Data Scientist

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients
Salary range: Rs 1500000 - Rs 2500000 (ie INR 15-25 LPA)

Min Experience: 5 years

Location: Bengaluru

JobType: full-time

We are looking for an experienced Data Scientist with 5–8 years of hands-on expertise, ideally within the Retail or Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) domain. The ideal candidate will possess a strong analytical foundation and a proven ability to derive actionable insights from complex datasets, particularly in areas like product analytics, geospatial data, and sales performance.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

Functional Expertise:

• Category/Product Analytics (Must Have): Analyze product assortments, identify emerging trends, and evaluate new product performance.
• Geo-Spatial Analytics (Must Have): Work with GIS tools such as ArcGIS or QGIS for spatial matching, trade area analysis, and spatial data visualization.
• Sales Data Analysis (Must Have): Analyze historical sales trends, forecast future performance, and identify key sales drivers.
• Customer Analytics (Good to Have): Utilize loyalty and campaign data to improve targeting, segmentation, and performance measurement.

Technical Skills & Tools

• Strong storytelling and data presentation skills, with the ability to communicate insights clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Azure Databricks, Python, SQL, and R.
• Solid understanding of machine learning algorithms, model evaluation, and principles of explainable AI.
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Power BI or Spotfire is a plus.

Preferred Skills

• Geo-spatial analytics
• GIS tools: ArcGIS, QGIS
• Spatial matching & trade area analysis
• Product assortment & performance analysis
• Sales forecasting & trend analysis
• Customer behavior and loyalty analytics
• Cloud and big data tools: Azure Databricks
• Programming: Python, SQL, R
• Data storytelling and stakeholder communication