Decision Scientist- Retail Media - Military Veterans
at Albertsons
About the company
Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. With a fixation on raising the bar with innovation and building belonging through our culture, our team is rallying our company around a unique purpose: to create joy around each table and inspire a healthier tomorrow for every community.
Albertsons Companies is one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, with over 2,200 stores in 34 states and the District of Columbia. Our well-known banners include Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Acme, Tom Thumb, Randalls, United Supermarkets, Pavilions, Star Market, Haggen, Carrs, Kings Food Markets, and Balducci's Food Lovers Market. We support our stores with 22 distribution centers and 19 manufacturing plants.
About Albertsons Media Collective
Albertsons Media Collective is a tech-centric, people-focused retail media network. Albertsons Media Collective assembles an inclusive, dynamic team of proven industry leaders to help drive sales for our clients and profitable growth for Albertsons. Albertsons Media Collective has a rich history of tradition, innovation, relationships, community values, and putting customers first. We reach shoppers where they are. Anytime, everyplace through the moments that matter most.
We're a collection of local businesses serving communities through the richness of diversity, relationships, and locality.
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Building the future of food and well-being starts with you. Join our team and bring your best self to the table. #LI-AL1
What you will be doing
Albertson's Companies is looking for a Decision Scientist to join our Marketing Science Research & Analytics team to drive complex, high priority analytics projects that are critical to understanding and adding value to our business. The Marketing Science Research & Analytics team works directly with our Senior Leadership & Product teams to help answer questions that influence the direction of the business in both short & long term via data-driven insights and targeted recommendations. In this role, your focus will be designing and executing analysis around our most pressing problems to drive causal understanding of campaign performance.
You have extensive, hands-on SQL & Python knowledge that allows you to parse through large & noisy datasets to validate assumptions and uncover new paths forward. You have a passion for debunking false correlations and understand how to control the correct variables to develop causal understanding without bias. You have strong stakeholder management skills and aren't afraid of working with ambiguity; the success as a team depends on identifying the most valuable problems and extracting the right requirements from stakeholders across the business (Strategy, Leadership, Engineering, Innovation) while finding creative solutions to legacy problems the. You will report to the Head of Marketing Science Research & Analytics and act as our lead analyst responsible for meta-analyses in addition to helping support larger modeling efforts within The Collective.
The position will be remoter but there is a preference to be located close to one of our main regional offices (Seattle, WA, Portland, OR, Pleasanton CA, Denver CO, Dallas TX, Chicago, IL, or Fullerton, CA, Phoenix, AZ).
Main responsibilities
- Provide key relationships between core components of a campaign's composition (Audience, Creative, etc.) and Return On Ad Spend (ROAS).
- Help build the story to shift the Retail Media Network Industry toward Incremental Performance Metrics by distinguishing and comparing these success metrics vs. traditional metrics like ROAS.
- Work with our Measurement & Engineering teams to improve underlying methodologies via analysis that will help us more clearly articulate performance.
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What we are searching for
- A bachelor's degree in Math, Statistics, Engineering, or an equivalent STEM degree strongly preferred.
- 4+ years of direct experience in Data Science roles.
- 2+ years' experience within Advertising/Media Data strongly preferred.
- Expert SQL skills and robust working knowledge of Data Warehousing required.
- Strong Python experience required.
- Demonstrated experience working with & optimizing large, complex data sets.
- Demonstrated experience working collaboratively with Data Engineering to enable & optimize data.
- Demonstrated experience surfacing meaningful insights and integrating strategic recommendations that directly influence business trajectory.
- Skill with data visualization (PowerBI, ggplot, plotly, etc.) & storytelling skills to help translate complex insights to stakeholders with varying levels of data literacy.
- Strategic bent and ability to drive, build, and optimize analyses and light-weight data products without strict guidance.
Our 290,000 associates have a passion for great service and building lasting relationships with our customers. Through a companywide focus on innovation, we are continually enhancing our digital and product offerings, making it easy for customers to get what they need, wherever they are.
Albertsons is an Equal Opportunity Employer
This Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, or on any other basis prohibited by law. Consistent with applicable state and local law, the Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Albertsons Companies is a leading food and drug retailer that operates stores across 34 states and the District of Columbia with more than 20 well-known banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Acme, Tom Thumb, Randalls, United Supermarkets, Pavilions, Star Market, Haggen, Carrs, Kings Food Markets and Balducci's Food Lovers Market. The Company is committed to helping people across the country live better lives by making a meaningful difference, neighborhood by neighborhood.
We believe that diverse perspectives strengthen and enrich our stores, our company, and our society. Diversity, equity, and inclusion is a component of our programs for recruitment, development and training of associates and leaders. We provide opportunities for each person in our company to contribute their ideas, talents, and enthusiasm to the company’s success. Associates can participate in various associate resource and network groups, such as Women’s Inspiration and Inclusion Network (WIIN), Hispanic Leadership Network, Asian Network, Albertsons African American Leadership Council, and Albertsons Pride Alliance.
Who We Are Looking For
Albertsons companies is seeking transitioning military service members, military veterans and military spouses across the country who are looking to join an amazing company with a dynamic atmosphere that helps you learn and grow in all interest areas. We offer an inclusive and diverse culture where leaders become lifelong allies, as well as amazing health and wellness benefits to keep you at your best- all with competitive compensation!
Should I Apply?
Our diverse roles are nation-wide and provide opportunities in specialties such as:
· Store operations
· Warehouse
· Pharmacy
· Manufacturing
· Digital atmosphere
· Technology
· Corporate
What Happens After I Apply?
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