Data Science Manager, Decision Analytics

The Home Depot; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 87,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Data Science Manager to lead a talented team focused on driving business profitability and enhancing customer experience. This role involves mentoring and coaching team members while overseeing critical data science projects. You'll collaborate across the organization, leveraging your extensive knowledge to identify new opportunities and implement data-driven solutions. Join a dynamic environment where your expertise in predictive modeling, data analysis, and team leadership will be pivotal in shaping strategic initiatives. If you're passionate about data science and eager to make a significant impact, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• 9+ years in business intelligence and analytics.
• Expertise in predictive modeling and data mining.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of data scientists.
• Manage projects ensuring quality solutions and alignment.

Skills

Predictive Modeling

Data Mining

Data Analysis

Business Intelligence

Team Leadership

Project Management

Communication Skills

Statistical Techniques

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a related field

Tools

Google BigQuery

SQL

Tableau

Job description

Data Science Manager, Decision Analytics

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The Data Science Manager is responsible for leading a team of data scientists (individual contributors), ensuring that their efforts drive business profitability, increased efficiencies and improved customer experience. This role leads overall programs, maximizing resources, partnering with project teams and business partners, and supports problem solving efforts. Data Science Managers provide leadership, mentoring, and coaching to team members, along with supporting their development of business and technical skills . Based on the specific data science team, this role would need to be proficient in one or more data science specializations, such as optimization, computer vision, recommendation, search or NLP.

As a Data Science Manager, you will provide executive summaries to all levels of the organization and leverage your business knowledge and network to identify opportunities to leverage data science solutions. This role is expected to collaborate with other Data Science Managers across the organization for aligning strategies and effectively managing talent. These responsibilities require effective communication skills, building relationships and partnerships, and leveraging business proficiency to solutions and recommendations

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Key Responsibilities

• 40% People Management & Team Leadership - Provide leadership, mentorship and coaching to Data Scientists (individual contributors) and evaluate performance, execution, and contribution; Attract, retain and develop top talent to build an effective and high performing team; Support team in development of business knowledge and technical skills with clear plans and regular assessment of progress; Ensure appropriate processes and job-specific requirements are properly documented; Develop onboarding and training plan for both technical and soft skills that will ensure high level of capabilities within the team; Manage resources effectively to align with strategic initiatives and business needs; Foster collaboration with team members to develop a supportive and engaged team; Support team in the design and development of algorithms and models to use against large datasets to create business insights; Drive team's results and celebrate accomplishments
• 25% Project Management - Prioritize and assign projects by striking a balance between a variety of factors, like funding, return on investment, innovative or challenging work, among others; Manage programs for the team to ensure consistency of execution, balance of resources and quality solutions; Collaborate with program managers and business partners to align on objectives and expectations and ensure project teams deliver against them; Serve as escalation point for any issues or difficulties with specific projects; Provide executive updates to leaders at all levels of the organization on program effectiveness, team accomplishments, summary of findings and recommended solution, and explain internal and external impacts
• 15% Strategy & Business Development - Leverage extensive business knowledge and relationships to seek out new business opportunities to leverage data science and advocate for team's skills; Effectively develop trust and collaboration with internal customers and cross-functional teams; Ensure alignment with IT support model, collaboration, tools and governance to enable data scientists to be most effective in executing their roles; Collaborate with other data science managers across the organization to establish high level strategy and optimize talent management
• 20% Technical Exploration & Development - Seek further knowledge on key developments within data science, technical skill sets, and additional data sources; Participate in the continuous improvement of data science and analytics by developing replicable solutions (for example, codified data products, project documentation, process flowcharts) to ensure solutions are leveraged for future projects; Ensure best practices and vision for data analysis and model productionalization are leveraged

Direct Manager/Direct Reports

• This position typically reports to Senior Manager or above
• This position has Direct Reports & manages programs

Travel Requirements

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% of the time

Physical Requirements

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles

Working Conditions

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be eighteen years of age or older
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States

Preferred Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience in business intelligence and analytics
• Previous people or project team management experience
• Expertise in predictive modeling, data mining and data analysis
• Mastery running queries against data (preferably with Google BigQuery or SQL)
• Proficient with data visualization software (preferably Tableau)
• Mastery utilizing statistical techniques to identify key insights that help solve business problems
• Proficient in Prescriptive Modeling like optimization, computer vision, recommendation, search or NLP
• Demonstrated proficiency in predictive modeling, data mining and data analysis
• Experience managing and growing team members in a professional setting
• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job

Preferred Education

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience

• 8

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Retail

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