UPS Capital Sales Enablement Data Scientist

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, SQL, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), R Programming, Neural Networks, ETL frameworks, Gradient Boosting trees, Random forests

Job Description

UPS Capital (UPSC), one of the fastest growing subsidiaries within UPS offers opportunities for career development, mastering your craft, and virtually limitless professional growth. The UPS Capital Sales Enablement department delivers analytical information and insights for sales planning and performance and is looking for a Data Scientist to join their team.

The UPSC Sales Enablement Data Scientist will apply predictive and prescriptive analytics models on organization’s internal and external data to derive actionable insights for the growth of UPS Capital’s risk mitigation and insurance business. As a key member of a growing team, he/she will operate in a fast-paced environment and take on multiple roles. This person will help with developing and maintaining financial models and data integration models in Anaplan. This person will develop integrations between Anaplan and other BI tools like Tableau and Power BI, and develop dynamic reports and dashboards within Anaplan.

This position will have the opportunity to research and experiment with innovative new techniques in machine learning, statistics, and operations research. He/She will have the freedom to attend conferences and training sessions, and collaborate with partner universities, to further skillset. The selected candidate will primarily serve in an individual contributor role with a focus on hands-on technical work. He/She may be asked to take on non-technical assignments such as business requirements gathering.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Functional understanding of sales planning, revenue forecasting and financial planning.
• Lead the process of understanding business problems and translating into efficiently built multi-dimension models.
• Build efficient processes within Anaplan for self-serve sales/financial forecasting, routine reporting and scenario analysis.
• Builds predictive and prescriptive models, algorithms, and simulations
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams of data scientists, data engineers, application developers, etc. to deliver measurable outcomes
• Manages multiple work streams while proactively responding to competing demands
• Evaluates open-source and vendor-based tools, such as applications, platforms, frameworks and programming languages

Knowledge and Skills

• Passion for building analytical solutions to answer business questions and improve business processes
• 2+ years' industry experience in a technical role, preferably in a data science capacity
• 1+ years of experience building models in Anaplan or other multi-dimensional modeling software.
• Intermediate knowledge of R or Python
• Knowledge of Generalized Linear and Non-Linear Models, Time Series Analysis, Random Forest, Gradient Boosted Machines, Neural Networks, Unsupervised Methods (Dimensionality Reduction, Clustering, etc.) knowledge
• Experience querying relational data systems for ETL and data integration tasks
• Good communications skills with ability to present to technical and business audiences
• Familiarity with scaling and operationalizing data science models in production settings - Preferred
• Experience working in a cloud-computing environment such as AWS, Azure, GCP, etc. - Preferred
• Prior exposure to the transportation or logistics industry - Preferred
• Bachelor’s Degree in quantitative or computational field such as Statistics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Physics, Engineering, Mathematics, Economics, or related discipline - Preferred

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or National of the U.S., an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, or an alien authorized to work in the U.S. for this employer
• Employer will not sponsor a visa for this or future positions
• Must be currently located in the same geographic location as the job or willing to relocate yourself
• Must have a Bachelor’s Degree (or internationally comparable degree)
• Where permitted by applicable law, employees must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by their date of hire/placement to be considered for employment. Fully vaccinated means two weeks after receiving the second shot for Pfizer and Moderna, or two weeks after Johnson & Johnson’s one shot.

OTHER CRITERIA:

Employer will not sponsor visas for position.

UPS is an equal opportunity employer. UPS does not discriminate on the basis of race/color/religion/sex/national origin/veteran/disability/age/sexual orientation/gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

UPS is an equal opportunity employer. UPS does not discriminate on the basis of race/color/religion/sex/national origin/veteran/disability/age/sexual orientation/gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law