Best Buy is a multinational retailer of technology and entertainment products and services offering consumer electronics and more. As an Associate Data Scientist, you will drive changes for the Workforce Strategy business team by applying scientific methods and data-driven solutions to optimize labor planning and strategy.
Applying scientific methods to solve real-world business problems using data
Utilizing cutting edge statistical and machine learning methods to dig deep into complex data to deliver data-driven solutions across our People & Workforce Analytics Team
Employing broad and deep knowledge of statistics, analytics, and machine learning to contribute to and enhance Best Buy’s core data science capabilities
Mining large structured and unstructured data appropriately to glean actionable insights and to make recommendations on how the data can be used to help solve straightforward business problems
Communicating with business partners to effectively translate complex models and solutions to different audiences
Collaborating with other stakeholder teams to implement and deploy scalable solutions
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in a highly quantitative field (e.g. Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Operations Research, etc) or equivalent experience.
2+ years of experience in data science, data analysis, data mining or other similar business functions.
2+ years of experience with data science/analytics programming languages (e.g. Python, R)
2+ years of experience implementing impactful ML models.
2+ years writing SQL queries and working with relational databases.
Experience Presenting complex technical information to a wide variety of audiences
Preferred
Master's degree in a highly quantitative field (e.g. Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Operations Research, etc)
Experience with Optimization
Experience with Workforce Analytics
Experience in building and deploying models using machine learning algorithms to analyze large-scale datasets, improving decision-making efficiency and accuracy.
Experience applying machine learning techniques, developing predictive models, and optimizing performance for real-world applications.
Familiar with Cloud computing platforms (e.g. GCP, AWS)
Benefit
Competitive pay
Generous employee discount
Physical and mental well-being support
Best Buy is a multinational retailer of technology and entertainment products and services offering consumer electronics and more.
