Senior Data Science Consultant _Cards Marketing Analytics
Description
Role & responsibilities :
1. Predictive Modelling & Advanced Analytics
- Develop predictive models to identify customer targeting opportunities, increase card spending, improve retention and reduce customer churn.
- Build and optimize propensity, response, churn, cross-sell and upsell models.
- Apply statistical modelling and machine learning techniques to identify customer behaviour and spending patterns.
- Perform model validation, performance monitoring and optimization.
- Translate model outputs into actionable business recommendations.
2. Customer Segmentation & Portfolio Analytics
- Develop customer segmentation strategies for credit and debit card portfolios.
- Identify high-value, low-engagement and high-potential customer segments.
- Analyze customer spending behaviour, transaction patterns and product usage.
- Identify opportunities to improve card activation, utilization, spend growth and customer profitability.
- Support customer lifecycle management strategies across acquisition, activation, engagement, retention and attrition.
3. Cards Marketing & Campaign Analytics
- Analyze marketing campaign performance across customer segments, products, channels and transaction behaviour.
- Develop data-driven customer targeting strategies for card marketing campaigns.
- Measure campaign effectiveness, conversion rates, incremental spend and return on investment (ROI).
- Design test-and-learn frameworks, including A/B testing, control groups and Champion/Challenger strategies.
- Provide recommendations to improve campaign effectiveness, customer response and overall portfolio performance.
- Support personalized marketing, offer optimization and next-best-action strategies.
4. Business Intelligence & Data Analysis
- Analyze large banking datasets, including customer profiles, card transactions, spending behaviour and campaign history.
- Develop analytical dashboards, reports and management presentations.
- Identify business trends, portfolio opportunities and potential revenue growth areas.
- Monitor key performance indicators and provide insights to senior management.
- Present complex analytical findings in a clear and commercially meaningful manner.
5. Business Strategy & Stakeholder Management
- Work closely with marketing, product, cards business, risk and technology teams to understand business requirements.
- Translate business objectives into analytical use cases and data science solutions.
- Provide analytical recommendations to improve customer engagement, card spending and portfolio profitability.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to implement data-driven marketing and portfolio strategies.
- Ensure analytical solutions are practical, explainable and aligned with business objectives.
Business Knowledge Mandatory
- Strong understanding of the credit and debit card business, including card acquisition, issuance, activation, usage, spend growth, retention and attrition.
- Knowledge of card revenue drivers, including interchange income, interest income, annual fees, customer profitability and transaction economics.
- Understanding of customer lifecycle management, portfolio growth strategies, cross-selling, upselling and customer engagement.
- Knowledge of card marketing campaigns, customer targeting, offer optimization, promotional strategies and campaign ROI.
- Ability to identify business opportunities through customer behaviour, spending patterns, transaction trends and portfolio performance.
- Understanding of card portfolio KPIs, including active cards, spend per card, transaction volume, activation rates, utilization, attrition and customer lifetime value.
- Knowledge of banking products, customer segmentation, credit risk, portfolio profitability and risk-adjusted growth strategies.
- Ability to translate business requirements into analytical solutions and actionable recommendations that drive revenue growth and improve customer engagement.
Preferred candidate profile
- Minimum 78 years of experience in Data Science, Advanced Analytics or Analytics Consulting.
- Strong banking experience, particularly in credit card and debit card analytics.
- Hands-on expertise in Python, SAS and SQL.
- Strong experience in predictive modelling, statistical analysis and machine learning techniques.
- Experience working with large banking datasets, including customer profiles, card transactions and campaign history.
- Proficiency in customer segmentation, campaign analytics and portfolio analytics.
- Understanding of model validation, performance tracking and optimization.
- Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI or similar platforms.
- Ability to develop analytical reports, dashboards and senior-level presentations.
- Experience working with marketing, product, risk and data teams in a banking environment.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and stakeholder-management capabilities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in card lifecycle analytics, including acquisition, activation, usage, spend growth, retention and attrition.
- Familiarity with campaign management platforms, CRM systems or marketing automation tools.
- Experience with A/B testing, uplift modelling, next-best-action, offer optimization or customer lifetime value models.
- Knowledge of cloud-based data platforms and modern analytics environments.
- Experience working directly with banking clients in a consulting or client-facing environment.
Core Competencies
- Strong business acumen and understanding of card banking products.
- Excellent analytical and structured problem-solving skills.
- Ability to connect data insights with business objectives.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to engage with senior business stakeholders.
- Ownership, accountability and timely delivery.
- Ability to work independently in a client-facing consulting environment.
Education & Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Finance, Economics or a related discipline.
- Master's degree in Data Science, Business Analytics, Statistics or a related field is preferred.
- Relevant certifications in Data Science, Machine Learning, Python, SAS or Analytics are advantageous.
- Budget – USD 8000
- Notice Period – Max 30 -45 days
- Start Date – January 2027
- Location – Qatar
- On contract for 12 months – onsite, no wfh or hybrid option