Applications Development Manager jobs in Troy, MI

Overview and Summary

We are Automotive Business Scientists. We empower our clients to turn overwhelming industry data into discovery, action and measured success. We are unique market leaders because we find and examine possibilities through the clarity of a scientific lens. To solve the toughest client challenges, we need curious, creative and dedicated people to join our team.

We search out individuals who align with our core values and who adhere to the highest standards of integrity and ethics in everything they do. Our company is filled with the brightest minds and the biggest hearts at every level. We recognize that personal success takes on many different forms of the course of our lives – both professional and personally – so we provide a myriad of benefits and programs focused on Wellbeing, Growth, Community and Recognition. One size does not fit all, so we encourage every Urban Scientist to discover their own formula for success. If this sounds like the kind of company you would like to work with, Apply Now!

POSITION OVERVIEW: The Advanced Analytics Manager has responsibility for advanced analytical modeling of sales data in the US and international markets. This includes the daily production process of creating estimated sales at a granular vehicle record and geographic level. Essential duties also include production of scheduled and ad-hoc quality reports and validation of model performance and accuracy. The Advanced Analytics Manager will be the lead client liaison with internal clients that use the modeled daily sales estimates. Additionally, as time permits, scope shall include ad-hoc demand modeling of opportunity and sales partitioning.

This team is responsible for forecasting the future of the Auto Industry and the EV market. To learn even more about our sales forecasting insights and products, check out our webinar on EV Adoption, our Ward's FastChat on EVs in the marketplace, or EV Data feature in TechCentury magazine.

Workplace flexibility has taken on a whole new meaning here at Urban Science. The requirements of each team, role and employee can look quite different. Leaders work with their teams to determine the right balance for working in-person and remotely, considering the needs of the business, our clients, cross-functional projects, individual work, and individual preference. This role has current Hybrid Workplace flexibility local to our Detroit, MI office location. Candidate must be available and willing to work in-person one day per month, and ad hoc as needed.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Support the development of embedded advanced analytics into Urban Science solutions using SQL, Python and/or SAS.
• Responsible for building and maintaining advanced analytical models, including supervised machine learning models, predictive models, and time-series models.
• Tracks, processes, analyzes, and verifies data in order to improve accuracy and quality.
• Develops complex machine learning models and updates existing models to validate effectiveness for various clients using techniques such as regression, decision trees, random forests, artificial neural nets, survival analysis, and/or time series.
• Collects, imports, and organizes relevant data within machine learning software such as SAS and/or Python to support modeling development and maintenance.
• Collaborates with internal clients to collect requirements and specifications in order to build complex machine learning analyses that are embedded into corporate software and processes.
• Uses SQL server to extract, process and prepare data for machine learning modeling.
• Attends project meetings and participates in presenting project status updates, conclusions, and results.
• Adheres to quality control standards for Urban Science and client organizations. Design, develop, and maintain quality assurance (QA) reports of machine learning processes using tools such as SAS, MS Excel, Tableau, and/or MS Power BI.
• Coordinates with individuals or teams to complete analyses, tasks, and projects on time and with high quality.
• Responsible for creating work estimates on own individual projects.
• Effectively responds to client inquiries/requests in a timely manner to help improve client satisfaction.
• Proactively communicates with management to provide updates and report issues in a timely manner.
• Actively supports and participates in training programs to achieve targeted development objectives. May have responsibility to train / mentor other Associates in processes, procedures, and methodologies.
• Works with manager in completing own annual goal setting and performance review in a timely manner.
• Plans, organizes, develops, and delivers client requested reports and deliverables on time, adhering to client requested specifications.
• Works with manager to prioritize other duties as assigned. Maintain personal task list using tools such as Excel and/or TFS for project and task management.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

In the future, this position may have some or all the following supervisory responsibilities, including:

• Interviewing & selection
• Setting objectives
• Conducting performance appraisals
• Assigning and prioritizing work
• Approval of timesheets
• Establish and maintain quality, quantity, and timeliness of work
• Oversee training

