Senior Data Scientists, Waitrose

Senior Data Scientist you will be involved in all aspects of the model life cycle from stakeholder engagement right through to model building and performance monitoring. All we ask is for you to be passionate about customer analytics and modelling and be able to provide a thorough understanding of the John Lewis Partnership's customers. Previous experience withinin retail is not essential.
Job Requirements


Day to Day

• Working with Campaign and CRM teams across the John Lewis Partnership you will understand their business needs and what they like to achieve from trading and personalisation perspective
• You will be creating statistical models including predictive, descriptive and segmentation models for CRM strategies
• By liaising with Campaign teams you will ensure you have the right design for test and post campaign evaluation
• You will also complete performance monitoring and diagnostic analysis including creation of reports and post model build diagnostics
• You will develop algorithms aimed to improve recommender systems by experimenting with ML & Deep Learning techniques


Required essential experience skills and qualifications

• Proven experience in statistical analysis and modelling within B2C environment
• Experience and strong understanding of statistical algorithms and machine learning algorithms
• Worked with algorithms aimed to improve recommender systems
• Experienced user of R or Python
• Strong data manipulation skills
• SQL, Big Query
• Strong presentation and communication skills and ability to engage non-technical audiences
Required desirable experience skills and qualifications
• Degree in a numerate discipline (e.g. Maths/Statistics/Economics or similar) with a high degree of statistics
• On-line marketing experience
• E-Commerce experience
• Experience in cloud platforms such as GCP ML ,AWS, Azure ML

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