[L6-1] Staff Data Analyst (Retail SCM-A)
Coupang.com
Office
Seoul, South Korea
Full Time
About Coupang
We exist to wow our customers. We know we’re doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, “How did we ever live without Coupang?” Born out of an obsession to make shopping, eating, and living easier than ever, we are collectively disrupting the multi-billion-dollar commerce industry from the ground up and establishing an unparalleled reputation for being leading and reliable force in South Korean commerce.
We are proud to have the best of both worlds — a startup culture with the resources of a large global public company. This fuels us to continue our growth and launch new services at the speed we have been at since our inception. We are all entrepreneurial surrounded by opportunities to drive new initiatives and innovations. At our core, we are bold and ambitious people that like to get our hands dirty and make a hands-on impact. At Coupang, you will see yourself, your colleagues, your team, and the company grow every day.
Our mission to build the future of commerce is real. We push the boundaries of what’s possible to solve problems and break traditional tradeoffs. Join Coupang now to create an epic experience in this always-on, high-tech, and hyper-connected world.
Job Description:
We are seeking an exceptionally pragmatic and results-driven Lead Data Analyst to be the strategic core of our Supply Chain team. Your mission is to solve our toughest inventory challenges—from preventing stockouts to clearing excess goods. This is not a back-office reporting role. You will be a hands-on catalyst who can "figure things out," develop clever solutions, and collaborate across the company to see your insights implemented in our production systems.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead the Full Cycle from Idea to Production-Ready Insight: This is the core of your role.
- Ideate & Develop Smart Heuristics: Proactively identify weaknesses in our supply chain systems and develop clever, practical logic. Your focus will be on forecast correction logic (to override our main models when they fail), Out-of-Stock (OOS) attribution models, and excess inventory flagging rules.
- Build Rapid Proof-of-Concepts (POCs): Quickly validate your ideas with hands-on POCs. You will build working prototypes, such as a Root Cause Analysis dashboard that automatically attributes OOS events to causes like 'Supplier Delay' or 'Under-forecasting'.
- Champion for Productionalization: Partner closely with our Demand Planning and Engineering teams to get your validated POCs productionalized. You are the subject-matter expert who ensures your logic is accurately integrated into our core inventory planning systems.
Become the Go-To Expert on Inventory Health: Own the analytics around our key supply chain KPIs, including Out-of-Stock rates and Sell-Through. You will not just report on these numbers; you will provide the "why" behind them.
Act as a Data Translator: Proactively communicate with technical and non-technical partners, ensuring stakeholders understand not just the 'what' but the 'so what' of your findings. You are the bridge that turns complex analysis into clear business directives.
Mentor and Elevate: As a lead, you will guide and mentor other analysts on the team, establishing best practices for high-impact, efficient, and reproducible analysis.
Qualifications:
- 7+ years of professional experience in data analytics, business intelligence, or a related quantitative field.
- Development background is highly preferred. You think in terms of systems and build solutions for the long term. You likely started your career as a developer or have consistently worked in roles that required strong software engineering principles.
- Domain expertise in Supply Chain, Inventory Management, or Demand Planning is a significant advantage. Experience in e-commerce is also a major plus.
Core Technical Proficiencies:
- Database Expertise (SQL): You possess expert-level SQL skills. You are highly experienced in writing clean, efficient queries to manipulate massive datasets across our primary data platforms, including our data warehouse (Redshift) and data lake (Hive).
- Data Scripting & Automation: You have high proficiency in a scripting language for complex analysis and automation. You are an expert in either Python (with its data ecosystem like pandas, NumPy) or R.
- Dashboarding & Visualization: You have deep, hands-on experience creating insightful and actionable dashboards. You are an expert in at least one of our primary BI tools — Tableau, Power BI, or Apache Superset — and are comfortable navigating the others.
- Analysis as Code (GitHub): You treat analysis as code. Proficiency with Git and GitHub is essential for versioning your queries and scripts and collaborating with the team.
- Generative AI as a Force Multiplier: You are a pragmatic user of Generative AI (e.g., Windsurf, Gemini) to accelerate your workflow—from writing code and debugging issues to managing projects and summarizing findings.
Key Competencies:
- Pragmatic Problem-Solver: You have a knack for creating simple, effective solutions to complex problems and understand when a smart heuristic is better than a perfect but slow model.
- Master Communicator: You can simplify complexity, persuade stakeholders with data-driven narratives, and create clear, concise documentation for your work.
- Sustainable Code Practices: You write clean, modular, and reusable code in both SQL and your chosen scripting language. Your work is easy for others to understand, trust, and build upon.
Recruitment Process
- Application Review - Phone Interview - Virtual Onsite Interview – Offer
- The exact nature of the recruitment process may vary according to the specific job and may be changed due to scheduling or other circumstances.
- Interview schedules and the results will be informed to the applicant via the e-mail address submitted at the application stage.
Details To Consider
- This job posting may be closed prior to the stated end date for application if all openings are filled.
- Coupang has the right to rescind an offer of employment if a candidate is found to have submitted false information as part of the application process.
- Those eligible for employment protection (recipients of veteran’s benefits, the disabled, etc.) may receive preferential treatment for employment in accordance with applicable laws.
- Job titles and responsibilities may be subject to change depending on the candidate’s overall experience, etc. This will be communicated to the candidate at the appropriate time before the offer.
Privacy Notice
- Your personal information will be collected and managed by Coupang as stated in the Application Privacy Notice located below.
https://www.coupang.jobs/en/privacy-policy/
Document Return Policy
- This notification is given pursuant to Article 11 (6) of the Fair Hiring Procedure Act.
- A job applicant, who has applied but not been finally selected for a position at Coupang (the “Company”), may request the Company to return his/her hiring documents submitted pursuant to the Fair Hiring Procedure Act. However, this will not apply where the hiring documents were submitted via the website of the Company or e-mail, or where the job applicant submitted those documents voluntarily without a request from the Company. In addition, if the hiring documents were destroyed due to a natural disaster or any other reasons not attributable to the Company, such documents will be deemed to have been returned to the job applicant.
- A job applicant who wishes to request the return of his/her hiring documents pursuant to the main sentence of paragraph 2 above should fill out a “Request for Return of Hiring Documents” [Annex Form No. 3 in the Enforcement Rule of the Fair Hiring Procedure Act] and submit the request to the Company by email ( recruitingops@coupang.com). In such case, within fourteen (14) days from the date of identifying the receipt of the request, the Company will send the hiring documents to the job applicant’s designated address via registered mail. Please be informed that the job applicant is required to pay the postage on the registered mail.
- In preparation for a job applicant’s request for the return of hiring documents pursuant to the main sentence of paragraph 2 above, the Company shall retain the original hiring documents submitted by the job applicant for 180 days from the completion of the recruiting process. If no request is made until the end of this period, all of his/her hiring documents will be destroyed immediately in accordance with the Personal Information Protection Act.
- Hiring may be restricted in case the legal qualifications required for hiring and work performance are not met.
[L6-1] Staff Data Analyst (Retail SCM-A)
Office
Seoul, South Korea
Full Time
September 19, 2025