Data Scientist

7Eleven

$85K — $100K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Marketing, Statistics, or related fields preferred.
  • 2+ years of relevant work experience in pricing strategy and analytics.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office; knowledge of SQL, Tableau, and Power BI is a plus.
  • Understanding of the petroleum and convenience store industries.
  • Strong analytical skills with excellent communication abilities.

Responsibilities

  • Optimize profitability of fuel sales in fluctuating market conditions.
  • Develop and implement pricing strategies to meet performance metrics.
  • Collaborate with departments to provide insights on market performance.
  • Analyze large data sets to identify performance trends and opportunities.
  • Monitor and document performance indicators and strategy successes weekly.
  • Act as a subject matter expert on fuel pricing for M&A and real estate.
  • Communicate financial recaps and insights to store and field personnel.

Benefits

  • Proactive learning culture encouraging knowledge sharing and best practices.
  • Opportunities for collaboration within a motivated team.
  • Flexible work environment with emphasis on independent and team-based projects.
Full Job Description

About This Opportunity

Optimize the profitability of retail fuel sales for assigned stores and markets through the development of effective pricing strategies, comprehensive data analytics, and staying apprised of supply and demand influencers. Provide pricing directives to stores and field management personnel with thorough supporting data.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Optimize the profitability of fuel sales under volatile pricing and/or market conditions

• Develop and execute pricing strategies consistent with achieving performance metrics

• Engage with other departments as needed to provide insight into market level performance and forecasts

• Conduct tactical analysis using large data sets to better understand performance trends, mitigate risks, identify

threats, and realize opportunities. Stay informed on market conditions

• Track strategy initiatives to oversee success measures week over week; evaluate KPI's & document successes

• Be subject matter expert on fuel; provide fuel projections for M&A and Real Estate

• Effectively communicate with store, field personnel, and management with a sense of urgency. Provide financial

recaps with insights on a weekly basis

• Collaboration & Learning Culture - proactively drive these initiatives within the pricing team to elevate collective

knowledge. Spread best practices within the team.

• Ability to troubleshoot integration issues, interface with fuel techs and store employees to identify system

integration issues/solutions with minimal oversight. Proactively seek issues.

• Oversee data integrity of the fuel pricing systems.

• Take lead on various projects to propel the team toward team mutual initiatives.

• Self-motivated to seek knowledge on industry, systems, and market dynamics - high level of curiosity and self-paced learning.

• Practice healthy level of debate within the team to drive new approaches, anchored in data analysis.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

EDUCATION: Bachelors/4 Yr Degree. Bachelor's degree with major in Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Marketing, Statistics or related fields will be preferred.

YEARS OF RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE: 2+ years

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, PPT, Outlook, etc.) SQL, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI knowledge a plus.

• Petroleum industry knowledge; Understanding of convenience store industry.

• Strong analytical decision-making abilities with highly effective verbal and written communication skills

• Must be able to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment

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