Data Scientist at The Shoprite Group of Companies

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Role Summary

Build novel new applications to enable and assist data-driven decision making in Shoprite’s retail operations using advanced data science techniques. Areas of focus includes but is not limited to behaviour prediction, image recognition and natural language processing. These new applications are typically high profile and have an impact on revenue generation and cost reduction.
Shoprite is focused on customer service and operational efficiency. There is a rapidly increasing demand for scientific methods to apply to business practices to support this. This role is essential in growing the data science capability required to meet this need.

We are looking for a candidate who has:

• Post graduate science degree in Data Science, Mathematics, with computer science major, or Computer Science, with mathematics major.
• 5 years experience in customer and/or retail analysis
• 5 years experience in Customer and/or retail data science experience with focus on neural networks while building and putting into production applications that leverage these models

2 years experience in at least three of the following:

• Customer behaviour prediction
• Assortment optimisation
• Customer driven marketing
• Supply chain analytics
• Recommendation engines
• Image recognition
• Natural Language
• Digital assistants

Key Performance Areas includes:

• Lead the requirements discovery process in a retail environment
• Seek out, explore and manage data relevant to the requirements
• Create models using data science techniques, particularly focusing on neural networks
• Own the development of a complete application that exploits the model
• Own the process of deploying the data science application and gaining its acceptance by the business
• Own ongoing quality of the solution in terms of data, model and performance