Decision Scientist

As a Decision Scientist for the Strategic Analytics team, you will be responsible for conducting analyses to support strategic decisions and address key business questions. This role will be focused on tackling open-ended business problems with a strategic lens, offering creative, data-driven solutions. This includes participating in scoping sessions, assisting in defining project requirements, executing data analysis, visualizing findings, and communicating insights to support business decisions. You will partner with business stakeholders and data science, delivering actionable insights that inform decisions across the organization.

This role is hybrid, which means you will be required to work some days on-site at the Best Buy location listed on this posting and some days virtually from home or other non-Best Buy location. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.

Unfortunately this position does not provide sponsorship.

What You’ll Do

• Complete open-ended business problems with a strategic lens, offering creative, data-driven solutions.
• Participate in scoping sessions and delivery meetings with business clients, documenting requirements, objectives, and specifications.
• Perform analytics using scientific methods that rely upon mathematics, statistics and hypothesis testing.
• Create and package insights to business stakeholders in a non-technical, easy to understand manner.
• Query structured data and reports using SQL, Python or R.
• Perform data validation to ensure the accuracy of analytical results.
• Answer questions on dataset types and their limitations.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• 3 years of experience in a professional business environment
• 3 years of work experience in business, analytics, or related area
• 2 years with analytics, reporting and/or database knowledge and experience (using tools, applications and platforms such as SQL)
• Proficiency in writing SQL queries to extract, analyze, and manipulate data
• 1 year of work experience using Python or R for statistical modeling
• Ability to clearly present and articulate complex ideas
• Ability to work independently and collaborate with cross-functional teams
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., statistics, mathematics, engineering, economics, management, supply chain, marketing)
• Master’s degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., statistics, mathematics, engineering, economics, management, supply chain, marketing)
• 2 years of work experience in marketing analytics
• Experience with cloud computing platforms such as GCP, AWS
• Ability to story tell through data and translate complex information into clear and actionable insights
  
  

What’s In It For You

We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.

Our Benefits Include

• Competitive pay
• Generous employee discount
• Physical and mental well-being support
  
  

About Us

As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.

Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™

Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.

Position Type: Full timePandoLogic. Keywords: Decision Support Analyst, Location: Minneapolis, MN - 55423