Data Scientist Senior

Who is Quantium?

Quantium is a world leader in data science and artificial intelligence. Established in Australia in 2002, Quantium is a global team of more than 1,200 people across 14 locations with a unique blend of capabilities across product and consulting services to help businesses unlock value from data and analytics. Quantium partners with the worlds largest corporations to forge a better, more intelligent world.

Quantium

Since 2002, Quantium have combined the best of human and artificial intelligence to power possibilities for individuals, organisations and society. Our solutions make sense of what has happened and what will, could or should be done to re-shape industries and societies around the needs of the people they serve.

As one of the worlds fully diversified data science and AI leaders we operate across every sector of the economy and were growing fast - with growth comes opportunity! Were passionate about building out our team of smart, fun, diverse and motivated people.

We combine a team of experts that spans data scientists, actuaries, statisticians, business analysts, strategy consultants, engineers, technologists, programmers, product developers, and futurists – all dedicated to harnessing the power of data to drive transformational outcomes for our clients.

We actively foster a culture where our people can stretch themselves to reach their full potential. We also know that work has to work for you, and modern life is fast-paced, and balance can be tricky. You want to work where you are respected and valued as an individual, not a number. Quantium embraces a flexible and supportive environment dedicated to powering possibilities for our team members, clients and partners.

Based in Hyderabad, Quantium India provides vital support to the global business. The teams in India work alongside global teams to deliver high quality analytics solutions to clients.

Role Summary

The Senior Data Scientist is a technical leadership role within the Dollar General Promotional Analytics team with direct accountability for the delivery of promotional modeling projects. This role requires mastering Quantiums existing promotional analytics capabilities and adapting them for US retail clients, with a focus on incorporating local promotional nuances and market dynamics. The Senior Data Scientist collaborates closely with other Data Scientists and consultants to transform client questions and issues into analytical solutions, with ~2 hours overlap with the US Central Time working day (8PM-12AM IST), 3 days per week.

Key Responsibilities

• Accountable for the analytics quality and delivery of Dollar General promotional analytics projects
• Master Quantiums existing promotional analytics capabilities and methodologies, and adapt them for US retail context
• Transform client questions and issues into analytical solutions, through partnering with Consultants to scope solutions and ensure projects are successfully delivering value to Dollar General
• Task management including overseeing and delegating technical tasks amongst data scientists
• Team management: leading a small team of technical analysts (1-2 direct reports)
• Work closely with US teams during overlapping hours (8PM-12AM IST, 3 days per week) to ensure smooth knowledge transfer and solution delivery
  
  

• Understand and master Quantiums existing promotional analytics capabilities and methodologies
• Adjust and develop promotional analytics solutions for Dollar General, incorporating US retail promotional nuances and market dynamics
• Drive analysis of promotional effectiveness and provide data-backed recommendations to support client decision-making
• Delivery and build of analytical solutions, transforming transaction-level data sets into client-ready strategic insights through data exploration, cleansing, manipulation, and clear presentation via spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and analytical visualization tools
• Design and be accountable for solution design, analytical methodology/technique and quality assurance for promotional analytics projects
  
  

• Task management including overseeing and delegating technical tasks amongst analysts within project team, including reviewing code, analysis and outputs
• Provide estimates of work effort, timeframes, costings and resourcing for analytical tasks
• Partner with consultants and US teams during overlapping hours to ensure projects are successfully delivered and providing value to Dollar General
• Convert data into meaningful, actionable recommendations for Dollar General
  
  

• Directly manage 1-2 direct reports, managing on-boarding, driving their performance, supporting their development & progression and managing the formal performance review process
• Provide technical guidance for direct reports and other analysts within the project team as needed on a day-to-day basis
• Support team initiatives, such as interviewing candidates, facilitating team training or knowledge sharing, or organizing events
• Be a role model of Quantiums DNA and support a culture of collaboration, innovation, high-performance and fun
  
  

• Approximately 5+ years experience in a highly technical analytics environment, carrying out data analytics or data science work
• Strong coding experience in SQL and Python/R
• Experience in working with large datasets to solve commercial business problems (customer-level and/or sales transaction-level datasets preferred)
• Advanced knowledge of technical analytics disciplines, including data preparation, feature engineering and foundational analytics concepts, model development and model training
• Strong ability to quickly understand and adapt complex analytical frameworks, particularly promotional analytics methodologies
• Well-developed commercial acumen to understand business needs and be able to suggest the commercial impacts of different analytics solutions or approaches
• Experience transforming client questions and issues into analytical solutions, through project scoping and solution design
• Experience in Retail industry (strongly preferred)
• Experience delivering US-based projects and understanding of US retail landscape (highly preferred)
• Experience working in consulting environment (preferred)
• Experience in supervising the work of others as a senior team member, project manager or team leader
• Experience with successfully managing either internal and external stakeholders, delivering against projects, tasks and activities in dynamic deadline-driven environments
• Excellent communication skills and proven ability to work across different time zones with ~2 hours overlap with CST working day (8PM-12AM IST), 3 days per week
• Team-oriented mindset and experience in people management, mentoring and development
• Tertiary qualifications in engineering, mathematics, actuarial studies, statistics, physics, or a related discipline