• Data Scientist I

    Kohl's (Menomonee Falls, WI)


    About the Role

     

    In this role you will work with a data science team and cross-functional partners to solve business challenges and promote data-driven decision making with advanced data analysis and machine learning.

    What You’ll Do

    + Assist in cleaning, preprocessing and analyzing large datasets to uncover trends, patterns and correlations

    + Conduct exploratory data analysis to cull actionable insights using analytical rigor and statistical methods

    + Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions

    + Develop and implement statistical and machine learning models to solve business problems within a cross-functional team

    + Collaborate with senior data scientists to fine-tune, optimize and ensure the scalability of models and algorithms

    + Document projects, including business objectives, data gathering and processing, leading approaches, final algorithm, detailed set of results and analytical metrics

    + Identify and drive continuous improvement of key business metrics within the balanced team

    + Remain current on the latest trends and developments in data science and technology through self-learning and training opportunities

    + Additional tasks may be assigned

     

    Addendum

    DECISION SCIENCE

    Accountabilities

    + Begin to understand business challenges and their conversion into optimization problems, focusing on defining objectives and adhering to business constraints such as budget limitations and sell-through rates

    + Contribute to large-scale optimization and statistical analysis in web analytics, forecasting, supply chain management, pricing and inventory management

    + Contribute to the tuning of models by adjusting objective functions, constraints, etc.

    Skills & Experience

    + Experience using commercial or open-source optimization tools such as Gurobi, Pyomo, CPLEX, etc

    + BS in Operations Research, Data Science, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, or equivalent quantitative field

     

    What Skills You Have

    Required

    + Experience developing state-of-the-art algorithms using machine learning, statistical and optimization methods to power various aspects of highly complex business models and deliver value

    + Experience using modern analytics tools, programming languages, and cloud platforms such as Python, R, Spark, SQL, GCP, etc.

    + Strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on product development

    + Experience proposing rapid experiments to test the effectiveness of new strategies or initiatives and iterate quickly based on results

    + Effective communication and collaboration skills

    + Bachelor’s of Science in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics or equivalent quantitative field

    + 2+ years of progressively complex data science or analytics experience

    Preferred

    + Master’s degree

    + Retail experience

    + Supply chain management

    + Marketing models

    + Logistics experience