About the Role

In this role you will work with a data science team and cross-functional partners to solve business challenges in the areas of merchandise and supply chain while promoting data-driven decision making with advanced data analysis and machine learning.

What You’ll Do

Assist in cleaning, preprocessing and analyzing large datasets to uncover trends, patterns and correlations

Conduct exploratory data analysis to cull actionable insights using analytical rigor and statistical methods

Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions

Develop and implement statistical and machine learning models to solve business problems within a cross-functional team

Collaborate with senior data scientists to fine-tune, optimize and ensure the scalability of models and algorithms

Document projects, including business objectives, data gathering and processing, leading approaches, final algorithm, detailed set of results and analytical metrics

Identify and drive continuous improvement of key business metrics within the balanced team

Remain current on the latest trends and developments in data science and technology through self-learning and training opportunities

Additional tasks may be assigned

What Skills You Have

Required

Experience developing state-of-the-art algorithms using machine learning, statistical and optimization methods to power various aspects of highly complex business models and deliver value

Experience using modern analytics tools, programming languages, and cloud platforms such as Python, R, Spark, SQL, GCP, etc.

Strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on product development

Experience proposing rapid experiments to test the effectiveness of new strategies or initiatives and iterate quickly based on results

Effective communication and collaboration skills

Bachelor’s of Science in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics or equivalent quantitative field

2+ years of progressively complex data science or analytics experience

Preferred

Master’s degree

Retail experience

Supply chain management

Experience building probabilistic classification models

Experience supporting and enhancing live production models