Junior Decision Scientist – Trading & Operations Analytics

General Purpose:

As a Junior Decision Scientist in Trading & Operations Analytics, you will leverage a comprehensive analytics toolkit to uncover business opportunities through data-driven insights. This role involves analyzing cross-domain data, developing decision support models, and providing actionable recommendations based on statistical insights to maximize effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities:

Consulting:

• Apply expertise in data analytics and statistics to support in answering key business questions.
• Focus on understanding and analyzing data from the past and present perspectives to support in the creation of reliable insights for our stakeholders.

Analytics / Reporting:

• Support the development of quantitative analysis, tools, ad hoc reports, and models that support decision making. Analysis areas might include (but not limited to): products lifecycle, products attribute and ranges, buying process, marketplace data, consumer feedback data…
• Support in the production of data visualization such as charts, infographics, and dashboards to communicate findings and actionable recommendations to internal stakeholders clearly and effectively.

Key Relationships:

• Trading & Operations Teams
• Decision Intelligence Team
• Markets & Digital Strategy

Requirements, Education & Professional Experience:

• A degree in mathematics, economics, statistics, computer science or a similar quantitative field.

Hard-Skills:

• Experience finding, cleaning and transforming large data sets to build reports, dashboards and / or data assets.
• Statistical modeling and data analysis experience (e.g. significance testing, regression modeling, sampling theory etc.) and knowledge of linear algebra, calculus, probability and statistics.
• Experience using Python, R or a similar scripting language for statistical modeling.
• Experience with SQL (e.g. aggregate functions, joins) NoSQL or other data querying languages.
• Experience creating data visualization using tools such as e.g. Tableau, MicroStrategy, Power BI, matplotlib, plotly or something similar.

Soft-Skills:

• The ability to story tell around the data
• Clear written and oral communication skills.
• Fluent in English both verbally and written.