Manager-Decision Scientist

Job Title: Manager-Decision Scientist

Job Summary: Lead Enterprise Analytics team's partnerships with Business teams across Tesco group to enable data driven decisions and deliver on organization's key strategic priorities and business impact.

In this job, I'm accountable for:

- Developing and leading a high performing team, creating an environment for success by setting direction and coaching them to succeed through inspiring conversations every day. (Refer to the expectations of a manager at Tesco- the minimum standards)

- Initiates and designs continuous improvements initiatives to drive performance within their teams

- Accountable for achieving teams objectives, stakeholder management and escalation management.

- Making decisions within policy and procedure framework to deliver business plans.

Engage with business teams to understand their key objectives, translate business problems to analytical problems that can drive disproportionate returns and scope the same into analytical scoping document calling out how application of Data Science will improve decision making

- Own creation and delivery of long term plans programs based on key priorities of the business function and proactively spot sizeable opportunities to deliver value beyond the agreed plans

- Institutionalize robust ways of working by demonstrating thought leadership in scoping the business problems, solution design, developing reusable frameworks, driving best coding practices and knowledge management

- Drive value realization through delivery of high impact projects and efficiency gain through automation

- Establish frameworks to quantify business impact and measure return on investment for Analytical Investments

- Build a culture of continuous measurement and identifying ways to maximize impact delivered per colleague

- Develop and lead an impactful team, crafting an environment for success by setting direction, stretch objectives and mentor colleagues to succeed through inspiring conversations every day

- Mentor team and building personal development plans for each colleague to enable individual's career development

- Lead functional initiatives to drive continuous development of Enterprise Analytics

Experience relevant for this job:

7-12 years experience in analytics delivery preferred, with preference for:

Industry experience: Retail, CPG, e-Commerce

Functional experience: Customer, Category / Product Management, Merchandising, Marketing, Supply Chain, Operations, Fulfillment, Finance

Skills : SQL , Python, Machine learning

Operational skills relevant for this job:

- Applied Math : Regression Analysis, Tree Based Algorithms, Neural Network, Classification, Clustering, Optimization Programming, Design of Experiments

- Tech : Python, SQL, Hive, Hadoop, Spark Tableau, PyDash or any other web based visualization tool

- Retail Expertise, Partnership management, Analytical Thinking & Problem solving, Storyboarding, People Management Skills