Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sprouts Farmers Market is embarking on a journey to provide personalized experiences for their customers. The Data Scientist will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop machine learning models and analytical solutions that enhance business outcomes and support decision-making processes.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with cross functional stakeholders to understand business requirements/KPIs to design, develop & execute analytical solutions that support decisions and improve business outcomes
- Analyze data, identify anomalies and provide actionable insights to support business partners
- Conduct analyses with high degree of precision and accuracy with readily available tools
- Predict, test and measure organization initiatives to identify impacts to business outcomes
- At regular business intervals, update and distribute reports, dashboards, presentations to executive leadership
- Drive continuous improvements throughout the organization by improving the speed in which we can transform data into decisions, actions and quantifiable results
- Respond to ad hoc data and analysis requests to support business partners
- Provide leadership and direction to ensure processes and procedures are in place to effectively use data to monitor and manage business performance
- Train and Test Supervised and Unsupervised machine learning models to predict business outcomes, segment customers or products or create recommendations or other personalized content
- Work with IT to implement machine learning models into production
- In partnership with IT manage any automated ETL processes, narrowcast reports and maintenance of business intelligence & database servers supporting the Enterprise and Customer Analytics team
- Continually improve the efficiency/usability of BI capabilities for business users
- Participate in projects to improve business intelligence capabilities, master data management, data governance, etc
- Continually validate the integrity of data sources and partner with internal and external teams to remedy issues as necessary
- Develop processes and algorithms to cleanse/standardize/join disparate data sources
- Partner with internal and external teams to integrate new sources of data into existing datasets and/or improve the reliability and availability of existing datasets
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science, math or related field required
- Ideal candidate would have 2-5 years of prior experience in a joint business/technical role responsible for both development and delivering business results
- Prior role and/or project experience in Data Science demonstrating strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience training and implementing supervised and unsupervised machine learning models
- Strong programming experience, preferably in Python
- Advanced level of experience with databases and writing SQL
- Advanced level of experience with Business Intelligence tools, such as, PowerBI, Tableau, etc
- Ability to excel in an environment of change, ambiguity, and incomplete information
- Ability to work with very large, complex and disparate data sources (accessing, connecting, and analyzing)
- Proven ability to tell a story through data and communicate effectively with key stakeholders
- Ability to handle multiple priorities against multiple deadlines
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to take and give direction while participating in a team environment
- Ability to effectively communicate information and respond to questions from groups of peers, managers, and business partners
- Experience with Microsoft Azure and Databricks a plus
- Experience with Microsoft Office Suite tools including Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Vizio, etc
- Familiarity with standard data formats including CSV, JSON, XML, etc
- High level of business acumen, retail knowledge and intuition to guide analysis and insights preferred
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Sick time plan that you can use to support you or your immediate families health
- Vacation accrual plan
- Opportunities for career growth
- 15% discount for you and one other family member in your household on all purchases made at Sprouts
- Flexible schedules
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 401(K) Retirement savings plan with a generous company match
- Company paid life insurance
- Contests and appreciation events throughout the year full of prizes, food and fun!
- Bonus based on company and/or individual performance
- Affordable benefit coverage, including medical, dental and vision
- Health Savings Account with company match
- Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care
- Company paid short-term disability coverage
- Paid parental leave for both mothers and fathers
- Paid holidays
- DailyPay - if you’re hired as an eligible employee, you’ll be able to transfer the money you’ve already earned at no extra cost, and get it the next business day, for free
Company Overview
Sprouts is the place where goodness grows. It was founded in 2002, and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://sprouts.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Sprouts Farmers Market has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.