When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

What you’ll be doing...

The Verizon Business Group Strategy team holds a key role in helping shape this new path. As a key member of the VBG Strategy team’s Analytics Center of Excellence, you will be finding and analyzing data to answer a number of strategic questions to support our executive team in the Verizon Business Group. Your analyses will form the basis of recommendations that shape the way Verizon goes to market, services our customers, builds new products, and much more! These requests will come from all corners of the organization including Global Enterprise, Business Markets, Product, and Strategic Governance. You will support these strategy professionals across our organization in the development of their strategic recommendations when it comes to everything from data sourcing to query formulation to data stitching to analytical modelling. In order to succeed, you will become an expert in Verizon’s data architecture and ecosystems as well as developing and maintaining strong relationships with the key data stakeholders in the company.

• Collaborating with stakeholders, data engineers, developers, and business leaders on initiatives that require an analytical expertise and/or an analytical solution

• Sourcing data from key stakeholders, company systems, surveys, and external 3rd party sources

• Efficiently joining and manipulating numerous large, disparate datasets, ensuring data integrity and accuracy

• Identifying and implementing opportunities for parallel processing and query optimization to improve data retrieval times

• Contributing to the development and enhancing of data warehousing solutions

• Investigating data issues to resolve inconsistencies and ensuring high quality

• Finding answers to difficult strategic questions through deep analysis and formulating actionable recommendations

• Socializing solutions and gathering feedback to ensure accuracy and actionability of analysis and recommendations

• Visualizing data and building presentations to help stakeholders, leaders, and executives understand the analysis

• Leveraging advanced analytics/modeling to examine word frequency and sentiment, cluster natural groupings, and predicting key phenomena to help us prioritize the right things

• Asking good questions and probing deeply to learn more every day about important business processes and opportunities

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• A Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience

• Four or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through work experience and/or military experience

• Proficiency using SQL

• Understanding of advanced data engineering (e.g., building data pipelines, data cleansing, fuzzy matching, etc.)

• Understanding of advanced statistical methods (e.g., regression, classification algorithms, gradient boosted ensembles, etc.) and experience in data analytics platforms and visualization software tools

• Ability to translate complex ideas and express them in concise, simple to understand ways

• Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment, meet deadlines, and simultaneously work on multiple projects

• Comfortable working across all levels of an organization, leveraging organizational, interpersonal, presentation, and time-management skills

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Advanced degree in a technical field (in particular, Data Engineering, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Analytics) or MBA

• Two or more years of experience in a quantitative/technical role (e.g., data engineering, data science, applied analytics, mathematics, engineering, etc.), even better for a tier 1 management consulting firm

• Proficiency using Python or R

• Knowledge of data engineering and data science tools (e.g., Alteryx, Knime) and visualization tools (e.g., Tableau)

• Experience with business problem definition, insight synthesis, and executive communication

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and a minimum eight assigned office days per month that will be set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Benefits and Compensation

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, stock incentive programs, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.

The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.

The annual salary range for the location(s) listed on this job requisition based on a full-time schedule is: $105,500.00 - $184,000.00.

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely. We power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what matters most. If that inspires you, start the next chapter of your career here.