Data Scientist

Progress your career in data science within a highly regarded team
- Opportunity to immediately see tangible results derived expressly from your input
- Broad range of operational and real-time use cases across customer personalisation
- Highly flexible working environment.

**Ready to make an impact?**
The Countdown Analytics and Insight team are at the heart of delivering critical insights and operational analytics to enable the business strategy as well as our every everyday operations. Countdown is a fast paced organisation where both data science and frontline analytics is fundamental to our ability to make faster decisions that ultimately supports our mission of making kiwis lives a little better everyday.

We have a big ambition to enable an intelligent, data smart grocery retail business through the pervasive use of data and the embedding of smart analytics end to end. We are committed to putting the Customer at the heart of everything we do as well as providing an environment where team members will grow and flourish over the long term.

Data science is a critical part of making this all happen and you could be part of it.

**About the Role | Mō te Tūranga
- Works collaboratively alongside business partners and other analytics professionals
- Applies data science input and thinking focused on Customer Personalisation
- Contribute to the development of insights, predictive analysis, and simulations that lead to actionable decisions
- Contribute to improvements to the data science workbench, feature libraries and model management capabilities to enable continuous model deployment
- Design, develop, implement and maintain scalable data science models including Customer Lifecycle and propensity modelling
- Provide day to day mentoring and peer review of other data science work
- Guide and drive the shift towards better data science practices
- Design and drive the automation of everyday data science tasks

**About You | Mōu**
To succeed in this role you will need to:

- Have solid experience working within Advanced Analytics initiatives
- Be business outcomes focused and ability to show value incrementally
- Have a pragmatic approach to data science product and solution design.
- Contribute and improve our data science practices
- Solid experience working with cloud platforms in addition to Python, SQL and perhaps GCP
- Enjoy working in a collaborative, cross functional environment.
- Think creatively and critically and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and sometimes ambiguous work environment

**Working with Countdown | Te Mahi ki Countdown**

Our purpose is to make Kiwis' lives a little better every day.
We’re friendly, down-to-earth, and energetic - we work hard but we have a great time doing it, and we love what we do. There is plenty of scope for new ideas, lots of room for you to add value, and importantly, you’ll be working with a business that touches the lives of three million New Zealanders a week.

**Come as you are | Haere mai rā**

We’re an equal opportunity employer and are committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all.

**If you’re smart and good at what you do, come as you are.