Senior Decision Scientist - Marketing & Ads Strategic Analytics

Best Buy

Minneapolis, Minnesota

JOB DETAILS
LOCATION
Minneapolis, Minnesota
POSTED
6 days ago

The Marketing & Ads Strategic Analytics team delivers advanced analytics, measurement, and decision support for Best Buy's Marketing and Retail Media Network (RMN), with a focus on high‑impact, ad hoc analytics and customer insights that drive RMN growth and improve marketing and media effectiveness. As a Senior Decision Scientist, you independently lead complex analytical engagements, applying advanced techniques to ambiguous business questions while partnering closely with Ads Analytics, Integrated Marketing Measurement, Analytic Solutions, Data Science, and other Strategic Analytics teams to generate insights that influence investment, messaging, targeting, and measurement decisions and translate performance and customer data into clear, actionable outcomes.

This role is hybrid, which means you will work some days at our corporate office in Richfield, Minnesota, and some days virtually from home or another 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.

What you'll do
  • Lead ambiguous RMN and marketing analytics engagements by proactively framing problems, translating loosely defined business questions into structured analytical strategies, and identifying high‑impact opportunities to improve media performance, customer targeting, and overall RMN growth.
  • Execute advanced statistical, causal, and exploratory analyses using SQL, Python, and R to synthesize customer, media, and performance data, identifying key drivers of RMN growth and opportunities to optimize marketing investment and messaging.
  • Translate complex analytics into executive‑ready, actionable insights and recommendations-confidently influencing Marketing and RMN decisions by serving as a trusted thought partner who helps operationalize data‑driven strategy and execution
  • Collaborate cross‑functionally with Analytics and Data Science partners to align methodologies and insights, mentor analysts to elevate rigor and storytelling, and apply customer and marketing expertise to connect analytics outputs to real‑world RMN and business decisions.

Basic qualifications
  • 5 or more years of experience in analytics, decision science, business, or a related field
  • 5 or more years of experience applying advanced analytical and statistical techniques to complex business problems

About the Company

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Best Buy

Energetic teams. Fun atmosphere. Exciting opportunities.

That’s what you’ll find at Best Buy. Care to join us?

You can feel the energy here. And we’re not talking about the hum of electronics (there’s that, too). We’re talking about people.

Best Buy employees are friendly, enthusiastic and willing to help you succeed. Sure, we’re a big company — the world’s largest consumer electronics retailer — but that doesn’t stop us from having fun while doing what we love: bringing technology into people’s lives in meaningful ways.

When you join our team, we consider you part of our Best Buy family. And what you do here every day will support our goal to make people’s lives better, easier and more enjoyable through the great products we sell.

So if you’d like using your talents to help improve people’s lives, bring it! We’d love to have your energy here.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Retail
FOUNDED
1966
WEBSITE
http://www.bestbuy-jobs.com/