this role has been created to support the us petcare organization the role will directly enable the development of an advancedanalytics enabled enhancement of the gotomarket sales strategy the candidate will produce insightful analytic data models to capture and explain performance trends of the zoetis sales force while driving optimization opportunities and proactive direction for the sales organization the candidate will interface across the organization to answer challenging analytical questions and highlight customerrelated insights such as revenue generation ideas and strategies to detect and prevent potential customer defection the candidate will also produce creative solutions to complex business problems using advanced analytical techniques while leveraging both internal and external data sources the role will involve frequent interaction with key stakeholders across the sales and marketing organizations and provide the candidate with an exceptionally broad view of every aspect of zoetis business while serving as critical support for the us petcare division to be successful the ideal candidate will demonstrate a thirst for knowledge and natural curiosity to enable rapid learning of the zoetis business model and data infrastructure at a scale to support a growing 2b region the position involves working with structured and unstructured realworld data requiring a candidate who is comfortable thinking independently about solving business problems candidates must be selfmotivated detailoriented have the ability to work with limited supervision and must be comfortable in an environment of changing priorities candidates should have a strong business acumen with evidence of delivered business value preferably in a commercial setting build predictive models to inform advanced insights account prioritization nextbestaction campaign optimization and commercial testandlearn for ngse perform predictive analytics to identify core opportunities to drive business value utilizing machine learning techniques such as logistic regression random forests collaborative filtering sentiment analysis and topic modeling generate buyin and engagement by effectively communicating results through presentations and visualizations masters from an accredited collegeuniversity in computer science statistics mathematics operations research or related field minimum of two years of professional experience working as a data scientist demonstrated experience building deployed prediction models to create business value preferably in sales and marketing applications strong analytical mind and business acumen ability to translate mathematical models and results into business concepts excellent interpersonal written and verbal communication skills demonstrated ability to effectively communicate complex ideas to a nontechnical audience fluency in english required experience in building predictive models in r or python pandaspyspark experience in largescaledistributed computing and analytics hadoop spark strong statistics acumen including design of experiments knowledge of sql experience with source control and collaboration tools eg git experience working in a cloud environment azure aws google cloud experience in data engineering a plus tableau data visualization experience a plus software development engineering experience a plus experience in scaled model testing integration and deployment devops a plus experience working in microsoft tech stack including sql server and azure preferred full time regular colleague zoetis is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job