Job Description

Role Description

In this role you will work with a data science team and cross-functional partners to solve business challenges and promote 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

Accountabilities

• Begin to understand business challenges and their conversion into optimization problems, focusing on defining objectives and adhering to business constraints such as budget limitations and sell-through rates
• Contribute to large-scale optimization and statistical analysis in web analytics, forecasting, supply chain management, pricing and inventory management
• Contribute to the tuning of models by adjusting objective functions, constraints, etc.

Qualifications

• BS in Operations Research, Data Science, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, or equivalent quantitative field
• 2+ years of progressively complex data science or analytics experience

Requirements

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

Preferred

• Master’s degree
• Retail experience
• Supply chain management
• Marketing models
• Logistics experience

Essential Functions

• Ability to perform the accountabilities listed in the “What You’ll Do” Section
• Ability to comply with dress code requirements
• Basic math and reading skills, legible handwriting, and basic computer operation
• Ability to maintain prompt and regular attendance and meet scheduling requirements as set by the company
• Ability to learn and comply with all company policies, procedures, standards and guidelines
• Ability to receive, understand and proactively respond to direction from leadership and other company personnel
• Ability to work as part of a team and interact effectively and appropriately with others
• Ability to maintain composure and work in a fast paced environment while accomplishing multiple tasks within established timeframes
• Ability to satisfactorily complete company training programs
• Ability to use a personal computer for tasks such as communicating, preparing reports, etc.
• Ability to plan, prioritize and monitor activities across business units
• Ability to complete or oversee the completion of assigned projects in a timely manner

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