wharton business analytics career expo
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Tuesday, November 3, 2015 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Wharton Business Analytics
Career Expo
Hosted by the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative
The Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative (WCAI) is the world’s preeminent academic research center focusing on
the development and application of customer analytics methods. Through our innovative Research Opportunity
program and R&D “crowdsourcing” approach, WCAI enables academic researchers from around the world to help companies understand how to better monetize the
individual-level data they collect about customers through the development and application of new predictive models. We marry our work with companies and researchers around
the world with a range of co-curricular student programs that foster talent development and recruitment.
Launched with a generous gift from Wharton alumnus Art Bilger and his wife, Dahlia, and an executive partnership with Omnicom Group, Inc., WCAI has a broad impact on the practice of data-driven business decision-making, and
the dissemination of relevant insights to managers, students and policymakers.
About WCAI
AGENDA
12:30 - 1:00 Company Check-in
1:00 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:45 Student Panel
3:00 - 3:45 Company Table Set Up
4:00 - 6:00 Expo
Wifi InformationNetwork: AirPennNet-GuestPassword: C-ZWTZSOGD
1stdibs.com, Inc.Analytics Operations Engineering
Audience PartnersBurlington Stores
ComcastCustomInk
CustoraDeloitte Consulting LLP
Digitas HealthEPAMEquifax
General Motors R&DGroupM
The Hershey Companyin4mation insights
IPC / Subway®L’Occitane En Provence
Marketing EvolutionMasterCard AdvisorsMcKinsey & Company
The NPD GroupPerelman School of Medicine at the
University of PennsylvaniaPfizer
Revolve Clothing Republican National Committee
Rocket Internet SEURBN
VanguardUSAA
Companies in Attendance
Companies
1stdibs.com, Inc. 1stdibs is the world’s leading online marketplace for rare and desirable objects.
Industry: Internet & Ecommerce
Recruiting Information:Graduate and undergraduate positions recruitedInternships and full-time positions offered
Representative & Contact InformationJung Lee, Senior Director, Analytics [email protected] Samantha Wong, Senior [email protected]@1stdibs.com1stdibs.com
Audience PartnersAudience Partners has created a unique targeting solution using proprietary data, online data, and public records which allows advertisers to reach the right audience segments with the right message at the right time across all four screens.
Industry: Marketing and Advertising
Recruiting Information:Graduate and undergraduate positions recruitedInternships and full-time positions offered
Representative & Contact InformationScott Berman, Co-Founder and [email protected]
Analytics Operations Engineering Analytics Operations Engineering, Inc.is an elite, Boston-based consulting firm that applies advanced quantitative methods to solve challenging operations problems. We produce bottom line results for our clients by improving productivity, lowering costs, increasing capacity and enhancing service levels. Founded in 1994 to help improve industrial competitiveness by implementing operations improvement techniques developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Analytics has grown to serve a wide variety of organizations throughout the world.
Industry: Consulting
Recruiting Information:Graduate and undergraduate positions recruitedInternships and full-time positions offered
Representative & Contact InformationTom Svrcek, [email protected] Hsu, [email protected]
Companies
Burlington StoresBurlington is a national off-price retailer offering style for less at up to 65 percent off department store prices every day. Departments include ladies’ dresses, suits, sportswear, juniors, accessories, menswear, family footwear and children’s clothing. It also includes an assortment of furniture and accessories for baby at Baby Depot, home décor and gifts, along with the largest selection of coats in the nation for the entire family. Burlington has 546 stores in 45 States and Puerto Rico.
Industry: Retail
Recruiting Information:Summer Internship PositionsInternships and full-time positions offered
Representative & Contact InformationKenya Bullock, Recruiter [email protected]
Sanjay Palwww.BurlingtonStores.Jobs
CustomInkCustomInk is the leading online provider of custom apparel and accessories for groups and occasions. With over 1,400 team members or “Inkers” in 6 locations, we are passionate about the success and well-being of our team and have earned frequent recognition as a top workplace from institutions such as Fortune Magazine.With more than $275 million in revenue, tens of millions of site visitors, and double-digit growth since 2001, Cus-tomInk is an eCommerce business powered by sophisticated technology, creative design, top-notch production & logistics, and phenomenal customer service.
