Applied Data Scientist

We know life is different for everyone, so at Tesco we are open to flexible working conversations. Whether you're starting out, seeking balance, or navigating life changes like parenthood or caregiving — talk to us. You will spend around 60% of your time working from our offices or sites, and the rest remotely.

Tesco is committed to celebrating diversity and everyone is welcome at Tesco. As a Disability Confident Employer, we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, allowing candidates the opportunity to thrive and inform us of any reasonable adjustments they may require.

Tesco is a diverse and exciting employer, dedicated to being #aplacetogeton, providing career-defining opportunities to all our colleagues. If you chose to join our business, we will provide you with:

• Competitive Compensation packagebased on your experience and skills (Cafeteria, Mobile phone, 15% shopping discount in every Hungarian Tesco store)
• Annual privatehealthcare package
• Performance-based annualbonus
• Minimum of25 paid leave days per year
• Career Growthis not just a cliché - we operate in 3 markets as one Central European business, so there are many opportunities for growth and development
• Solid Business Backgroundwith more than 100 proud years of company history
• We are aGreat Team,and we are not fond of any formalities here
• Modern Officewith great location (e.g.: free parking)
• Flexible working policy

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• Engaging with business & functional partners to understand business priorities, ask relevant questions and scope same into a analytical, data science solution document calling out how application of data science will improve decision making- In depth understanding of techniques to prepare the analytical data set leveraging multiple complex data set sources
• Building Statistical models and ML/AI algorithms, Agentic AI features with practitioner level competency
• Writing structured, modularized & computationally efficient production-ready codes using Continuous Improvement principles (development of knowledge assets and reusable modules on GitHub, Wiki, etc.) with expert competency
• Packaging the results in a manner that is easy to consume for the business (insight led, visually easy to understand) and answering the original question)
• Working with the line manager to ensure application / consumption and also think beyond the immediate ask and spot opportunities to address the bigger business questions (if any)
• Keeping up-to-date with the latest in data science and retail analytics, actively taking part in knowledge sharing among colleagues

• Education: University
• Professional experience: 4 years+
• Required English level: Advanced (C1)
• 3+ year experience in data science application preferably in Retail or CPG
• Strong international collaboration skills in cross-locational teams
• Functional experience: Marketing, Supply Chain, Customer, Merchandising, Operations, Finance or Digital

• Other required skills: Microsoft Office, Applied Math: Applied Statistics, Design of Experiments, Regression, Decision Trees, Forecasting, Optimization algorithms, Clustering, NLP. Tech: SQL, Hadoop, Python, Tableau, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, GitHub.

We established our service centre supporting Tesco's operation in the Central European region back in 2019. Our colleagues provide service for Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia in several fields: finance, people and payroll services, colleague and customer engagement, customer and product, enterprise analytics. Besides these, we have a modern Technology Hub developing software and applications used by millions of people - customers and colleagues - globally. Our young and dynamic teams are driving and accelerating changes on a global scale, so it is important for us to find colleagues that are open to learn and develop themselves. At Tesco Business Solutions & Technology we support our business in operating efficiently and serving shoppers a little better every day.