RaceTrac Company Overview

Job Description:

The Senior Operations Research Analyst works alongside business partners to build mathematical, statistical, and decision support models to help business partners make informed decisions. This individual is responsible for successfully managing all stages of the project lifecycle to solve business problems. The Senior Operations Research Analyst uses quantitative analysis to devise innovative solutions to help the organization make data driven decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with internal customers to identify, define, and resolve a variety of complex business problems and to support various corporate initiatives.
• Consults with the software development team in the implementation and design of applications through the use of business models to derive best solutions for the business.
• Acts as an internal consultant to various managers in the formulation of business decisions, action plans, and improved operations.
• Investigates operations processes by interviewing customers and collecting data in order to determine key decisions which need to be made and quantify a solution to optimize the process.
• Builds models and frames the business into mathematical equations designed to bring efficient solutions to problems at hand and tests models to ensure accuracy and upkeeps as necessary.
• Communicates project plans and articulates roles, project goals, and timelines, while incorporating project lifecycle models; collaborates between project sponsor and teams on process development and strategy implementation.
• Manages expectations for the project sponsors, internal customers, teams and vendors.
• Keeps current with technical and industry developments.
• Partners with the team in an effort to share knowledge and develop analytical and professional skills.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with a focus in Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Mathematics or related field required
• Masters Degree or PhD preferred
• 3+ years experience of applied operations research techniques including decision analysis, optimization, simulation and statistical and stochastic modeling required
• 2+ years of project management experience required
• Knowledge of mathematical programming software packages such as IBM ILOG CPLEX, LINDO, or Xpress required
• Knowledge of statistical software packages such as R, SAS, SPSS, or Stata required
• Familiarity or use of forecasting required
• Experience working in a retail or transportation environment a plus
• Management of people and/or leadership experience required

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