84.51° Overview:

84.51° is a retail data science, insights and media company. We help the Kroger company, consumer packaged goods companies, agencies, publishers and affiliated partners create more personalized and valuable experiences for shoppers across the path to purchase.

Powered by cutting edge science, we leverage 1st party retail data from nearly 1 of 2 US households and 2BN+ transactions to fuel a more customer-centric journey utilizing 84.51° Insights, 84.51° Loyalty Marketing and our retail media advertising solution, Kroger Precision Marketing.

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SENIOR DATA SCIENTIST

CincinnatiChicago

SUMMARY :

We are a community of data scientists that work to improve the shopping experiences of our customers, both in-store and online. We leverage large volumes of data to develop powerful sciences using cutting edge machine learning, natural language processing, and mathematical techniques to improve products, processes, and systems that positively impact our customers. We lead our organization in identifying and adopting the tools and technologies that will continue to position our company as the recognized analytical leader within our industry.

The Enterprise Price & Promotion (EPP) team is looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join the team. This role will focus on conducting and delivering analyses to support the development of a price and promotion strategic plan for Kroger's rapidly growing multi-modality e-commerce business. The ideal candidate for this role should be comfortable discussing business problems with Kroger and 84.51° leadership, translating problems into an analytical question(s) that can be feasibly solved using data and advanced analytical methods, as well as shaping analytical results into a compelling story that is accompanied with clear, defensible recommendations for how the business should move forward.

RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Collaborate with 84.51° EPP consultants to identify analytical opportunities to thoroughly understand the unique pricing & promotion challenges specific to grocery e-commerce
• Support scoping work and the creation of analytical plans while ensuring best practices and innovative ideas are adopted
• Develop innovative e-commerce pricing and promotion solutions leveraging advanced analytical techniques
• Execute analytical work that aligns to the e-commerce price & promotion roadmap, ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to brief specifications
• Lead the design and measurement of in-market tests to understand the efficacy of price & promotion tactics
• Engage Kroger stakeholders to establish project specific objectives, provide work progress updates, and deliver solutions with clear implications on pricing strategy and/or tactics
• Integrate and combine transaction, cost, price, promotion, and competitive data into ad hoc solutions and mature products
• Communicate how complex data, math, and statistics interact and impact price & promotion solutions to business and non-technical stakeholders
• Scale pricing & promotion solutions by collaborating with 84.51° and Kroger Product and Engineering teams
• Participate and lead knowledge sharing, including peer review, sciences reviews, technical blogs, and trainings

• Adhere to stringent quality assurance and documentation standards (e.g., git, markdown, Confluence)

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE :

• Two years experience developing analytical solutions using advanced statistical methods
• Two years experience querying data from relational databases using SQL
• Two years experience using Python or R to develop analytical solutions
• Two years experience with data wrangling, data cleaning and prep, dimensionality reduction
• Experience with Big Data concepts, tools, and architecture (e.g. Hadoop, Spark)
• Object oriented programming experience is a plus
• E-commerce and/or pricing and promotion experience preferred
• Ability to create computationally efficient solutions
• Strong academic background in mathematics, statistics, computer science, economics, or similar discipline
• Data visualization skills and ability to present technical solutions to non-technical audience
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong analytical, creative problem-solving and decision making skills
• Strong business acumen
• Passionate about data, analysis and insights
• Natural curiosity
• Welcomes and embraces change
• Ability to work fast yet accurately
• An openness and willingness to try new things and to fail
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment

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