The Data Science Consultant provides services and tools that maximize the value of the customer’s business through data-driven insights and enhanced decision support. This role will be a mixed consulting and product development role. It consists of leading the data science part in implementations of new BY products at first customers, as well as developing tooling, templates and collateral to enable scale for subsequent customers.

Lead the data science workstream within implementation projects of our newly launched products and ML solutions at first customers in cooperation with Product Management and field teams

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.

Configure and tune statistical algorithms such as time series and Machine Learning models from open source as well as BY’s libraries to support overall project objectives and achieve highest possible quality outcome

Design and build tools and code templates to improve and/or speed up the data science workflow in customer projects to enable scale, leveraging new technologies such as GenAI

Work with BY’s Data Scientists, Product Developers, Product Managers and other members of the Blue Yonder team to understand customer-specific requirements and data science related issues and translate them into model enhancement feature requests and tuning options

Collaborate with Data Scientists, Solution Architects and Software Engineers to design and develop tools for the scalable use of AI solutions in supply chain 

Write clean, well-structured, documented and efficient (maintainable) code that adheres to software development best practices 

Create templates, artifacts, documentation, and training material for the larger data science community, customers and partners towards reusability and automation

Actively and responsively collaborate with the field teams and customers to drive adoption of our new products and services

Communicate and/or support the business cases to PMG and PD regarding specific trends for future product functionality and enhancements

Mentor data science consultants in your own team and/or the wider BY team

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

Graduate degree in computer science, statistics, or a related quantitative field, is required. PhD is a plus.

3+ years of demonstrated hands-on experience of script programming languages, preferably Python, with the typical PyData libraries like pandas, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, or pytorch, for data analytics and machine learning applications

3+ years of experience in software development and/or development of applications in the field of Machine Learning, statistical problem solving, data visualisation or similar

Passion for and advanced knowledge of machine learning and statistical problem solving

Demonstrated experience in building end-to-end data pipelines

Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining the code base with git

Demonstrated experience in bringing ML models into production is preferred

High interest and/or experience in GenAI technologies is preferred

Ability 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

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

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

Demonstrated experience with working with big data and parallel computing

Ready to travel to customer sites based on business needs, and flexible to work with overlapping time zones

German language skills on top of fluent English will be a plus.

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