Data Scientist (AI/ML)

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About General Mills

• Partners with business stakeholders to deliver value add insights and intelligent solutions through ML and AI.
• Collaborates with ML engineers and systems engineers to ensure the models are deployed in a scaled and optimized way. Additionally ensure support the post-production to ensure model performance degrades are proactively managed.
• Expected to be an expert in the business domain spaces to understand and interact with the business stakeholders.
• Provide consultation and review the deliveries for the junior data scientists.
• Recognizes opportunities to apply external industry trends and implements them within role.
• Is considered an expert in at least one of functional areas; brings together business knowledge, resources, people, and technology to create more effective solutions.

Consultation:

• Lead Interactions with stakeholders to learn on problem statement and drive results.
• Be an advocate for data science team.
• Constructively challenge the other data scientists on approach
• Contribute to best practices as we evaluate new platforms, tools and pipelines.
• Mentor Jr. Data Scientist / Interns / Contractors
• Collaborate with analytic leaders across functions.

Stakeholder Management:

• Manage the assigned priorities, consistency of execution and managing resources.
• Develop trust and credibility with business leaders.
• Educate stakeholders on the GCP analytic practices.
• Closely collaborates with the stakeholders on projects and data science leaders to ensure practices are developed and enhanced to support accelerated analytic development and maintainability.

Collaboration:

• Works on problems of diverse scope.
• Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques.
• Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise.
• Lead research work to new analytic trends aligned to business.
• Demonstrates learning agility and ability to apply to work.
• Leverage and contribute to new open-source innovation.

Must - have technical skills and experience

• Experienced in constructing and solving Linear, Mixed integer, Constraint and non linear programming problems
• Must have hands on experience in solving large scale enterprise level optimization problems and knows how to optimize run time and memory utilization while solving large scale problem.
• Should be comfortable in designing own heuristic algorithms or implementing any known heuristic approach.
• Have worked in areas like network optimization, cutting stock, knapsack kind of problems
• Must have worked in at least a couple of major commercial/open source OR tools and software like Python, Google OR tools, IBM Ilog Cplex, Gurobi, AIMMS, FICO express etc

Section-2- AI/ML

• Expertise in supervised ML algorithms, regression, decision trees, ensemble models, time series, forecasting, neural networks
• Proven implementation of ML and AI practices
• Exposure to unsupervised learning and NLP
• Technical concepts and platforms- MLOps, Containerization, Data Lineage and Visualization.
• Proficiency on Google Cloud Platform, SQL, Python and R

Other expertise and experience

• Total analytics experience required 10-12 Years.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science/Statistics/Applied Mathematics/Operations research/Industrial engineering from Tier 1 institute.
• 5+ yrs in a supply chain analytics with strong understanding of supply chain operations inventory management, manufacturing, and distribution
• Proficiency in FMCG/CPG domain
• Experience working with an Agile development methodology featuring sprints, point estimation and daily stand-ups.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and storytelling skills

Good to have skills

• Knowledge of Advanced AI/Deep Learning techniques

Skill proficiency expectationsExpert levelIntermediate LevelBasic Level

• Supply chain analytics
• Google Cloud Platform Vertex AI, BQ, Composer
• ML supervised algorithms
• LP/MIP mathematical modelling
• FMCG/CPG domain
• Python, SQL
• MLOps
• Google Cloud Architecture
• Deep Learning