Overview

Position Title: Director

Company: Pandora

Location: Belton, United Kingdom

Job Description:

Our Data Science & Machine Learning team in the Data & Analytics Center of Excellence at Pandora are a group of data-driven professionals who support business units across the full value chain with actionable insights and predictive analytics. We have a data lake, a unified analytics platform and solid communication skills that help us translate data into business value. Your new team consists of a diverse and happy group of analysts, scientists, engineers and product people with a clear mission: We are here to deliver data-driven experiences in all consumer journey touchpoints, develop actionable insights to inform business decisions across supply chain, product, marketing, commerce, finance, HR and more – and have fun while doing it.

Responsibilities: 

  • Develop and nurture a results-driven team culture to ensure effectiveness of products and teams.
  • Lead design, implementation and scaling of data and analytics products that support business
  • objectives and vision across the value chain and drive adoption across business units, markets and technology platforms.
  • Collaborate with the ML Engineering team and the wider Digital and Technology organization to evolve the data architecture to support better integration, and platform tools to support data science.
  • Build organizational capabilities by attracting, developing and retaining a team of world-class data science talent.
  • Communicate outputs from data science models at an executive level, and help senior business executives and teams drive complex decisions based on data and insights.
  • Develop team goals, strategy and operational plans needed to achieve the mission in collaboration with team managers.
  • Accountable for data science platforms and solutions, algorithmic design and analytics products.

Reqirements:

  • Advanced knowledge of databases and engineering concepts with hands on experience with one or more data analytics/programming tools such as Hive/SQL/Spark/Python/R/Julia incl.
  • Experience in developing and delivering data science projects through POC, MVP through to production and maintenance, working closely with engineering and technology teams and using modern agile methodologies and tools.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills with an ability to explain complex analytical concepts to non-experts and senior business stakeholders.
  • Experience in designing and delivering a data science roadmap and the vision behind it.
  • Extensive experience with data science, machine learning and optimization techniques.
  • Experience running data science in a modern DevOps, MLOps and data engineering environment incl.real-time analytics use cases
  • 10+ years of professional data science and machine learning experience, 5+ years of experience in building and managing data science and analytics teams responsible for delivering, scaling and productionizing data and analytics products within marketing, commerce, merchandising, supply chain, product, finance, HR.
  • Track record of recruiting and retaining data and analytics talent.
  • An advanced degree in a quantitative field – computer science, engineering, physics, statistics or other.

About Pandora

Pandora designs, manufactures and markets hand-finished and contemporary jewellery made from high-quality materials at affordable prices. Pandora jewellery is sold in more than 100 countries on six continents through more than 7,500 points of sale, including more than 2,700 concept stores.