Applied Scientist - Wholesale Analytics
Job Details
At Zalando, our goal is to become the â€Starting Point of Fashion†- we want our customers to always start their fashion journey from the Zalando shop, knowing that anything fashion-related could be easily found.
As the In-Season Management and Data Products team, we support this vision by ensuring relevant assortment is available to our customers and providing a great shopping experience. We want to achieve high product availability to minimise lost sales while controlling for overstock/underperformance to increase profitability.
As the Applied Scientist in our team, you'll be working with other Data Scientists and stakeholders to build the ML solutions that help Zalando place the right orders for the right articles at the right time.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
PERKS AT WORK
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.
Zalando SE
Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle, 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 35+ million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use.
Please note that all the applications must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via e-mail.
As the In-Season Management and Data Products team, we support this vision by ensuring relevant assortment is available to our customers and providing a great shopping experience. We want to achieve high product availability to minimise lost sales while controlling for overstock/underperformance to increase profitability.
As the Applied Scientist in our team, you'll be working with other Data Scientists and stakeholders to build the ML solutions that help Zalando place the right orders for the right articles at the right time.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
- Analyze, experiment, evaluate and implement data science solutions focussed on high product and assortment availability. Have a hands-on mentality and love to solve complex problems with generating insights.
- Translate business problems into project plans and solution designs using state of the art technology and methods.
- Collaborate with technical teams within your department and with business stakeholders across the company to bring the developed models in production.
- Drive data analytics and data science products within the team and your department. Actively exchange with other data scientists, analysts, engineers and commercial colleagues to untap new sources of data and know-how.
- Commercially minded attitude: build fit-for-purpose solutions that directly deliver business results with high impact.
- Fostering an inclusive and diverse team environment.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
- You have 4+ years hands-on experience in applied/data sciences, and have industry or consulting experience through-out the data science cycle from data preparation/feature engineering to go-live of a model. Masters level or higher degree in a quantitative field is preferred (e.g. in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Econometrics)
- Advanced skills in Python and libraries related to data science such as pandas, scikit-learn, Keras. Strong experience with SQL is necessary. Experience with big data technologies such as Spark are a plus. Curious about learning new technologies.
- Hands-on experience in developing and deploying machine learning algorithms used in business applications.
- Strong communicator to challenge the status quo, tell data stories, maximize decision impact of your results and liaison with commercial and tech people alike.
- Proactive, fast learner, problem solver, comfortable working in English in a fast paced international work environment.
PERKS AT WORK
- 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.
Zalando SE
Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle, 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 35+ million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use.
Please note that all the applications must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via e-mail.
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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