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.

Position Title: Senior Manager Data Science
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Roles & 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

Experience Required:

• 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
• 7+ years of industry experience in applying data science: personalization, recommendation, 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
• Experience with GCP, Databricks, Retail business knowledge is a plus

Skills Required:

• Experimental design
• Machine learning
• Deep learning
• Python
• SQL
• Big data platforms (Snowflake, Spark, Hadoop)
• Data Engineering
• MLOps
• Model Life Cycle Management
• AI/machine learning tools
• Systems design
• Analytics across functions
• Data Science team leadership (5+ years)
• Strategic retail and grocery analytics expertise
• Strong cross-functional relationship management and executive communication skills

Skills Required