Business Data Scientist - Remote

USA; Canada

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Kinaxis

Revolutionize supply chain management with Kinaxis. Get end-to-end transparency to make fast, collaborative decisions with the power of concurrency.

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At Kinaxis, who we are is grounded in our common belief that people matter. Each one of us plays an important part in accomplishing our work, building our culture and making a global impact.

Every day, we’re empowered to work together to help our customers make fast, confident planning decisions. This is how we create a better planet – for each other, for our customers and for generations to come. Our cloud-based platform RapidResponse ensures that the products we need – everything from medicine and cars, to day-to-day items like toothpaste – make it to market and into our hands when we need them with minimal ecological footprint.

We make the world better, and you can too.

Solution Consultant 

Job location: This is a virtual role. You may work anywhere from home and be based anywhere in the USA or Canada.

About the team

You will be a contributing member of the Kinaxis Professional Services organization, collaborating with team members to deliver committed customer projects using Kinaxis RapidResponse® software.   

If you love solving analytical problems, forecasting using complex datasets, finding actionable insights, communicate the story within the data and learning new technologies, this role is for you!  

What you will do

  • Develop cutting edge expertise in Kinaxis’ AI/ML capabilities to translate customer’s business needs into actionable insights that can drive business improvements. 
  • Support customer to define and implement value metrics and KPIs that will demonstrate visible business success.
  • Evaluate and measure models’ outputs to ensure client requirements are met and drive continuous value.  
  • Seamlessly collaborative with cross functional teams of Data Scientists, machine learning engineers, data engineers and customer business teams to complete challenging machine learning projects. 
  • Provide on-going support and thought leadership to customers to continually improve their AI/ML models by demonstrating and delivering value.  
  • Work with multiple teams to shape the product roadmap and provide thought leadership content and points of view on industry trends and user stories 
  • Work with pre-sales and help shape a point of view for each customer about how the Kinaxis capabilities can best support them. 

What we are looking for

  • A minimum of 3 years of experience in a relevant capacity
  • Strong technical background in analyzing and validating data, machine learning models or statistics using python, spark, SQL in various development environments 
  • Ability to understand customers business’ and supply chain needs and leverage it to effectively  design solutions to drive business value. 
  • Ability to effectively communicate with executives and business stakeholders to shape and influence decision making.  
  • Hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g. Oracle, MySQL, MS Sql Server, PostgreSQL) and Hive, cloud environments. Working knowledge of distributed computing techniques.  
  • Working knowledge of Machine learning stack such as Kubernetes, Docker, Project Jupyter, Kafka and workflow engines.  
  • Ability to translate planning processes to different industry verticals such as Retail, High Tech, etc. 
  • Excellent interpersonal, presentation and client relationship building and facilitation skills (meeting sessions, conflict resolutions, brainstorming etc.) 
  • Client facing experience (consulting roles a plus) 

What we have to offer

  • Challenging Work - We love solving highly complex problems. And as the global leaders in our industry, we never stop innovating—our work is never “done. That’s because across our teams and in all roles, every employee is empowered to bring their best ideas forward and to jump in and solve the problems they’re passionate about.
  • Great People - We take our work seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously! It’s in our DNA to celebrate, laugh, and have fun. We are stronger, together, when we are open, honest, and above all, real. Every person is valued here and plays an important role in our shared success.
  • Global Impact - As a global team spanning continents, boundaries, and cultures, every day we are inspired by the impact our work has on our colleagues, our customers, our communities, and the world at large.
  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Diversity, equity and inclusion are more than words to us. They are the guiding principles for building a culture where we celebrate each others’ differences, continuously strive for equality and recognize that inclusion makes us stronger as individuals, a company and a global citizen. 

For more information, visit the Kinaxis web site at www.kinaxis.com or the company’s blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com/.

Kinaxis strongly encourages diverse candidates to apply to our welcoming community. We strive to make our website and application process accessible to any and all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact Human Resources at accommodations@kinaxis.com. This contact information is for accessibility requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰

Tags: Consulting Docker Jupyter Kafka KPIs Kubernetes Machine Learning ML models MS SQL MySQL Oracle PostgreSQL Python RDBMS Spark SQL Statistics

Perks/benefits: Career development

Region: North America
Countries: Canada United States
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Category: Data Science Jobs

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