Senior Data Scientist - All Gender

Sanofi (NYSE: SNY) is a leading global integrated healthcare company that discovers, develops, and distributes therapeutic solutions to improve the lives of everyone. The company works to prevent and treat the diseases of today, as well as those we may face tomorrow. With over 100,000 dedicated professionals in more than 100 countries, Sanofi is devoted to advancing healthcare around the world. Sanofi operates across multiple therapeutic areas including General Medicines, Specialty Care, Vaccines and Consumer Healthcare.

Equal opportunity employer. Sanofi is an equal opportunity employer that embraces diversity to foster positive, innovative thinking that will benefit people worldwide. Sanofi is also committed to employing qualified individuals with disabilities and, where warranted, will provide reasonable accommodation to applicants, as well as its employees.

Consumer healthcare (CHC) business unit. The role will regard Sanofi’ Consumer Healthcare. Becoming a standalone division, Consumer Healthcare’s purpose is to serve healthier, fuller lives by offering moments of relief to our Patients & Consumers in our key platforms, including Allergy, Physical & Mental Wellness, Pain, Digestive Health. CHC does business in 133 countries; 4000 professionals work in marketing, sales and services teams. Learn more at .

Consumer Healthcare is becoming a standalone division within Sanofi in order to become a faster moving, consumer and customer centric business as part of project CHLOE (Consumer HealthCare Lead Optimize Empower). This business and IT transformation will entail a standalone ERP, Financial, Systems, Regulatory and People.

Global Digital Team. The team is charged with accelerating the shift to precision marketing and to e-commerce sales, scaling best-in-class data driven decision making tools, capturing new opportunities in the digital health space and uphauling disjointed commercial systems. This team leverages both dedicated expertise internally at Sanofi, and delivery and deployment partners. It builds products, runs service/outsourcing contracts, and develops centers of excellence in technology and digital.

IShift. IShift is the new generation of SAP S4/HANA, with one common framework across Sanofi BUs and geographies replacing JD Edwards in the US, OEP and unity in all other geographies.

POSITION OVERVIEW

This position reports to the Head of Advanced Analytics 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 Senior 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 modelling efforts from conceptualization to implementation, keeping all relevant partners informed
Building reusable tools to streamline the modelling pipeline and sharing knowledge
Researching & implementing state of the art and traditional modelling 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
REQUIREMENTS

5 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 modelling
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 tuning & feature selection: spark UDFs and Hyperopt
Model Governance: Mlflow UI and API
Education
Bachelors 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)
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)


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Fecha de publicación: 16/04/2023