Industry: Retail
Recruiting Information:Graduate and undergraduate positions recruitedInternships and full-time positions offered
Representative & Contact InformationAmy Harris, Recruiter Shobana Vanheesan, Lead Analyst [email protected]://www.customink.com/about/jobs/openings
Comcast Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the world’s best entertainment and online experiences. Do you have a passion for solving complex business challenges leveraging your quantitative background? Comcast has several opportunities for Statisticians, Data Scientists, and Quants to join the rapidly growing Advanced Analytics organization within the Business Intelligence Group. Recognizing the power of technology, data, and computational science to transform the business, Comcast has formed the BI group and Advanced Analytics team consisting of world class business minds and scientists to drive transformational change through evidence-based decision making at the company.
Industry: Telecommunications
Recruiting Information:Summer Internship PositionsInternships and full-time positions offered
Representative & Contact InformationAnkur Dogra, Recruiter [email protected]://jobs.comcast.com/
Focused on hiring Analytics professionals for our Enterprise Business Intelligence team along with smaller analytical teams within Comcast. Typically full-time positions. Skill-sets span technical knowledge with SAS, R, Python, as well as Data Visualization tools and the ability to convey the “story” to individuals at all levels in an organization.
Custora Custora is a predictive marketing platform built for e-commerce teams. Our software helps retailers acquire valu-able customers and improve customer retention.
Our software analyzes data to predict how customers will behave in the future— the things they’re likely to buy, how much they’ll spend, even how often they’ll shop. These customer-specific insights enable brands to advertise and communicate in more effective and meaningful ways.
Industry: Marketing and Advertising
Recruiting Information:Graduate and undergraduate positions recruitedInternships and full-time positions offered
Representative & Contact InformationJordan Elkind, Head of Project [email protected] Gordon, [email protected]
Companies
Deloitte Consulting LLP Deloitte Analytics professionals are passionate about embedding analysis, data and reasoning into the decision making process. As part of a global network, we help organizations embed analytics as a core capability, providing insight to support the decision making process to tackle complex business problems and to address growing analytical trends.
Industry: Management Consulting
Recruiting Information:Graduate and undergraduate positions recruitedInternships and full-time positions offered
Representative & Contact InformationJeevan Duggempudi, Manager, Advanced Analytics [email protected]
Digitas Health Digitas Health LifeBrands is designed to connect today’s healthcare brands with 21st century healthcare con-sumers and professionals. Creatively-driven, media savvy, and technology-fueled, Digitas Health LifeBrands is the leading digital-at-the-core brand agency for the new era of healthcare marketing.
Digitas Health LifeBrands is part of Publicis Healthcare Communications Group (PHCG). PHCG is the largest healthcare communications network in the world. We are a division of Publicis Groupe S.A., the third largest ad-vertising and media company, giving us unparalleled global reach. PHCG manages top-tier agencies specializing in promoting innovative solutions in advertising, medical education, sales and marketing, digital, market access, and medical and scientific affairs.
Industry: Marketing and Advertising
Recruiting Information:Graduate and undergraduate positions recruitedInternships and full-time positions offered
Representative & Contact InformationLaurie Mellon, VP Talent Acquisition [email protected] Maddox, Director Strategy and [email protected] Barrett, Senior Recruiter, Publicis Healthcaredaniel.barrett@publicishealthcare.comwww.digitashealth.com
Companies
Equifax Equifax creates and delivers unparalleled customized insights that enrich both the performance of businesses and the lives of consumers through the comprehensive and differentiated data it manages, the expertise in advanced analytics it provides, the state-of-the-industry solutions it develops, and the leading-edge proprietary technology through which the solutions are delivered. In the past year, Equifax was named a Top 20 company to work for by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution; named Top 50 Service Provider by Mortgage Technology; ranked 24th in the Bloomberg/BusinessWeek top 50; 48th in the InfoWeek 500 and 19th in the FinTech 100.
