Director - Data Science/Analytics - Supply Chain/Forecasting/Financial Analytics

Director - Data Science/Analytics - Supply Chain/Forecasting/Financial Analytics

Specialism

Data, Analytics & AI

Management Level

Director

Job Description & Summary:

Years of Experience: Candidates with 16+ years of hands on experience

Must Have:

- Strong project management skills to oversee and coordinate multiple data science projects, ensuring they are delivered on time and within scope while meeting expectations

- Demonstrated experience in providing strategic direction and leadership for a data science team, aligning initiatives with overall business goals

- Understanding of how advanced analytics solutions, AI/ML models, and operationalizing based on ML process are leveraged and delivered in Supply Chain domain

- In-depth knowledge of supply chain processes, logistics, inventory management, and demand forecasting within various industries

- Strong understanding of financial concepts and analytics to provide insights into budgeting, cost optimization, and financial forecasting

- Experience in developing demand forecasting models to optimize inventory levels, reduce stockouts

- Good knowledge of statistics, Data analysis hypothesis testing, and preparation for machine learning use cases

- Experience in machine learning frameworks and tools (For e.g. scikit-learn, mlr, caret, H2O, TensorFlow, Pytorch, MLlib)

- Familiarity with prrogramming in SQL and Python/Pyspark to guide teams

- Familiarity with visualization tools For e.g.: Tableau, PowerBI, AWS QuickSight etc.

Nice to have:

- Working knowledge of containerization (e.g. AWS EKS, Kubernetes), Dockers and data pipeline orchestration (e.g. Airflow)

- Experience with model explainability and interpretability techniques

- Multi-task and manage multiple deadlines. Responsible for incorporating client/user feedback into the Product

- Ability to think through complex user scenarios and design simple yet effective user interactions

- Good Communication and presentation skills