Manager, Data Science

Category/Area of Expertise: Data-Science & Analytics
Job Requisition: 477961
Address: USA-IL-Chicago-300 South Riverside Plaza
Store Code: Data Science (5157869)

Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is part of the U.S. family of brands, which includes five leading omnichannel grocery brands - Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Our associates support the brands with a wide range of services, including Finance, Legal, Sustainability, Commercial, Digital and E-commerce, Technology and more.

Primary Purpose:

The Data Science Manager will lead a team focused on delivering business insights using data science expertise/techniques/tools that materially improve critical decisions by senior management and drive the business mission/strategy forward. This position provides effective leadership and hands-on, practical executional guidance to a specialized analytical team. While most projects focus on marketing, merchandising, or shopper analytics, projects range across the org.

Our flexible/ hybrid work schedule includes 3 in-person days at one of our core locations and 2 remote days. Our core office locations include Chicago, IL, and Quincy, MA.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provide ongoing leadership to a strong, capable team that meets or exceeds the company's Data Science requirements.
• Develop and train team of Data Scientists to create quality models, ensuring outputs are logical and actionable.
• Provide ongoing counsel to key clients Sr. Brand, Marketing and Merchandising Leadership and other key decision makers regarding proper interpretation and application of model output.
• Provide input and significantly influence the development and refinement of company strategies.
• Lead the development and deployment of customer segmentations, scores, store clustering and other KPI models to predict the impact of potential actions or programs being considered.
• Lead innovation in data science methodologies and tools, staying abreast of industry developments related to data science and proactively exploring opportunities to advance organizational capabilities.
• Develop strong relationships that enable learning about the business and how their work directly impacts decisions.
• For specific projects, draw out critical information that impacts the learning objectives and incorporate into all work.
• Identification of additional data requirements and partner with the data domain owners to collect and organize new data elements.
• Maintain proficiency with major business systems and the data on which it relies.
• Subject matter expert on methodologies and data sources used in modeling environment.

• At least 8 years experience in Data Science
• At least 3 years of experience managing a team
• Strong foundation in statistics and machine learning
• Experience building customer segmentation models (experience in Fulfillment domain is a plus)
• Programming Languages - SQL, Python, Spark

• Master's Degree in Quantitative Field (Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, etc.
• Experience in the Food industry (Grocery, CPG, etc.) or Retail industry
• Experience in the Fulfillment domain
• Experience with forecasting
• Experience with Databricks