Representative & Contact InformationJennifer Carter, HR Director Data & [email protected]
Industry: Financial Services
Recruiting Information:Graduate positions recruitedInternships and full-time positions offered
General Motors R&DGM R&D Operations Research is looking for dynamic individuals at all levels to join our growing team. Our mission is to identify and analyze opportunities to improve GM’s profitability. Application focus areas are enterprise-wide including product development, customer insight analytics, cost and revenue management, marketing analytics, supply chain, and quality. You will be working with an elite team with deep experience of applied science in Op-erations Research, Management Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Optimization, Business Administration, Product Development, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain.Representative & Contact InformationPeiling Wu-Smith, Manager Operations [email protected]
Industry: Automotive
Recruiting Information:Graduate positions recruitedInternships and full-time positions offered
Industry: Computer Software
Recruiting Information:Graduate and undergraduate positions recruitedInternships and full-time positions offered
EPAM EPAM is a global Software Engineering and Digital Solution company that provides end-to-end Strategy, Design, and Engineering capabilities to Fortune 500 clients with business critical challenges. With Design and Delivery centers worldwide, and strength in User Experience Design and Solution Architecture, EPAM employees are invited to solve complex business challenges, for iconic Brands, in diverse industries.
Representative & Contact InformationMatt Wakeman, Sr. Director, Analytics & StrategyJoseph Gomez, Sr. Director, Analytics & Strategy
Please contact Audrea Parrack for any additional infor-mation for this event at [email protected]
GroupMGroupM is the largest media investment company in the world – purchasing more than $104 bn in billings (REC-MA 2013). GroupM and its agencies employ over seventeen thousand people in four hundred offices spanning eighty-one countries.
GroupM Data & Analytics is a marketing science, technology and consulting group specializing in fact-based business strategies and assessment. Our global team provides expertise in data management, advanced analytics, technology deployment and marketing effectiveness with one clear remit: help clients achieve significant and last-ing improvements in marketing effectiveness and profitability. Utilizing a proprietary Data and Analytics Platform, we enable clients’ marketing organizations to monitor, evaluate and optimize media investments.
Industry: Marketing and AdvertisingRecruiting Information: Graduate and undergraduate positions recruited. Internships and full-time positions offered
Representative & Contact InformationEdward Cruz, Talent Acquisition Lead, Data & Analytics [email protected]
Brian McManus, Head of Operations for Data & Analytics [email protected]
Companies
in4mation insights in4mation insights applies the best marketing science analytic tools to the solution of business problems for top companies in the USA and overseas. Among other things, the company has developed its own software in Parallel c++ for the application of Hierarchical Bayesian models to our clients’ issues.
Industry: Marketing and Advertising
Recruiting Information:Graduate and undergraduate positions recruitedInternships and full-time positions offered
Representative & Contact InformationSandeep Conoor Mary Beth [email protected] www.in4ins.comMary Beth Broadbend, PhD in Bayesian Statistics from Duke University and Sandeep Conoor, PhD in Marketing from North Eastern University
The Hershey Company Hershey is a recognized leader inside and outside of the CPG industry, leading in areas related to snacking & confection, analytics, strategy and technology. We are looking for undergraduate and graduate students with a strong analytical and technical background for full time and internship opportunities in our insights/analytics, technology and supply chain divisions.
Industry: Consumer Package Goods
Recruiting Information:Graduate and undergraduate positions recruitedInternships and full-time positions offered
Representative & Contact InformationNick [email protected] Stapp (UPenn Alum - Design 00 & 09) collaboratively leads analytical efforts for the technology division at Hershey.
Josephine Pan, Manager, Data and Analytics [email protected]
Alexandra Levite, Analyst, Data and Analytics [email protected]
Companies
L’Occitane En Provence The L’OCCITANE Group is a global, natural and organic ingredient-based cosmetics and well-being products re-tailer. The Group has five brands in its portfolio and is committed to developing and retailing high quality products that are rich in natural and organic ingredients of traceable origins and respect for the environment.
Representative & Contact InformationBibi Razack, Corporate [email protected] Jennifer Hubina, Marketing Directorwww.loccitane.com
Industry: Retail
Recruiting Information:Graduate and undergraduate positions recruited
Marketing Evolution Marketing Evolution is a place where innovative marketing minds, advanced data science, and visionary technology meet. We offer software and strategic consulting services to help leading marketers plan, measure, and continuously improve their performance and unlock ROI.
