104 Data Science Manager jobs in Malaysia

Apply locations Kuala Lumpur, MY-AIA Malaysia time type Full time posted on Posted 6 Days Ago job requisition id JR-54315

At AIA we’ve started an exciting movement to create a healthier, more sustainable future for everyone.

As pioneering innovators for over 100 years, we’re now transforming our organisation to be faster, simpler and more connected. Because we want to be even better equipped to develop digital solutions and experiences that help more people live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives.

To get there, we need people with tech/digital/analytics expertise and passion to help develop positive, sustainable change through digitally enhanced experiences that will impact the lives of millions of people and create a healthier future for everyone.

If you believe in developing a better tomorrow, read on.

About the Role

• To support on being the Centre of Excellence for analytics solution strategy to enable AIA’s vision of promoting Healthier, Longer, Better Lives.
• To be part of the data science team to deliver analytical work with business execution that contribute to business growth, customer experience, productivity and optimizes efficiencies.
• Create valuable best practices that can be replicated in other markets.
• To produce best practice analytics solutions to support business decisions with measurable success to drive business growth and effectiveness.
• To deliver the analytics workplan with the Insights team and business users to ensure delivery of brilliant analytics work that meets the business pace.

Job Description:

• To create and execute the data science approach to support the long term and short term business needs, which will drive tangible business outcome.
• Partnering with the Insights team to ensure delivery of analytics workplan in a timely manner with brilliant quality work.
• This role requires candidates to have a hands-on approach and be the analytics technical expert who uses large data sets and strong in applying varieties of machine learning methodology / algorithms with different data tools in developing the models, running simulations & optimization.
• Being an analytics consultant for the business stakeholders and able to coach team members to recommend and deliver the creative analytics solutions for continuous improvements and solving business questions.
• Implement and manage a high standard of procedural documentation.
• Research and experiment with creative and advanced machine learning techniques and tools.
• Drive the collection of new data and refinement of existing data sources.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree / Masters in any relevant field of study is required.
• 5 years’+ data science related experience.
• Advance level in programming-based analytics with experience in two or more of the following languages:SQL / R / Python
• Proven experience in building statistical models, segmentations, predictive and propensity models (e.g. clustering, predictive models, neural network, scenario analysis, conceptual modelling, hypothesis testing).
• Good understanding of design and machine learning algorithm principles.
• Good understanding of machine learning model management principles and practices.
• Able to work in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary and competitive environment.
• Strong analytical skills, deductive reasoning, problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Able to collaborate with other teams to drive positive outcomes.
• Strong business acumen and project management skills with ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Added bonus if candidate has experiences over Big Data platform (especially unstructured data) and deep learning.
• Strong sense of urgency and accountability to drive business outcomes.

Build a career with us as we help our customers and the community live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives.

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Company Description

NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View(TM).

• Own Data Science for a specific-market/industry on new and already established products, services and design.
• Be a Data Science business partner for country / cluster leaders, commercial, product, and technology leaders to achieve country specific goals including revenue and EBITDA and other objectives.
• Regularly meet directly with clients to understand strategic business needs, translate them into analytical strategies and offer innovative solutions driven through state of the art methodologies in Data Science.
• Support Client and Commercial teams with Data Science design and methodological questions.
• Play a leading role in the application of data and analytics strategies in support of clients’ business needs.
• Innovate and create out of the box solutions by leveraging large and diverse data sets and state of the art technologies.
• Collaborate and align with other Data Science team units to deliver and prioritize objectives.
• Enable Data Science technology solutions on the ground and ensure solutions meets client needs.
• Contribute to identifying third parties and evaluate their capabilities and data sets in order to develop new solutions.
• Design and conduct studies, tests and use advanced analytics techniques to build proof of concept and prototypes for use cases.
• Enable your team to focus on innovation and contribute to the company's objectives.
• Coach and develop junior data scientists.
• Lead the team and provide performance objectives.

• Professionals with degrees in Maths, Data Science, Statistics, or related fields involving statistical analysis of large data sets.
• 5+ years of experience in market research or relevant field
• Solid understanding of CPG/FMCG Industry and Retail market impact on client’s business within the market.
• Work experience on eCommerce, webscraping solutions, consumer sourced data solutions is preferred
• Soft skills qualifications:
  • Passionate about innovation and technology
  • Experienced connecting with stakeholders and clients proactively, finding ways to link client's needs with the business.
  • Innovative mindset, creativity, thinking out-of-the-box.
  • Good ability to effectively convey complex concepts to non-experts.
  • Strong Problem-Solving skills
  • Intellectual curiosity and persistence to find answers to questions.
  • Great collaborative and interpersonal skills to communicate at all levels.
  • Ability to set priorities.
  • Good leadership skills.
  • Business acumen, consultative skills and empathy for clients.
  • Great command of written and spoken English
  • Eager to continuously learn and adapt to changing technologies and tools.
  • Good ability to make decisions and successfully manage multiple assignments concurrently in a high pressure environment.
• Good people management skills and coaching.
• Analytical and Technical skills:
  • Solid understanding of Statistics
  • Strong aptitude for data analysis.
  • Solid critical/ logical thinking.
  • Business acumen, finance and budgeting knowledge
  • Knowledge / familiarity on data visualization tools (e.g. Spotfire, Tableau, etc) and programming languages (Python, R), preferred.

• Exciting work environment that brings people together.
• Use the latest digital technologies.
• Ongoing trainings to support your development.
• Opportunities for personal and professional growth.
• Hybrid work

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

About NIQ

NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.

