Lead-Applied Data Scientist

Company Description

Tesco Bengaluru
We are a multi-disciplinary team creating a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility, providing cutting-edge technological solutions and empowering our colleagues to do ever more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise in Global Business Services and Retail Technology & Engineering, a wide network of teams and strong governance we reduce complexity thereby offering high quality services for our customers. Tesco Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 4,40,000 colleagues.
At Tesco Business Solutions, we have a mission to simplify, scale & partner to serve our customers, colleagues and suppliers through a best-in-class intelligent Business Services model . We do this by building a world class business services model by executing servicea model framework right at the heart of everything we do for our worldwide customers. The key objective is to implement and execute service model across all our functions and markets consistently. The ethos of business services is to free-up our colleagues from a regular manual operational work. We use cognitive technology to augment our key decision making. We also built a Continuous Improvement (CI) culture across functions to drive bottom-up business efficiencies by optimising processes. Business services colleagues need to act as a business partner with our group stakeholders to build a collaborative partnership driving continuous improvement across markets and functions to lead the best customer experience by serving our shoppers a little better every day.
At Tesco, inclusion means that Everyone's Welcome. Everyone is treated fairly and with respect; by valuing individuality and uniqueness we create a sense of belonging.
Diversity and inclusion have always been at the heart of Tesco. It is embedded in our values: we treat people how they want to be treated. We always want our colleagues to feel they can be themselves at work and we are committed to helping them be at their best.
Across the Tesco group we are building an inclusive workplace, a place to actively celebrate the cultures, personalities and preferences of our colleagues, who in turn help to build the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.

Job Description

Job Summary:
Lead solution scoping and development to drive Enterprise Analytics team’s partnership with Business teams across Tesco to enable data driven decisions and deliver on organization's key strategic priorities.

In this job; I’m accountable for:
Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence and have these specific risk responsibilities:
- Represent Talent Acquisition in all forums/ seminars pertaining to process; compliance and audit.
- Perform other miscellaneous duties as required by management.
- Driving CI culture; implementing CI projects and innovation for withing the team
- 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.
- Proactively driving consumption of solutions developed by the team and owning the initiative to identify and address areas of improvement in the larger Tesco business.
- Keeping up to date with the latest in data science and retail analytics and disseminating the knowledge among colleagues
- Mentoring and leading a small team of Applied Data Scientists to deliver high impact analytics projects.

Key people and teams I work within and outside of Tesco:
- Enterprise Analytics Senior Management
- Partners across the global Tesco business
- Tesco Business Solutions Senior Management

People; budgets and other resources I am accountable for in my job:
- NA

Operational skills relevant for this job:
- Applied Math: Applied Statistics; Design of Experiments; Regression; Decision Trees; Forecasting; Optimization algorithms; Clustering; NLP
- Tech: SQL; Hadoop; Spark; Python; Tableau; MS Excel; MS PowerPoint; GitHub
- Business: Basic understanding of Retail domain
- Soft Skill: Analytical Thinking & Problem solving; Storyboarding; Stakeholder engagement; Leading team

Experience relevant for this job:
- 5+ years' experience in data science application in and delivering analytics solutions in industries such as retail; consumer packaged goods (CPG); telecom; or hospitality preferred.
- Exposure to functional areas like marketing; supply chain; customer analytics; merchandising; operations; finance; or digital analytics.

Qualifications

- Applied Math: Applied Statistics; Design of Experiments; Regression; Decision Trees; Forecasting; Optimization algorithms; Clustering; NLP
- Tech: SQL; Hadoop; Spark; Python; Tableau; MS Excel; MS PowerPoint; GitHub
- Business: Basic understanding of Retail domain
- Soft Skill: Analytical Thinking & Problem solving; Storyboarding; Stakeholder engagement; Leading team

Additional Information

Last Date of Application: 18th April 2024

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