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Albertsons Companies

Sr. Director Data Science

Albertsons Companies, Pleasanton, California, United States, 94566


About the company

Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. With a fixation on raising the bar with innovation and building belonging through our culture, our team is rallying our company around a unique purpose: to create joy around each table and inspire a healthier tomorrow for every community.

Albertsons Companies is one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, with over 2,200 stores in 34 states and the District of Columbia. Our well-known banners include Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Acme, Tom Thumb, Randalls, United Supermarkets, Pavilions, Star Market, Haggen, Carrs, Kings Food Markets, and Balducci's Food Lovers Market. We support our stores with 22 distribution centers and 19 manufacturing plants.

Placing a premium on adaptability, safety and family well-being, our work model, Presence with a Purpose, offers a hybrid work environment between remote work and office time. A one-size-fits-all approach does not apply to everyone, and teams are empowered to make decisions best for them.

Bring your flavor

Building the future of food and well-being starts with you. Join our team and bring your best self to the table.

The Data Science Department has an opening for a Senior Director Data Science.

The Data Science team at Albertsons Companies is looking for an experienced Data Science Leader to work for the most transformational food and drug retailers in the United States. Albertsons operates over 2,300 stores under 19 well-known banners and is the third largest private company in the country.

Data Science at Albertsons is inspired to build best in class customer experience and revolutionize the food and drug retail industry. We are looking for people who are excited in re-imagining the grocery experience by harnessing the power of AI and digital technologies.

What you will be doing

You will partner with business leaders to drive continuous process improvement.

You will act as a funnel for intake of all DS work across the enterprise and build appropriate coalition of modeling and engineering teams to deliver complete solutions.

In conjunction with DS leadership group, you will develop and execute on an “end-to-end DS capabilities roadmap” for ML modeling and engineering work across data science in a cross-functional manner.

You will create and own a “Technology for data science roadmap” to enumerate the Data science specifications for ML platforms, chatbots, ML Ops infrastructure.

You will ensure coordination between Data Science teams & various IT groups including ML Engineering, data engineering, and AI engineering in executing the strategy.

You will enjoy working with one of the richest data sets in the world, cutting edge technology, and the ability to see your insights turned into business impacts on regular basis. You'll lead data scientists and partner with business in identifying and defining data science projects, building machine learning algorithms and models on top of existing data platforms. A successful candidate will be both technically strong and business savvy, with a passion to make an impact through creative storytelling and timely actions. The level of this position will be determined at the time of the interview.

The position will be based in Pleasanton, CA or Boise, ID.

Main responsibilities

You will set the vision and roadmap for a cross-functional team of data scientists, data analysts, data engineers and product managers that will build foundational data science capabilities.

You will lead the efforts to convert multiple point solutions to platforms at scale.

You will lead efforts to connect merch planning, supply chain operations, promo, price, clearance and S&OP through common forecasts.

You will lead partnerships with cross-functional teams to deliver analytical, predictive and decision-support solutions for supply chain and fulfillment-related functions and capabilities.

Recruit, build and lead high-performing teams of data scientists and machine learning engineers in a technical capacity.

Provide technical and thought leadership in data science. Guide architectures, data science models, machine learning algorithms and engineering best practices.

Use machine learning to solve real customer problems, power the next generation experiences for large scale applications in real time.

Drive meetings and lead discussions. Prioritize projects across the team and allocate resources to meet business and team goals.

Communicate sophisticated machine learning and modeling solutions effectively with intuitive visualizations for business stakeholders.

The salary range is $218,900 to $284,300 annually. Starting salary will vary based on criteria such as location, experience, and qualifications. Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, sick pay, PTO/Vacation Pay, paid holidays, bereavement pay, and retirement benefits. Associates in this position are also eligible for a quarterly bonus.

What we are searching for

Advanced degree in a STEM field like CS, DS, Engineering, Statistics, Math, etc. is preferred, or equivalent experience.

5+ years management experience in building and leading data science teams.

Specific experience and skills working in the retail and grocery industry is preferred.

10+ years of industry experience in applying data science: experimental design, machine learning, deep learning algorithms etc.

8+ years of experience and proficiency in Python, SQL.

5+ years of hands-on experience in building data science solutions on big data platforms such as Snowflake, Spark, Hadoop.

Excellent communications skills, with the ability to synthesize, simplify and explain complex problems to different audience.

Albertsons is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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