Applied Scientist - Supply Planning and Analytics (w/m/d)
- Employer
- Zalando
- Location
- Berlin
- Closing date
- 2 Mar 2021
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- Function
- Strategy & Business Intelligence
- Level
- Manager
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Job Details
At Zalando, customers have a choice of more than 2000 brands and over 300k articles. As a Senior Applied Scientist in Predictive Buying within Supply Planning and Analytics you have the opportunity to design the solution that will optimize our buying decisions, creating a distinct impact that will directly affect over 30m customers. Predictive analytics will be used to optimize various business metrics including improving efficiency of our workforce. The SP&A team uses cutting edge technology, data science and machine learning to forecast demand and analyse risks long before the season starts with a focus on business and customer experience. Partnerships happen with the Applied sciences research team, all key engineering and product teams along with business team members.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
ABOUT ZALANDO
Zalando is Europe's leading online platform for fashion, connecting customers, brands and partners across 17 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 23 million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
- You keep upto date with the latest algorithmic improvements in forecasting and time series areas, can challenge the status quo and eager to discuss the improvements possible to the solutions
- Conceptualize, implement and evaluate state-of-the-art algorithmic solutions for supply forecasting, inventory optimizations and predicting sales. You're passionate about problem solving and don't mind getting your hands dirty
- Conduct applied research in causal inference and predictive modelling. You will act as a bar raiser for data science methodologies within Zalando Supply Organization
- Effectively communicate with business stakeholders and technical counterparts within the same team and within the organization whenever necessary.
- Demonstrated skills in applied sciences, have been part of feature engineering, modelling, validation and go live for multiple models in production.
- Excellent educational background (minimum Masters) in data science, machine learning, statistics, computer science or other similar quantitative field. Minimum 6 years of industry experience.
- Sound theoretical and applied knowledge about machine learning, Good software engineering skills for prototype development and implementation of scalable solutions in production. Strong experience with Python and machine learning libraries such as scikit-learn, PyTorch, Tensor Flow, Keras, pySpark, etc.
- You're passionate to solve difficult problems and build pragmatic, scalable solutions that deliver business results
- Culture of trust, empowerment and constructive feedback, open source commitment, meetups, game nights, 70+ internal technical and fun guilds, knowledge sharing through tech talks, internal tech academy and blogs, product demos, parties & events
- Competitive salary, employee share shop, 40% Zalando shopping discount, discounts from external partners, centrally located offices, public transport discounts, municipality services, great IT equipment, flexible working times, additional holidays and volunteering time off, free beverages and fruits, diverse sports and health offerings
- Extensive onboarding, mentoring and personal development opportunities and an international team of experts
- Relocation assistance for internationals, PME family service and parent & child rooms* (*available in select locations)
We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
ABOUT ZALANDO
Zalando is Europe's leading online platform for fashion, connecting customers, brands and partners across 17 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 23 million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use.
Company
Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle. Founded in Berlin in 2008, we bring head-to-toe fashion to 35 million active customers in 17 markets, offering clothing, footwear, accessories and beauty from over 3,000 international brands.
Our platform is a one-stop fashion destination for inspiration, innovation and interaction. As Europe’s most fashionable tech company, we work hard to find digital solutions for every aspect of the fashion journey: for our customers, partners and every valuable player in the Zalando story.
Our goal is to become the starting point for fashion. We focus on the fashion industry and therefore operate in a variety of business areas.
- Fashion Store
Zalando online shops are tailored to local customers’ needs in 17 different European markets. The range extends from renowned global brands and fast fashion to local brands and is supplemented by our private labels.
- Offprice
The Offprice business of Zalando serves the sale of previous season’s assortments. As part of a shopping club, the Zalando Lounge offers registered members exclusive sales campaigns at discounted prices.
- Zalando's Private Labels
Zalando’s private label assortment includes shoes, clothing and accessories for women, men and children. With a total of six private labels, Zalando creates its own products, covering the entire value chain from design to sales.
- Zalon
Zalon is our style advice service, via which customers can consult and get inspiration from selected stylists regarding individualized purchases.
- Zalando Marketing Services
The entirety of Zalando’s expertise and scope is bundled in Zalando Marketing Services, which now offers personalized marketing solutions for our brand partners.
- Zalando Fulfilment Solutions
Zalando makes its own logistics capabilities available to external partners, so they do not have to be concerned with infrastructure issues but can concentrate fully on their core competence in the fashion business.
- Zalando Partner Services
Zalando helps other players in the industry to be successful in the digital world. For example, by connecting warehouse stocks with multiple retailers, by digitizing processes involved in fashion wholesale and by integrating offline businesses into our Zalando platform.
With a strong workforce of around 14,000 employees of over 130 different nationalities, Zalando unites diverse people, capabilities and concepts. Consolidating our effort and ideas scales our impact as an innovator in Fashion, Technology, Digital Marketing and Logistics Operations.
Company info
- Website
- https://jobs.zalando.com/
- Telephone
- +49 (0)30 2759 4693
- Location
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Zalando SE
Valeska-Gert-Straße 5
Berlin
Germany
10243
Germany
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