Decision Scientist

About the role

What's in it for you

We know life is different for everyone, so at Tesco we are open to flexible working conversations. Whether you're starting out, seeking balance, or navigating life changes like parenthood or caregiving — talk to us. You will spend around 60% of your time working from our offices or sites, and the rest remotely.

Tesco is committed to celebrating diversity and everyone is welcome at Tesco. As a Disability Confident Employer, we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, allowing candidates the opportunity to thrive and inform us of any reasonable adjustments they may require.

Tesco is a diverse and exciting employer, dedicated to being #aplacetogeton, providing career-defining opportunities to all our colleagues. If you chose to join our business, we will provide you with:

 

• Competitive Compensation package

   based on your experience and skills (Cafeteria, Mobile phone, 15% shopping discount in every Hungarian Tesco store)

• Annual private 

  healthcare

   package

• Performance-based annual 

  bonus

• Minimum of 

  25

   paid leave days per year

• Career Growth

   is not just a cliché - we operate in 3 markets as one Central European business, so there are many opportunities for growth and development

• Solid Business Background

   with more than 100 proud years of company history

• We are a 

  Great Team

  , and we are not fond of any formalities here

• Modern Office

   with great location (e.g.: free parking)

• Flexible working policy

You will be responsible for

 

• Identifying operational improvements and finding solutions by applying data science tools and techniques

• Responsible for completing tasks and transactions within agreed KPI's 

• Know and apply fundamental work theories/concepts/processes in own areas of work 

• Engaging with business & functional partners to understand business priorities, ask relevant questions and scope same into analytical solution document calling out how application of data science will improve decision making 

• In depth understanding of techniques to prepare the analytical data set leveraging multiple complex data set sources 

• Confident understanding of Agentic AI techniques and models

• Building Statistical models and ML algorithms with practitioner level competency 

• Writing structured, modularized & codified algorithms using Continuous Improvement principles (development of knowledge assets and reusable modules on GitHub, Wiki, etc) with expert competency 

• Building easy visualization layer on top of the algorithms in order to empower end-users to take decisions - this could be on a visualization platform (Tableau / Python) or through a recommendation set through PPTs 

• Working with the line manager to ensure application / consumption and also think beyond the immediate ask and spot opportunities to address the bigger business questions (if any)

You will need

• University degree

• 1-2 years of prior experience

• Advanced English language knowledge

• Applied Math: Applied Statistics, Design of Experiments, Linear & Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Forecasting, Optimization algorithms

• Tech: SQL, Hadoop, Python, Tableau, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint

• Soft Skills: Analytical Thinking & Problem solving, Storyboarding

 

About us

We established our service centre supporting Tesco's operation in the Central European region back in 2019. Our colleagues provide service for Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia in several fields: finance, people and payroll services, colleague and customer engagement, customer and product, enterprise analytics. Besides these, we have a modern Technology Hub developing software and applications used by millions of people - customers and colleagues - globally. Our young and dynamic teams are driving and accelerating changes on a global scale, so it is important for us to find colleagues that are open to learn and develop themselves. At Tesco Business Solutions & Technology we support our business in operating efficiently and serving shoppers a little better every day.