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Lead Data Scientist (Retail & Wholesale, AI Initiatives)

atCP Axtra PCL (Lotus's)

Key Responsibility:

Leadership and Strategy

  • Drive the end-to-end AI and Advanced Analytics initiatives to support CP Axtra’s Retail & Wholesale businesses.
  • Develop and execute a forward-looking AI strategy that delivers measurable impact on revenue growth, cost efficiency, and customer engagement.
  • Serve as a bridge between business and technology, ensuring AI adoption and scaling across multiple business units.
  • Stay updated on global and local AI trends, including Generative AI, personalization, forecasting, and optimization, to strengthen CP Axtra’s competitive edge.


Analytics and AI Execution

  • Lead the design, development, and deployment of machine learning and AI models, including personalization engines, pricing optimization, demand forecasting, inventory management, and GenAI/NLP applications.
  • Oversee experimentation, validation, and monitoring of AI/ML models to ensure scalability, reliability, and business integration.
  • Ensure close collaboration with data engineering teams to enable robust pipelines and MLOps for production-grade solutions.


Business Partnership

  • Partner with Retail Operations, Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, Finance, and IT to co-create AI use cases and drive adoption.
  • Build strong relationships with stakeholders to align priorities, communicate trade-offs, and manage expectations effectively.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to senior executives, translating complex AI insights into actionable recommendations.
  • Evangelize the value of AI and data-driven decision-making across the organization.


People Leadership and Collaboration

  • Mentor and coach a team of data scientists and analysts, fostering a culture of innovation, experimentation, and continuous learning.
  • Promote cross-functional collaboration with Business Intelligence and Data Engineering teams to deliver integrated solutions.
  • Encourage knowledge sharing and build internal AI/ML capability to strengthen organizational maturity.


Performance Monitoring and Optimization

  • Define and monitor success metrics for AI initiatives, such as sales uplift, campaign ROI, operational cost reduction, and customer lifetime value.
  • Continuously assess and optimize AI-driven processes to maximize business impact.
  • Share learnings, case studies, and success stories to build trust and ensure alignment with business leaders.


Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science, Economics, or a related field (Master’s or PhD strongly preferred).
  • 5+ years of experience in data science, advanced analytics, or AI applications (experienced in Retail or Wholesale domain preferred).
  • Proven experience delivering AI/ML solutions from ideation to production with measurable business outcomes.
  • Proficiency in Python, R, SQL, and machine learning frameworks (e.g., Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch).
  • Familiarity with GenAI and NLP frameworks (e.g., LLMs, LangChain, RAG pipelines).
  • Familiarity with cloud-based data platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and big data technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Databricks).
  • Experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) and modern MLOps practices.
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and business functions.
  • Proven ability to prioritize and deliver projects with business impact.
  • Understanding of retail and wholesale operations, including customer journey, pricing, promotion, assortment, and supply chain optimization.
  • Demonstrated success in driving AI adoption, gaining executive buy-in, and scaling solutions across organizations.


CP AXTRA | Lotus's
CP AXTRA Public Company Limited.
Nawamin Office: Buengkum, Bangkok 10230, Thailand


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Experience required
  • any or no experience
Salary
  • Negotiable
Job function
  • Research (R&D) / Science
  • Management
  • Strategy / Planning
Job type
  • Full-time

Company overview

Size:2000-5000 employees
Industry:Retail
Location:Bangkok
Website:www.lotuss.com
Founded in:1994
Ranking:4/5

At Lotus's, we get up every morning and questioned ourselves daily on how we can serve our customers better. Lotus’s is an omni-channel retailer in Thailand, with a commitment to providing great quality products at affordable prices, while doing good things for our customers, colleagues, and comm ...

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Why join us:

“At Lotus's, we are looking for people who are the change-agent with a passion to grow in both work and life. People who have the ability to think in an agile way and make everyday as a history to leave their own legacy in every part of business.” Lotus's People are: People wh ...

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Job location: Bueng Kum
Head office: 629/1 Nawamintr Road, Nuanchan, Buengkoom, Bangkok 10230 , Thailand
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