Sr. Data Scientist | Digital & Technology

General Mills

  • Mumbai, Maharashtra
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 17 days ago
Job Description:COMPANY OVERVIEWWe make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Häagen-Dazs, we’ve been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell. How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerate us into the future as an innovative force for good. General Mills was founded in 1866 when Cadwallader Washburn boldly bought the largest flour mill west of the Mississippi. That pioneering spirit lives on today through our leadership team, who upholds a vision of relentless innovation while being a force for good. For more details, check out http://www.generalmills.comGeneral Mills India Center (GIC) is our global capability center in Mumbai that works as an extension of our global organization, delivering business value, service excellence, and growth, while standing for good for our planet and people. With our team of 1800+ professionals, we deliver superior value across the areas of Supply chain (SC) , Digital & Technology (D&T) Innovation, Technology & Quality (ITQ), Consumer and Market Intelligence (CMI), Sales Strategy & Intelligence (SSI) , Global Shared Services (GSS) , Finance Shared Services (FSS) and Human Resources Shared Services (HRSS). For more details, check out https://www.generalmills.co.inWe advocate for advancing equity and inclusion to create more equitable workplaces and a better tomorrow.JOB OVERVIEWFunction OverviewThe Digital and Technology team at General Mills stands as the largest and foremost unit, dedicated to exploring the latest trends and innovations in technology while leading the adoption of cutting-edge technologies across the organization. Collaborating closely with global business teams, the focus is on understanding business models and identifying opportunities to leverage technology for increased efficiency and disruption. The team's expertise spans a wide range of areas, including AI/ML, Data Science, IoT, NLP, Cloud, Infrastructure, RPA and Automation, Digital Transformation, Cyber Security, Blockchain, SAP S4 HANA, and Enterprise Architecture. The MillsWorks initiative embodies an agile@scale delivery model, where business and technology teams operate cohesively in pods with a unified mission to deliver value for the company. Employees working on significant technology projects are recognized as Digital Transformation change agents. The team places a strong emphasis on service partnerships and employee engagement with a commitment to advancing equity and supporting communities. In fostering an inclusive culture, the team values individuals passionate about learning and growing with technology, exemplified by the "Work with Heart" philosophy, emphasizing results over facetime. Those intrigued by the prospect of contributing to the digital transformation journey of a Fortune 500 company are encouraged to explore more details about the function through the providedPurpose of the roleGeneral Mills, Digital and Technology India, is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join the Data Science team. Data Scientists within our team are dedicated to building enterprise intelligent automations and enabling ML solutions on various use cases, including but not limited to demand forecasting, text classification, operational analytics, logistics optimization, price optimization, e-commerce, and market mix modelling. They are also responsible for curating a community of practice to determine the best standards and practices around data science at General Mills.KEY ACCOUNTABILITIESDeliver on business problems:
  • Partners with business stakeholders to deliver value-added insights and intelligent solutions through ML and AI.
  • Collaborates with ML engineers and systems engineers to ensure the models are deployed in a scaled and optimized way. Additionally, ensure support for the post-production to ensure model performance degradation is proactively managed.
  • Expected to be an expert in the business domain spaces to understand and interact with the business stakeholders.
  • Provide consultation and review the deliveries for the junior data scientists.
  • Recognizes opportunities to apply external industry trends and implements them within the role
  • Is considered an expert in at least one of the functional areas; brings together business knowledge, resources, people, and technology to create more effective solutions.
Consultation:
  • Lead Interactions with stakeholders to learn about the problem statement and drive results
  • Be an advocate for the data science team
  • Constructively challenge the other data scientists on the approach
  • Contribute to best practices as we evaluate new platforms, tools, and pipelines
  • Mentor Jr. Data Scientist / Interns / Contractors
  • Collaborate with analytic leaders across functions
Stakeholder Management
  • Manage the assigned priorities, consistency of execution, and manage resources
  • Develop trust and credibility with business leaders
  • Educate stakeholders on the GCP analytic practices
  • Closely collaborates with the stakeholders on projects and data science leaders to ensure practices are developed and enhanced to support accelerated analytic development and maintainability
Collaboration:
  • Works on problems of diverse scope
  • Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques
  • Networks with senior internal and external personnel in their own area of expertise
  • Lead research work on new analytic trends aligned to business
  • Demonstrates learning agility and ability to apply to work
  • Leverage and contribute to new open-source innovation
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
  • Expertise in supervised ML algorithms, regression, decision trees, ensemble models, time series, forecasting, neural networks
  • Proven implementation of ML and AI practices
  • Exposure to unsupervised learning and NLP
  • Technical concepts and platforms- MLOps, Containerization, Data Lineage, and Visualization.
  • Proficiency in Google Cloud Platform, SQL, Python, and R
Operations Research
  • Experienced in constructing and solving Linear, Mixed integer, Constraint, and nonlinear programming problems
  • Must have hands-on experience in solving large-scale enterprise-level optimization problems and know how to optimize run time and memory utilization while solving large-scale problems.
  • Should be comfortable in designing their own heuristic algorithms or implementing any known heuristic approach.
  • Have worked in areas like network optimization, cutting stock, knapsack kind of problems
  • Must have worked in at least a couple of major commercial/open source OR tools and software like Python, Google OR tools, IBM Ilog Cplex, Gurobi, AIMMS, FICO Express, etc.
Other expertise and experience
  • Total analytics experience required: 10-12 Years.
  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science/Statistics/Applied Mathematics/Operations research/Industrial engineering from a Tier 1 institute.
  • 5+ years in supply chain analytics with a strong understanding of supply chain operations, inventory management, manufacturing, and distribution
  • Proficiency in the FMCG/CPG domain
  • Experience working with an Agile development methodology featuring sprints, point estimation, and daily stand-ups.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills and storytelling skills
  • Expert experience in Google Cloud Platform - VertexAI, BQ, Compose, ML supervised algorithms, LP/MIP mathematical modeling, MGCG/ CPG domain, Python, and SQL
  • Intermediate experience with MLOps, Google Cloud Architecture, and Deep Learning
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Knowledge of Advanced AI/Deep Learning techniques
COMPANY OVERVIEWWe exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.

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