(USA) Principal, Data Scientist

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Sams Club Product Operations Data Science team, where you will unlock member and associate insights for our product managers.

About the Sams Club Product Operations Data Science Team

The team focusses on measuring the impact of our strategic product initiatives and better connecting insights across our Product Organization. We want to enhance the speed and quality of planning within our top-notch product management function and what better place to do that than in an organization that is Product Led, Data Driven and Member Obsessed.

What you'll do:

• Provide a macro view of product-driven value to our Executive Team; creating and measuring metrics that matter and being able to tell a compelling story

• Give easy access to voice-of-the-member ; voice-of-the-associate to our product managers; dishing it up in a way that is easy to draw insights from.

• Focus on input/leading indicators and being able to demonstrate impact to output/lagging indicators.

• Establish connectivity of our data ; insights; taking advantage of all touch points with our members, showing how our work complements each other to help drive operational fixes, backlog advancement and more strategic product solutions.

• Identify high impact and return on investment opportunities.

• Build and fostering collaborative relationships with key partners (business leaders, UX, Engineering) by driving priorities across business pillars and role modeling transparency.

What you'll bring:

• Strong Technical Skills: Causal Analysis, Experimentation, Statistics, SQL, Python, R

• Ability to connect the dots: Be a strategic advisor to technology partners and can understand the business problem, the product-based solution and connect it to an analytic methodology.

• Great Collaborator: Work with stakeholders such as product managers, engineering, sister analytics teams, User Experience, and business teams

• Demonstrates Good Judgement: This is a senior role and will influence senior leadership. Minimum 10 years of experience in a data science role

• Strong Retail Experience is a plus: Experience in data science in supply chain, merchandising, in-club analytics, operations, and e Commerce.