Data Scientist

As a Pricing Data Scientist, you will serve as a pivotal link between business objectives and data. Your role will involve translating pricing strategies and targets into a data landscape that enables the value realization.
To realize this objective, you will be the owner of a price-steering algorithm, which needs to be optimized on a continuous basis. This enhancement can range from refining formulas, discovering fresh data sources, to enhancing the depth of insights in dashboards.
Your main stakeholders (Global Pricing) will provide business background and give suggestions on optimization and possible improvements. You will also be cooperating with Digital for optimal data architecture & implementation.
Main Responsibilities
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES & SCOPE
Your activities are:
Develop and implement advanced analytics & predictive modeling tooling (in the domains of Pricing)
Pro-actively perform data-analytic methods to derive insights for the stakeholders and future improvements
Maintain visual dashboard that supports the realization of the analytics
Lead and coordinate the data requests and their implementation in the data architecture
Key deliverables:
Up to date and state-of-the-art Pricing Analytics model (ie Algorithm & Data infrastructure to support it)
Dashboards for Sales & Pricing
Stakeholder engagement - you will work with key stakeholders (Pricing, Finance and Digital) to
Gather information needs and business updates
Align on priorities of improvement pipeline
Align on technical set-ups to strengthen the analytics landscape
Translate business requests into technical Digital actions
Scope
Global responsibility
All business units (Beverages, FM, Gourmet)
Education, Language, Skills & Qualifications
Master's degree in Data Science, Statistics, Economics, or related field.
Certification in PowerBI or similar BI tools is considered a plus
Min 3 year of proven track record in a complex data environment
Strong analytical skills
Strong interpersonal skills
English business proficiency (written and spoken)
Additional Considerations Or Comments
Travel requirements: 0- 10%
Others: Willing to deviate from standard working hours to cope with global Go Live at specific moments
Section 2 - CANDIDATE PROFILE
Essential Experience & Knowledge
The ideal candidate combines some of these experiences:
Experience with data engineering (preferably on Databricks and Microsoft Azure), data wrangling and cleaning
Experience with data architecture and management
Experience with data visualization (preferable Microsoft Power BI)
Experience with Big Data & Statistics is considered a plus
Experience in multinational and complex organizations
TECHNICAL OR FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES
The Ideal Candidate Combines Some Of These Experiences
Strong programming skills in languages like Python, R, and SQL (primary data manipulation/data model Set-up & analysis tasks)
Microsoft PowerBI (primary data model Set-up)
Strong analytical skills
Able to translate technical concepts to business language and vice versa
University level degree, preferably in a data-intensive domain combined with 3 years of relevant experience
Fluency in English.
Experience in Pricing and/or Financial Reporting is an asset
LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES & PERSONAL STYLE
Translate business needs into effective solutions and processes
Ability to decomplexify and be pragmatic
Excellent communication skills
Able to perform under pressure
Self-organized, able to prioritize work.
Team player – willing to contribute to the bigger picture
Energetic & perseverance (the environment is very dynamic)
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