Data Scientist at The Shoprite Group of Companies

About

• Do you want to be part of the team that will take customer experience & Xtra Savings to the next level? Are you an experienced Data Scientist, join our Customer Data & Analytics department today!

Responsibilities

• Understand best practices in data science and business statistics for retail.
• Define models to be created and implemented together with the approach to implementing them.
• Explore data and create descriptive and predictive models in cycles.
• Develop and deploy models, monitor for accuracy and robustness and where appropriate implement a retraining approach for models.
• Assist in the evaluation and selection of appropriate technologies.
• Building expertise in the use of our data and customer personalisation tools in order to develop and deliver innovative personalised customer experience through multiple channels.
• Understand the impact of our personalised strategy and digital activity working with our partners to constantly improve our results.
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of the Shoprite customer and the ability to turn this into insights and personalised customer's experience.

Qualifications and Expereince:

• Hons or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics or other quantitative discipline (Mathematics, Operations Research).
• 5 years experience in customer, rewards and/or retail analysis and data science (statistical using Python) with experience of deploying models in an operational environment.