Senior Marketing Analyst – Temporary, Cost Plus World Market, Oakland

 

COST PLUS WORLD MARKET brings the world's markets under one roof.  Our goal is simple: to bring our consumers one-of-a-kind merchandise from the far corners of the world.  Coffee from Sri Lanka, burgundy wine from the south of France, handcrafted furniture from Indonesia--Cost Plus World Market is where you will find them, and reasonably priced too!

 

Just like our products, our people are a mixture of diverse backgrounds, philosophies, and ideas Together we swirl with the synergy of the growing possibilities.  Sound amazing?  Well it is!

 

General Overview:

 

The Sr. Marketing Analyst serves an important support role to the Marketing team, helping to further develop Marketing ’s critical thinking process.  In addition to campaign effectiveness, promotion performance, and test analysis, the Sr. Marketing Analyst is responsible for proactively providing insights to the Marketing team based on daily tracking and analysis of operational data in a timely and actionable manner.

 

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

 

Design and manage Marketing analytical projects with a focus on promotional and media effectiveness across a broad range of media, including print, direct mail, email, TV, radio, and online.

 

Develop and execute campaign and promotion tracking, reporting, and analysis.

 

Manage marketing testing process including test design and cell sizing; definition of success metrics, test parameters, and variables; tracking and data acquisition; final results analysis, rollout recommendation and final executive summary.

 

 

Job Requirements:

 

3 – 5 years retail industry experience

 

Extensive experience in media analytics

 

Proven ability to translate analysis into insights that can further enhance marketing program effectiveness

 

Impeccable attention to detail and accuracy

 

Very strong graphing/charting/information display skills

 

Experience extracting data and preparing it for analysis 

 

MS Access, Brio and SQL / SQL Server BI Development Studio a plus

 

To apply, go to worldmarketcorp.com/careers/position/1013/ to complete an online application.

 

Cost Plus World Market values diversity in our products as well as our people.  EOE.

 

No phone calls or agencies, please.

 

 


 

Senior Statistician, NCIRE – The Veterans Health Research Institute, San Francisco

 

NCIRE – The Veterans Health Research Institute is recruiting for a Senior Research Statistician to be responsible for providing programming support for multiple clinical research projects led by University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and San Francisco VA researchers. The position requires a solid foundation in applied statistics and extensive experience in data analysis, data management, and evaluation. Full benefits package and competitive salary, commensurate with education and experience. A more detailed position description can be found at

http://jobs-ncire.icims.com/jobs/intro

Search keyword ÒstatisticianÓ and select job ID 2010-1521

 

Please contact Gregory L. Green, MPH, (Gregory.Green@va.gov or 415-221-4810 x2996) for questions.

 


Software Quality Analyst /Engineer Job at CISCO, Milpitas, California

 

Description

 

The candidate must have engineering and statistical background with a passion for collecting and analyzing SW quality and process metrics. The job requires a demonstrated specialist in metrics, their use and misuse. The candidate must be able to dig into the data from numerous sources and provide an assessment and/or hypothesis on what is happening, what should be done next and/or provide a recommendation on a solution. The candidate should have SW quality modeling experience. Knowledge in SW development processes and some of the metrics used to assess code quality is critical.  Must be comfortable going after a solution when none is clear by digging into large set of data and exploring areas not recommended by others (thinking outside the box).

 

The ideal candidate provides a demonstrated ability to work with related technologies and projects, and possess advanced analytical, communication and Presentation skills. In this role, business-level & project management understanding, judgment, and the ability to guide a teamÕs direction are essential.

 

While understanding, analyzing and modeling complex concepts is critical in his job, being able to explain them to others at the level required to communicate the salient points without the complexity is very important.

 

The ideal candidate would be gaining industry recognition as an expert and have a strong network of contacts to team with.

 

Required Skills:

 

¥ 15+ years relevant experience

¥ Degree or equivalent in Engineering and/or Statistics/Mathematics

¥ Expert with statistical, metric variance analysis, data analysis and process modeling in a large, complex, global organization.

¥ Detail-oriented, proficient in collaborating with cross-functional teams, have the ability to perform detailed data analysis and possesses strong statistical skills.

¥ Solid understanding of engineering product development cycles and trade off between techniques

¥ Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in developing methods, techniques and evaluation criterion for obtaining results

¥ Demonstrated ability to explain complex topics to non-specialists

¥ Communicates well with all levels of management

¥ Demonstrated proactive team member and leader

¥ Highly skilled in Excel use, including macro creation and Visual Basic usage

¥ Experience using Unix and writing shell scripts, Microsoft Excel pivot tables and Microsoft PowerPoint

¥ Demonstrated experience with Change Management and bug query tools (External)

¥ General knowledge of using web tools and posting data to web-sites (web-site creation and modification is a plus)

¥ Deals well with change of direction and focus

¥ Commits to deliverable and is timely in their delivery R865400

 

CONTACT:

 

Brent Rogers      

Recruiter

breroger@cisco.com

 

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