Representative & Contact InformationSergei Peysakhov, VP, Client SuccessVincent Ean, Director, Software Operations & [email protected]://www.marketingevolution.com/
Industry: Marketing Analytics
Recruiting Information:Graduate and undergraduate positions recruitedInternships and full-time positions offered
IPC / Subway®IPC (Independent Purchasing Cooperative) is an independent Subway® franchisee-owned and operated purchasing cooperative. The firm manages grower, distributor, and restaurant relationships, negotiates prices for goods and services and develops custom applications and technology to increase competitiveness for Subway® franchisees. The IPC’s extensive portfolio includes Supply Chain Management, Payments Processing, Point of Sale, Geo-Location, Customer Experience and Human Capital Management.
Industry: Hospitality
Recruiting Information:Graduate and undergraduate positions recruitedInternships and full-time positions offered
Representative & Contact InformationSteven [email protected]
Steven Elinson is the Director of Technology for the IPC. He leads a team of Engineers who architect, build and deploy innovative solutions for the World’s largest restaurant company.
MasterCard Advisors MasterCard Advisors, the professional services arm of MasterCard, provides clients around the world with insights and solutions that drive business impact and ROI. The company uses advanced analytics and deep payments ex-pertise to translate data into actionable behavioral insights and customized services. With analyses based on more than 43 billion anonymous transactions processed in 210 countries worldwide, the company leverages aggregated information and a consultative approach to help financial institutions, merchants, media companies, governments and other organizations grow their businesses.
Representative & Contact InformationMichael Dubin, VP Media Solutions [email protected]
Kim Purcell VP, Product Management Information [email protected]://www.mastercardadvisors.com
Industry: Financial Services
Recruiting Information:Graduate and undergraduate positions recruitedInternships and full-time positions offered
Companies
McKinsey & Company McKinsey & Company is a management consulting firm that helps leading companies and institutions make distinctive, lasting, and substantial improvements in their performance. With approximately 7,000 consultants working in 99 offices in 50 countries, McKinsey advises organizations worldwide on issues of strategy, organization, operations, and technology.
Representative & Contact InformationSydney Streets, [email protected] Kirthy VasanChi LiGrace Haaf Liz OlleyPartha Tripathy
Industry: Consultant
Recruiting Information:Graduate and undergraduate positions recruitedSummer Internship Positions
The NPD GroupWe track more than a trillion dollars in consumer spending a year in the Americas, and more overseas. Our 1,200 retail partners, worldwide, provide us with POS (scanner) information for thousands of SKUs. We collect informa-tion from more than 50,000 consumers through NPD’s receipt-harvesting mobile phone app, and we scan more than 2 million active in-boxes for e-receipts through our technology partner. We conduct 12 million consumer interviews each year. With that must-have data at the core, our analytic solutions and advisory services help you better understand your markets and customers; develop, price and market an appropriate product mix; uncover opportunities, manage categories, detect competitive threats, and grow your business.
Representative & Contact InformationRobby Hart, Analytics & ModelingMarcia Giles, Recruiting ManagerDebra Clohisey, Head of Talent [email protected]
Industry: Research
Recruiting Information:Graduate and undergraduate positions recruitedInternships and full-time positions offered
Companies
Revolve Clothing REVOLVE is the virtual home for an unrivaled collection of over 500 of the world’s most-coveted established and emerging brands in women’s and men’s designer apparel, shoes and accessories. REVOLVE provides the highest quality online and mobile shopping experience, serving the style-savvy consumer with impeccable customer service. Based in Los Angeles, REVOLVE’s aesthetic is deeply rooted in the Southern California lifestyle from which it was founded, where a savvy view of fashion and fun-loving attitude are infused into the entire REVOLVE customer experience.
Representative & Contact InformationDavid Pujades, [email protected]
Industry: Fashion
Recruiting Information:Graduate and undergraduate positions recruitedInternships and full-time positions offered
Pfizer Inc. Pfizer is a global biopharmaceutical and consumer products company with the mission to improve health and well-being at every stage of life. Through the use of new types of data and analysis techniques, we aim to develop medicines more efficiently and better define the types of patients who will benefit from new and existing treat-ments. Pfizer’s Business Analytics and Insights (BAI) organization works consultatively with decision-makers across the company to guide strategies for development of and commercialization of pharmaceuticals through application of analytic expertise.
