Data Scientist

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