Technical Analyst

Do you want to keep analytical excellence at the heart of how global brands make decisions? Are you energized by solving complex methodological challenges, building advanced designs, and ensuring the rigor behind impactful consultative recommendations? As SKIM continues its journey toward more consultative, insights led partnerships with clients, as Technical Analyst (Choice Modeling), you will ensure our recommendations remain rigorous, scalable, and trusted. 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 innovation, brand communications, and pricing & revenue management. Our approach combines methodological rigor, marketing expertise, and deep client understanding to build lasting strategic partnerships. With 11 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., This is a unique opportunity for a bright and curious Technical Analyst (Choice Modeling) to play a critical role in strengthening SKIM’s analytical backbone and elevating the quality of our conjoint and advanced modeling work. You will join our Rotterdam team as a technical specialist, owning and executing the technically complex parts of conjoint and advanced analytics projects, empowering our consultants to deliver actionable insights. In this role you will collaborate closely with our consultants and our Methodology & Analytics experts. 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. Specifically, you will be working on:

• Methodological consulting, design and implementation. Thinking along with project teams on the appropriate research methodology to answer the business questions of the client. Translating finalized business inputs into robust conjoint designs and ensuring the technical setup aligns with business decisions.
• Advanced conjoint exercise programming. Programming customized conjoint exercises in our dedicated software (Sawtooth software) and use HTML/JavaScript/CSS/Perl to improve survey layouts for higher respondent engagement, while collaborating closely with Scripting Specialists to ensure accurate and efficient survey implementation.
• Coding and statistical design creation. Creating the statistical design for the conjoint exercises using our in-house developed tools; defining attribute levels, prohibitions, constraints, and design structures to ensure statistical rigor and model stability.
• Data preparation & modeling . Cleaning and recoding raw choice data, running estimation models, validating utilities, and conducting model diagnostics to ensure precision, robustness, and readiness for simulation.
• Dashboard building & scenario execution. Migrating conjoint utility outputs into market simulation tools, setting up model logic to reflect true decision contexts, validating simulator functionality, and running initial scenarios or optimizations to prepare the data analysis and insights extraction for the client consulting teams.

The ideal candidate is a dedicated, curious and enthusiastic team player. Typically, we are looking for someone with the following profile:

• Relevant degree in Business Economics, Econometrics, Mathematics, Statistics or a related field
• 0-2 years of professional experience ranging from relevant internships to work experience. Note: having no professional experience is not a disadvantage
• Passionate about working with numbers and predictive models, and you are comfortable working with big data files (or eager to learn)
• A critical thinker, challenging outcomes and asking the right questions
• Collaborative attitude. 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 written and oral communication skills in English

• You are authorized to work in the Netherlands (resident, citizen, valid visa or other). Our offer A salary and benefits package designed to support you in your role and reward your contributions, including:

• A fixed annual salary
• Structured salary growth tied to your annual performance review. Each year, you’ll work with your Grow Perform Succeed (GPS) Manager to create a personalized development plan. At year-end, your GPS Manager evaluates your performance based on 360° feedback, and your performance score determines your salary increase - aligning growth with achievement.
• Performance based profit-sharing
• Company pension scheme
• A hybrid working environment
• A flat organizational structure where everyone is treated as equal regardless of any differences
• A place where taking initiative isn’t just encouraged. It’s valued
• Harmony between work and personal life
• A combination of learning through onboarding, active training programs, and on-the-job and guidance from experienced SKIMmers
• A team that enjoys the ride - regular outings, events, and a culture that celebrates wins together 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. At SKIM we are always looking for smart, ambitious and genuine people to join us and follow their dreams.