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The Role

Simon & Schuster is investing in Data & Decision Intelligence to embed data, tools, and automation into everyday work and enable faster, better-informed decisions. The Senior Decision Scientist,



Forecasting & Optimization will improve decisions across marketing effectiveness, demand forecasting, pricing, and supply-chain planning. This role combines causal methods, optimization, business judgment, and responsible AI to move from evidence to action quickly and deliver measurable outcomes.

What You Will Do

• Frame the decision. Turn ambiguous questions into explicit decision problems, objectives, constraints, hypotheses, success measures, and analytical plans tied to business outcomes.

• Build robust forecasts. Develop time-series, machine-learning, hierarchical, probabilistic, and cold-start approaches; quantify uncertainty across relevant levels and horizons, and backtest performance.

• Measure marketing impact. Design experiments and apply causal-inference and quasi-experimental methods to estimate incrementality, causal impact, and return from marketing, publicity, promotions, and other interventions.

• Optimize pricing and investment

📌 Senior Decision Scientist Forecasting (Noida)
🏢 Simon & Schuster
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