Internship/Market Forecasts - Econometrician (m/f)

Description de l'offre

Internship/Market Forecasts - Econometrician (m/f)

Airbus Helicopters Marignane

Airbus Helicopters, formerly Eurocopter, is a division of Airbus Group, a global pioneer in aerospace and defence related services. Employing approximately 22,000 people worldwide, Airbus Helicopters is the world's No. 1 helicopter manufacturer with a turnover of 6.5 billion euros. The company's fleet in service includes some 12,000 helicopters operated by more than 3,000 customers in approximately 150 countries. Airbus Helicopters' international presence is ensured by its subsidiaries and participations in 21 countries, and its worldwide network of maintenance centres, training centres, distributors and certified agents.
Airbus Group is a world leader in aerospace and the associated sectors. In 2014, the Group – comprising Airbus, Airbus Defence and Space and Airbus Helicopters – generated revenues of €60.7 billion and employed a workforce of around 138,600.

Airbus is a global leader in aeronautics, space and related services. In 2015, it generated revenues of €64.5 billion and employed a workforce of around 136,600. Airbus offers the most comprehensive range of passenger airliners from 100 to more than 600 seats. Airbus is also a European leader providing tanker, combat, transport and mission aircraft, as well as Europe's number one space enterprise and the world's second largest space business. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civiland military rotorcraft solutions worldwide.

Our people work with passion and determination to make the world a more connected, safer and smarter place. Taking pride in our work, we draw on each other's expertise and experience to achieve excellence. Our diversity and teamwork culture propel us to accomplish the extraordinary - on the ground, in the sky and in space.

Description of the job

Airbus Helicopters (Marignane) is looking for an intern (m/f) for a 6-month internship.

This internship will start on 2nd January 2017 (subject to some flexibility).

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Tasks & accountabilities

Your main mission will involve identifying or refining the main short and long-term drivers of helicopter market growth, in order to develop or to improve an existing forecasting model.

You will produce short and long-term market forecasts for civil and/or military helicopters, based on the study and analysis of the following sectors:

·  Macroeconomic trends (GDP, demographic trends, etc.);
·  Geopolitics/Defence (conflicts, emerging countries, defence budgets, etc.);
·  Potential new markets;
·  Past, current and future market structure and trends;
·  Product policy of Airbus Helicopters and its competitors.

You will identify correlations between helicopter markets and macroeconomic variables, using information processing techniques.
You will model the civil and/or military helicopter markets through econometric methods and statistical modelling.

The study will be performed on one or more market segments using different databases for historical market data. Various variables, mainly macroeconomic will need to be used to perform this study; however a search of additional variables that can be correlated to the helicopter market will need to be conducted.

Additionally, this study must be validated by producing an analysis of past trends.

Several different helicopter databases (internal and external to the company) will be used for this internship. They include different levels of detail, in particular in terms of use of aircraft (market segments).
The fleet of helicopters included in these databases represents almost 60,000 helicopters on a global scale. This data is mostly annual. The first helicopters deliveries go back to the year 1940 which represents more than 30 years of history for the market segments.

For the second hand market, the data is monthly. The fleet and delivery variables can be expressed by number of helicopters and by value, but also by passengers (transportation capacity).

Required skills

You are in the final year of an engineering school, university or equivalent (5-year degree), specialising in Mathematics/Economy/Econometrics.

You ideally have initial experience in this field.

You have knowledge/skills in several of the following fields:

·  Econometrics (mixed effect model, survival model, time series model, scoring, etc.),
·  Statistics (imputation of missing value, multi-variable data analysis, etc.),
·  Machine Learning (non linear estimation, MCMC, etc.),
·  Other (scraping, shiny app, data visualisation, etc.),
·  Programming language (R, Python, etc.)
·  Knowledge of database management,
·  Word, PowerPoint and Excel,
·  Knowledge of the aerospace sector would be a plus.

You are a good team player and you have excellent interpersonal skills.

English: advanced level,
French: fluent level.