Senior Data Scientist

Back Market is the world’s leading refurbished electronics marketplace with a team of 650 people, powering operations in 21 countries (and counting).

Named one of the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company in 2019 and again in 2021, our mission is simple: empowering people to consume tech sustainably by offering folks a high quality, accessible, and more eco-friendly alternative to buying new electronics. Why? Refurbished tech helps lower our collective environmental impact. We have indeed contributed to avoid the production of more than 1,000,000 tons of CO2e worldwide since our launch in 2014.

Be part of an exciting and growing international adventure that will change the way the world consumes tech.

Where will Back Market growth come from in the next year? What about over the next five? Which product lines have the biggest potential to fuel growth ? Are we investing enough in our preselected growth levers, or too much? How much will we manage to engage customers in the future ? These are among the most important questions at Back Market.

As an expert on all things that relate to forecasting and causal inference and measurement methodologies to support capital allocation decisions, you will be part of our Finance & Strategy Analytics team supporting strategic decisions to maximize the growth and profitability of our marketplace.

**YOUR MISSION (IF YOU ACCEPT IT)**:

- Analyze, model and influence our planning and capital allocation across markets, products and workstreams leveraging best practices in analytics and data science techniques
- Monitor internal and exogenous impacts on our business to provide regular intelligence and forward guidance to senior leadership as they plan and optimize performance.
- Support strategic capital allocation decisions across our growth levers (including marketing, product, pricing, etc) by consolidating learnings from past experiments, developing your own causal models to help isolate the impact of each growth lever and policy changes.
- Advance our understanding and prediction of customer and seller Lifetime Value (LTV)
- Explore the latest trends in forecasting and experimentation in marketplaces to identify new opportunities to better support growth
- Lead complex cross-functional initiatives working closely with business and engineering stakeholders as well as your peers within the Data community in Back Market
- Be a key driver of the business strategy, by thinking beyond immediate analysis to understand the long-term implications of actions

**YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE IF**:

- 5-8+ years of relevant industry experience working in and a degree (Masters or PhD) in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, Operations Research)
- Deep knowledge in forecasting, statistics, causal inference and experimentation
- A self-starter who understands the current and future business needs by working closely with stakeholders understand their needs
- Proactive in identifying trends, risks which may result in critical business impact, and driving root-cause analysis to identify opportunities & recommendations.
- Tenacious about achieving results, and thrives in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment
- Comfortable taking calculated, data-driven risks and using learnings to continue to pivot, evolve forecasting approaches
- Experience partnering with internal teams to drive action and providing expertise and direction on analytics, experimental design, and measurement
- Strong knowledge of SQL, Python and/or R
- Experience in digital marketplaces and/or e-commerce are a plus

**RECRUITMENT PROCESS**:

- Initial interview with our Talent Acquisition team
- Tech Interview with Tom, Senior Data Scientist & Christophe, Head of Analytics & Insights - Finance & Strategy
- Team fit interview with Ian, VP Data Analytics & Insight
- Stakeholders interview with Senior management
- Back Market Values fit interview

**WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN US ? ✌**
- **A meaningful job**: you will help avoid thousands of tons of electronic waste and fight against planned obsolescence. It counts
- **A meaningful company**: we became a mission-driven company in January 2022.
- **Be part of a worldwide growing company **based in Europe, the USA and Asia to face **great challenges**: you will have the freedom to innovate and adopt new ideas
- **Work alongside passionate experts**:who will share their knowledge and help you develop and grow in your career.
- **Grow your career**: with a flexible career path and a dedicated Learning & Development team. Back Market will help you evolve with personalized internal trainings and external handpicked providers from day 1
- **Leadership Academy by Back Market**:“be a coach not a dictator” is at the core of this program We train and enable all our leaders to support their team towards achieving goals. Be a manager at Back Market is an unique experience we take by heart.
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