Do you want to shape the future of decision-making for global industry leaders? Are you passionate about leveraging advanced modeling techniques to solve complex business challenges? Join SKIM Rotterdam as a Decision Modeling Analyst! 

For over 45 years, we’ve been trusted partners to the world’s largest CPG, technology, and healthcare companies. We specialize in understanding decision-making in Revenue Management, Innovation, and Brand Communications. Our approach combines methodological rigor, marketing expertise, and deep client understanding to build lasting strategic partnerships.
 
With 12 offices across the US, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, we collaborate closely with clients to navigate the right strategies. Ranked #3 in GRIT’s most innovative research agencies, we continuously enhance our solutions. Above all, we foster a culture where smart, genuine people support each other, pursue their dreams, and thrive together.

Job description  
When you are at the beginning of your career, as a graduate or with a few years’ experience, your focus is on learning and developing yourself into a robust researcher with a focus on the technical side of (conjoint) research. As a Decision Modelling Analyst, you will join our in-house Data Science team, which consists of dedicated decision behavior modelers. Their main clients are leading management consulting firms like McKinsey and BCG, with whom they partner to help build advanced conjoint-based forecasting models.  

Your main objective is to achieve excellence in project management and become an expert in conjoint methodology applied among different research areas such as Pricing, Portfolio Management, Innovation and Brand Communications. In this position, you will build up your methodological knowledge and technical skills quickly due to the variety and complexity of the modeling approaches. 

We do believe it’s important to be exposed to all the different corners of Research before you decide which career paths excite you most. We expect you to learn, gain experience, maximize exposure to different challenges, build your technical skills, become an expert in conjoint methodology, develop independence and project management excellence.  When you start at SKIM, you will be involved in learning all about the different steps of the projects, including: 

• Methodological consulting: thinking along with clients on the appropriate research methodology to answer their business questions 
• Survey scripting: programming surveys in our dedicated software (Sawtooth software) and use HTML/JavaScript/CSS/Perl to improve survey layouts for higher respondent engagement 
• Coding and programming: creating the statistical design for the conjoint exercises using our in-house developed tools 
• Data preparation and modelling: cleaning and recoding data, and running predictive modelling estimations 
• Dashboarding: migrating conjoint utility outputs into market simulation tools and performing output quality checks 

We do not expect you to already have all these skills. At SKIM you will get a lot of in-house training through our SKIM University as well as on-the-job learning. Besides learning all the steps of a project and becoming a robust project manager, you will also get the opportunity to take part in the improvement of current, and development of new methodologies, in addition to building new tools to optimize the current processes at SKIM. Last, but not least, in the Data Science team you also take up the role of an internal consultant, helping other teams within SKIM with setting up complex conjoint studies. 

Qualifications
The ideal candidate has a background in econometrics or business economics. The key skills for a SKIMmer working in the Data Science team are: 

• Number-savvy: you are passionate about working with numbers and predictive models, and you are comfortable working with big datafiles (or eager to learn) 
• Demonstrated AI literacy: including the ability to use AI tools effectively while critically assessing outputs, validating results, and understanding the underlying assumptions, limitations, and potential risks 
• Critical Thinking: you look beyond the process to the objective, challenge the outcome, consider the alternatives, ask the right questions, and think rationally  
• Collaboration: this is an essential part of SKIM’s and each SKIMmer’s success, so you need to be able to work well in a team, support others, share knowledge, encourage each other’s success, and contribute to our SKIM community 
• Excellent communication skills: how else can we partner with clients and work as a team? 
• You are authorized to work in the Netherlands (resident, citizen, valid visa or other) 

Other important competencies are being determined and focused, being able to quickly understand the critical success factors, having an eye for detail, being able to prioritize, and working with tight deadlines. We don’t ask you to be a perfectionist, as we expect you to make mistakes in order to learn and grow. However, we do ask that you have an ambition to strive towards excellence. Technical skills such as R, Python and/or Microsoft Excel are a strong pre. Besides that, we expect you to have a true interest in Modeling, Market Research, Consumer Behavior, and/or Data Analytics. 

Our offer
We offer a competitive salary & benefits package that includes the following:   

• Annual performance-based and profit-sharing bonus   
• A hybrid working environment   
• High value placed on taking initiative and ownership   
• Passionate, intelligent, and supporting colleagues   
• Open, communicative, and international work environment   
• Flat organizational structure  
• Focus on true work / life balance   
• Regular team outings and events   
• SKIM University with a broad selection of trainings   
• Company pension scheme  

 
At SKIM, we value diversity, equity and inclusion. With increased diversity comes greater variety of perspectives, ideas and creativity, and we foster an environment where everyone feels welcome and comfortable to be their authentic selves.  Therefore, we welcome diversity in applicants and base our hiring decisions regardless of age, race, color, religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, genetic characteristics, marital or military status. 

Additional information 
Thank you for taking the time to read the description of this role, and we look forward to reading your submission if this role sounds very exciting to you! We read each application carefully and will get back to you as soon as we can.  

Please note that only completed applications, consisting of a resume and cover letter, written in English, will be considered.