Job Title:  Data Scientist

What You Need To Know

Shape a remarkable future with us. Build a career working for an industry leader that truly invests in their people – and equips them with leading technology, continuous learning, and the ability to bring their best selves to work. As North America's largest total beverage distributor, Southern Glazer’s isn't just one of Forbes’ Top Private Companies; it's a family-owned business with deep roots dating back to 1933.

Southern Glazer’s is proud of its well-earned positive reputation, continually achieving accolades for our outstanding workplace culture. We take pride in creating a culture where our people are valued, supported, and provided opportunities for growth and belonging.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a wide-ranging menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition assistance, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

By joining Southern Glazer’s, you would be part of a team that values excellence, innovation, and community. This is more than just a job – it's an opportunity to build the future of beverage distribution and grow with a company that truly cares about its people.

Overview

The Data Scientist plays a role in shaping the future of business by developing algorithms and models that forecast trends and translate business needs into actionable analytics for executive decision-making. By conducting large-scale experiments, Data Scientists address complex business questions and uncover hidden relationships within extensive datasets. Data Scientists proactively mine data warehouses to identify trends and generate insights for leadership, employing statistical analysis and visualization techniques such as hierarchical clustering, t-SNE, and PCA on diverse datasets.

Primary Responsibilities

• Gather data from various sources and ensure its quality and integrity.
• Perform Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) and initial investigations on data to discover patterns, spot anomalies, and check assumptions.
• Build predictive models using statistical and machine learning techniques.
• Create visual representations of data to communicate findings effectively and share with other Data Scientists for input and storytelling.
• Work with cross-functional teams, including engineers, service owners, product owners, product managers, and business stakeholders, to understand data needs and challenges.
• Prepare reports and presentations to convey insights and recommendations.
• Stay updated with the latest tools, techniques, and industry trends in data science and bring ideas to the table for how to improve the use of data and analytics.
• Design and execute comprehensive data analyses using advanced methodologies and statistical modeling to produce insightful reports essential for strategic planning.
• Utilize analytical tools and hypothesis-driven analysis to enhance machine learning projects.
• Implement cutting-edge AI techniques to boost data analysis efficiency.
• Perform data sampling.
• Continuously monitor the execution and health of models within the process environment.

Additional Primary Responsibilities

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mathematics, Statistics or Computer Science or related field; master's degree preferred.
• Typically, 3 + years of relevant quantitative and qualitative research, analytics, data science or machine learning experience.
• Experience and solid understanding of machine learning algorithms and relational databases.
• Experience with data science modeling, statistics, analytics, business intelligence or data-driven business strategy.
• Experience managing and delivering complex and technical products.
• Experience performing statistical analysis and applying visualization techniques.
• Native-level proficiency/fluent in English.

Physical Demands

• Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine
• Physical demands with activity or condition may include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and/or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.

If you have any questions or concerns about whether this posting complies/adheres with local pay transparency requirements, please contact the SGWS talent acquisition team at NationalTA@sgws.com