ANNOUNCE Job Opening at Dell

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Posted by System Dynamics Society <sds@csc.albany.edu>

ORGANIZATION: Dell, Inc.

BACKGROUND: Dell is a Fortune 500 company and industry leader with nearly $60 billion in revenue serving customers around the world.

CONTACT: Christopher Carter. Please send your resume as a Word Document via e-mail to Christopher_Carter@Dell.com. After reviewing all resumes we will only contact the people we believe to be most qualified.

POSITION TITLE: Director Global Marketing Science

REPORTS TO: VP, Marketing Communications

JOB LOCATION: Austin, Texas

POSITION DESCRIPTION:
- Rebuild the Marketing Function by providing the measurements and analytics to drive strategy
- Leverage scale through identifying revenue streams, cost reduction, and budgeting opportunities
- Influence over $2 billion in marketing assets.
- Lead a large team of outside consultants and vendors.
- Manage Inputs that include Finance, Research, Product Development, Business Teams, Country and Segment executives.
- Develop a fully integrated Marketing Communications tool easily used by business line operators.
- Provide governance to internal and external teams on the vision for marketing analytics at Dell.
- Drive Excellence and oversight to the methodology used in analytic approaches.
- Build a cross functional team of business and IT resources with expertise in analytic skills, data skills and linking data to business actions.

REQUIRED SKILLS:
- Strong analytic background
- Dynamic Systems Modeling
- Predictive Modeling
- Predictive Marketing
- Natural or physical sciences
- Experience with noisy data
- Ability to make the complex simple (make science understandable)
- Clear communicator both written and orally
- Able to lead with influence
- 10 years experience in consumer behavior or consumer psychology
- 10 years with specific BtoB, BtoC, marketing experience
- Graduate degree in operations research, MIS, economics, or have educational experience with modeling, system dynamics or quantitative analysis is required. PhD is preferred.

Posted by System Dynamics Society <sds@csc.albany.edu> posting date Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:40:12 -0400 (EDT) _______________________________________________