JOE Listings (Job Openings for Economists)
August 1, 2021 - January 31, 2022
T-Mobile
Position Title/Short Description
Section: Full-Time Nonacademic
Location: Seattle, Washington, UNITED STATES
JEL Classifications:
G0 -- General
C0 -- General
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Full Text of JOE Listing:
Description:
Seeking candidates with a strong quantitative and analytical background who are looking for opportunities to solve critical business and financial problems alongside a team of innovative experts and executives who have revolutionized the mobile phone industry.
As member of Commercial Strategy, Quantitative Pricing and Business Analytics team, this person will support various aspects of strategic insights and financial decision making to maximize T-Mobile's continued success in the US wireless market. This role favors candidates with quantitative and analytical skills and a passion for research. The job involves pricing, products, promotion, and distribution placement with specific roles and assignments going deep into these areas. Through bottoms-up data exploration and quantitative financial modeling, this role will formulate a strategic lens into market levers and drive go-to-market action and influence executives and key decision makers, including COO, CMO and CFO. We are looking for candidates with an analytical mindset who is passionate about learning new and better approaches to solve business problems.
Your Responsibilities:
o Develop frameworks and high-level strategies for marketing, pricing, channel, and customer acquisition o Develop a deep understanding of industry, corporate, and customer drivers o Build financial models to evaluate opportunities and their impact on T-Mobile's overall value o Provide analytical support by framing complex problems, identifying variable relationship, distilling insights from data, and presenting findings o Collaborate across functions, including finance, product management, corporate strategy, and sales, to manage price factors that influence customer acquisition, retention, and revenue o Extract and analyze relevant data to answer key business questions, and communicate the results to help make business decisions o Develop SQL queries to compile performance data necessary for analysis of strategy effectiveness o Design various metrics to measure intended benefits, unintentional benefits or losses, and overall value to the business.
Qualifications:
o Ph.D. in Economics, Finance, or other Quantitative fields, or MBA with strong analytics background, or BA/BS with 5 years in business analysis or related field o Excellent problem-solving and teamwork skills o Strong analytical skills to understand market movements, pricing, and financial analysis o Ability to communicate analytical results to management in verbal and written form o Effective communication, presentation and Microsoft PowerPoint skills o Experience with SQL required, experience in other programming languages for analysis (Python, R, etc.) o Strong understanding of statistical concepts preferred, such as hypothesis testing and statistical modeling
Application Requirements:
- Research Papers
- Transcripts
- Teaching Evaluations
- Job Market Paper
- Cover Letter
- CV