Tesco, a renowned multinational retail corporation, is currently seeking a qualified candidate for the position of Applied Data Scientist. The ideal candidate should possess a minimum of one to two years of relevant experience in the field and hold a degree in any discipline. This exciting opportunity is based in Bengaluru, reflecting Tesco’s commitment to leveraging data analytics in the dynamic and burgeoning tech hub. As an Applied Data Scientist at Tesco, the successful candidate will be tasked with utilizing their analytical skills to derive valuable insights from data, contributing to the company’s data-driven decision-making processes.
Company Name: Tesco
Job Role: Applied Data Scientist
Education Required: Any Graduate
Experience Required: 1-2 year
Job Location: Bengaluru
Role and Responsibilities:
- Following Tesco’s Business Code of Conduct and always act with integrity and due diligence
- Engaging with business & functional partners to understand business priorities
- ask relevant questions and scope same into an analytical solution document calling out how the application of data science will improve decision-making
- In-depth understanding of techniques to prepare the analytical data set leveraging multiple complex data set 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)
Required Skills and Qualification:
- 1-2 year experience in data science application in Retail or CPG – Functional experience: Marketing; Supply Chain; Customer; Merchandising; Operations; Finance or Digital.
- Operational Skills – Applied Math: Applied Statistics; Design of Experiments; Linear & Logistic Regression; Decision Trees; Forecasting; Optimization algorithms – Tech: SQL; Hadoop; Python; Tableau; MS Excel; MS Powerpoint – Soft Skills: Analytical Thinking & Problem solving; Storyboarding.