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Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

NIQ is committed to reflecting the diversity of the clients, communities, and markets we measure within our own workforce. We exist to count everyone and are on a mission to systematically embed inclusion and diversity into all aspects of our workforce, measurement, and products. We enthusiastically invite candidates who share that mission to join us. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class. Our global non-discrimination policy covers these protected classes in every market in which we do business worldwide. Learn more about how we are driving diversity and inclusion in everything we do by visiting the NIQ News Center:

• Oversee the analytics team to deliver actionable insights for business improvement.
• Develop and implement analytics strategies to enhance decision-making processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify data-driven opportunities.
• Ensure data accuracy and integrity in reporting and analysis.
• Monitor and analyze key performance metrics to evaluate business outcomes.
• Lead the adoption of advanced analytics tools and methodologies.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to team members to foster professional growth.
• Prepare and present high-level reports to senior management.

A successful Senior Manager in Analytics should have:

• A degree in Analytics, Data Science, Business, or a related field.
• Proven expertise in data analytics and business intelligence tools.
• Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities.
• Experience in translating data into actionable insights and strategies.
• Strong communication skills to interact with stakeholders effectively.

• Competitive salary of MYR 180,000 to MYR 240,000 annually.
• Attractive benefits, including a 3-month performance bonus and a 15% EPF contribution.
• Supportive and collaborative work environment in Kuala Lumpur.
• Exposure to advanced analytics tools and methodologies.

This is an excellent opportunity for ambitious professionals to make a significant impact in the Data Science space. Apply now to take your career to the next level!

About our Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,300 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

About the Role

The Data Analyst III role consults with internal stakeholders to understand problems, collect and analyze data to support data driven business decisions. This role uses data tools to collate, model, interpret, develop visualizations/information products, and communicate to the business. Specifically, individuals in this role will execute on projects/initiatives with high complexity independently. The role will be on shift hour ideally from 3PM to 12AM.

Responsibilities

• Solid understanding of best practices
• Executes on projects and initiatives independently
• Provides support to the analytics team members
• Begins to lead analytics effort with high complexity
• Partners with stakeholders to understand their business needs and to make suggestions for analysis and metrics to drive insights and recommendations
• Understands who the customers are and what is happening in the market with necessary commercial awareness
• Creates visual displays of data through selected tools and analytical packages
• Effectively lead and manage small/operational analytics projects

Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Master Degree in Data Analytics/Data Science/Math or equivalent work experience
• Ability to understand complex data structure and to apply advanced blending and refinement techniques including big data and knows how to apply advanced data preparation and refinement techniques
• Significant experience leveraging SQL for data querrying
• Experience with different visualizations tools such as Tableau or PowerBI
• Experience in intermediate statistics
• Basic knowledge of big data platforms
• Ability to present complex issues in simple and sophisticated insights
• Ability to combine visualizations from multiple sources to tell an effective and engaging story
• Knowledge of different project management approaches and lifecycles

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working for you

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Medical Inpatient and Outpatient Insurance: Coverage for your healthcare needs.
• Life Assurance Policies: Providing financial security for your loved ones.
• Long Service Award: Recognition for your dedication and loyalty
• Access to Learning and Development Resources: Empowering your professional growth.

About the Business

LexisNexis Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis and Nexis services.

Join to apply for the Data Analysis & Intelligence Lead role at Prudential Services Asia .

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people’s career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed.

The role is within the Risk Analytics function in PSA, Malaysia, reporting to the Head of Group Risk Assurance & Data Analytics. Data and Analytics along with the Risk Unified Data Platform have been identified as critical areas of focus. This role will be in charge to build out a robust data architecture and infra for creating and expanding the areas of data coverage. In addition, the integration of reporting and analytics along with the Data lake for enhanced Risk Assurance is seen as an emerging opportunity area. The role will involve working closely with Head Office (HO) i.e. Technology, Analytics, Group SME for supporting the business units. The role will provide oversight and manage a team of 5-7, with 2-3 direct reports.

• Help chart and shape the tech discussion on the data (reporting, analytics and data lake), while implementing the identification of appropriate tools and technology.


• Develop and oversee advanced reporting and analytics capability for comprehensive risk management. Aiding such insights to facilitate strategic decision making


• Collaborate with the Org Enterprise Architect for implementing a robust risk and compliance data architecture for supporting the business requirements and processes.


• Working in tandem with Group Data, Tech, Risk senior leadership and own team for deliverables


• Ensuring data initiatives are in strict alignment with group data governance requirements, with integrity, compliance and data security


• On-time delivery / quality

• Possesses a bachelor’s or PG degree


• At least 12-15 years of experience in performing compliance operational activities e.g., due diligence, transaction monitoring, conflict checks.


• Experienced in financial crime monitoring systems. Experience in using Quantexa preferred but not essential


• Experienced in creating process documentation such as SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures), process maps


• Curiosity to learn new compliance skills and an effective team player


• Analytical thinking and proficiency in using Microsoft Office Suite of products


• Excellent planning, organisation and time management skills


• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate confidently with stakeholders across multiple geographies


• Proficiency in English is a must and knowledge of other Asian languages a plus


• Experience in insurance industry or financial services sector is preferred


• Experience in coaching and mentoring junior team members


• Confident in leading meetings and providing reports to senior stakeholders

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level


• Employment type: Full-time


• Job function: Information Technology

Location: Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia

Salary: MYR 6,000.00 – MYR 9,000.00 per month