Director Data Sciences And Analytics

Why You Belong Here

At Victoria’s Secret & Co, you’ll join a world-leading specialty retail brand recognized globally for innovation and excellence in lingerie and fashion. You’ll work alongside industry leaders to set the standard for what a retail brand can achieve, placing customers at the center of everything we do to create products and experiences that bring them joy.

We believe everyone deserves a place where they truly belong. We celebrate individuality and know that your passion, experience, and unique perspective strengthen our team and business. Here, you’ll be empowered to perform, grow, and engage through unmatched opportunities to develop your skills, gain real-world experience, and learn from the best in the business.

Description

TITLE: Director – Data Science & Analytics

DEPARTMENT: Data Sciences & Analytics

LOCATION: Bangalore, India

Team

Data Sciences & Analytics is a global CoE team, incubated within Victoria’ Secret & Co. (VS&Co), building the best-in-class suite of Data Science & Analytics Products that power the best shopping experience for our customers, and deliver actionable, customer-centric insights to our ecommerce, marketing, merchandising and supply chain teams enabling better business decisions on omni channel (digital + store) 360 performances.

Purpose

Role

The Director – Data Science & Analytics will be working closely with the VP of Data Science & AI to drive the enterprise AI strategy and shall play a larger role in the execution & delivery of novel data science solutions. He/she will partner closely with business stakeholders and product owners to deliver outstanding business outcomes for problems across VS&Co. She/he will also help the VP in running the enterprise AI council and all AI governance initiatives:

You will be leading teams that develops and productizes machine learning models on: customer segmentations, lookalike, affinity, CLV & propensity models,

Price elasticity & promo optimization models,

A/B testing, measurement frameworks & Causal modelling,

NLP, LLMs & embeddings, Agentic AI agents,

time-series forecasting & anomaly detection,

optimization and recommendation systems.

You have a deep interest and passion for technology. You love innovation and enjoy working with people motivating them to strive for better outcomes at every stage.

• You have strong problem solving, analytic, decision-making, and excellent communication with interpersonal skills. You are self-driven and motivated with the desire to work in a fast-paced, results-driven agile environment with varied responsibilities.
• You will work directly on the AI problems that have the most impact on VS&Co's digital e-commerce, omni-channel, entire supply chain, forecasting and merchandising.
  
  

Responsibilities

▪ Strategic Leadership: Provides strategic oversight and leadership for the data science & AI function across the enterprise. Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies to drive core business uplift.

Thinks beyond the day-to-day, taking a long-term, big-picture view of the business.

Forms cross functional teams to bring diverse perspectives and drive agentic-AI insights into decision making.

▪ Technical leadership for data science & analytic community: Develop expertise and Train / coach associates on technical knowledge of the respective data domains to deliver analytic solutions / insights for business stakeholders. Identify, validate and create new opportunities/experiences through data analysis & use of advanced analytics & data sciences. Implement solutions that optimize business processes, improve our ongoing marketing and product operations, and develop new revenue drivers and cost savings.

▪ Business Thought Partnership: Provide thought leadership and counsel to stakeholders in exploring possible data science solutions to address business questions and business needs. o Define problem statement.

• Translate business requirements into data science / analytic strategies, initiatives, and projects, align them to business team’s strategy and objectives.
• Synthesize data from different sources, provide actionable business insights and / or analytic solution to stakeholders.
  
  

Collaborate and implement the overall analytics strategy. Evaluate, recommend, implement and maintain data science & analytical tools

Hire, train, and supervise India-/US-based analysts and ensure delivery of right analytical solutions to business questions.

Ensures that the team has the right mix of skills and leverages the strengths of individual members

Driving Innovation: Challenges associates to come up with innovative ideas, novel ways of building & implementing solutions to drive efficiency and business excellence.

Deliver data science & AI COE services & projects from India

Qualifications

Education

• B.S. degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics
• M.S. or PH.D. in Computer Science, applied mathematics, statistics, physics, operations research, quantitative social sciences or related fields will be preferred
  
  

Skills / Experience

• 12+ years of relevant experience in data scientist & analytics role preferably in retail domain; 4+ years in a leadership roles.
• Demonstrated history of technology leadership and strong hands-on experience to coach team.
• Proven records of scientific publications or intellectual property generation
• Experience in strong programming skills across big data and ML engineering stack
• Experience in leading & mentoring a team of data scientists & building relevant capabilities
• Track record in managing deliveries of advanced analytical solutions in an agile & iterative model
• Experience in retail is an added plus (especially retail customer domain)
• Experience in GenAI is an added plus.

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