Job Description

About Albertsons Companies India
Albertsons Companies is a leading food and drug retailer in the United States. As of February 22, 2025, the Company operated 2,270 retail stores with 1,728 in-store pharmacies, 405 associated fuel centers, 22 dedicated distribution centers and 19 manufacturing facilities. Albertsons Companies India is a vital extension of the Albertsons Companies Inc. workforce and important to the next phase in the company & technology journey to support millions of customers & lives every day.

What you will be doing
The Data Science team at Albertsons Companies is looking for an experienced Sr. Data Science Manager to work for the most transformational food and drug retailers in the United States.
Data Science at Albertsons is inspired to build best in class customer experience and revolutionize the food and drug retail industry. We are looking for people who are excited in re-imagining the grocery experience by harnessing the power of AI and digital technologies. The Data Science team collects and relies on big data from existing stores and customer interactions at the 2300 nationwide stores and beyond. We are a highly driven team that applies data science to delight our customers, to improve store operations, to optimize supply chain and to proactively improve product lifecycle.
You will enjoy working with one of the richest data sets in the world, cutting edge technology, and the ability to see your insights turned into business impacts on regular basis. You'll lead data scientists and partner with business in identifying and defining data science projects, building machine learning algorithms and models on top of existing data platforms. The candidate will have a background in computer science or a related technical field with experiences working with large data sets and applying data-driven decision making. A successful candidate will be both technically strong and business savvy, with a passion to make an impact through creative storytelling and timely actions. You are a self-starter, smart yet humble, with a bias for action. The level of this position will be determined at the time of the interview.
The position will be based in Bangalore, Karnataka.
Main responsibilities:

• Build and lead a high-performing team of data scientists and machine learning engineers in a hands-on technical capacity. Inspire and deliver data science innovations that fuel the growth of business
• Provide technical leadership in data science. Guide architectures, data science models, machine learning algorithms and engineering best practices. Coach team members and grow the skill sets
• Use machine learning to solve real problems, power the next generation experiences for large scale applications. Deliver breakthrough benefits to customers using personalized, enriched, and derived data from a range of sources
• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver large scale strategic projects as well as ongoing operational activities. Interface with cross functional leaders and represent point of views from data science to drive measurable success?
• Drive meetings and lead discussions. Prioritize projects across the team and allocate resources to meet business and team goals
• Communicate sophisticated machine learning and modeling solutions effectively with intuitive visualizations for business stakeholders

What we are searching for:

• Masters or PhD degree in quantitative discipline: Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Math, Statistics or related fields
• 2+ years management experience in building and leading data science teams?
• Track record of guiding teams through unstructured technical problems to deliver business impact. Ability to translate high-level business objectives into actions
• Skilled at running cross-functional relationships and communicating with leadership across multiple organizations
• Experience building Recommender systems or Personalization systems for Marketing or E-commerce organizations
• 7+ years of industry experience in applying data science: experimental design, machine learning, deep learning algorithm etc.?
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in building data science solutions and production-ready systems on big data platforms such as Snowflake, Spark, Hadoop
• 5+ years of experience and proficiency in Python, SQL
• Excellent communications skills, with the ability to synthesize, simplify and explain complex problems to different audience
• Ability to write production-level code in Python?
• Ability to write high performant code to do real-time inference of ML models
• Experience with Snowflakes, Azure Databricks is a plus

Skills Required