About the Role
As a Senior Data Scientist, you will dive into Wolt's data to solve crucial business problems, ranging from diagnosing issues to designing experiments and influencing decision-making. This role offers a rare, operational, and actionable data-driven experience, driving action from the frontlines rather than performing a typical analytics role. Your focus will be on enhancing operational efficiency with the Workforce Management (WFM) team, optimizing resource allocation through accurate scheduling and intraday forecasts, simplifying forecasting processes, building and supporting KPI dashboards, conducting root cause analysis for SLA improvements, exploring cost optimization, managing the capacity plan framework, enhancing the WFM data pipeline, and uncovering data-driven insights to refine planning, scheduling, reporting, and intraday management.
Responsibilities
- Driving operational efficiency with the Workforce Management (WFM) team
- Optimizing resource allocation by creating accurate scheduling and intraday forecasts
- Simplifying forecasting processes
- Building and supporting KPI dashboards
- Conducting root cause analysis for SLA improvements
- Exploring cost optimization opportunities
- Managing the capacity plan framework
- Enhancing the WFM data pipeline
- Uncovering data-driven insights to refine planning, scheduling, reporting, and intraday management
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in a data science or analytics position
- Experience building forecasting models and time series analysis (Prophet, SARIMA, Holt-Winters or similar)
- Experience in Cost Analysis and What-if Scenario Analysis
- Deep knowledge of statistical packages in Python or R
- Proficiency in writing structured and efficient SQL queries for large data sets
- Ability to influence and advise senior stakeholders
Skills
- Forecasting models
- Time series analysis
- Cost Analysis
- What-if Scenario Analysis
- Python
- R
- SQL
- ML for forecasting
- Working with ML engineers/ML platform
- Building data pipelines using Airflow or similar tools
Location
- Berlin
Work Type
- Hybrid
- At the office
- Remote
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- Wolt creates technology that brings joy, simplicity and earnings to neighborhoods worldwide, starting with food delivery and expanding to almost everything.
- Wolt operates in over 500 cities in 30 countries and joined forces with DoorDash in 2022.
- Working at Wolt is exciting, offering opportunities to learn, build, and ship more, with challenges and fun.
- The Support Group is responsible for the core customer experience, maintaining top-notch app store ratings.
- Wolt has invested in in-house built support tooling to ensure customer and partner satisfaction across 25 countries.
- The Support Analytics team aims to deliver amazing customer, merchants, and courier support experiences while optimizing operations through actionable insights.
- The team consists of top Data Science and Analytics Engineering professionals.
- Wolt offers interesting and complex challenges with opportunities to make a big impact.
- The company provides a challenging and interesting environment for analytics due to real-time geolocational and temporal data, and varying city economics and dynamics.
- Wolt fosters a company culture of ownership, excellence, big thinking with humility, fairness, kindness, continuous learning, and recognizes the importance of learning.
- The company is committed to growing and empowering an inclusive community through diverse teams from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
Equal Opportunity
- We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.
