Senior Data Scientist

NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View(TM).

We are a global, diverse team that is passionate about innovative, world-class solutions that reveal the complete consumer journey to our clients. We are looking for Data Scientists to bring consumer shopping to life and to support our internal stakeholders and clients using this data, reinventing the way we measure how people shop, both online and in-store.

Be part of the exciting journey to transform our Consumer Measurement products.

About You

You are a great fit for our team if you have knowledge of consumer behavior, panel-based projections, consumer metrics and analytics and can clearly communicate methodologies and sample-based products simply. The ability to work in teams and managing stakeholders is important.

Responsibilities

Join our Consumer Market Leader specialized global team in the APAC region, in a flexible working environment.; Help to educate our commercial associates and our clients in how to use our innovative Consumer products, from take home panels to receipt capture and beyond.; Be a panel expert: understand end-to-end how we construct the best panels in the industry.; Present and communicate findings and recommendations based on research and analysis.; Evaluate current methodologies and identify opportunities for enhancement (input data cleaning, data preparation methodologies, data quality tracking, consumer projection).; Support documentation of findings, methodologies, and best practices.; Develop the prototypes of new solutions/methodologies to new market challenges.; Support production deployment of proposed enhancements/new solutions.; Identification of quality risks and follow up on solutions; Engagement with stakeholders on scope, execution, data exchange and outcomes for assigned projects; Expert-level analysis of results and presentations with insights; Screen the market for potential new Data Science approaches; Foster knowledge exchange within the company.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Socio-economics, Data Science or other related field with at least 2 or more years’ experience.; Knowledge of/ Interest in consumers and their behavior and (un-)managed consumer related crowdsourced panels; Experience working with Commercial functions and/or clients; Strong aptitude for data analysis. Ability to manipulate, analyze and interpret large data sources.; Eager to continuously learn and adopt and develop evolving technologies and tools; Excellent communication/writing and collaboration skills.; Excellent statistical and logic skills. Experience in data cleaning, outlier validation, sampling, bias reduction, indirect estimation, data aggregation techniques.; Experienced in Python or another high-level programming language and willingness to learn Python; (nice to have) Experienced with SQL, working with queries and large-scale databases; (nice to have) Experience/Interest in production level solutions prototyping

Benefits

Exciting work environment that brings people together.; Use the latest digital technologies.; Ongoing trainings to support your development.; Opportunities for personal and professional growth.; Hybrid work; Flexible working environment; Volunteer time off; LinkedIn Learning; Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)