Data Scientist at Mr Price Group

Data Scientist

Our new Data Scientist needs to tick 3 boxes!

• Mad programming skills
• A sound business sense
• A data driven self-thinker

The bottom line? Your primary responsibility will be to turn our heaps of data into actionable insight and improved efficiency.

A day in your life?

• Extract & analyse historical data and maximise derived value through applying advanced models.
• Using Machine Learning and Optimisation techniques to our data with the ultimate aim of improving our processes
• Design tests to evaluate hypotheses
• Communicate insights, results and analyses to stakeholders
• Promote and facilitate data-driven business decisions
• Building relationships & gaining deep knowledge of the mr price business

Our requirements to apply?

• A degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Math, Computer Science, Physics or Engineering

2- 4 years’ experience in a data science, software dev or quantitative analysis role with experience in the below:

• SQL, Relational DBMS and data modelling
• Numerical packages like R, Python with SciPy, SPSS or SAS
• Software development in backend stacks such as C++ or Java
• Advanced data analysis skills in Excel (e.g. data aggregation, visualisation and pivot tables)
• Applied statistics or machine learning methods e.g. Neural Networks, Decision Trees, Time Series Analyses, Clustering
• Optimisation Techniques e.g. Linear Programming, Genetic Algorithms, Simulated Annealing
• Big Data processing platforms like Hadoop or Spark