Our Finance and Administration Teams take a closer look at how Aldi is performing and shares best practice knowledge with our international business.
What they say and do makes a real difference to the future of Aldi, so it's important we have good financial and business insights. As a Data Scientist, you will support the development of value-adding strategies and data-driven decision making. You will possess exceptional statistical, mathematical and data mining skills, and be an expert in your field.
Role: Data Scientist
Salary: £56,285 rising to £73,330
40 Hours per week 8.00am - 4.30pm
Contract: 12 Month FTC / Secondment Opportunity
Role Overview:
As a Data Scientist, working within the National Finance and Administration team, you will support the development of value-adding strategies and data-driven decision making. You will possess exceptional statistical, mathematical and data mining skills, and be an expert in your field.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Integrates qualitative and quantitative information from a wide range of sources to address core business demands, identify opportunities and deliver critical insights
- Manipulates and analyses large and complex data sets to detect patterns and correlations
- Designs and builds predictive analytical models to identify interdependencies between business performance and underlying drivers
- Automates and/or integrates analytical models into operational processes
- Builds, develops and maintains mathematical decision models on strategic and operational level, in close collaboration with internal and external experts
- Develops simulation scenarios to help provide optimisation recommendations
- Develops and maintains models through benchmarking and process analyses, ensuring harmonised guidelines & methodologies for conducting different analysis
- Clarifies, visualises and helps to interpret results of implemented analytical models
- Identifies opportunities regarding systematic data collection
- Ensures development output is documented and maintained in national/international report catalogue
- Ensures the transfer of Analytics insights at a global level
- Validates new data integrations of data engineers and front end developers (quality gate)
Skills and Qualifications
Essential
- Knowledge of R(-Studio), Python, VBA, SQL and / or similar data related scripting languages
- Excellent Communication skills, including English
- Experience with modern tools and big data technology
- Exceptional statistical, mathematical and data mining skills
- Excellent command of Excel and PowerPoint
- SAP/BI and ERP skills
- Excellent Communication skills, including English
- Expertise in Statistics / Economics / Computer Science
- Statistical thinker
- Excellent technical acumen
- Effectively applies maths and statistics knowledge to data
- Proficient use of machine learning and artificial intelligence
- Critical thinking and communication, promoting a self-serve culture
Desirable
- Experience in Retail / FMCG or function / domain knowledge is an advantage
- Knowledge of controlling processes and tools is an advantage
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