Data Scientist
Our Data & Analytics team creates value for Morrisons by making sure we have the right data in the right place, providing access to data and insight through reporting tools (e.g.
More About The Role
Our Data & Analytics team creates value for Morrisons by making sure we have the right data in the right place, providing access to data and insight through reporting tools (e.g. Looker) and providing the capability to answer strategic questions using Analytics and Data Science. As part of a fast paced retail environment, our data scientists work closely with both our wider data and analytics team and cross functionally across the organisation to help solve business problems, improve our performance and create value from our data.
Accountabilities
The role will have the following accountabilities:
Customer
Build trusted relationships with customers across all internal functions
Demonstrate an excellent understanding of business process and context
Solve complex business problems, using data & mathematical modelling
Own the customer relationship to the point of delivery providing regular updates on progress to customer and senior stakeholder groups
Where needed to aid clarity, develop agile proof of concepts to showcase possible solutions
Colleague
Champion data literacy across the organisation
Embody a “quick turn around” culture for any small requests that add value and enable data products to be shipped within one working days effort
Demonstrate a culture that enables value driven data product creation
Cash & Profit
Demonstrate a lean working culture where all efforts minimise waste, maximise efficiency and contribute to an improvement in EBITDA
Operational
Contribute towards the development of a 1-2 year data product roadmap ensuring all work is strategically aligned to our core priorities and any work passed to our development partners is clearly defined and linked to the business process.
Data and basic modelling tasks including:
Building feature sets for modelling tasks
Productionising machine learning models in the cloud
Building machine learning models such as forecasting sales and waste across the estate
Use our state-of-the-art data facilities in GCP to extract, transform and load data (ETL) for the data science team
About You
Solving business problems through data
Storytelling and the ability to bring data to life
Championing data literacy
Challenging the status quo & being inquisitive
Gathering, challenging and refining stakeholder requirements
Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies
Key Skills
Excellent SQL skills and the ability to extract data from data marts in an accurate and efficient manner.
Experience of programming - preferably in Python or R - but any kind of programming experience e.g. Javascript, VBA, Java is acceptable.
Posted August 12, 2026