Junior Data Scientist Job Description Sample Template
JOB TITLE:
- Junior Data Scientist
DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Maintain models and projections for cannabis retail sales.
- Developing QC/QA techniques for disparate data sources.
- Integrating retail sales data across disparate markets to enable comparisons.
- Implementing QC/QA techniques in production systems.
- Work hand-in-hand with technology team members to utilize available technologies.
- Respond to client data quality questions.
- Support the Product team through ad hoc analyses, capabilities overviews, and prototyping.
- Work with a variety of data science tools and programming languages.
EXPERIENCE and QUALIFICATIONS:
- Degree in data science, statistics, economics, or a similar field (experience may be substituted for educational requirements).
- Expertise with Python and R Studio.
- Expertise with data visualization software such as Power BI.
- Experience analyzing and solving CPG-focused challenges including but not limited to forecasting, projections, assortment, innovation planning, pricing elasticity, etc.
- Experience in the cannabis industry.
- Web scraping.
- Unstructured text analysis.
- ML/AI prototyping.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
- While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear via electronic devices (ie. computer, monitor, microphone, video, etc.)
- The employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers to operate a computer keyboard and mouse.
- Specific vision abilities required by this position include reading and viewing information on a computer monitor.