Senior Data Analyst

Job aim

We’re looking for a passionate and talented Senior Data Analyst to join our rapidly growing team. In this role, you’ll have the chance to roll up your sleeves and apply data science methods and analytics to sustain Pernod-Ricard growth. Successful candidates are intellectually curious builders who are biased toward action, scrappy, and communicative.

Roles and responsibilities

To help deliver the expected value on our Key Digital Programs, you will integrate the Data, Design and Analytics team where various profiles work together (Data Scientists, Data Analysts, Machine Learning Engineer, Design team, Data Office team). The purpose of the position is to support the life cycle of our digital solutions we aim to deliver to our affiliates for them to boost their digital acceleration.

Contribute and support data analysis activities on multiple markets

Understand global business needs and translate them into technical solutions

Develop and implement data analyses to support digital use cases of our key digital priorities

Create simple and maintainable dashboards, reports, presentations to communicate the findings and interrogations to business users

Filter and clean data by reviewing computer reports, printouts, and performance indicators to locate and correct code problems

Monitor usage & results of our algorithms

Communicate hypothesis and findings in a structured way

Collaborate to industrialize, maintain and improve our digital solutions

Foster common ways of working and roles across our markets

Partner with our data science teams to make sure our work is consistent according to business needs

Partner with the team to develop and implement databases, data collection systems, data analytics and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality

Work with the product owner to prioritize business and information needs

Actively contribute to the Data culture community

Take part in strategy and defining synergies

Articulate with the Senior DSs, Business experts, Products Owners and Deployment Managers on strategic topics (i.e. explain to key executives the business value of our programs)

Communicate with local and global executives our data science challenges and achievements

Locate and define new process improvement opportunities

Coordinate work of a small team of Data Scientists and Data Analysts

Job Scope :

Key External stakeholders: Consulting firms, Tech companies

Internal stakeholders: Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Senior Data Scientists, MLE, Product Owner, KDP Experts, Design team, Deployment team, Business teams in our affiliates

Job scope : 100% international

Profile required:

Soft skills

Pragmatic and capable of solving complex issues

Result-oriented and capable of challenging other stakeholders

Good listening

Ability to understand business needs

Good communication

Push innovative solutions

Self-starter who thrives in a collaborative environment

Attention to detail & technical intuition

Team synergies - oriented

Ability to quickly onboard on a new subject and drive multiple topics across different markets

Hard skills

Experience in data analysis

Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to presentation, detail and accuracy

Familiarity with data science methods and scaling data science methods

Proven experience on building reporting database

Strong capacity to develop consistent & clear analysis

Familiarity with a broad base of analytics tools (illustrative)

Language programming: Python, SQL

Data visualization: Power BI, Streamlit

Good knowledge of cloud computing. Knowing Azure is a plus

Project management & support: JIRA projects & service desk, Trello, Confluence, Sharepoint

Past experience

Master’s Degree in Analytics, Data Science, Mathematics, Economics, Information Management or Statistics

5+ years of experience in data or business analyst

Experience in an FMCG company is a strong plus

Context:

Pernod-Ricard is a leading worldwide Wine and Spirits company. This position was made possible thanks our very entrepreneurial, innovative and risk-taking culture from the beginning as the Group strongly extended its geographical and products footprint across time, starting from absinthe and anise drinks in France to a portfolio of 400+ brands brought to customers and consumers across 160+ countries.

Leveraging digital, data and AI is becoming increasingly critical for consumer goods companies—it is becoming self-evident that the champions of those topics will be the leaders of today and tomorrow:

AI and Data are shaping new ways to do business in the Consumer sectors with high-value applications such as end-to-end forecasting and planning along with ROI measurement for advertising and promotional spending.

This trend is reinforced by the Covid-19 context, which further increases the need to anticipate, adapt to, and shape changes in consumer demand and behavior.

In this context, Pernod Ricard, in line with its entrepreneurial culture, has the ambition to conquer new frontiers and be the most innovative Wine & Spirits company in the world in terms of AI and digital. The ambition is to leverage the uniqueness of the depth of our brand portfolio to address the right product & service at the right time, at the right price to the right person (at a time when market fragmentation is increasing in the Wine and Spirits sector). This will be done by

Reinventing the way sales forces operate, equipping them with data-driven tools supporting the prioritization of their efforts

Optimizing the pricing of products in real time.

Optimizing marketing spend allocation across channels

We have already started this transformation agenda

We have already deployed some flagship projects, e.g.,

Prioritization in France and in the US of Sales Forces allocation across points of sales based on business potential and image by using various sources of data (point of sales, sales data by SKU, Sales Rep data, social network, third-party data)

Prioritization of outlets through social media data & automated updates to increase market penetration and better calibration of our route to market

We have launched a global transformation program on Data & AI with strong sponsorship from the CEO and his top management and large financial investment.

Projects are delivered in production on our “Data Platform” built in partnership with our best in class IT team leveraging the most recent technologies available on the public cloud.

We built in partnership with our HR team a Data Academy program to certify internally our employee from “Grape to XO level”

Pernod-Ricard is looking for Data scientists to join our Digital Transformation team.

Joining us

Working at Pernod-Ricard is the perfect place for you to develop your Data Science skills in a holistic way:

We use Agile ways of working, allowing you to work in multidisciplinary teams deeply integrated with business and market. You will develop both technical skills and business / soft skills.

Top-notch team & tools:

Our team encompasses experienced and proven experts

We already have a central data platform in Azure connected to markets through snowflake.

Our core data science team is already in place and uses cutting-edge data science tools to answer business questions (machine learning, deep learning, statistical learning, optimization)

Our primary language is python but we are open to test and incorporate any language that fits our needs (be ready to learn!)

Variety of projects and day-to-day work:

We are present in 160+ markets with 400+ brands globally, we can propose an endless variety of projects.

We develop unique solution for our unique internal clients

Our commitment for a multi-year transformation journey will allow you to participate in projects with different maturities: from proof of concept to production.

Your day-to-day work will be varied as our team will focus on 3 priorities: push forward boundaries (imagine creative solutions to hack Pernod-Ricard), delivering qualitative tech assets for the company and facilitate adoption of the solution across the company.

How many of us have been in a job where we can truly be ourselves, where we get up every day feeling at ease and confidant to share who we are with people we work with? At Pernod-Ricard we are Proud to Belong, Empowered to Perform and Committed to Care.

We call it conviviality. We believe that this spirit should flow through to your work.

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