Data Analyst/Scientist
For over 25 years, The Hartman Group has been a recognized thought leader in the food industry.
We’re focused on culture as the pathway for food and beverage companies to understand the broader contexts
that create consumer demand in the marketplace. In a highly collaborative work environment, we leverage
expertise, frameworks, insights and data built through years of ethnography, national surveys and sales-data
analysis to uncover growth opportunities for our clients.
We’re seeking an experienced data science-skilled analyst with strong analytic and strategic
thinking skills, problem-solving creativity and a demonstrated curiosity about culture and industry.
You’ll be the data science lead on a small team of social scientists and marketing consultants, tasked with
supporting and improving our existing analytic processes, contributing statistical analysis and interpretation,
and developing data-driven approaches to address evolving business needs. You’ll help us meet and exceed the
needs of our clients today and help us anticipate evolving opportunities to do it better.
Objectives of this Role
- Collaborate with colleagues to develop an understanding of business needs
- Conduct appropriate statistical procedures to identify and/or validate trends in consumer
behaviors and attitudes, and patterns in business performance
- Interpret and communicate findings using best practices for data visualization
- Maintain and enhance proprietary algorithms and tools for industry analysis
- Enable more efficient business processes by programming routine tasks
- Build and extract value from large, proprietary survey-based data sets through creative data manipulation,
data mining and machine learning
- Keep larger organization informed of industry-relevant innovations in data tools and approaches
Skills and Qualifications
- Degree or certificate in Data Science or related discipline (e.g., Statistics or Econometrics)
- 2+ years experience in data science or statistical analysis in a workplace setting
- High proficiency with R (tidyverse) and at least one programming language (Python, Java, C++)
- Intermediate proficiency with SQL and with a data visualization platform (Tableau, PowerBI or the equivalent)
- Creativity, critical thinking, ability to interpret “beyond the data,” with aptitude for qualitative hypothesis
generation, data modeling, proficiency with tools for hypothesis testing and demonstrated judgment for distinguishing
among conclusions with different levels of confidence
- Strong writing and verbal communication skills
- Comfort working both independently and within the context of a collaborative, research-oriented team, managing
several ongoing concurrent projects
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with survey-based social science research or marketing strategy
- Proficiency with STATA, Visual Basic/Excel macro programming
- Demonstrated interest in food, health or sustainability
Key Employee Benefits at The Hartman Group
- 90% of the cost for medical insurance paid for by The Hartman Group and 100% of the cost for dental insurance for
employees.
- 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan after 6 months of full-time employment which The Hartman Group matches up to 50% of the
employee’s first 5% of salary deferral per pay period. Employees are 100% vested after 3 years of vesting service.
- Employees receive 20 hours of Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO) available each year. Additionally, there is the
opportunity to participate in company-wide volunteer events throughout the year.
- Every employee receives an annual Professional External Learning credit.
