Senior Decision Scientist

Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence and have these specific risk responsibilities:
- Understands business needs and in depth understanding of Tesco processes
- Builds on Tesco processes and knowledge by applying CI tools and techniques
- Responsible for completing tasks and transactions within agreed KPIs
- Solves problems by analyzing solution alternatives
- Engaging with business & functional partners to understand business priorities, ask relevant questions and scope same into an analytical solution document calling out how application of data science will improve decision making
- In depth understanding of techniques to prepare the analytical data set leveraging multiple complex data set sources
- Building Statistical models and ML algorithms with practitioner level competency
- Writing structured, modularized & codified algorithms using Continuous Improvement principles (development of knowledge assets and reusable modules on GitHub, Wiki, etc.) with expert competency
- Building easy visualization layer on top of the algorithms in order to empower end-users to take decisions
- this could be on a visualization platform (Tableau / Python) or through a recommendation set through PPTs
- Working with the line manager to ensure application/ consumption and proactively identifying opportunities to help the larger Tesco business with areas of improvement
- Keeping up-to-date with the latest in data science and retail analytics and disseminating the knowledge among colleagues

2 - 4 years of experience in data science application in Retail or CPG Preferred
Functional experience: Marketing, Supply Chain, Customer, Merchandising, Operations, Finance or Digital
Applied Math: Applied Statistics, Design of Experiments, Regression, Decision Trees, Forecasting, Optimization algorithms, Clustering, NLP - Tech: SQL, Hadoop, Spark, Python, Tableau, MS Excel, PowerPoint, GitHub
Business: Basic understanding of Retail Domain
Soft Skills: Analytical Thinking & Problem solving, Storyboarding, Articulate Communication

Application Last Date: 30-January-2025