PhD Positions in Big Data Marketing Analytics, IESEG School of Management, France (2015)

The IÉSEG School of Management (Lille, France) is searching for PhD candidates in the field of big data marketing analytics. The content of the PhD is defined in the field of marketing analytics in a financial services or (r)etail context in collaboration with leading French institutions. The PhD candidates will get all the means and support to engage in innovative business relevant research projects with high potential to get published in international peer-reviewed journals. The Ph.D. students will integrate into the IÉSEG Center for Marketing Analytics team (http://icma.ieseg.fr). The aim is to obtain the degree of PhD after 3 years.

Qualifications of the PhD candidates
- A profound interest to do high-quality academic research with a clear added value for business in an international environment.
- A passion for big data and its analytical opportunities to improve customer relationships and company’s marketing strategy.
- Obtained a master in Computational Linguistics, Engineering, Data Mining, Text Mining, Statistics, Computer Science or similar.
- A degree in business, marketing or communication is a plus.
- Programming skills of at least one statistical software language such as SAS/Base, SAS/Macro, SAS/Stat, SAS/IML, R and/or SQL are essential.
- Notions of Matlab, C++, FORTRAN, Java SPARK or Python are a plus.
- Fluent in English. Ability to write high-standard text in English.
- Dynamic, pro-active, creative and serious personality.
- Fluency in French is a plus.

Further details:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk