Consumer Healthcare Lead Data Scientist

Key Skills

Java Programming, Analytical and Problem solving, Leadership, SAP, Design, Management, Risk Analytics, Python Programming, SQL, Git, AWS, PowerBI, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Pandas, Tableau, XGBoost, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, Scikit-learn, CSS3, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud-EC2, SPARK Programming, Lambda, Github, Databricks, Lean Six Sigma, HTTP acceleration, Metadata

Job Description

This position reports to the Head of Data Architecture, Modeling & BI in the CHC business unit in Sanofi

• A cornerstone of CHC transformation in the coming years, the Senior Data Scientist will play a key role for shaping the core data capabilities that drive critical use cases within CHC organization.
• We are looking for an energetic, focused, and skilled senior data scientist with strong data and information management, business analytics and communication skills to help improve the business process of CHC’s global functions, IA and Supply Chain area.
• In this role, you will drive critical business impacts. You will play a key role to drive end-to-end solutions from understanding the business requirements of CHC, exploring a large amount of historical data, build ML predictive forecasting models, building prototypes and exploring conceptually new solutions collaborating with Sanofi’s Data Science team and partners.
• You will collaborate closely with research scientists, engineering peers as well as business stakeholders. You will be at the heart of a growing and exciting focus area for CHC business.
• The candidate must be able to work independently and collaboratively

You will work with a diverse team of business analysts, data scientists, technical engineers, data architects, and project managers to deliver outcomes aligned with our business need.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The Lead Data Scientist will be responsible for:

• Build Machine Learning and AI models to generate business value.
• Identify the business need and deep diving into forecasting issues using SQL and scripting languages like R, Python, and internal dashboards to drive short term fixes and long-term improvements.
• Lead modeling efforts from conceptualization to implementation, keeping all relevant partners informed.
• Building reusable tools to streamline the modeling pipeline and sharing knowledge
• Researching & implementing state of the art and traditional modeling techniques including tree-based models, Deep Learning, linear models, unsupervised methods, embeddings, representations, and clustering.
• Turn all technical outcome to a simple storyline to explain the solution to the CHC business leads.
• Supervising daily execution and delivery from start to completion involving deadlines, achievement, and processes; engaging vital and appropriate resources across product lines and shared services per solution blueprint and align IT capacity with top business priorities.
• Act as a subject matter expert in the design and recommendation of analytical methodologies and approaches
• Able to interact with business teams and stakeholders.
• Proven experience in Machine leaning and Statistical learning oriented to forecasting.
• Ready to do maintenance, debug, refactoring, unit-testing, integration testing, packaging and documentation of large-scale python projects.
• GitOps and MLOps skills oriented to CICD.
• Be able to Customize Databricks Clusters and Jobs in order to perform Big Data tasks using spark.
• Be able to do maintenance of the smtp email delivering service.

QUALIFICATIONS

10 years or more experience in Senior Data Scientist Role.

• Experience working in FMCG 
• Experience using scripting languages such as Python or R, and common libraries such as scikit-learn, pandas, xgboost, etc.
• Experience applying & implementing solutions with the following data science concepts and domains: Classification, Regression, Deep Learning, NLP, Feature Engineering
• 3+ years of hands-on experience working with large scale data and advance analytics life cycle, including data discovery, business intelligence, data quality management, metadata management, and related disciplines.
• Hands-on experience with relational databases, data warehouses, operational data stores, in-memory databases, SQL and noSQL technologies and concepts.
• Problem-solving skills, creative thinking, and ability to implement creative solutions that tackle business problems.
• Agile ways of working and large projects phased delivery 

Data & Business intelligence domain and software experience is a plus:

• Experience of Interfacing heterogeneous systems and data sources
• Experience in cloud computing platforms like AWS or Azure
• Experience in Re-clustering of data and Micro-Partitioning in Snowflake
• Experience in data mining, forecasting, simulation, and/or predictive modeling
• Working knowledge in Informatica IICS, Power BI and Tableau
• Working knowledge of procuring data from ERPs (SAP, JDE, etc.)
• Python dev: scripting and OOD experience, python unit testing, linting, HTTP request, code packaging, Dockerizing
• Git: Github CICD governance (github pipelines, github actions and github projects tools)
• AWS tools: S3 Buckets, Lambda functions, ECR, EC2, Secrets Manager
• Databricks environment UI and DB APIs (databricks API, db connect)
• ML & Forecasting: Facebook Prophet, DeepAR, Linear & non-linear models, decision Trees, spark MLlib, scikit-learn
• Hyperparameter tunning & feature selection: spark UDFs and Hyperopt
• Model Governance: Mlflow UI and API

Education

• Bachelor's degree
• Six Sigma certification is preferred
• Fluent in English

International program management skills

• Able to articulate and present findings and insights to senior leadership
• Work with multicultural and multi-sourced teams
• Multi-country deployment, involving local stakeholders
• Cross functional leadership and influencing
• Lead people and timelines in a matrix organization in compliant and professional manner
• Excellent presentation to executive teams, writing, power point and organizational skills
• Contracting and contract managing software vendors and system integrators
• Strategic development in a multi-dimensional and rapid changing environment

Digital Program Leadership

• Leading cross-functional teams to create Digital strategies and roadmaps
• Design thinking and product development methods (blueprint, iteration, fast pivot, etc.)
• Transformative digital and/or technology solutions track record (design, develop, deliver)
• Relentless & creative problem-solving to deliver in a complex governance environment
• Outstanding risk management and “get things done” mindset
• Fast learner in new industries and functions (e.g., legal, finance)

People leadership

• Outstanding relationship-building, effective in a matrixed, culturally diverse organization.
• Influence skills at all levels of seniority, including people who do not work for him/her.
• Balance pushing for change and bringing people along; conflict resolution mindset.
• Fast & high-quality written communications, business cases and analyses (MS Office)

SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

FMCH / IT skills and competencies

• Job in FMCG & MDM (advanced)
• Lean & Agile practices (advanced)
• User Experience (intermediate)
• Financial Planning (intermediate)
• Vendor Management (intermediate)

Transversal Skills & Competencies (Soft skills)

• Business Acumen (advanced)
• Business Partnership (advanced)
• Transversal collaboration (advanced)
• Strategic Thinking (advanced)
• Decision Making (advanced)
• Change Management (advanced