Data Scientist - Operations Research

Description:
• Listen to clients and ask questions to clearly define business problems.
• Perform exploratory analysis to determine root causes of problems and confirm/disprove hypotheses.
• Develop predictive models to forecast future volumes that will drive capacity/resource needs.
• Develop customer and product segmentation models and design our supply chain to support differentiated services.
• Build optimization and simulation models to recommend capacity investments, resource plans, policy changes, and process changes to improve supply chain performance.
• Develop prescriptive models using 3rd party optimization/simulation software and custom-build models.
• Recommend solutions.
• Summarize the financial and operational impact of the recommendation and pros/cons of alternatives considered.
• Work with Data Engineers to create data models for analyses.

Requirements:
• 2-4 years of experience, preferred
• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field, or equivalent work experience, preferred
• MS/MBA with focus in Data Science, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, or Statistics preferred
• Demonstrated ability to apply Data Science and Operations Research techniques to logistics and supply chain management problems preferred
• Experience with Structured Query Language (SQL) and working with databases preferred
• Experience with data analysis tools such as R, Python, SQL, Alteryx, Tableau, and SAS preferred
• Experience with Strategic Network Design, Simulation (e.g., AnyLogic), or Mathematical Programming (e.g., CPLEX) software preferred
• Proven ability to work as part of a team as the key analytical resource
• Excellent communication skills with an ability to explain quantitative analysis in simple business terms
• Intellectual curiosity, humility, genuine respect and desire to help others
• Bias for action and passion for driving change
• Ability to travel up to 5%

Benefits:
• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Paid time off plan
• Health savings account (HSA)
• 401k savings plan
• Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• Work-Life resources
• Paid parental leave
• Healthy lifestyle programs

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