Elsbethen, Salzburg, Austria, Austria
July 24, 2024
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Data Scientists: Do you have the required skills and passion to drive real impact at one of the most recognisable brands globally?
In this role, you'll contribute to global Data Science projects to enable business stakeholders to make better data-driven decisions. You'll work closely with other team members and business stakeholders to build, run, and improve data science products. You'll focus on statistical analyses to solve ad-hoc business problems to generate impact. Finally, never content with the status-quo, you will also be responsible for innovation – for instance by introducing new data-driven business ideas, new statistical methods, new data products, or by supporting new business processes.
All the responsibilities we'll trust you with:
DELIVER PROJECTS PART OF EXISTING DATA SCIENCE SERVICE LINES
You'll support the team by efficiently managing, running, and delivering Data Science projects. This end-to-end approach includes everything from project scoping, execution, quality assurance, and delivery via convincing presentations.
DRIVE INNOVATION
Not content focusing exclusively on existing service lines and initiatives, you'll actively think along and propose new ways of generating even more value for our stakeholders.
STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT
You'll build close relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Thanks to your collaborative attitude and ability to absorb constructive feedback, you'll maximise the likelihood of making each and every Data Science initiative a success for the company.
Organisational Responsibilities
You'll work together with the Data Science management team and support them with impact tracking, project and pipeline planning, preparing materials for the planning cycles, internal trainings, onboarding new colleagues, internal and external outreach, and many more.
Your areas of knowledge and expertise that matter most for this role:
As an employer, we value diversity and support people in developing their potential and strengths, realizing their ideas and seizing opportunities. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, skin colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or origin.
In this role, you'll contribute to global Data Science projects to enable business stakeholders to make better data-driven decisions. You'll work closely with other team members and business stakeholders to build, run, and improve data science products. You'll focus on statistical analyses to solve ad-hoc business problems to generate impact. Finally, never content with the status-quo, you will also be responsible for innovation – for instance by introducing new data-driven business ideas, new statistical methods, new data products, or by supporting new business processes.
All the responsibilities we'll trust you with:
DELIVER PROJECTS PART OF EXISTING DATA SCIENCE SERVICE LINES
You'll support the team by efficiently managing, running, and delivering Data Science projects. This end-to-end approach includes everything from project scoping, execution, quality assurance, and delivery via convincing presentations.
DRIVE INNOVATION
Not content focusing exclusively on existing service lines and initiatives, you'll actively think along and propose new ways of generating even more value for our stakeholders.
STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT
You'll build close relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Thanks to your collaborative attitude and ability to absorb constructive feedback, you'll maximise the likelihood of making each and every Data Science initiative a success for the company.
Organisational Responsibilities
You'll work together with the Data Science management team and support them with impact tracking, project and pipeline planning, preparing materials for the planning cycles, internal trainings, onboarding new colleagues, internal and external outreach, and many more.
Your areas of knowledge and expertise that matter most for this role:
- 4+ years of work experience in Data Science or in a related field; experience in sports (performance) analytics is a plus.
- Programming: know at least one of R, Python, SQL with the ability and willingness to learn the other two
- Data Literacy: ability to prepare datasets ensuring top quality such that essence of said data and the implications for the problem at hand can be grasped quickly
- Statistical Reasoning: theoretical and applied understanding of Stats, Probability and ML Algorithms and know how to use these tools to reduce uncertainty in a business context (regression, visualisation)
- Technical Literacy: applied understanding of modern computing allows the candidate to do things which go beyond the strict definition of Data Science (git, API calls, web crawling, …)
- Presentation Skills: present coherent data stories at the appropriate level of abstraction given the audience
- Stakeholder Management: skilled at building mutually beneficial connections with functional stakeholders is a plus
- Pragmatic Critical Thinking: intuitively consider relevant costs/benefits in all decisions and act accordingly
- Outcome Driven: highly motivated to add value and to demonstrate that impact to the organisation
- Scientific Reasoning/ Scoping: ability to define and formulate new questions, in addition to answering given ones
- Grit: proven capability to see things through to the end even if initial feedback is discouraging
- Good command of English, both spoken and written. German a plus
As an employer, we value diversity and support people in developing their potential and strengths, realizing their ideas and seizing opportunities. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, skin colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or origin.
