Statistician/Data Analyst - Data Insights and Decision Support

General Motors is committed to leading the change towards a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions, and Zero Congestion. They are seeking a Statistician/Data Analyst to provide business insights and decision support by analyzing data to help improve decision-making across various business areas. The role focuses on interpreting analyses and generating insights to communicate clear recommendations to business partners.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with business stakeholders to clarify questions, frame problems, and define success metrics
• Translate ambiguous business issues into structured analytical questions and practical approaches
• Use BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) and statistical methods (e.g., hypothesis framing, sampling, segmentation, variability) to explore data and identify trends, patterns, and anomalies
• Develop and interpret descriptive and diagnostic analyses (e.g., trends over time, segmentation, cohort analysis, root cause analysis)
• Connect analytical findings to business context and clearly explain “what this means” and “what to do next.”
• Synthesize analyses into clear narratives and executive-ready communications tailored to non-technical audiences
• Communicate trade-offs, limitations, and assumptions in a way that supports sound decision-making
• Facilitate discussions around insights, align actions, and track follow-up results
• Identify opportunities to improve data quality, metric definitions, and reporting consistency in partnership with IT/data engineering
• Document analytic approaches, business logic, and metric definitions for reuse and transparency
• You build predictive models and machine-learning algorithms
• You analyze large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns
• Undertake preprocessing of structured and unstructured data
• Monitor and sustain model effectiveness
• Combine models through ensemble modeling
• Present complex information using data visualization techniques
• Propose solutions and strategies to business challenges that drive business impact