About NeoStats

NeoStats is a Data & Analytics firm established in 2022, offering contemporary solutions and end-to-end services. The company's mission is to create lasting competitive advantage for clients by transforming them into world-class, data-driven organizations. Headquartered in the UAE with bases in India and the UK, NeoStats comprises industry veterans who enable structural transformations in analytics through expertise and an end-to-end implementation approach.

The Role: Senior Data Science Consultant

NeoStats is seeking a Senior Data Science Consultant specializing in Cards Marketing Analytics to join its team in Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. This contract role involves leveraging advanced analytics and predictive modeling to drive marketing strategies for credit and debit card portfolios. The consultant will play a pivotal role in delivering actionable insights to client teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Build predictive models to identify customer targeting opportunities, enhance spend growth, improve retention, and reduce churn.
• Develop customer segmentations for credit and debit card portfolios to support lifecycle marketing, campaign strategy, and personalization.
• Analyze campaign performance across segments, products, channels, and customer behaviors, delivering actionable insights.
• Design test-and-learn frameworks, including control groups, campaign measurement logic, and post-campaign performance reviews.
• Collaborate with client teams to ensure analytical outputs are practical, explainable, and ready for business adoption.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum 7–8 years of experience in data science, advanced analytics, or analytics consulting.
• Strong banking experience, particularly with credit card and debit card products.
• Proven expertise in marketing analytics, predictive modeling, customer segmentation, campaign analytics, and portfolio analytics.
• Proficiency in Python, SAS, and SQL, with hands-on experience working with large banking datasets, including customer profiles, card transactions, and campaign history.
• Strong understanding of statistical modeling, machine learning, model validation, and performance tracking.
• Ability to clearly communicate analytical outputs to business stakeholders and prepare senior-level presentations, reports, and documentation.
• Experience working with marketing, product, risk, and data teams in a banking environment.
• Demonstrated consulting discipline, including structured problem-solving, ownership, and timely delivery.
• Comfortable working as a contractor on a client-facing engagement in Saudi Arabia.

Preferred Skills and Attributes

• Current location in Saudi Arabia, ideally Jeddah.
• Experience in the Saudi or GCC banking market.
• Exposure to card lifecycle analytics, including acquisition, activation, usage, spend growth, retention, and attrition.
• Familiarity with campaign management platforms, CRM systems, or marketing automation tools.
• Experience with A/B testing, uplift modeling, next-best-action, offer optimization, or customer lifetime value models.
• Knowledge of cloud-based data platforms and modern analytics environments.

Work Context

This role offers the opportunity to contribute to a growing startup environment. The consultant will have ownership over initiatives and specific responsibilities. There will be opportunities for continuous coaching and mentoring through interaction with senior data scientists and AI experts globally. The work environment is dynamic and values contributions.