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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SUMMARY:

We are a community of data scientists that act as the voice of the customer - they share their story with us each and every day. Through simple, comprehensive, purposeful analytics, we fearlessly bring these customer stories and journeys to life. Our 360° customer view allows us to anticipate customer needs, thus enabling our clients to connect with their customers in meaningful, relevant ways. We expect all data scientists to be hands on with respects to the analysis of a retailer database, using the full suite of 84.51° technical tools - SAS, SQL, R, Excel, and other specific internal tools - to create timely, relevant, and actionable insights.

The Commercial Insights and Loyalty Partnerships team is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to support 84.51° Stratum from Data Science perspective. We are looking for a team member who is passionate about using data science to create actionable insights for our clients and who wants to work closely with colleagues, both technical and not, to develop and deliver those insights.

RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Support 84.51° Stratum today by consulting on methodology, partnering with cross functional teams, and building packages that will enable key methodologies in our tech stack
• Help drive the realization of the broader vision for 84.51° Stratum, partnering with Product, Engineering and XD teams and enabling a data driven insights in all facets of this work
• Act as a bridge between our commercial insights work and 84.51° Stratum with a focus on actionable insights and telling compelling stories
• Continually improving our solutions and the processes around them. This includes standardizing science developed during projects and finding better ways to tell insightful stories.
• Contributing to an open-minded and collaborative work environment by sharing learnings with colleagues, mentoring junior data scientists, and contributing to our collective knowledge base.

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE :

• Bachelor's degree in mathematics, statistics, analytics, data science, or related discipline
• 2+ years of experience in consulting or professional services
• 2+ years of experience in extracting insights from large databases, translating market research into actionable solutions and presenting findings and recommendations to clients
• 2+ years of experience using advanced algorithms, programming languages, or technologies in the development of technical analytics solutions or capabilities.
• Experience querying data from relational databases using SQL.
• Experience using R, Python, or other similar statistical software to develop analytical solutions.
• Experience with data wrangling, data cleaning and prep, dimensionality reduction.
• Experience with Big Data concepts, tools, and architecture
• 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; grocery and/or retail experience is a plus.
• Passionate about data, analysis and insights.
• Natural curiosity that welcomes and embraces change and willingness to try new things and to fail.
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment.