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Senior Data Scientist

Posted 25 Mar 2024
Work experience
5 to 7 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
Dutch (Fluent)

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Short description

To strengthen our Client IT organization for the B2B Business Groups (Ingredients & Dairy Essentials), FrieslandCampina seeks an experienced, hands-on Data Scientist. We are looking for a person that feels comfortable at the intersection among mathematics, machine learning, business and computer science. You can come from a science background or have experience in an environment driven by scientific methodology; should also know mathematics and statistics and know how to apply this to actual problems.

You should have experience with machine learning or optimization modeling and know how to create visualizations in order to tell a story. Furthermore, since our ambition is to develop actual and not just a set of algorithms or models in plain code, you should also enjoy writing programs that run on servers and talk to databases. This position is a combined role between a Data Scientist and a Data Engineer. At the same time, you communicate well and are capable of explaining what you do to our internal clients in understandable terms.

A job that matters

Everything we do at FrieslandCampina, great or small, adds up to things that matter. Even seemingly simple products can have great impact. Our IT Services department provides the products and services necessary to keep the entire organisation up and running. The team makes sure each of our departments has the resources it needs to have an impact. Aiming for things that matter gets us all in the desired mind-set: it enables us to win in the market together. Our employees around the world have a strong drive to do things that matter and are commercially obsessed with adding value to those things that matter. Moreover, they have an owner’s mind-set, empowering them to make decisions on things that matter.

Job description

As a data scientist, you will:

Design and scope data science projects: Work with business owners to define big picture objectives, key actionable insights needed. Translate requirements into meaningful projects, including business case.

Develop business awareness: Awareness (and outside-in application) of the latest business trends, use cases, modeling capabilities, within the FMCG industry and the FrieslandCampina organization

Analyze data using different methods: Analyze data with different statistical methods, interpret results and provide clear summary conclusions, present data analyses to senior management, preferably in interactive dashboards, with a clear story line.

Assure our data process: Develop a deep understanding of FrieslandCampina databases and transactional systems. Collect, research and analyze data to assure integrity of project data, including data extraction, manipulation, processing, storage, archival and data analysis for appropriate usage in databases.

Develop, manage and maintain our digital assets: Work towards a production-ready version of machine learning models (or traditional ones). Testing, scaling, refactoring and security is your responsibility as well. As such, you have a good understanding of software engineering.

Share knowledge and training: Share knowledge and information of analysis techniques and data coding with other staff and train, if needed. Develop our internal community of business analysts.

Share principles and qualities: Value operating in a collaborative and cooperative environment, adhere to all principles of confidentiality, show initiative, solid judgment and resourcefulness.

Team details

For thousands of people every day, we are more than just a dairy company. To our farmers, our employees, the communities we serve, the businesses we work with and the people to whom we bring happiness, FrieslandCampina means something more. For them it’s not just about what we do, but who we are.

We value talented people from any background who want to contribute to something bigger than themselves. We encourage all of our 22,000 employees to make decisions that benefit our entire company. At FrieslandCampina we own our own career and act accordingly. We trust you to make a difference in your job and influence the bigger picture. Working at FrieslandCampina means you are contributing to a better world.

Requirements

To be a successful in this position, you are/have:

  • Bachelor’s degree in a Quantitative Field (Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Economics, Business, Finance, etc.) Master’s degree is preferred.
  • 5+ years of relevant work experience, including:
  • Relevant experience with fundamental statistical analysis tools and techniques; including statistical languages (like R or Python + Pandas).
  • Relevant experience with time series forecasting, optimization methods, business analytics and data mining.
  • Relevant experience creating and maintaining production-ready software, starting from scratch or based on a prototype.
  • Working knowledge of scripting, ETL design and SQL. Familiarity with database modeling and data warehousing principles.
  • Experience with Big Data technologies like Hadoop & Spark would be a plus.
  • Experience working at Pricing and/or Revenue Management would be a plus.
  • Familiarity with agile principles (e.g. Scrum), facilitating workshops and prototyping.
  • Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) to communicate with clients and team, prepare + deliver effective presentations
  • High level of professionalism, energy and sense of urgency to “make things happen.”
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks and work towards long-term goals.
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills
  • Self-motivated and highly ambitious

Compensation benefits

Your salary is based on the weighting of your job, your experience and your training. FrieslandCampina offers not only a competitive salary but also training and education on the job because it’s important for our people to continue to grow. After all, your development is not only good for your career; our products also benefit from it. The mutual exchange of knowledge between colleagues is also evident on the work floor. It is, after all, the most effective way to learn.

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FrieslandCampina is a purpose driven company focused on winning in the global market for dairy based products. We want to be profitable, so we can make a positive, lasting impact. Not only does FrieslandCampina have iconic B2C brands, a big part of the business is in the B2B market, where we sell ingredients and semi-finished products to manufacturers of nutrition, the food industry and the pharmaceutical sector globally.

FMCG
Amersfoort
Active in 30 countries
20,000 employees
60% men - 40% women
Average age is 35 years

What employees are saying

Robin

Finance Trainee

Robin

“During my Traineeship I collaborated with the finance team of Nigeria to calculate the feasibility of setting up a cow breeding centre in West Africa. It is fantastic that FrieslandCampina strives for better nutrition for the world. I am proud to contribute to projects that achieve a better world.”

Suus

Supply Chain & Operations Trainee

Suus

"I like the construct of a cooperation between member farmers assuring the quality of the milk, and Frieslandcampina turning it into an endless scale of dairy products. I never knew that the extent of possibilities of dairy products was so broad, in so many industries!"