Representative & Contact InformationRanjit Kumble, Senior [email protected] I Davis [email protected] Nikhil Sharma [email protected] www.pfizer.com
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Recruiting Information:Graduate and undergraduate positions recruitedInternships and full-time positions offered
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Penn Med Radiology is investigating Performance Improvement Initiatives for its clinical practice. Specifically, it is interested to hear from its customers (patients and referring physicians) on ways to improve its operations.
Representative & Contact InformationAri Borthakur Associate, Director, Center for Magnetic Resonance & Optical [email protected]://www.uphs.upenn.edu/radiology/
Industry: Medical Practice
Recruiting Information:Graduate and undergraduate positions recruitedInternships and full-time positions offered
Companies
Republican National Committee The Republican National Committee’s job is to help the eventual GOP nominee scale into a general election-sized team. In the meantime we are building assets and infrastructure to prepare for that. We need analytics help to make sure we’re delivering what our customers - supporters, voters, volunteers, donors, etc - really want. We also want to help establish a pipeline of talent that’s interested in politics.
Representative & Contact InformationGerrit Lansing, Chief Digital [email protected]
Recruiting Information:Graduate and undergraduate positions recruitedInternships and full-time positions offered
Rocket Internet SE Rocket’s mission is to become the world’s largest Internet platform outside of the United States and China. Rocket identifies and builds proven Internet business models and transfers them to new, underserved or untapped mar-kets where it seeks to scale them into market leading online companies. Rocket started in 2007 and now has more than 30,000 employees across its network of companies, which are active in more than 110 countries across six continents.
Representative & Contact InformationArthur Gerig, Global [email protected]
Industry: Venture CapitalRecruiting Information:Graduate and undergraduate positions recruitedInternships and full-time positions offered
URBN Urban Outfitters, Inc. is an innovative specialty retail company which offers a variety of lifestyle merchandise to highly defined customer niches. We have an established ability to understand our customers and connect with them on an emotional level. The reason for this success is that our brands — Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, Terrain and BHLDN — are both compelling and distinct. Each brand chooses a particular customer segment, and once chosen, sets out to create sustainable points of distinction with that segment. In the retail brands we design innovative stores that resonate with the target audience; offer an eclectic mix of merchandise in which hard and soft goods are cross merchandised; and construct unique product displays that incorporate found objects into creative selling vignettes. The emphasis is on creativity. Our goal is to offer a product assortment and an environment so compelling and distinctive that the customer feels an empathetic connection to the brand and is persuaded to buy.
Industry: RetailRecruiting Information:URBN doesn’t have any set internships decided on, but are open to hiring MBA or undergrad interns if we meet the right person. URBN is also interested in recruiting students after they graduate.
Christine Williams, Director of Customer Analytics, [email protected] www.anthropologie.com
Anoop Cherian, Director of Database Marketing, [email protected] www.anthropologie.com
Representative & Contact InformationDrew Stattine, Analytics Manager, Free [email protected]
Andrew Rauch, Senior Manager of Contact Strategy, Urban [email protected]
Companies
Vanguard Vanguard, one of the world’s largest global investment management companies, offers rewarding long-term ca-reers in finance, technology, client service, and related financial services fields. The company is widely recognized for providing a comprehensive total rewards package of compensation, benefits, and work-life programs. More than 14,000 employees support operations in the U.S. (Valley Forge, Pennsylvania; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Scottsdale, Arizona), Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Industry: Financial Services
Recruiting Information:Graduate and undergraduate positions recruitedInternships and full-time positions offered
Representative & Contact InformationKory Collins, Partnerships [email protected]/careers
USAA
USAA is a military diversified financial services company that strives to provide exceptional products and service to the military community.
Industry: Insurance
Recruiting Information:Graduate and undergraduate positions recruitedInternships and full-time positions offered
Representative & Contact InformationGrant [email protected] [email protected] Reichert [email protected]
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