Hybrid Lead Data Scientist – Last Mile Supply Chain Optimization

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About the role

  • Lead Data Scientist at Target developing predictive and prescriptive algorithms for supply chain optimization. Collaborating across teams to foster data-driven decision-making while ensuring continuous innovation.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and manage state of the art predictive and prescriptive algorithms to automate and optimize decisions at scale
  • Write high-performant, scalable code and design analytical solutions to extract insights and prescribe best courses of action
  • Accelerate omni-channel experimentation to foster a culture of continuous innovation at Target
  • Advocate for a data-driven culture across Product, Business Ops and Engineering
  • Execute solutions to business problems using data analysis, data mining, forecasting, optimization tools, and machine learning techniques
  • Analyze and explore data, design in-product experiments, analyze results, and provide strategic recommendations
  • Partner with Product Owners and business partners to identify gaps in product offerings through comprehensive data analysis
  • Define data for measuring success of new product features or business strategies and work on KPI tracking
  • Strive for query optimization on large data sets used by operations research and stakeholders
  • Design and build self-service dashboards using analytical and visualization techniques to derive actionable insights from data

Requirements

  • PhD/MS in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or related quantitative field
  • 5+ years of experience leading large-scale implementations of supply chain optimization, simulation and machine learning modeling end to end
  • Demonstrated proficiency in one or more programming languages: Python, R, Kotlin or Java
  • Demonstrated experience writing highly performant code and deploying algorithms in a production environment
  • Proficient in predictive/prescriptive algorithms and ML Ops
  • Experience working with large event-driven distributed systems and multi-threaded applications
  • Experience in application/software architecture (definition, process modeling, etc.)
  • Experience writing production datasets in SQL/Hive or building internal/production data tools for research or experimentation in a scripting language like Python
  • Passion for solving relevant real-world problems using a data science approach
  • Experience in implementing advanced statistical techniques like regression, clustering, PCA, forecasting (time series), etc.
  • Experience producing reasonable documents/narratives suggesting actionable insights
  • Excellent communication skills with an ability to clearly tell data driven stories through appropriate visualizations, graphs, and narratives
  • Self-driven and results oriented; able to meet tight timelines
  • Collaborative team player with ability to partner effectively across time zones.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits and programs including medical, vision, dental, and life insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Employee discount
  • Short term disability
  • Long term disability
  • Paid sick leave
  • Paid national holidays
  • Paid vacation

Job title

Lead Data Scientist – Last Mile Supply Chain Optimization

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$132,000 - $286,000 per year

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

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