Data Analyst

This is a 12 month contract with foresight strategy. 100% remote. All visa - No H1B. Client Job Description Foresight Strategy is a data agency based in Minneapolis, MN with global clients/reach. They focus on brand growth for their clients (such as Coca-Cola, Johnson&Johnson, Kellogg's, Kimberly Clark, and eBay) through deep data analytics and growth modeling. They blend strategy, dynamic modeling, statistical analysis, and decision science. This is an opportunity for a passionate Data Analyst with strategic project experience to plug into their organization and team, start delivering findings and insights right away, and interface with global brands Foresight has a start-up feel and size; they've been operating since 2011 and their client engagements have grown tremendously in the last two years. They need more hands and help. Responsibilities: run diagnostics and synthesize results and findings short term projects/engagements (2-4 months usually), opportunity for lots of variety with data , tools, technologies establish trust with clients, polished communication , executive presence for proposals and workshops project initiation through delivery: assess and analyze data, think critically and creatively answer questions, solve problems, and make recommendations to the internal team as well as external clients Must Have Qualifications: 3-4 years experience strong data education and practical experience advanced/comfortable with large data sets , excited to dig into robust data and navigate/transform intermediate-advanced in Excel : (e.g. Pivot Tables, Charts, VLOOKUP, OFFSET, INDEX, MATCH, SUMIF, etc.) a blend of execution and "head-down" analytics with creative problem solving /solutioning/brainstorming create business case models and projections - turn this into a client facing tool/deliverable culture fit would be: confident but humble, curious and creative, passionate about how data drives business decisions , sense of urgency, can carry a diverse workload and naturally prioritize efforts do not focus on data visualization, this is rarely their work Preferred Qualifications: experience with R experience delivering tools and insights to a variety of stakeholders, even executive-level has delivered on strategic projects or worked with a strategic firm previously (ex: EY, PwC, BCG, McKinsey) naturally organized and detail-oriented even-keel personality, even when deadlines are pressing or leadership is worked up