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Location: 7000 Target Pkwy N, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, United States, 55445
JOIN US AS A SR DATA SCIENTIST - OPERATIONS RESEARCH (Network Capacity Optimization) REMOTE OR HQAbout This Opportunity:At Target, our mission is to become America's easiest place to shop. Do you want to shape the future Supply Chain and Logistics strategy for a Fortune 50 company? Are you excited at the prospect of analyzing large data sets and solving complex real-world problems? Do you enjoy spearheading large-scale changes and driving innovation through data and analytics? Do you want to help optimize Target's Global Supply Chain? If so, Target's Network Planning team is for you!As a Senior Data Scientist - Operations Research, you will contribute to the team that is at the heart of Target's supply chain strategy. Within the Network Capacity team, you will develop cutting edge in-house tools and optimization models that drive operational performance. You will work closely with stakeholders across the company in Finance, Merchandising, Stores and the GSCL teams to enable transformation. This role will help drive your career development through robust problem solving, influencing senior leaders, sharpening your technology skills and giving you a deep understanding of one of the largest omnichannel supply chains in the world. Data Modeling & Analysis:- Build automated reports on business metrics in in Hadoop ecosystem (Spark, Hive).
- Provide insights on underlying supply chain patterns through application based visualization utilizing Python, R.
- Deploy data-science techniques and recommend algorithmic solutions to business problems based on big data analytics, data mining and statistical modelling.
- Conduct forecasting to determine volumes and shifts ensuring necessary capacity requirements.
- Provide analytical support for projects and programs such as throughput and storage capacity optimization, inventory health management, assortment selection, demand forecasting (time series analysis) etc.
- Influence leaders by providing accurate data analysis, interpretation, with well-founded insights. Impact and influence key decisions throughout the project life cycle in conjunction with senior leaders.
- Develop reports from complex unstructured data and proactively manage their quality on a timely basis.
- Provide data support to the peers as well as broader team stakeholders.
- Ensure consistency and clarity so all processes stay current and are updated as scheduled.
- MS in Operations Research, Math, Statistics, Physics, Computer science or equivalent work experience
- 2 plus years of work experience in data analytics or data sciences at scale
- Expert level experience with SQL as well as strong knowledge of Python/R
- Previous Supply Chain experience / exposure preferred
- A strong passion for empirical research and for answering hard questions with data
- Proven ability using data to drive changes and improvements in an operational environment
- Ability to clearly and succinctly communicate complex concepts in written and verbal form
- Good problem solving and project management experience
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