Job Description

Location Name: Findlay, OH
Job/Requisition ID: 62029
Location Address: 539 S Main St, Findlay, OH, United States (US), 45840
Education Level: Bachelor's Desired
Relevant Experience Level: Entry Level (1-3 Years)
Employee Group: Regular - Full Time
Employee Subgroup: Salaried Exempt

POSITION SUMMARY:

Data scientists leverage knowledge and experience in data mining, machine learning, applied statistics, operations research, and related quantitative disciplines to develop sophisticated analytics solutions to critical business challenges. This position is responsible for using a combination of statistical knowledge, programming skills, and business acumen to identify, prioritize, and solve high-impact business problems. The successful candidate will be responsible for identifying, cleansing, combining, visualizing, and analyzing data from a variety of sources to obtain actionable business insights. In addition, they must effectively communicate the results to managers, project stakeholders, and engineering teams.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Understand strategic business objectives and work with business partners to economically justify and develop plans to create the necessary business insights.
* Utilize a combination of business acumen and statistical knowledge to identify, prioritize, and solve high-impact business problems.
* Translate complicated concepts into relevant business messages. Effectively communicate results to project stakeholders and business teams.
* Lead and manage analytical projects from conceptual through definition phase.
* Identify, visualize, and analyze data from a variety of sources to obtain business insights.
* Share new analytical concepts among peers and leaders.
* Educate business partners on the use and expected results of advanced analytics.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

* Experience with manipulating and analyzing complex, high-volume, high-dimensional data from varying sources.
* Fluency in advanced analytics tool such as R and Python.
* Understanding of Machine Learning techniques and Statistical learning methods.
* Experience with data science projects from data management, model building, evaluation, model improvement and implementation.

SKILLS:

Strong written and verbal communication, critical thinking, and time management skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* Masters degree or emphasis in Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Machine Learning or other comparable majors; or at least 5 years of relevant work experience.
* Experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches.
* Ability to generate positive business results via analytics and data science techniques.
* A strong passion for empirical research and answering difficult questions with data.
* A flexible analytic approach that provides results at varying levels of precision.
* Ability to communicate complex quantitative analysis in a clear, precise, and actionable manner.
* Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases.

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