About the role

  • Lead Data Scientist providing data science expertise and technical leadership for Caterpillar aftermarket parts forecasting. Managing complex analytics processes and ensuring accurate insights generation for critical business decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Provide specialized data science expertise and technical leadership to support all aspects of forecast analytics for Caterpillar aftermarket parts and related special projects.
  • Manage and optimize key analytical processes that support the enterprise-critical Dealer Parts Orders (DPO) forecast and insights generation.
  • Oversee the end-to-end Parts Long-Term Forecast (LTF) process – spanning system architecture design and implementation; data engineering and statistical model development; user training, and stakeholder approvals.
  • Ensure accurate and efficient forecasting.
  • Safeguard the integrity of both the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) forecast disaggregation and the annual business plan disaggregation for DPO.
  • Own the statistical modeling required to calculate probabilistic confidence intervals for aftermarket parts forecasts.
  • Ensure timely, accurate updates to DPO systems and provide expert-level support for all product-based allocation inquiries.
  • Set priorities and prepare work plans to complete broadly defined assignments and achieve desired results.
  • Responsible for Value Stream Mapping for Business Process analysis and improvement.

Requirements

  • Doctoral or Master’s degree with 5 years of experience or a Bachelor’s degree with 10 years of experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Accounting, Statistics, Data Science, Business Analytics, or a closely related field with extensive coursework in mathematical and statistical modeling.
  • 5+ years of extensive experience in applying statistical models and methods to solve a wide range of industry problems.
  • 5+ years of extensive experience in applying statistical tools and techniques for time series analysis and modelling; demonstrating a deep understanding of fundamental concepts of time series analysis: stationarity; seasonality; time series decomposition.
  • 5+ years of extensive experience in developing end-to-end analytics solutions that span from data pipeline to insights delivery.
  • Deep expertise and experience in applying classical statistical modelling methods, tools, and techniques for time series forecasting included in the GLM, ARIMA and State Space family of models.
  • Deep expertise and experience in contemporary deep learning tools and techniques for time series forecasting included in Transformer family of models with self-attention mechanism.
  • Deep understanding of models and methods for Hierarchical time series and forecast reconciliation.
  • Extensive experience and proficiency in R, Python and SQL / Snowflake queries.
  • Experience with AWS Cloud platform and AWS Glue.
  • Experience with Alteryx and SAS.
  • Extensive experience with PowerBI for development of reporting dashboards.
  • Experience with Rshiny / Dash / Streamlit for development of interactive web applications for forecast analytics.
  • High level of interpersonal skills and excellent communication and storytelling skills.
  • Experience in Value Stream Mapping for Business Process analysis and improvement.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
  • Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
  • 401(k) savings plans*
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)*
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
  • Health Lifestyle Programs*
  • Employee Assistance Program*
  • Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
  • Career Development*
  • Incentive bonus*
  • Disability benefits
  • Life Insurance
  • Parental leave
  • Adoption benefits
  • Tuition Reimbursement

Job title

Lead Data Scientist

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$128,470 - $208,770 per year

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

Location requirements

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