Key Responsibilities
Data Science Solutions:
- Develop and deliver forecasting models for KPIs critical to business planning and financial reporting. Utilize time series-based algorithms (e.g., Prophet, ARIMA, and variants), machine learning algorithms (e.g., XGBoost, LightGBM), and deep learning algorithms (e.g., LSTM, GRU, DeepAR, TCN)
- Scale existing models to different geographies, ensuring they are adaptable and effective across diverse regions
- Conduct data feasibility analysis, including data preparation and cleaning to ensure high-quality inputs for modeling
- Observe trends from data and leverage these trends to support feature engineering and enhance model performance
- Work closely with local and global teams in Planning, Marketing, Operations, and Data Engineering to ensure seamless integration of data science solutions
- Clearly translate complex business problems into data science and analytics solutions, incorporating feedback from business stakeholders
- Maintain quality, set good development practices, and define standards that keep the focus on the right things
- Support deep-dives, ad-hoc analysis and contextual dashboards with relevant platforms and channels
- Develop and maintain a strong stakeholder network with high level of trust that facilitates action- ability of insights
Key Relationships
- EM Hub e-com team
- EM Function teams (Finance, DNA, Brand, Sales, SCM…)
- Global Digital teams
- Global BI & Analytics teams
- Global Digital Data Science teams
Requisite Education And Experience / Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Masters degree in computer science, Information Technology, Mathematics, computing, Software Engineering, or a related field from a Tier-1 college
- Alternatively, an MBA with a focus on Analytics or Data Science specialization is preferred
Hard Skills
- Well versed with classification, clustering, multiclassification, segmentation techniques
- Proven experience with time series algorithms (e.g., Prophet, ARIMA) & Causal Inference
- Proficiency in machine learning algorithms (e.g., Xgboost, LightGBM) and deep learning algorithms (e.g., LSTM, GRU, DeepAR, TCN).
- Experience with Databricks & AWS services (e.g., S3, EMR, SageMaker, AWS Lambda) is preferred.
- Hands-on experience with SQL, Python, Power BI, PySpark, Excel and building data pipelines, writing production ready code.
- Prior experience in Consumer, pricing, risk, recommendation, ranking domain within Ecommerce/Retail/Banking preferred
- Prior experience with model deplyoyment, CI/CD pipelines development is good to have
- Knowledge of tools like Adobe Analytics, google Analytics, Kibana, JIRA, Appsflyer, Amplitude, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Git is good to have
- Industry: Ideally in apparel/fashion/shoes or internet/retail banking
Knowledge & Soft Skills
- Ability to efficiently work in a cross-functional organization, ability to develop influential and collaborative relationships with stakeholders from digital and non-digital disciplines on all levels
- Excellent communication skills, comfortable presenting complex topics to technical and non-technical audience both in person and remotely at various organizational levels
- A passion for designing and creating new data capabilities, tools, and frameworks. Interest in “back-of-house” development of analytics capabilities. Devotion to accuracy, reliability, rigor, and user-focused design.
- Meticulous, high attention to details
- Creative and energetic team player who has a passion for delivering analytics, data, insights to drive outcomes for quantifiable improvements in business results and consumer satisfaction.
- Outspoken and Confident
- Broad understanding of and passion for the sports and fashion/entertainment industry
- Project management skills, including the ability to lead projects or work on several projects simultaneously.
- Fluent English both verbally and written
- Proficient in documenting technical details of solutions, creating requirement documents, powerpoint presentations