Data Scientist

Data Scientist

Job Description

Your Responsibilities
Maintaining cost forecast - Working with buyers to ensure accurate forecast
Leading/co-leading cross-functional cost reduction ideation events
Developing & distributing monthly cost metric reports for the team
Reconciling cost forecast monthly
Completing cost analysis in support of negotiations with suppliers

Major Purpose:
Collaborates with business and analytics leaders to generate insights and answer business questions by using analytics techniques such as advanced data visualization, statistical analysis, randomized testing, predictive modeling, forecasting, optimization, and/or machine learning. Proposes innovative ways to look at problems by using these approaches on available enterprise data as well as customer third party data and information. Validates findings using experimental and iterative approaches. This level performs basic statistical analysis of low to moderately complex data from a single source, with heavy reliance on industry/standardized tools and existing models. Output is reviewed by higher-level Data Scientists or Analytics Manager for execution.

Major Duties:
Works with data sets and performs appropriate analytical methodology to provide insights and decision modeling for the business.
Creates and implements algorithms which manage the data to enable it to be analyzed in an efficient manner.
Supports the communication of derived insights, especially through appropriate visualization techniques.
Supports the identification of the required data sources and works with Data Wranglers and/or IT to implement methodologies to retrieve and use this data.
Stays abreast of the latest appropriate analytical techniques and recommends these where needed. Explains implementation and usage in business terms.
Applies analytical techniques to prospect for business insights and find patterns in data which could be valuable for the business

What Skills You Need
Good interpersonal, negotiation and conflict resolution skills
High level of attention to detail and accuracy
Experience analyzing large amounts of data
Project management experience
Bachelor’s degree (Business degree is preferred but not required)

What Makes You Stand Out
Previous client experience
Experience with JDSN (MyProjects)
Experience with Tableau or Power BI; Databricks
Experience with SAP
Experience in cost reduction

Skills, Abilities, Knowledge:
Quantitative analytical skills
Knowledge of appropriate industry
Good interpersonal, negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
Excellence in verbal and written communication forms with emphasis on persuasive communication, tact and negotiation.
Business process knowledge of assigned area(s) and/or function(s).
Knowledge of advanced data gathering and analysis techniques, including statistical analysis.

Education:
Degree in a Math discipline or equivalent experience. - University Degree (4 years or equivalent)
Economics - University Degree (4 years or equivalent)
Statistics - University Degree (4 years or equivalent)

Work Experience:
Internal or external industry specific experience in relevant discipline. (1 - 3 years)
Data analytics experience. (1 - 3 years)
Background or proven experience in mining data for analytics insights. (1 - 3 years)
Good exposure to enterprise statistical tools like SAS, Statistica, SPSS or SAS E Miner (1 - 3 years)

Notes:
Onsite

VIVA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants have an equal opportunity for placement, and all employees have an equal opportunity to develop on the job. This means that VIVA will not discriminate against any employee or qualified applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.