Director of Analytics

Director of Analytics

Schmidt Market Research is a well-established, 42 team member research company based in Pittsburgh, PA, serving primarily Fortune 500 regional and national companies. We are a multi-year winner for one of the Best Places to Work by the Pittsburgh Business Times and are looking to add a Director of Analytics to our team. This is an onsite position with potential for hybrid flexibility after the initial training period.  This position supports account managers and project managers in the development and execution of advanced analytics for external clients in various industries.

Benefits for Full-Time Team Members:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage.
• Company sponsored Group Term Life Insurance and Short and Long-Term Disability plans.
• 401k Plan participation to support you in your individual retirement goals.
• Paid Time Off to recharge.
• One Community Day per year to give you time to get involved and give back to your local community.
• Team Events: Frequent team-building events, fun team off-sites, and quarterly company meetups.
• Mentorship and Training and Development programs to get you onboard quickly, learn new professional skills, and invest in your career development.

• Design and execute analytical plans related to quantitative market research projects, including customer satisfaction, product optimization, consumer segmentation and other topics as needed.
• Provide consultation on methodology, questionnaire development, sampling plan, data weighting, and analysis techniques to internal stakeholders and clients.
• Apply a broad range of market research analytics methods, including key driver analysis, multiple regression, logistic regression, relative importance models, market segmentation methods (e.g., cluster analysis), factor analysis, TURF, MaxDiff, Conjoint analysis.
• Communicate findings and their implications to key stakeholders, including written reports and presentations.
• Maintain current on relevant analytical approaches and applications.
• Conduct training in data analytics and develop specific training presentations for other team members and/or clients.

• 10 years of experience in data analytics applied for market research.
• Master’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Marketing Analytics or relevant area
• Experience working at a market research supplier and/or corporate research user preferred.
• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills, including data visualization.
• Ability to translate complex concepts and methodologies into easily understood language
• Must have strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Must be detail-oriented with the ability to deliver high quality, accurate work.
• Ability to handle sensitive, confidential information.
• Experience with SPSS and R preferred.
• Technologically savvy including competence with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.

Schmidt Market Research is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.