Job Title:  Senior 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 Senior Data Scientist is involved in crafting advanced models to predict trends and transform business requirements into actionable insights for executive decision-making. They tackle business challenges and reveal hidden patterns within extensive datasets. Senior Data Scientists guide projects from inception to deployment, ensuring a strong alignment with business objectives while enhancing the efficiency and performance of data processes.

Primary Responsibilities

• Gather data from a wide variety of sources within IT units ensure its quality and integrity.
• Perform Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) and investigations on organizational data to discover large, high-risk, and/or high-value patterns, spot anomalies and trends, and check and validate assumptions.
• Develop more complex and sophisticated models, often involving large datasets and advanced algorithms.
• Create visual representations of data to communicate findings effectively and share with other Data Scientists for input and storytelling.
• Develop data science projects from inception to deployment, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Guide cross-functional teams in data-driven initiatives, identify opportunities for improvement and data usage and ensure successful implementation of solutions.
• Prepare reports and presentations to convey insights and recommendations.
• Provide ideas to improve the efficiency of data processes and model performance.
• 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.
• Begins to provide strategic insights and recommendations based on data analysis to influence business decisions.

Additional Primary Responsibilities

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s, master’s or PhD degree in mathematics, Statistics or Computer Science or related field; master’s degree + preferred.
• Typically, 5 + 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.

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