Data Scientist III

As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you’re provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community!Meijer Rewards

Weekly pay

Scheduling flexibility

Paid parental leave

Paid education assistance

Team member discount

Development programs for advancement and career growth

Please review the job profile below and apply today!The Data Science team at Meijer leads the strategy, development and integration of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence at Meijer. Data Scientists on the team will drive customer loyalty, digital conversion, and system efficiencies by delivering innovative data driven solutions. Through these solutions, the data scientists drive material business value, mitigating business and operational risk, and significantly impacts the customer experience. This role works directly with product development, merchandising, marketing, operations, ITS, ecommerce, and vendor partnersWhat You'll Be Doing:

Deliver against the overall data science strategy to drive in-store and digital merchandising, marketing, customer loyalty, and operational performance

Partner with product development to define requirements which meet system and customer experience needs for data science projects

Partner with Merchandising, Supply Chain, Operations and customer insights to understand the journey that will be improved with the data science deliverables

Build prototypes for, and iteratively develop, end-to-end data science pipelines including custom algorithms, statistical models, machine learning and artificial intelligence functions to meet end user needs

Partner with product development and technology teams to deploy pipelines into production MLOps environment following Safe Agile methodology

Proactively identify data driven solutions for strategic cross-functional initiatives, develop and present business cases, and gain stakeholder alignment of solution

Responsible to define, document and follow best practices and approve for ML/AI development at Meijer

Own communication with data consumers (internal and external) to ensure they understand the data science products, have the proper training, and are following the best practices in application of data science products

Define and analyze Key Performance Indicators to monitor the usage, adoption, health and value of the data products

Identify and scope, in conjunction with IT, the architecture of systems and environment needs to ensure that data science systems can deliver against strategy

Build and maintain relationships with key partners, suppliers and industry associations and continue to advance data science capabilities, knowledge and impactThis job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required

What You'll Be Doing:

Advanced Degree (MA/MS, PhD) in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or related quantitative field

Certifications: Azure Data Science Associate, Azure AI, Safe Agile

6+ years of relevant data science experience in an applied role – preferable w/in retail, logistics, supply chain or CPG

Advanced and hands on experience using: Python, Databricks, Azure ML, Azure Cognitive Service, SAS, R, SQL, PySpark, Numpy, Pandas, Scikit Learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, AutoTS, Prophet, NLTK

Experience with Azure Cloud technologies including Azure DevOps, Azure Synapse, MLOps, GitHub

Solid experience working with large datasets and developing ML/AI systems such as: natural language processing, speech/text/image recognition, supervised and unsupervised learning models, forecasting and/or econometric time series models

Proactive and action oriented

Ability to collaborate with, and present to internal and external partners

Able to learn company systems, processes and tools, and identify opportunities to improve

Detail oriented and organized

Ability to meet production deadlines

Strong communications, interpersonal and organizational skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Understanding of intellectual property rights, compliance and enforcement

We opened our doors more than 90 years ago with the goal of helping people provide for themselves and their family. Today we’re a multi-billion dollar retailer with more than 70,000 employees across six states. Our Midwest geography includes corporate offices in Grand Rapids, Michigan, plus manufacturing facilities, distribution centers and over 270 stores across Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Wisconsin.Meijer is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are committed to treating all persons with dignity and respect. Meijer's policy is to not discriminate because of any applicant or team member's race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, religion, age, physical or mental disability, uniformed service or veteran status, or any other lawfully-protected classification. If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of your application, please click here to submit your request . Submissions that are not seeking help to complete the application due to a disability will not be responded to.