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Sr Data Science Consultant

Blue Yonder
London
1 year ago
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Overview

The Data Science Consultant provides services that maximize the value of the customer’s business through data-driven insights and enhanced decision support. This role will be responsible for advising the customer and recommending software configuration alternatives and implementing the software that is configured to optimize the solution so that the customer may realize the maximum value from the software.

Responsibilities:

Provide analytical services as part of a team conducting proofs-of-concept and identifying opportunities to create customer value

Perform data analysis to discover patterns, trends and anomalies in customer data, translate the results into actionable insights, and present results and recommendations to support customers in improving their data quality.

Extract and present data stories from customer data sets to demonstrate value of solution and guide the customer in their priorities

Guide the customer through identification of project success metrics

Work with other members of the Blue Yonder team to understand domain issues and customer-specific requirements and translate them into model enhancement and tuning activities

Build, configure and train models to support overall project objectives, and run simulations and what-if analyses to evaluate alternative scenarios

Support the successful delivery of the solution to the customer by making recommendations and providing quantitative evidence of the project’s results

Keep up with industry trends in data science practice and continuously improve the consulting team’s tools and methodologies

Travel to customer and team work locations (according requirement, around 10%)

Qualifications:

PhD and additional European language skills are a plus

Graduate degree in Operations Research, Statistics, or a related quantitative field, is required, and advanced knowledge of machine learning is preferred

Ability to elicit customers’ knowledge, both explicit and tacit, about business objectives, strategic concerns, and policies related to the scope and success of the project

Able to translate complex data into business insights and opportunities to create value

Ability to communicate analytic insights and recommendations to customers without a deep knowledge of statistics by relating data stories to business situations and processes

Familiarity with business processes for retail, pricing, and supply chain management is preferred

Demonstrated experience of script programming languages, preferably Python, for data analytics and machine learning applications

Ability to create dashboards, visualizations, and reports to communicate statistical findings

Capable of working with and selecting relevant subsets of large data sets

Our Values


If you want to know the heart of a company, take a look at their values. Ours unite us. They are what drive our success – and the success of our customers. Does your heart beat like ours? Find out here: Core Values

Diversity, Inclusion, Value & Equality (DIVE) is our strategy for fostering an inclusive environment we can be proud of. Check out Blue Yonder's inaugural Diversity Report which outlines our commitment to change, and our video celebrating the differences in all of us in the words of some of our associates from around the world.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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