Senior Applied Data Scientist

Tesco Bengaluru
We are a multi-disciplinary team creating a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility, providing cutting-edge technological solutions and empowering our colleagues to do ever more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise in Global Business Services and Retail Technology & Engineering, a wide network of teams and strong governance we reduce complexity thereby offering high quality services for our customers. Tesco Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 4,40,000 colleagues.
At Tesco Business Solutions, we have a mission to simplify, scale & partner to serve our customers, colleagues and suppliers through a best-in-class intelligent Business Services model . We do this by building a world class business services model by executing service model framework right at the heart of everything we do for our worldwide customers. The key objective is to implement and execute service model across all our functions and markets consistently. The ethos of business services is to free-up our colleagues from a regular manual operational work. We use cognitive technology to augment our key decision making. We also built a Continuous Improvement (CI) culture across functions to drive bottom-up business efficiencies by optimising processes. Business services colleagues need to act as a business partner with our group stakeholders to build a collaborative partnership driving continuous improvement across markets and functions to lead the best customer experience by serving our shoppers a little better every day.
At Tesco, inclusion means that Everyone's Welcome. Everyone is treated fairly and with respect; by valuing individuality and uniqueness we create a sense of belonging.
Diversity and inclusion have always been at the heart of Tesco. It is embedded in our values: we treat people how they want to be treated. We always want our colleagues to feel they can be themselves at work and we are committed to helping them be at their best.
Across the Tesco group we are building an inclusive workplace, a place to actively celebrate the cultures, personalities and preferences of our colleagues, who in turn help to build the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.

Job Description

Job Summary:
Support data driven decision making for business functions across Tesco and TBS by developing analytics solutions using math; tech and business knowledge

In this job; I am accountable for:
- Follow Tesco's Business Code of Conduct and always act with integrity and due diligence
- Engage with market leaders to understand problems to be solved; translate the business problems to analytics problems; taking ownership of specified analytical modules and translate the answers back to decision makers in business terms
- Think beyond the ask and develop solutions that will contribute to existing solutions
- Accountable for high quality and timely completion of specified work deliverables
- Write codes that are well detailed; structured; and compute efficient
- Drive value delivery through efficiency gain by automating repeatable tasks; report creation or dashboard refresh
- Collaborate with colleagues to craft; implement and measure analytical solution
- Contribute to development of knowledge assets and reusable modules on GitHub/Wiki
- Understands business needs and in depth understanding of Tesco processes
- Builds on Tesco processes and knowledge by applying CI tools and techniques
- Responsible for completing tasks and transactions within agreed metrics
- Solves problems by analyzing solution alternatives

Key people and teams I work within and outside of Tesco:
Enterprise Analytics Senior Management
Tesco UK / ROI / Central Europe / APAC market stakeholders

Qualifications

2-4 years of experience in analytics delivery in any one of domains suck as retail; CPG; telecom or hospitality and for one of the following functional areas - marketing; supply chain; customer; merchandising; operations; finance or digital preferred

Operational skills relevant for this job:
- Logical Reasoning; Problem Solving; Storyboarding
- Basic Statistical Concepts - Central Measures of data; Hypothesis testing
- ML Concepts - Regression; Classification; Clustering; Timeseries; NLP etc.
- Tools/Languages - Adv. Excel; Adv. SQL; Hive; python; dash; Tableau
- GenAI - LLMs; RAG framework etc.

Additional Information

Last Date of Application-22nd Dec 2023

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