Lead Decision Scientist

Tesco Bengaluru

Bengaluru

On-site

INR 1,500,000 - 2,000,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Performance Bonus

30 days of leave

Health insurance for family

Job summary

A leading retail organization in Bengaluru is seeking a Lead Decision Scientist to drive solutions for business analytics. The role involves building statistical models and mentoring a team to improve decision-making processes. Ideal candidates have over 5 years of experience in data science within retail or similar industries and a strong command of SQL and Python. The position comes with an attractive salary, performance bonuses, and comprehensive benefits including health insurance and wellness programs.

Qualifications

Experience in regression, decision trees, forecasting, optimization.
Familiar with retail, CPG, telecom, or hospitality industries.
Basic understanding of retail domain and customer analytics.

Responsibilities

Drive CI culture and implement CI projects.
Build statistical models and ML algorithms.
Mentor and lead a team of Applied Data Scientists.

Skills

Applied Math

Analytical Thinking

Problem Solving

Education

5+ years in data science

Tools

SQL

Hadoop

Spark

Python

Tableau

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

GitHub

Job description

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About the role

Job Summary: Lead solutions, coping 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 within 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 dataset leveraging multiple complex data 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 an easy visualization layer on top of the algorithms 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

You will be responsible for
Refer to "about the role"

You will need

Key people and teams I work with in and outside of Tesco:
People, budgets and other resources I am accountable for in my job:
Enterprise Analytics Senior Management
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Partners across the global Tesco business
Tesco Business Solutions Senior Management

Operational skills relevant for this job:
Experience relevant for this job:
- Applied Math: Applied Statistics, Design of Experiments
- 5+ years experience in data science applications in Regression, Decision Trees, Forecasting, Optimization and delivering analytics solutions in industries such as retail, consumer packaged goods (CPG), telecom, or hospitality
- Tech: SQL, Hadoop, Spark, Python, Tableau, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, GitHub (preferred)
- Exposure to functional areas like marketing, supply chain
- Business: Basic understanding of Retail domain, customer analytics, merchandising, operations, finance, or digital
- Soft Skills: Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving

Whats in it for you?

At Tesco, we are committed to providing the best for you. Our colleagues enjoy a unique, differentiated, market-competitive reward package, based on current industry practices, for all the work they put into serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

Our Tesco Rewards framework consists of pillars - Fixed Pay, Incentives, and Benefits. Total Rewards offered at Tesco is determined by four principles - simple, fair, competitive, and sustainable.

Salary - Your fixed pay is the guaranteed pay as per your contract of employment.
Performance Bonus - Opportunity to earn additional compensation bonus based on performance, paid annually
Leave & Time-off - Colleagues are entitled to 30 days of leave (18 days of Earned Leave, 12 days of Casual/Sick Leave) and 10 national and festival holidays, as per the company’s policy.
Making Retirement Tension-Free Salary - In addition to statutory retirement benefits, Tesco enables colleagues to participate in voluntary programs like NPS and VPF.
Health is Wealth - Tesco promotes programmes that support a culture of health and wellness including insurance for colleagues and their family. Our medical insurance provides coverage for dependents including parents or in-laws.
Mental Wellbeing - We offer mental health support through self-help tools, community groups, ally networks, face-to-face counselling, and more for both colleagues and dependents.
Financial Wellbeing - Through our financial literacy partner, we offer one-to-one financial coaching at discounted rates, as well as salary advances on earned wages upon request.
Save As You Earn (SAYE) - Our SAYE programme allows colleagues to transition from being employees to Tesco shareholders through a structured 3-year savings plan.
Physical Wellbeing - Our green campus promotes physical wellbeing with facilities that include a cricket pitch, football field, badminton and volleyball courts, along with indoor games, encouraging a healthier lifestyle.

About Us

Tesco in Bengaluru is a multi-disciplinary team serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day across markets. Our goal is to create a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility through technological solutions, and empowering our colleagues to do even more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise, a wide network of teams, and strong governance, we reduce complexity, thereby offering high-quality services for our customers.

Tesco in 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 3,30,000 colleagues.

Tesco Business Solutions:

Established in 2017, Tesco Business Solutions (TBS) has evolved from a single entity traditional shared services in Bengaluru, India (from 2004) to a global, purpose-driven solutions-focused organisation. TBS is committed to driving scale at speed and delivering value to the Tesco Group through the power of decision science. With over 4,400 highly skilled colleagues globally, TBS supports markets and business units across four locations in the UK, India, Hungary, and the Republic of Ireland. The organisation underpins everything that the Tesco Group does, bringing innovation, a solutions mindset, and agility to its operations and support functions, building winning partnerships across the business. TBS creates a sustainable competitive advantage for the Tesco Group by becoming the partner of choice for talent, transformation, and value creation

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