Our new Data Scientist needs to tick 3 boxes!
- Mad programming skills
- A sound business sense
- A data driven self-thinker
The bottom line? Your primary responsibility will be to turn our heaps of data into actionable insight and improved efficiency.
The team you would be joining is responsible for driving decisions utilizing cloud data warehouse technologies, advanced visualization, data science, along with solid collaboration!
Responsibilities- Apply Machine Learning, Optimisation and AI techniques to our data with the aim of improving our business.
- Improve our business through analyses and hypotheses testing.
- Communicate insights, results and analyses to stakeholders.
- Promote and facilitate data-driven business decisions.
- Building relationships & gaining deep knowledge of the Mr Price business
- A degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Math, Computer Science, Physics or Engineering
- 0-5 years’ experience in a data science, software development or quantitative analysis role.
- The skills below are preferred but not required. We expect more experienced candidates to tick more of these boxes and the successful candidate will learn all of these during their career at Mr Price:
- Python or R, using libraries like Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, tidyverse, etc
- SQL, Relational DBMS and data modelling – to source and transform your inputs and save and explore your outputs.
- Exploratory Data Analysis skills – to explore and understand your data.
- Applied statistics or machine learning methods e.g. Neural Networks, Decision Trees, Time Series Analyses, Clustering, Regression, Deep Learning.
- Optimisation Techniques e.g. Linear Programming, Genetic Algorithms, Simulated Annealing
- Big Data processing platforms like Spark
- Data Visualisation tools e.g. Excel, PowerBI, Tableau.
- Responsible software engineering practices e.g. Version Control (git), Design Patterns, Reproducability, Deployment etc.
- Experience LLMs and GenAI – to leverage advanced AI techniques for innovative solutions.
What We Do
Mr Price Group Limited is an omni-channel, fashion value retailer. The Group retails Apparel, Homeware and Sportsware and is one of the fastest growing retailers in South Africa. Our History: 1885 - The first John Orrs store opens 1934 - The first Hub store opens 1952 - John Orrs is listed on the JSE 1967 - Acquisition of two Miladys stores 1986 - Laurie Chiappini and Stewart Cohen, together with BOE, acquire a major shareholding in John Orr Holdings 1987 - The first Mr Price store opens 1991 - Laurie Chiappini and Stewart Cohen acquire control of the Group from BOE 1993 - Launch of the Mr Price Group Share Partnership Initiative 1996 - Acquisition of Galaxy & Co. and Sheet Street 1997 - Alastair McArthur is appointed as CEO 1998 - Mr Price Home launched 2000 - Mr Price opens stores in Botswana and Namibia 2001 - Specialty Stores becomes MR Price Group 2005 - Over 100 million units are sold across the group 2006 - Sale of the Hub and Galaxy divisions 2007 - Launch of Mr Price Sport stores and Mr Price Franchising 2008 - Miladys wins the Orange Index award for excellence in customer service 2008 - Mr Price Apparel is voted the most loved and most frequented retail apparel brand for the first time 2008 - This year Mr Price Home is voted the most loved and most frequented homeware retailer 2011 - Retail sales exceed R10 billion and profit attributable to shareholders exceeds R1 billion for the first time 2011 - The group celebrates the 25th anniversary of change in control, recording a CAGR share of 25.3% and headline earnings per share of 23.5% over this period 2012 - First Corporate owned Mr Price store opens in Lagos, Nigeria 2013 - Mr Price launches its online store
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