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Dollar General

DATA SCIENTIST

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Goodlettsville, TN
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Entry level
At Dollar General, our mission is Serving Others! We value each and every one of our employees. Whether you are looking to launch a new career in one of our many convenient Store locations, Distribution Centers, Store Support Center or with our Private Fleet Team, we are proud to provide a wide range of career opportunities. We are not just a retail company; we are a company that values the unique strengths and perspectives that each individual brings. Your difference truly makes a difference at Dollar General. How would you like to Serve? Join the Dollar General Journey and see how your career can thrive.

Company Overview

Dollar General Corporation has been delivering value to shoppers for more than 80 years. Dollar General helps shoppers Save time. Save money. Every day.® by offering products that are frequently used and replenished, such as food, snacks, health and beauty aids, cleaning supplies, basic apparel, housewares and seasonal items at everyday low prices in convenient neighborhood locations. Learn more about Dollar General at www.dollargeneral.com/about-us.html .

Job Details

  • Perform analytical tasks that include data gathering, analysis, visualization, and data-driven storytelling as a basis of project justification and innovation. Present findings in PowerPoint or Tableau/PowerBI to stakeholders, “telling the story” with data to non-technical audiences 25%
  • Work cross-functionally across the Marketing department to understand their root business problem/question, translate those needs into analytics techniques, and deliver actionable insights 25%
  • Develop dynamic, productionized, and scalable customer-level models that generate ROI for both DG and their customers. These models may include predictive propensity models and customer segmentations. 20%
  • Create automated, reusable analytics workflows from end-to-end: from developing and maintaining SQL/Python code to the final report or dashboard deliverable. 30%

Qualifications

  • Strong problem-solving skills utilizing expertise, business judgment and robust quantitative analyses
  • High-level written and verbal communication skills, including data design and BI best practices
  • Experience developing code to combine, clean and prepare data for modeling using some combination of SQL, Python and PySpark (including but not limited to pandas, numpy, scikit-Learn, matplotlib, tensor-flow)
  • Intermediate to advanced skills with BI tools such as Tableau and PowerBI
  • Identify and implement proper data preparation and feature engineering methods, such as outlier identification and removal, principal components analysis (PCA), and general data structuring
  • Demonstrated ability to translate complicated analytics topics and insights into easily communicable concepts to non-technical audience, including model accuracy and feature importance
  • Practical experience ingesting and manipulating large volumes of data (millions of records)
  • Proficiency with common analytical platforms, including distributed compute (e.g. Databricks, Hadoop, Snowflake, etc.)
  • Experience with code management tools such as Github (familiarity with CI/CD practices preferred)
  • Experience with retail industry or marketing and media networks is preferred
  • MS in Data Science, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related applied quantitative field preferred. Bachelor’s in a highly quantitative/STEM field considered with the right experience.
  • 2-5 years hands-on industry (non-academic) experience in Data Science (or equivalent quantitative job title). Strong background in applying statistical machine learning techniques to predictive modeling and experience with Machine Learning libraries

Key informations

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