Senior Data Scientist – Strategy & Capital Allocation

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.- An attractive salary, equity and a host of benefits including : Lunch voucher, health insurance, relocation package, paid time off for activism in your community, parental benefits, flexible hours, etc…- Remote friendly company : up to 3 days of remote work per week!- One Loving Tribe: you will have the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, open-minded and friendly environment. – Be part of one of our Employee Resource Groups createdaround shared identities, common backgrounds and/or special interests crafted to be a safe space and an expressive outlet. – Several internal events: The Monday Brief (weekly)/ The Somehands (monthly)/ The All Hands (annual).- We’re here to SABOTAGE: It’s our mantra. It keeps us focused on what we aspire to be: a little bit sneaky, always smart, kinda frugal and constantly conspiring to create maximum impact.
Back Market is an Equal Opportunity Employer which means we pledge to not discriminate against employees based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetic information.. If reasonable accommodations are needed for the interview process, please do not hesitate to discuss this with the Talent Acquisition Team.
Back Market is helping to address one of the biggest challenges of our time: climate change. We take this so seriously that we were awarded status as a “Société à Mission”, or company with a social mission, by the French government. We know we can’t tackle a global problem without a globally representative team so we are committed to embedding diversity, equity and inclusion principles in every aspect of our organization. But more importantly, being One Loving & Free Spirited Tribe is in our DNA as it is one of the five foundational values of our company since we got started way back in 2014. We are committed to hiring and supporting diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We know our lofty goals cannot be reached unless everyone has a seat at the table along with the resources and opportunity to grow.