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Merchandising Data Scientist

JD Sports Fashion · Bury, England, GB

As a Merchandising Data Scientist, you will build predictive and prescriptive models that improve merchandising decisions - including demand forecasting, pri...

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As a Merchandising Data Scientist, you will build predictive and prescriptive models that improve merchandising decisions - including demand forecasting, pricing & promotions, assortment, and replenishment. You will partner closely with product, application, and data teams to ensure models are reliable, explainable, and deliver measurable business impact. What You'll Be Doing: As a Merchandising Data Scientist, you'll be doing the following: - Contribute to the planning and scoping of new model development to meet merchandising objectives. - Work with senior data scientists to implement new solutions to merchandising use cases. - Support exploratory analysis, data preparation, and testing activities. - Improve existing merchandising models through model and feature refinement. - Retrain models on updated datasets and ensure retraining pipelines remain effective. - Evaluate model performance using appropriate metrics and diagnostic techniques. - Monitor production models for drift, stability issues, and commercial relevance. - Document models, processes, and experiment results to maintain transparency and reproducibility. What We're Looking For: Essential - Demonstrable commercial e...