Data Science Manager

Business Introduction

Role Summary

Role Profile

• Own short-, medium-, and long-term demand forecasting across SKU, category, and brand levels.
• Incorporate seasonality, promotions, sell-through, and external market factors across GCC markets.
• Lead demand sensing using real-time point-of-sale, digital, and macroeconomic signals.
• Translate forecasts into open-to-buy, replenishment, markdown optimization, and new product introduction strategies.
• Design RFM, CLV, behavioral, and propensity-based customer segmentation models.
• Identify high-impact AI use cases across pricing, assortment, promotions, churn, store clustering, and next-best action.
• Drive computer vision adoption for footfall analytics, shelf compliance, planogram adherence, visual search, and product tagging.
• Lead NLP and conversational AI initiatives, including chatbots, sentiment analysis, multilingual text analytics, and product content generation.
• Build production-grade machine learning solutions on Azure and Microsoft Fabric with monitoring, drift detection, and Power BI reporting.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics.
• An advanced degree in a related subject is a strong plus.
• Retail, fashion, or lifestyle industry experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience in GCC or MENA markets is advantageous.
• Strong customer segmentation and CLV modeling experience.

Company Environment

• Majid Al Futtaim describes its mission as creating great moments and building experiences that remain in people's memories.
• The company promotes a friendly environment and a diverse workforce across its regional operations.