Data yst - Al-Futtaim

Established in the 1930s as a trading business AlFuttaim Group today is one of the most diversified and progressive privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai United Arab Emirates. Structured into five operating divisions; automotive financial services real estate retail and healthcare; employing more than 35000 employees across more than 20 countries in the Middle East Asia and Africa AlFuttaim Group partners with over 200 of the worlds most admired and innovative brands. AlFuttaim Groups entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organization to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate.

By upholding our values of respect excellence collaboration and integrity; AlFuttaim Group continues to enrich the lives and aspirations of our customers each and every day

Overview of the role:

Acceleration of automotive divisions strategy of being a data driven organisation and feeding advanced analytics models to CRM Brand marketing and Digital teams.

What you will do:

• Work independently on all phases of an analytics project including formulation research development implementation testing and maintenance.
• Designing new means of communication of descriptive and predictive modelling results through data visualizations dashboards apps.
• Handson programming skills and ability to utilize a variety of data analytics software coding languages and statistical tools. Deep experience with at least one of Python PySpark Scala or R and SQL (mandatory).
• Expected to develop use and deploy statistical models such as: Generalized linear models time series models forecasting techniques cluster analysis anomaly detection descriptive statistical techniques statistical diagnostic techniques (e.g. significance testing model fit etc.)
• Create supervised and unsupervised models including decision trees KNN models and neural nets; and standard ML libraries.

Required Skills to be successful:

• Python Programming.
• Experience in using Databricks platform.
• Experience in building Supervised and unsupervised Machine Learning Models.
78 Years of experience Or 56 Masters Degree.

About the Team:

You will be reporting to Sr. Manager Advanced Analytics

What equips you for the role:

• BS in Statistics Computer Science or other related field
• 68 years of experience working in the Data Science or Machine Learning Engineering space with handson experience in building and deploying advanced analytics models on cloud platforms. Proven skills in various programming and database languages such as Python PySpark SQL. Familiarity with consumer related data and a general interest in the retail consumer products manufacturing automotive transportation or hospitality sectors
• Experience working on data science projects in a business or academic setting
• Demonstrated capability building accurate predictive and other statistical models
• Strong knowledge of statistics
• Advanced Python programming
• Demonstrated business and strategy acumen

About AlFuttaim Automotive
A major division of the UAEbased AlFuttaim Group of companies AlFuttaim Automotive is an industry leader with presence in 10 countries across the Middle East Asia and Africa.
Our core business activities at AlFuttaim Automotive include distribution manufacturing leasing and aftersales and we are firmly established as the regional representative of some of the worlds most iconic automotive brands: Toyota Lexus Honda Jeep Chrysler Dodge Volvo and RAM.
We are driven by a customercentric approach constantly pushing the boundaries on innovation quality standards and valueadded service across our vast universe of customers right from motoring enthusiasts to fleet operators to contractors. Our mission is to become the leader in custommade mobility solutions by delivering nothing less than worldclass omnichannel experiences.
We channel our local expertise and global trust to deliver one of the most comprehensive portfolios of mobility products and solutions from passenger cars to SUVs electric vehicles to highperformance motorbikes commercial vehicles to industrial & construction equipment.
What keeps the company moving forward is a 9000member strong team with inspiring possibilities for growth throughout the career path. This is AlFuttaim Automotive and we empower talent to move forward.