Landmark Group - Senior Data Scientist

LMG - JOB DESCRIPTION

Senior Data Scientist (5-7years)

Data Science Team

Know us a little better!

The Landmark Group, founded in 1973, has a diverse portfolio of retail and hospitality brands. It has successfully grown into one of the largest and most successful retail conglomerates in the MENA region with an entrepreneurial culture focused on delivering exceptional value. The Group employs over 45,000 people and operates over 1,600 outlets covering 22 million square feet across 19 countries in the Middle East, North Africa, and India region.

Built with love and loads of effort by many smart, talented, and passionate Landmarks, our goal is simple: to deliver high impact to all business functions and institutionalize data driven decision making.

The Landmark Group is one of the leading retail and hospitality organizations in the Middle East and India. Its vast portfolio of successful businesses includes award-winning household brands like Lifestyle, Max, Splash and Home Centre.

Culturally we are an open organization with No Cabin culture and with Lean Structure

We believe Sports makes a person active and intelligent and we would be happy if you play some Table Tennis or pocket in some balls in Pool table.

An organization we are ranked as a Great place to work, and we are proud of our Company values.

Analytics Team Introduction:

Landmark Analytics Centre of Excellence was established in 2015 and is a key function to aid the different businesses of Landmark Group in both overall strategy and intelligent data driven decision making.

The team has seen immense growth from a team of 2 people in 2015 to 200+ members globally (Dubai & Bangalore). The team follows an on-shore/ off-shore model of delivery and consists of people with expertise in Retail Analytics & Product Development, solving problems not limited to Inventory Management, Assortment Planning, End to End Supply Chain & Pricing.

This is YOU!

Job Title: Senior Data Scientist (5-7 Years).

Reporting to: Lead Data Scientist, Data Labs Landmark

Location: Bangalore (India)

Job Role:

- Investigate the feasibility of applying scientific principles and concepts to business problems.

- Develop new algorithms independently to solve well defined retail problems and improve existing algorithms.

- Work with product team to implement new modules, maintain and release production pipelines in timely and responsible manner.

- Develop POCs based on new ideas or technology, popularize new innovations in retail and analytics with internal/external stakeholders.

- Collaborate with Data Engineering, Advisory and Product team to find scope of improvement and drive right processes.

Mandatory Skills:

- Retail Experience & Business Acumen(Even if its 30-50% of overall experience - at least one retail project)

- Experience in optimization projects or Pulp / Gurobipy / LP.

- Classic ML Experience - One model built in sole capacity end to end

- Good SQL / Python Hands on experience (PySpark is a plus)