Data Scientist

SUMMARY:
Unlock Your Potential with Gijima Staffing Solutions! We are recruiting on behalf of our client, a retail industry giant.

Are you ready to dive deep into data and transform insights into impactful decisions? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment where your analytical prowess can shine? If so, Gijima Staffing Solutions has the perfect opportunity for you!

POSITION INFO:
Main Purpose:
Provide statistical analysis, forecasting, predictive modelling, simulation, and optimisation to discover trends, opportunities, and threats. Communicate findings to business users to answer critical business questions.

What you bring?

• Educational Foundation: A degree in applied statistics, mathematics, operational research, economics, data engineering, risk management, or equivalent industry training and experience. 
• Advanced Degree: Honours or master’s degree preferred.
• Experience: A minimum of 5 years in advanced analytics, model building, and optimization.
• Technical Proficiency: Strong skills in data manipulation and analysis using SAS, SQL, or similar platforms, coupled with in-depth knowledge of Data Warehousing and BI environments.
• Analytical Expertise: Comprehensive understanding of advanced analytical techniques, including statistical methods, segmentation, experimental design, neural networks, data mining, and optimization techniques.
• Problem-Solving Savvy: Ability to tackle business problems with unknown variables and deliver innovative solutions.
• Big Data Ecosystems: Experience with Big Data ecosystems and advanced analytical platform skills is a plus.
• Curiosity and Courage: A deep curiosity and a strong desire to explore beneath the surface of problems. Courage to question assumptions and drive transformational change.

• Innovate and Optimize: Utilize your advanced analytics skills to build and optimize models, enhancing business performance and decision-making.
• Data Mastery: Manipulate and analyze data using SAS, SQL, or equivalent analytical platforms to deliver actionable insights.
• Strategic Impact: Identify high-value business problems and address them through cutting-edge analytics solutions.
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams to drive change and influence organizational approaches to business challenges.

• Business Insights: Provide insights through statistical analysis, forecasting, predictive modelling, simulation, and optimisation. Identify, explore, examine, integrate, and scrub data from multiple disparate sources to answer complex business questions.
• Design advanced analytics models to answer key business questions or discover opportunities for improvement, increased revenue, or reduced costs.
• Analyze model results, interpret findings, and communicate them in commercial terms to Business Users for clear business impact.
• Communicate analytical results confidently and clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Recommend solutions for creating revenue and reducing costs/loss based on model results.
• Run and automate regular reporting and operationalize successful models.
• Partnerships: Establish effective and collaborative partnerships with BI Analysts, Data Scientists, and Use Case Owners in the business.
• Work closely with Data Analysts to assist in answering complex business problems requiring statistical analysis.
• Regularly monitor internal and external customer needs and make appropriate recommendations.
• Stay current with retail industry, Business Intelligence, and data trends to support recommendations and generate value through continuous testing and learning.
• Stay updated with developments in advanced analytics and methodologies.
• IT Collaboration: Establish effective and collaborative partnerships with relevant business and IT teams, particularly the BI source systems.
• Stay updated with developments in advanced analytics technology and methodologies.
• Monitor and report on IT management’s remediation of IT audit findings and IT risks.
• Contribute to the assessment and selection of IT GRC applications, solutions, and services.

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