NielsenIQ Looking for Data Scientist – Retail Analytics at Toronto, Ontario, Canada Full Time

The Data Scientist will access, analyze and interpret customer transactional data on behalf of Nielsen IQ clients to drive insights using statistical techniques in support of business objectives such as category management, marketing strategy development and execution, and ad hoc strategic and tactical client issues. The person in this role will be responsible for Analytics production support and deployment. This includes executing, developing, deploying and measuring NIQ’s analytical products that are configured for clients.

This role is an integral part of the Retail Analytics Data Science Team. The successful candidate will have relevant retail and B2B industry experience and strong capabilities in statistical and mathematical modeling in advanced analytics applications. This role will have the opportunity to grow within the role and progress toward future career development objectives along a number of potential paths including a focus on deeper analyses and model development, client relationship management, and/or personalized marketing. This role is key to ensuring that NIQ delivers products/services and solutions that meet clients’ needs for tactics that increase sales and profits – and in an on-time/on budget capacity – which support client results and satisfaction and revenue retention/growth.

Responsible for delivering analytical solution that is:

• Technically robust
• Sound and defensible
• Delivered within required timing
• Actionable
• Incrementally adds value beyond client’s existing understanding or capability

Responsibilities

• Implement, score, and maintain advanced ML and statistical models and customer segmentations
• Produce accurate statistical analysis and ensure high quality of the data analysis produced
• Interpret, document and present/communicate analytical results to multiple business disciplines, providing conclusions and recommendations based off customer-centric data
• Take analytical objectives and define data requirements. Extract, clean, and transform customer and item-level data for purposes of analysis, modeling/segmentation and reporting
• Hands-on data extraction and reporting off customer database
• Participate in special projects and ad-hoc as required

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Math/Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Industrial Engineering or related field. Master’s Degree preferred
• Minimum of 1-2 years of directly related work or intern experience in quantitative analysis with proven results in leveraging customer/transaction to drive actionable insights and recommendations. Experience in retail and/or CPG sector is strongly preferred
• Strong understanding of statistical techniques and the willingness to learn and champion methodologies for customer analysis
• Highly proficient in SQL and Python/R/or similar statistical packages
• Experience with machine learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-Learn) and libraries (e.g., pandas, NumPy)
• Ability to translate business objectives into analytical plans, conduct thorough analyses, interpret findings, derive and communicate actionable insights to internal teams and clients
• Ability to translate complex analytical concepts and results into clear written and verbal communications to internal and external stakeholders
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects of varying size and complexity, while meeting and exceeding deadlines in a diverse and dynamic environment
• Strong team player with excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills, adeept at collaborative work environments

Additional Information

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

About NIQ

NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.

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