Junior Data Scientist

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Blackwoods is hiring a Junior Data Scientist to join the Analytics Centre of Excellence and support the Customer Experience Team in turning data into business insights. This permanent full-time onsite role in Macquarie Park, Sydney, including Brisbane, focuses on translating challenges into analytics, examining large datasets, applying statistics and machine learning to improve forecasting and resource allocation, and building dashboards. You’ll ideally have a quantitative degree or equivalent, experience in Python or R, SQL, and strong communication; Power BI desirable. Benefits include an inclusive culture, learning opportunities, hybrid work, incentives, and parking. To apply, tailor your CV to show stakeholder impact and relevant projects, and demonstrate ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Transform data into actionable business insights that solve real business challenges. As a Junior Data Scientist supporting our Customer Experience Team, you will partner with leaders to uncover opportunities that support data-driven decision-making. As part of the Analytics Centre of Excellence (CoE), you’ll guide stakeholders with insights to shape priorities and ensure smarter decision making across the business.

This is a great opportunity for an early career Data Scientist or Analytics professional looking to further develop their technical expertise while gaining exposure to operational stakeholders and solving real-world problems.

Some of the role responsibilities:

• Work closely with business leaders to understand challenges and translate them into analytical solutions
• Analyse large, complex datasets to identify trends, root causes, and actionable insights that directly influence business outcomes.
• Apply advanced statistical and machine-learning techniques to improve forecasting accuracy and resource allocation
• Build intuitive dashboards and visualisations through bespoke analysis to assist in efficient decision making

Some of the skills required:

• Tertiary qualification in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics or another quantitative discipline or equivalent demonstratable work experience
• Experience with modelling languages such as python or R
• Experience in SQL for large-scale data extraction and transformation.
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Additionally, not essential but is desired
• Ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholder groups
• Power BI capability (DAX, Power Query, Power Pivot)

What’s in it for you:

This is a permanent, full-time opportunity and will be based in our Sydney office located in Macquarie Park, or at our Brisbane office in Macquarie Park.

• Inclusive, collaborative team culture where analytics directly informs commercial and operational decisions
• Supportive environment with continuous learning and knowledge sharing to uplift capability across the Analytics CoE team
• See your work come to life and have direct impact
• Access team member discounts to Bunnings Kmart, and Officeworks
• A great range of other retail and corporate discounts
• Work from home hybrid opportunities
• Short and long term incentives
• Onsite parking available

Next Steps

If you meet most of the criteria listed above and would like to be considered for this opportunity, please send your application today. We will be contacting suitable candidates as we receive them.

As part of our recruitment process and commitment to safety, you may be required to undertake background checks (which may include a police check, a pre-employment medical assessment; and/or drug & alcohol testing) as part of your application process.

Blackwoods also promotes diversity and inclusion across our workplaces and encourages applications from all backgrounds, including people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, the LGBTQI+ community and people with disabilities.