Research Data Scientist

dunnhumby is the global leader in Customer Data Science, empowering businesses everywhere to compete and thrive in the modern data-driven economy. We always put the Customer First.

Our mission: to enable businesses to grow and reimagine themselves by becoming advocates and champions for their Customers. With deep heritage and expertise in retail – one of the world’s most competitive markets, with a deluge of multi-dimensional data – dunnhumby today enables businesses all over the world, across industries, to be Customer First.

dunnhumby employs nearly 2,500 experts in offices throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas working for transformative, iconic brands such as Tesco, Coca-Cola, Meijer, Procter & Gamble and Metro.

Joining our team, you’ll work with world class and passionate people to apply machine learning and statistical techniques to business problems. You’ll contribute to the research and implementation of new approaches to address complex problems and perform data analysis and model validation. You’ll have the opportunity to present results to a variety of internal stakeholders. You will apply these techniques and algorithms to create dunnhumby science solutions that can be delivered across our clients and engineered into science modules. This role will be focused on how we ensure better decisions are made as part of category management, ensuring the right product is in the hands of the customer, by enhancing our data-led understanding of products and categories, optimising across space and range and increasing automation of category decision making.

• PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Statistics, Applied Statistics, Physics, Engineering, Biology or related field.
• Experience with machine learning techniques such as regularised regression, clustering or tree-based ensembles, and the ability to implement them through libraries.
• Experience with programming, ideally Python, and the ability to quickly pick up handling large data volumes with modern data processing tools, e.g. using Hadoop / Spark / SQL.
• Experience with or ability to quickly learn open-source software including machine learning packages, such as Pandas, scikit-learn, along with data visualisation technologies.
• Experience in retail sector would be an added advantage.

We won’t just meet your expectations. We’ll defy them. So you’ll enjoy the comprehensive rewards package you’d expect from a leading technology company, plus a degree of personal flexibility you might not expect. Thoughtful perks, like flexible working hours and your birthday off, are part of our offering.

You’ll also benefit from an investment in cutting-edge technology that reflects our global ambition. But with a nimble, small-business feel that gives you the freedom to play, experiment and learn.

And we don’t just talk about diversity and inclusion. We live it every day – with thriving networks including dh Gender Equality Network, dh Proud, dh Family, dh One, dh Enabled and dh Thrive as the living proof. We want everyone to have the opportunity to shine and perform at your best throughout our recruitment process. Please let us know how we can make this process work best for you.

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At dunnhumby, we utilise our diversity of thought as our competitive edge.

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Our diversity and inclusion work is designed to cultivate a culture of belonging, where every dunnhumbian feels safe to bring their whole self to work, where everyone is welcome and we practice what we preach.

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