Remote Decision Scientist Contractor Job in United States Instacart

Who you are

• More tactical skill set focused than sizing and/or hypothetical modeling based; skills in coding (SQL Python) statistical inference (advanced) and financial modeling (advanced) required.
• 5+ years of experience in Supply Chain merchandising analytics operational excellence or another quantitative and relevant field.
• Bachelor’s degree in math economics statistics engineering computer science or other quantitative field or equivalent level of experience.
• Experience translating data into insight: You can take a database of thousands of records into actionable insights.
• Strong communication skills: while you’re fluent in Excel and SQL you can still speak the language of operations and continuous improvement to internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience in process improvement: You are familiar with lean concepts such as DMAIC PDCA etc. and are energized by continually finding ways to improve our processes.
• Fluent in all forms of data: You understand how different KPIs interact and can predict the cascading effects one process change may have on a set of metrics.
• Positive and energetic attitude: Even the most demanding stakeholders can’t get you down; you can keep a smile and a hard-working attitude through even the most demanding moments.
• Proficiency with inventory management software is important but not required

Desirables

• Advanced knowledge of experimentation and statistical methods
• Advanced degree in quantitative field
• Exciting side projects or Kaggle competition results

What the job involves

• Contribute to the overall success of our Next Gen team by delivering compelling insights performing detailed ad hoc analyses building business cases and analyzing sales operational and consumer data to maximize sales drive market growth and enhance the customer shopping experience.
• Own the analytical ecosystem for our partners’ fulfillment centers and assortment. Build dashboards analyze performance and provide insights that capture category site network and total enterprise-level performance.
• Partner with the Assortment Planning team to develop assortment selection requirements logic and tooling that enables the selection of best-fit products and automates processes.
• Motivate changes in Instacart’s Products by ideating and concisely communicating step-change improvement opportunities to our Product Management Data Engineering and Data Engineering teams.
• Develop scalable automated dashboards to provide benchmarking and progress against key performance goals and initiatives; understand root causes of what impacts the attainment of those objectives.
• Review data models and queries while performing regular and ad hoc data analysis to ensure our experience engine is running at full speed.
• Understand the health of the business by defining how metrics are calculated and ensure that the source data matches the needs of the business.
• Be a source of truth to our team: Independently own build and maintain SQL-based data sources.
• Up to 5% travel as you work hands-on with our retail and fulfillment partners.