Senior Manager Data Science

Walgreens Boots Alliance
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Job Description

Job Summary

Manages complex data gathering and integrating large volumes of data, performing analysis, interpreting results and developing actionable insights and recommendations for use across the company. Provides management and guidance to multiple groups of staff of data scientists and data analysts to implement the companys data science strategy. Manages efforts of others in the achievement of the strategic and operational objectives.

Job Responsibilities

  • Provides management and guidance to multiple groups of data scientists and data analysts to implement the companies data science strategy.
  • Manages efforts of others in the achievement of the strategic and operational objectives. Leads the area to ensure performance standards and all goals and objectives are met in a timely and organized fashion.
  • Manages complex data gathering and integrating large volumes of data, performing analysis, interpreting results and developing actionable insights and recommendations for use across the company. Research techniques may include statistical modeling, visualization, machine learning, and data mining.
  • Makes recommendations regarding the operating plans for specified area, then, based on prevailing conditions may realign the daily operations.
  • Plans and structures work activities for teams and monitors progress and results. May develop briefs for outside vendors and manages their relationship.
  • Provides guidance and supervision to teams as they carry out work activities. Recruits and develops staff within area of responsibility in accordance with policy. May manage vendors engaged in big data analysis.
  • Influences individuals within and outside the department. Prepares and presents reports to all levels of leadership and staff.
  • May develop budget for functional area. Manages budget to plan and is responsible for meeting delivering against budgetary goals and objectives.
  • Stays abreast of industry leading best practices and brings them to the attention of the leadership team for innovative application.
  • Develops and leverages partnerships (and relationships) with internal and external stakeholders to meet business needs.
  • Oversees and manages managers, supervisors and individual contributors. Allocates available resources to meet operating objectives. Ensures the ongoing training and development of direct reports.
  • Develops and mentors staff through onboarding, open communication, training and development opportunities and performance management processes builds and maintains employee morale and motivation ensures the team is appropriately staffed with required competencies fosters a diverse and inclusive workplace.

About Walgreens and WBA

Walgreens www.walgreens.com is included in the U.S. Retail Pharmacy and U.S. Healthcare segments of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. Nasdaq WBA, an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader with a 170 year heritage of caring for communities. WBAs purpose is to create more joyful lives through better health. Operating nearly 9,000 retail locations across America, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, Walgreens is proud to be a neighborhood health destination serving nearly 10 million customers each day. Walgreens pharmacists play a critical role in the U.S. healthcare system by providing a wide range of pharmacy and healthcare services, including those that drive equitable access to care for the nations medically underserved populations. To best meet the needs of customers and patients, Walgreens offers a true omnichannel experience, with fully integrated physical and digital platforms supported by the latest technology to deliver high quality products and services in communities nationwide.

Basic Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in statistics, data science, mathematics, economics OR a quantitative, computational or technical discipline AND at least 4 years of post-graduate professional work experience in a statistical function.
  • Experience in data science, advanced analytics, or statistics. Ability to interrogate data, perform analyses, interpret data, and present to business audiences.
  • Deep knowledge of SQL
  • Deep knowledge of open source data science and statistics packages such as Python, R, Spark, etc.
  • Experience with Analytics Strategy development.
  • Experience interacting at the executive level
  • Experience leading cross functional teams.
  • Experience establishing and maintaining key relationships with internal (peers, business partners and leadership) and external (business community, clients and vendors) within a matrix organization to develop strategies that meet department goals within budget and timelines.
  • At least 2 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace
  • At least 3 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership or cross functional team leadership
  • Willing to travel up to 10 percent of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Preferred Qualifications

  • Graduate degree in a quantitative, computational or technical discipline.

Company Info.

Walgreens Boots Alliance

Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. is an Anglo-Swiss-American holding company headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois that owns the retail pharmacy chains Walgreens and Boots, as well as several pharmaceutical manufacturing and distribution companies. Walgreens became a subsidiary of the newly created company after the transactions were completed.

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