Role Overview

In 100 countries around the world, NielsenIQ provides clients the most complete understanding of how the FMCG market evolves and what consumers buy. As a integral leader in measurement and information, we believe providing our clients a precise understanding of the consumer is the key to making the right decisions -- decisions that can lead to profitable growth. At NielsenIQ, we’re always innovating to keep pace with emerging market trends and the increasingly diverse, demanding and connected consumer.

Being a Sr. Data Scientist, you will play a critical role in developing the next generation of retail measurement solutions we offer our clients, powered by algorithms, ML and AI and leveraging large volumes of internal data, client data and third party data.

Responsibilities
- Work across functions, including with other data scientists specializing it different areas, on various projects, including R&D; and automation to solve the business needs of the day
- Translate Clients’ and Product Team’s requirements to actionable solutions or products




- Ideate and develop solutions for the product innovation pipeline
- Define the given business problem as a scientific research problem
- Research solutions, identify and understand the relevant internal data, set and execute experiments, prototype the solution and support Technology team on productionalizing them
- Build statistical and analytical models (including ML/AI approaches) as prototypes and POCs to address specific client business needs
- Test and optimize those models using big data. Fine tune parameters and iterate.
- Document the solution and experimentation to arrive to it, and create specifications for Technology team to productionize it
- Read, write, comment, maintain, and share legible and quality computer code utilized in prototyping and suctioning.

Role Requirements

Role requirements: (E=essential, P=preferred)
- E - Bachelors or Masters degree or higher in Computer Science, Data Science, St

📌 Sr Data Scientist (Colombia)
🏢 Nielseniq
📍 Colombia