About this role
Benefits: Fuel Your Growth with Love's - company funded tuition assistance Paid Time Off 401(k) – 100% Match up to 5% Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance after 30 days Competitive Pay Career Development
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. We do not provide sponsorship for employment visas now or in the future.*
Welcome to Love's: The Data Scientist will support the Love’s business through a variety of analytical and statistical projects focused on marketing and customer analytics, including supporting strategic decision making and measurement of key marketing initiatives.
Job Functions:
- Learn the Love’s business. Develop deep fluency in the composition, roles, and contributions of Love’s products, strategy, and customers, as well as Love’s business performance
- Work with multiple data platforms to perform ad hoc reporting, database mining, and analysis that provide a better understanding of the customer
- Partner with Marketing and other business units to gather requirements and deliver actionable insights
- Incorporate advanced statistical techniques and machine learning concepts (time series forecasting, clustering, neural network) to solve business problems
- Utilize statistical languages (R, Python, SAS) to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets
- Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy
- Utilize predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experience, store features, revenue, and other business outcomes
- Apply A/B testing framework and test model quality
- Analyze customer-level data to measure advertising effectiveness and optimize campaigns
- Create presentations and deliver insights and recommendations in a clear, concise manner using meaningful visualizations that allow for business understanding and action
- Support any existing and future reporting or analytical needs
- Coordinate with outside data and analytics vendors
- Other duties assigned as needed
Experience and Qualifications:
- BA/BS minimum, Masters preferred, in a relevant field, such as business analytics, mathematics, statistics, finance, economics, management information systems, computer science, engineering or other quantitative fields.
- 1-2+ years of experience preferred in retail, sales, marketing, data, IT, or operations with exposure to reporting and analytics
- In-depth, hands-on knowledge of data science tools preferred
- Proven experience with troubleshooting principles and issue resolution technique
Skills and Physical Demands:
- Proficiency querying data from relational databases using SQL, using advanced algorithms, programming languages, or technologies in the development of technical analytics solutions or capabilities, and extracting insights from large databases, translating data and insights into actionable solutions and presenting findings
- Competency using R, Python, or other similar statistical software to develop analytical solutions
- Experience with data wrangling, data cleaning and prep
- Proven ability to juggle multiple workstreams as needed
- Data modelling and business analytics experience especially within the retail or marketing domain
- Excel proficiency including simple formulas and pivot tables
- Understanding of data warehouse principles and database structures
- Data visualization skills and ability to present technical solutions to non-technical audience
- 1+ years of experience with mentoring or leading analytical projects
- Natural curiosity that welcomes and embraces change and willingness to try new things
- Excellent written, oral and interpersonal skills
- Ability to devise an analytical approach to solving business problems
- Capacity to explain and simplify complex analytics for a wide range of audiences
- Work effectively within a team-oriented and collaborative environment
- Keen attention to detail
- Highly motivated self-starter
Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship
Our Culture:
Fueling customers' journeys since 1964, innovation leads the way for this family-owned and operated business headquartered in Oklahoma City. With nearly 40,000 team members, travel stops are the core business along with products and services that provide value for professional drivers, fleets, traveling public, RVers, alternative energy and wholesale fuel customers. Giving back to communities and an inclusive workplace are hallmarks of the award-winning culture.
Love’s is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Veterans encouraged to apply.
Job Category: Corporate
Other facts
About Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores
Founded in 1964 by Tom Love, Love’s Family of Companies is headquartered in Oklahoma City, and remains entirely family-owned and operated. With more than 600 locations in 42 states, Love’s approximate growth rate is 40 stores per year. From the first filling station in Watonga, Oklahoma, the Love’s commitment has remained the same: “Clean Places, Friendly Faces.”
Love’s was founded on the values of integrity, Customer focus, strong work ethic, innovation and perseverance. Tom Love displayed all of these as he built Love’s from the ground up – from one small filling station in western Oklahoma in 1964 to more than 550 Love’s locations coast to coast. These core values are the keys to our success. But Tom didn’t do it by himself. He surrounded himself with visionary team members who embodied the same set of values. Today, we are looking for these in every person we hire. No matter what job you do for Love’s, your commitment to integrity, Customer focus, strong work ethic, innovation and perseverance will not only continue our legacy of growth, it will also ensure your successful career with one of America’s top-ranked private companies. Do you have what it takes?
To learn more, go to www.loves.com, Facebook (www.facebook.com/lovestravelstops), or follow @LovesTravelStop on Twitter.
What you'll do
- The Data Scientist will support Love's business through various analytical and statistical projects focused on marketing and customer analytics. Responsibilities include developing insights from data, partnering with marketing, and utilizing advanced statistical techniques to solve business problems.
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