The Home Depot is looking to develop leadership skills and gain hands-on experience in a corporate environment for college students, specifically in the field of Data Science, to support the Company’s strategic objectives.
Requirements
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
- Working knowledge of Tableau
- Working knowledge of presentation software (e.g., Microsoft PowerPoint)
- Experience in a modern scripting language (preferably Python)
- Experience running queries against data (preferably with Google BigQuery or SQL)
- Experience with data visualization software (preferably Tableau)
- Exposure to statistics, predictive modeling and other data science methodologies
Responsibilities
- Participate in meetings across the enterprise data science community, gaining exposure to cross functional business units.
- Use strategic thinking and perform data analytics for a variety of business problems and opportunities and create high quality analytics solutions
- Apply a wide variety of database applications and analytical tools, including SQL, Google Cloud Big Query and Python
- Communicate findings and project status clearly and professionally through presentations
- Provide recommendations to upper management.
- Provide comprehensive report-out to senior leaders on assignments and other related projects
- Build networking relationships and receive mentoring from team members and top-level management
Other
- Currently pursuing a PhD degree in a quantitative field (Analytics, Finance, Information Systems, etc.)
- Excellent academic performance
- Preferred GPA 3.0 or above
- Action Oriented: Intern takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm
- Collaboration: Intern contributes to the group’s efforts and steps forward to help as needed. Seeks input from others
