What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Decision Scientist, Market Share position at Best Buy?
This role is hybrid, which means you will work some days on site at the Best Buy location listed on this posting and some days virtually from home or another non‑Best Buy location. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team, and the recruiter or hiring manager will provide additional details during the hiring process.
What You’ll Do:
- Execute ongoing market share measurement and industry analytics for ongoing strategic insight including data acquisition, modeling, and visualization. Integrate diverse data sources across time, category, brand, and customer dimensions to answer business questions.
- Develop and maintain clear and actionable market position reporting and diagnostics for analytics leadership and business stakeholders.
- Connect dots across multiple, complex internal and external data sources to deliver clear and actionable reporting, diagnostics (depending on use case), and insights that enhance category strategy and fuel category growth.
- Leverage technical expertise and cross functional partnerships to manage and optimize external data sources and continually enhance, maintain, and ensure quality control of internal market share metrics and reporting.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal clients across strategic analytics, data architecture and business stakeholders.
- Partner with Data Engineering and leverage technical expertise to assess data integrity and accurate data flow. Identify gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities in external datasets and assist in developing methodologies to reconcile them
Basic Qualifications
- 1 years of experience in analytics, retail, market research, or competitive intelligence.
- 1 years of experience applying analytical techniques to answer business questions
- 1 years of experience leveraging data science and data visualization tools, such as SQL, Tableau/PowerBI/Looker, SAS, R and/or Python
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to translate complex data into impactful business insights.
- Strong project management skills, capable of balancing multiple priorities and delivering high-quality results on time.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, Physical Sciences, or related field
- Experience working with syndicated data
- Experience with advanced analytic techniques including statistical inference, predictive modeling, and big data analytics.
What’s in it for you
We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.
Our benefits include:
- Competitive pay
- Generous employee discount
- Physical and mental well-being support
Best Buy provides different types of leaves of absence (LOA) and potential pay sources to employees based on eligibility. The length of your LOA depends on your situation, where you live, your full-time or part-time employment status, and federal and state regulations. Intermittent or reduced-schedule leave is also available for certain medical or family care leaves. Paid time off (vacation or PTO) is offered to full-time and part-time employees based on work location, employment status, salary or hourly status (exempt/non-exempt), and years of continued or bridged service.
Certain roles, where market norms demand it, are eligible for various forms of incentive pay to drive performance and offer recognition for achieving financial and strategic results. For more information about our incentive pay plans, including eligibility, please refer to our Incentive Programs Summary. For more information about benefits, LOA and paid time off, please refer to our Benefits Guide.
About us
As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes. Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™
Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.