Colgate-Palmolive Company is looking for a Data Scientist to join their Pet Nutrition Center to develop data-driven approaches that accelerate product innovation and enhance their understanding of pet health, using data mining and analytical skills to deliver meaningful insights that inform nutritional impact strategies.
Requirements
- Proficiency with Python, Julia, R, or Java.
- Experience with biological, health, or nutrition data is required.
- An active GitHub account with examples of past work.
- Active contribution to open-source data science projects, such as Kaggle competitions.
- SQL Proficiency: Experience with SQL implementations such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, or MongoDB.
- Statistical Concepts: Strong understanding of statistical concepts, including descriptive analysis, experimental design, Bayesian statistics, sub-setting, and regression.
- Statistical and Data Mining Techniques: Expertise in techniques such as generalized linear models/regression, random forest, boosting, trees, text mining, social network analysis, and dimensionality reduction algorithms.
Responsibilities
- Partnering with stakeholders to execute data mining campaigns and generate insights and hypotheses about the nutritional impact on pet health.
- Developing, validating, and implementing programmatic approaches for data visualization, descriptive statistical analysis, and predictive modeling.
- Creating analytical/ML approaches to transform image, mobility, and other health-related observations into quantifiable metrics.
- Designing programmatic strategies to identify and solve complex data analytic problems.
- Writing, refining, and managing Python scripts for data analytics.
- Working with individuals throughout R&D to identify key data sources, assess their quality, and devise strategies for their utilization.
- Building pipelines for data manipulation, visualization, and descriptive/predictive modeling using current databases.
Other
- A Master’s Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or Data Science with a minimum of 3 years of data analytics/programming experience, OR a PhD in a related discipline with a minimum of 1 year of data analytics/programming experience.
- Relocation Assistance Offered Within Country
- Must be able to present work to R&D partners and make actionable recommendations for implementation.
- Must be able to share knowledge with the immediate data science team through regular presentations on progress, challenges, and new advancements.
- Must be able to assist in training R&D scientists on basic Python and analytical skills.
