with Merkle to maximize the value of their customer portfolios. Our heritage in data, technology, and analytics forms the foundation for its unmatched skills in understanding consumer insights that drive people-based marketing strategies. Our combined strengths in performance media, customer experience, customer relationship management, loyalty, and enterprise marketing technology drive improved marketing results and competitive advantage. With 9,600+ employees, Merkle is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, with 50+ additional offices throughout the US, EMEA, and APAC. In 2016, the agency joined the Dentsu Aegis Network. For more information, contact Merkle at 1-877-9-Merkle or visit www.merkleinc.com.

Your main responsibility will be to work directly with our clients as an Sr. Analyst, Data Scientist to provide consulting by analyzing business problems, inferring results and generating meaningful insights within an analytical framework. You will participate in build of production quality personalization models working with clients Data Science leads. You will build upstream automation needed for models to run daily / weekly.

You will work with multiple teams to understand marketing objectives, analyze customer behavior, and build predictive models that promote engagement, conversion, and customer loyalty. You will report to the Manager of Customer Analytics. This is a remote role in the Eastern time zone.

Responsibilities:

• You will write code, build statistical and ML models, deploy into production environment and compile presentations as per client requirements.
• You will work with onsite and offshore team to structure solutions based on shared analytics tools and techniques.
• You will build relationships with clients to better understand their business, and to enable them to better understand how to use analytics to guide their profitability.
• You will handle projects to complete deliverables end-to-end for client partners.
• You will research market trends in our client's industry and AI/ML technology and propose/ develop solutions to increase incremental revenue.
• You will present the results of the work to client partners to deliver recommendations against outcomes.

Required:

• 3+ years in Retail / Customer / Digital analytics experience
• Experience developing code: SQL, Python, Databricks
• Experience applying ML solutions and statistical techniques, including classification, regression, NLP, LLM, and neural nets, to solve business problems.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Economics, Analytics, or another relevant field

The anticipated salary range for this position is $78,000 - $126,500. Actual salary will be based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, knowledge, skills and other factors permitted by law. A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and/or other benefits also are available. For more information regarding dentsu benefits, please visit dentsubenefitsplus.com

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