Data Scientist x2

The Africa & Middle East (AME) Analytics Hub is a business-led, value driven regional hub of Heinekens Global Analytics team whose mission is to lead Heineken into becoming a data-driven company and the best-connected brewer. The team focuses on solving some of the regions most challenging business problems using data and analytics.

As a value-obsessed team and organisation, the AME Analytics Hub is expanding its capabilities by creating a team focussed on experimentation and causal studies to determine the effectiveness of both analytic and non-analytics initiatives across the entire HEINEKEN company.
We are looking for 2x Data Scientists to support the vision and strategies that will provide crucial information to the organisation. This is a high-impact role that will help to inform the future direction of the organisation. The ideal candidate will excel in causal studies and experimental design, cross-functional and cross-domain collaboration and share a passion for enabling scaling solutions to continuously improve.

If these challenges sound interesting and exciting, we hope you apply. We want to be collaborative, innovative, and reliable. We see collaboration as key in our global community with many different cultures, roles, and challenges. And strive to create an environment where you enjoy both the problems you are solving, but also the people you are solving them with. We innovate to transform HEINEKEN from a traditional to a data-driven company. We position ourselves as a business partner driving value creating decisions and building trust in our solutions.

In this role, you will:

• Be a strong thought partner influencing strategic decision-making through data-driven insights and recommendations.
• Effectively identify and apply analytics, experimentation, and causal inference techniques for business problems.
• Design experiments and pioneer methodologies to measure the value of company initiatives globally.
• Develop and validate the appropriate metrics to measure success in a given area.
• Cultivate strong partnerships with cross-functional partners from engineering, data science, analytics translators, etc.
• Cultivate strong partnerships with cross-functional partners from Global Analytics, Analytics Hubs and various Operating Companies within Heineken globally.
• Present outcomes of analysis to all levels of the company.

You are:

• A statistical expert with strong statistical knowledge and intuition, ideally applied in experimentation and observational causal studies settings.
• Proficient in Python and PySpark.
• Skilled in SQL and familiar with distributed data stores like Hive and Spark.
• Impact-driven, pragmatic and able to incorporate business context into data questions.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, thriving with minimal oversight and navigating complex processes and data landscapes.
• Excellent at communication. Able to convey technical content to non-technical audiences.
• Collaborative and thrive in team settings.
• Plus: A background in economics, econometrics.
• Plus: Familiar with software engineering practices.
• Plus: Familiar with Databricks

The Companys approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply. Heineken Beverages (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd) is committed to an organisational culture that recognises, appreciates and values inclusion and diversity. You must be fully eligible to live and work in South Africa to apply.