company corp enclave location ustxhouston zip code 77077 minimum level of education masters degree minimum years of experience 3 position type exempt travel percentage 0 more information about this job overview at sysco we offer our associates the opportunity to grow personally and professionally to contribute to the success of a dynamic organization and to serve others in a manner that exceeds their expectations we are looking for talented hardworking individuals to join our team come grow with us and let us show you why good things really do come from sysco position summary the primary focus is to conduct predictive analytics via statistical machine learning and mathematical models on syscos corporate data to get actionable business insights data scientists are expected to be selfmotivated and take ownership of projects in their area of responsibility responsibilities perform data mining cleansing and manipulation identify necessary data elements and their sources leverage appropriate tools to acquire and consolidate large volumes of data from different sources and identify and resolve any irrelevant corrupt missing or incongruent data identify appropriate analytic tools technologies and platforms to execute analysis against business requirements including the ability to scale deploy and distribute models across enterprise as needed use appropriate advanced analytic tools technologies and platforms to execute analysis against business requirements including the ability to scale deploy and distribute models across enterprise as needed develop performance scorecards and dashboards to monitor adoption implementation and impact of models and strategies work crossfunctionally with other roles within the enterprise analytics team and the sysco broadly to tune models and ensure value created from models work with labs and business technology resources on api and frontend integration collaborate with business process owners to validate model outputs and construct appropriate training qualifications education andor experience masters degree 3 years of experience or phd degree 1 year of experience in management consulting strategy analytics at a specialized analytics company or in an analytics organization in a corporate setting degree should be in mathematics statistics or computer science or related field preferred from a top tier university 3 years of experience accessing and manipulating data in sql or nosql database environments 2 years of experience with scientific scripting languages eg python r andor object oriented programming eg c java 3 years of experience with bayesian statistics regression analysis beyond linear regression supervised learning unsupervised learning or timeseries analysis required basic qualifications must have experience initiating driving and delivering complex analytical projects able to perform quantitative analysis using appropriate analytical and visualization tools such as python r tableau and open source libraries demonstrated experience using machine learning algorithms in a commercial setting high proficiency in the use of statistical packages understanding advantages and limitations of each proficiency in statistical analysis quantitative analytics forecastingpredictive analytics multivariate testing and optimization algorithms must be very comfortable with numbers and have a solid understanding of various analytical techniques and where they should be best deployed preferred qualifications strong software design and oop skills must be functional in nearly