Senior Manager Data Scientist, Store Operations
Company: Catalyst Brands
Location: Location not specified
Salary: $97.2k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-08-04
About this role
## Overview
The Senior Data Scientist delivers practical analytical solutions to improve store performance, labor effectiveness, and operations decision-making across the 5 brands and 1,400 stores at Catalyst Brands. The role uses strong and disciplined analytical judgement in concert with advanced analytics and modeling, building causal and predictive models that drive sound business decisions. The Senior Data Scientist uses AI-enabled analytical and development tools to improve speed, quality, and breadth of analysis.
This role partners closely with Store Operations, Merchandising, and Finance to translate business problems into analytical approaches, deliver actionable insights, and help establish sound measurement and testing practices for operational changes and model-driven recommendations.
## Responsibilities
Store Operational Performance & Analytics
• Develops and applies analytics models that diagnose store performance drivers, including traffic, conversion, UPT, AUR, labor utilization, shrink, and improved margin profitability
• Identifies underperforming stores, quantifies root causes, and recommends targeted interventions (labor scheduling, product placement, assortment, training, process redesign).
• Designs and applies rigorous test-and-learn standards and approaches to evaluate operational and merchandising initiatives, translating results into clear recommendations and scalable actions.
Advanced Analytics for Store Optimization and Insights
• Creates models to detect operational patterns, identify key causal factors, and predict outcomes based on leading indicators.
• Develops predictive and decision-support models for scheduling, staffing coverage, fulfillment flows, and allocation decisions that affect store performance and profitability.
• Transforms operational data—POS, labor, tasking, shrink events, foot traffic—into intelligence that supports rapid experimentation and decision-making.
Continuously refines models and reporting to ad...