Data Scientist Mr Price Group at Mr Price Group

Job Description
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 utilising cloud data warehouse technologies, advanced visualisation, 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

Qualifications

• 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 and Data Visualisation tools e.g. Excel, PowerBI, Tableau.
• 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
• Responsible software engineering practices e.g. Version Control (git), Design Patterns, Reproducability, Deployment etc.
• LLMs and GenAI – to leverage advanced AI techniques for innovative solutions.