Onsite Senior Manager, Data Scientist – Store Operations

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About the role

  • Senior Manager, Data Scientist optimizing store operations with advanced analytics and AI models. Collaborating with leadership to drive data-driven decisions and improve store performance.

Responsibilities

  • Develops and applies analytics models that diagnose store performance drivers, including traffic, conversion, UPT, AUR, labor utilization, shrink, and improved margin profitability.
  • Designs KPI frameworks and dashboards that give field and corporate leaders visibility into store performance and improvement opportunities.
  • Identifies underperforming stores, quantifies root causes, and recommends targeted interventions (labor scheduling, product placement, assortment, training, process redesign).
  • Creates models to detect operational patterns, segments store behaviors, and predicts sales outcomes based on leading indicators.
  • Builds AI driven tools that optimize scheduling, staffing coverage, fulfillment flows, and allocation decisions that impact store profitability.
  • Transforms operational data—POS, labor, tasking, shrink events, foot traffic into intelligence that supports rapid experimentation and decision-making.
  • Defines and improves data governance standards to ensure the accuracy, granularity, and timeliness of store-level reporting and analytics.
  • Continuously refines models and reporting to adapt to evolving store strategies, customer behaviors, and brand needs.
  • Presents insights and performance diagnostics to store leadership, distilling complex analytics into clear narratives that guide operational strategy.
  • Partners with Store Operations, Finance, Merchandising, and Field Leadership to align analytics outputs with business priorities.
  • Guides cross-functional initiatives that drive measurable improvements in sales, labor productivity, customer satisfaction, and overall store profitability.

Requirements

  • Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or related fields.
  • 10+ years of advanced analytics/data science experience, ideally within retail or operationally intensive environments.
  • Demonstrated success delivering analytics solutions using analytics and AI solutions that drive measurable operational or financial outcomes.
  • Strong business insight and strategic mindset, with a deep understanding of store operations and financial levers.
  • Financial and operational acumen, able to interpret P&Ls, labor metrics, margin impacts, and operational KPIs.
  • Critical thinking and problem-solving, capable of diagnosing complex store challenges using data.
  • Influential communication, able to guide decision-making without direct authority.
  • Team leadership, building high-performing, analytics-forward teams.
  • Continuous improvement orientation, driving innovation in tools, processes, and insight delivery.
  • Expert-level data collection, cleansing, and analysis.
  • Retail KPI modeling, forecasting, optimization, and simulation.
  • Data architecture and workflow optimization for store analytics.
  • Insights reporting, visualization, and operational storytelling.
  • Business requirements development and action planning for performance improvement.

Job title

Senior Manager, Data Scientist – Store Operations

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$97,200 - $162,000 per year

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

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