Qualifications - Education and Experience

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Verbal Communication: Requires the ability to compose and verbally deliver information of varying levels, using appropriate grammar, tone, inflection, and non-verbal cues, while also listening to and correctly deciphering verbal communication delivered by others.
• Written Communication: Requires the ability and capacity to communicate ideas, facts and data in writing using appropriate grammar, syntax, and sentence structure.
• Analytical Thinking: Requires the ability to understand a situation by breaking it apart into smaller pieces, and/or tracing the implications of a situation in a step-by-step causal way.
• Conceptual Thinking: Requires the ability to understand a situation or problem by putting the different pieces together to see the bigger picture.
• Information Seeking: Requires the drive to gain a deeper understanding of work-related issues or events by making a concerted effort to gather information and seek out development opportunities.
• Flexibility/Adaptability: Requires the ability to adapt to and work effectively within a variety of situations, individuals, or groups, as well as understand and appreciate different and opposing perspectives.
• Results Oriented: Requires the ability to strive for optimal results by taking responsibility for timeliness, commitment to task and adherence to performance standards.
• Initiative: Requires the drive to go above and beyond in order to improve or enhance job results.
• Self-Confidence: Requires the ability to express confidence in dealing with challenging circumstances, in reaching decisions or forming opinions and in handling failures or setbacks constructively.
• Organizational Commitment: Requires the ability and willingness to align his/her own behavior with the needs, priorities, and goals of the organization.
• Ethics & Integrity: Requires the ability to behave in a trustworthy & transparent manner.
• Teamwork & Cooperation: Requires the ability to work cooperatively with others and be part of a team.
• Self-Control: Requires the ability to keep emotions under control and to restrain from negative actions or behaviors.
• Quality Control: Requires the ability to double check the accuracy of information and one’s own work.
• Customer Service Oriented: Requires the ability to follow up on a client inquiry, request, or complaint by taking routine or required action and will keep the client up to date on progress of tasks/projects/requests.
• Interpersonal Understanding: Requires the ability to understand other’s feelings and concerns, and to value individual differences in people.
• Relationship Building: Requires the ability to effectively build and maintain friendly, warm relationships or networks of contacts with clients/customers.
• Assertiveness: Requires the ability and intent to appropriately display assertive behaviors to ensure others follow given directions.
• Developing & Coaching: Requires the ability, desire, and intent to teach and foster the development and long-term capability of one or more employees by providing coaching, direction, and feedback to enhance performance.
• Strategic Influence: Requires the ability to effectively persuade, convince, and influence others in order to gain support to achieve work related goals/objectives.
• Organization & Time Management: Requires advanced capability to prioritize competing demands, manage multiple concurrent tasks and effectively manage meeting agendas.
• Project Management: Requires strong knowledge of project management principles and fundamentals including the ability to estimate work efforts, define work plans, delegate work, monitor progress and report schedule variances and scope changes.
• Math & Statistics: Requires extensive knowledge of a statistical modeling language (Python or SAS), preferably both; requires formal education/training in advanced analytical modeling techniques; requires advanced knowledge of Python, SAS Enterprise Miner, SAS Enterprise Guide, and/or JMP.
• MS Office: Requires advanced knowledge of MS Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Database: Requires advanced knowledge of database management, including diagnostics and resolution of database errors; knowledge and experience with SQL required.
• Technical/Software: Requires knowledge and understanding of programming in SAS or Python language.
• Experience with data mining package (e.g. SAS Enterprise Miner or Python scikit-learn) strongly preferred.
• Sales & Business Development: Ability to identify potential new opportunities from the client and proactively communicate those opportunities to management is required; knowledge and understanding of sales and business development processes is strongly preferred.
• Budgeting/Finance: Requires basic knowledge of budgeting philosophy and principles; requires ability to provide labor cost estimates for budgeting purposes.
• Negotiation: Knowledge and understanding of pricing, scope, cost estimates and internal/external impacts is strongly preferred

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• University degree in an appropriate technical or analytical field required (i.e., computer science, engineering, applied math, statistics, econometrics, analytics, etc.) from an accredited college or university, or equivalent foreign institution, master’s degree in a related field preferred.
• Requires 5 years’ experience building and implementing advanced analytical techniques (machine learning, artificial intelligence, forecasting, econometrics and/or statistical modeling)
• Requires experience implementing models in complex industry applications.
• Experience with machine learning or statistical modeling and techniques required.
• Experience with time series modeling preferred (ARIMA, ESM, UCM,)
• Experience with geographic analysis or GIS preferred.
• Experience with Team Foundation Server (TFS) preferred.
• Experience with SQL required.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:

• Microsoft SQL Server certification preferred.
• Python certification preferred.
• SAS Basic Programming, SAS Advanced Programming certification, or SAS Base Predictive Modeling preferred.
• Network Apprentice certification preferred

WORK ENVIRONMENT The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This description is intended to describe the type and level of work being performed by a person assigned to this position. It is NOT an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities required by a person so classified. The job may require additional hours beyond the normal 40-hour workweek.