VML Luxembourg

VML Luxembourg is one of the leading Amazon consulting agencies in Europe. Offering 360° services for Amazon, we have a diverse range of products and services in various sectors to ensure long-term sales growth, ranging from creating multilingual content and listings to all aspects of advertising, including sales promotion, PPC and programmatic campaigns. We are part of WPP, the world’s largest digital media agency, and manage WPP’s European Center of Excellence for Amazon (ACE) dedicated to maximising performance, driving sales and building brands on the Amazon platform.The opportunity:

We are seeking a versatile Data Scientist with strong engineering capabilities to drive our retail media analytics initiatives. The ideal candidate will combinine statistical modeling expertise with hands-on implementation skills. You will not only develop sophisticated machine learning and attribution models, but also help design the data infrastructure needed to power these models. 

Please send over your CV in English.

What you’ll be doing:

• Apply statistical techniques, machine learning algorithms, and data visualization methods to uncover patterns and trends in retail media performance
• Develop predictive models to forecast customer behavior, sales trends, and advertising effectiveness
• Architect and develop ETL pipelines to ingest, transform, and process large-scale retail media datasets
• Work with event-level datasets to optimize retail commerce and media strategies
• Define and integrate new SQL data models into business processes, enhancing marketing strategies
• Build and optimize time series forecasting, recommendation engines, and budget allocation models
• Partner with engineers to deploy models into production environments

What we want from you:

• Strong proficiency in Python for data transformation, analysis, scripting, and automation
• Experience with feature engineering, including the ability to identify, extract, and select relevant features from complex datasets to improve model performance
• Solid understanding of machine learning techniques including model development, training, and evaluation
• Expert knowledge in SQL for defining new event-level data models
• Experience with data warehousing concepts and transformation tools
• Expertise in data manipulation, statistical analysis, and data visualization
• Proven ability to translate business questions into analytical frameworks
• Strong software engineering practices (version control, testing, documentation)
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into technical specifications
• Extensive experience in data science or an engineering role with strong data science exposure.
• Proficiency in English (additional languages are a plus).
• EU working permit is required

Bonus Skills:

• Background in e-commerce, retail media, or digital advertising analytics
• Knowledge of Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) methodologies
• Experience with cloud-based ML platforms like AWS SageMaker or Vertex AI
• Familiarity with DBT (Data Build Tool) or similar data transformation tools
• Interest in generative AI solutions and their application to retail analytics

What we can offer you:

Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, we’ll also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. We’ll empower you to make a difference, allow you to be yourself, and respect who you are.

AT VML Enterprise Solutions

Our Enterprise Solutions division houses strategic consultants, creative and technical architects and skilled developers and operators that together help some of the world’s leading organisations to deliver outstanding digital experiences across all major routes to market worldwide: marketplaces, online retailers, D2C, B2B and social platforms. With over 4,200 experts in 55 operational centres across 34 countries, our capabilities span the entire buying journey from customer acquisition, through engagement, to conversion and loyalty, driving multi-channel growth for world-leading brands.

We work with some of the most exciting brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, EY, Bosch, Unilever, Ford, DFS, Mercedes-Benz, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Sainsbury’s, Selfridges, Shell and Tiffany & Co. We’ve built over 500 platforms for brands and retailers and generate in excess of $29bn annually for our clients and work with over 50 strategic partners including Adobe, SAP, Salesforce, HCL, Shopify, Sitecore, BigCommerce, commerce tools and Acquia. Our reputation is based on our people, and we believe we have some of the best in the business.

As our business grows internationally, we’re looking for new people to join us on our journey to inspire and take a key role in shaping some of the best commerce solutions, services, and websites in the world. Working as a team, no problem is insurmountable; we share in our client’s successes and believe that anyone can show creative bravery no matter what their role is in the team.