Head Of Data Science

Duties and Responsibilities

As the Head of Data Science, you will remain very technically hands on in projects - focusing on building machine learning models to make predictions on areas retailed to retail outcomes such as demand forecast, promotional uplift and cross-elasticities. You will be encouraged to lead your own research into creating tailored solutions to business problems and take on as much mentoring responsibility as you feel you can manage with the opportunity to manage in the future.
- Deliver clear vision, direction, and standards for the data science team and ensure their compliance;
- Clearly communicate business goals to the data scientists, keeping them front and center and ensuring they are always adding retail value, the company motto;
- Delivering insights back to non-technical management and stakeholders.
- Working with large data sets, building advanced statistical and machine learning models to analyze sales data and forecast future sales behaviors;
- Using SQL for data manipulation;
- Have an eye for new, useful technologies, while being conscious of appropriate level of risk;
-Interact with key customers, being able to present our technical roadmaps and help sales activities, when necessary;
- Influence the long-term product roadmap.

Required Skills and Experience
- 10 years of overall professional experience;
- 5 years of hands-on data science experience;
- 5 years of management experience leading teams;
- Experience with Arima, Holt-Winters, K-Means, Decision Trees;
- Experience with Collaborative Filtering methods;
- Solid experience with R and SQL for manipulating data;
- Strong team-oriented communicator with demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally;
- Ability to think from a business perspective and balance technical and business goals;
- Excellent written and oral communication skills;
- Full professional proficiency in English.

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