Data Scientist

As the Data Scientist, your responsibilities will include:

Role Overview

• Lead data science initiatives within the Digital Operations team, driving innovation and operational excellence across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Quality.
• Manage and mentor citizen data scientists while spearheading complex data science projects from inception to deployment, ensuring continuous alignment with business objectives.

Leadership and Project Management

• Lead and manage citizen data scientists through all phases of data science projects, providing mentorship and guidance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, scope, and prioritize data science projects, including defining data collection methods, modeling techniques, and expected outcomes.
• Manage data science projects from initiation to completion, continuously revisiting and refining models to ensure they meet evolving business needs.
• Develop and maintain governance principles for data science projects, ensuring best practices are followed.

Problem Analysis and Project Management

• Develop advanced analytics models (predictive, prescriptive, machine learning, simulation, statistical) to address complex business challenges in Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Quality.
• Utilize advanced machine learning and statistical techniques to perform data discovery, uncovering new correlations and interdependencies among variables that can drive operational improvements.
• Lead the development of scalable data pipelines and integrate model performance management tools into existing business infrastructure.

Data Collection, Exploration, and Integration

• Access and integrate data from various sources, including SQL databases and other systems relevant to Digital Operations.
• Conduct data cleaning, transformation, and preprocessing to ensure data quality and readiness for modeling.
• Apply statistical analysis, such as hierarchical clustering and PCA, to uncover insights.
• Aid in the creation of data pipelines for more efficient and repeatable data science projects
• Apply statistical analysis and visualization techniques to various data, such as hierarchical clustering and principal components analysis (PCA)
• Develop classification and regression models or apply unsupervised learning to aid in uncovering insights in data.

Operationalization

• Develop advanced analytics models (predictive, prescriptive, machine learning, simulation, statistical) to address complex business challenges in Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Quality.
• Utilize advanced machine learning and statistical techniques to perform data discovery, uncovering new correlations and interdependencies among variables that can drive operational improvements.
• Lead the development of scalable data pipelines and integrate model performance management tools into existing business infrastructure.
• Collaborate with IT and data engineering teams to deploy and monitor production ML models, establishing best practices around ML production infrastructure.
• Continuously monitor, revisit, and refine deployed models to ensure they remain aligned with business objectives and adapt to changing operational needs.
• Work closely with stakeholders to communicate findings, insights, and recommendations effectively, ensuring that data-driven strategies are integrated into decision-making processes.

Other

• Stay updated with the latest advancements in data science, machine learning, and AI, and proactively integrate these innovations into projects where applicable.
• Drive strategic initiatives by identifying and prioritizing AI/ML opportunities that align with the organization’s operational goals, challenging the status quo, and promoting bold, innovative thinking.

The Data Scientist position is well-suited for you if you:

• Can translate business strategies into actionable plans by leveraging market and functional knowledge
• Champion new processes, remove barriers, and adapt current processes to facilitate improvement
• Build sustainable internal and external relationships that deliver value for the business
• Cultivate and maintain partnerships across functions, helping teams successfully navigate competing priorities
• Challenge the status quo and promote bold thinking to create value

Qualified candidates will have:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Management Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field required. 
• Master’s Degree in Data Science field strongly preferred.
• Proven experience in leading and managing citizen data scientist.
• Specialization in ML, AI, cognitive science, or data science
• Knowledge and application of agile methodologies
• Project experience in applying ML and data science to business functions such as forecasting, production planning, financial risk analytics, logistics, marketing analytics, and warehouse management.
• Proven experience launching significant data science projects.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute strategies to support the achievement of business objectives.
• Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to communicate at all levels of the organization
• Must be able to travel up to 20%

If you are inspired by professional challenges and the rewards that come from a high level of performance, then Ingredion is the company for you. At Ingredion, you can be a member of a globally connected team inspired to achieve great things.

We believe in the power of our people to work together to seize opportunities, overcome obstacles and exceed expectations. Each day, individuals make a meaningful difference in the quality of our products and the success of our technology and operations and, in turn, the quality of life for consumers.

A career at Ingredion combines the benefits and professional opportunities afforded a $8 billion leader in our industry with the dynamic environment and team-driven culture you’d expect in a much smaller company.  Despite its global scope and the advancement opportunities that come with it, Ingredion has the intimacy of a mid-size company, one where different perspectives are sought and where relationships matter.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Ingredion provides accommodations to job applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process. If a job applicant requires an accommodation during the application process or through the selection process, we will work with the applicant to meet the job applicant's accommodation needs.

Ingredion uses AI-enabled tools to support parts of the recruitment process, including resume screening and interview scheduling. These tools help match candidate skills to job requirements and streamline communication. All AI-assisted decisions are reviewed by our Talent Acquisition team to ensure fairness and compliance with applicable laws. By applying, you acknowledge that AI may be used to support your application journey.

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