Data Scientist II - Conshohocken, United States - Cencora

Description

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What you will be doing


Summary:

The Enterprise Data and Analytics (ED&A) group at Cencora is looking for a senior data scientist interested in leveraging internal and external data to answer a myriad of business questions related to sourcing, pricing, and distribution of pharmaceuticals across the United States.

These problems may include segmenting customers by purchasing behavior, modelling customer lifetime profitability, forecasting financial and operational metrics, predicting win/loss rates in contract negotiations, and others.

Data Scientists are responsible for using advanced analytics techniques to model complex business problems, discovering insights, and identifying opportunities through statistical, algorithmic, mining and visualization techniques.

In addition to advanced analytics skills, Data Scientists are also proficient at integrating and preparing large, varied datasets, implementing specialized database and computing environments, and communicating results.

Individuals in this role work closely with business stakeholders, Business Analysts, Data Engineers, Data Visualization Specialists, and other team members to leverage data to support sound organizational decisions.

They are creative thinkers who propose innovative ways to look at problems by employing data exploration and predictive modeling techniques across a wide range of data assets while validating their findings using an experimental and iterative approach.

These individuals are often asked to present their findings to business stakeholders, exposing their assumptions and validating their work in a way that can be easily understood.

Successful candidates will showcase a combination of business focus, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and programming knowledge to be able to quickly cycle hypotheses through the discovery phase of the project.

Excellent written and communications skills to report back the findings in a clear, structured manner are required.

Also required are the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with team members, as well as an innate curiosity around wanting to understand business processes, business strategy and strategic business initiatives to help drive incremental business value from enterprise data assets.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
Improve organizational performance though the application of original thinking to existing and emerging analytic methods, processes, products, and services, and employ sound judgment in determining how innovations will be deployed to produce return on investment
Working with business stakeholders identify business problems, opportunities and/or initiatives for which analytics models may provide insights that can contribute to or drive the development of an approach or solution
Conceptualize, design, and develop analytics models in addressing complex business problems, discovering insights, and identifying opportunities that are of value to internal and external business stakeholders, typically using a hypothesis-driven approach

Working with Data Engineers determine how to best source data, including identification of potential proxy data sources, and design business analytics solutions, considering current and future needs, infrastructure and security requirements, load frequencies, etc.

Where appropriate help seed data science capabilities within business functions, essentially developing "citizen data scientists" within the business teams
Show strong team building and creative thinking skills, and a desire to "make a difference"


Work Complexity:
Designs experiments, tests hypotheses and builds analytic models
Conducts advanced data analysis and designs and develops complex analytic algorithms


Project Planning:
May participate in project planning processes
May identify project tasks and assists with project task effort estimations


Business Requirements:
Works with business stakeholders to identify the business requirements and the expected outcome
Models and frames business scenarios that are meaningful and which impact on critical business processes and/or decisions
Possesses a high-level understanding of one or more business areas
Develops key business stakeholder relationships
Helps identify potential analytics business opportunities
Leverages knowledge of internal and external data sources and builds up specific business data domain expertise


Data Requirements:
Identifies what data is available and relevant, including internal and external data sources, leveraging new data collection processes as needed
Collaborates with subject matter experts to select the relevant sources of information
Works with others to support data collection, integration and retention requirements based on the input collected with the business
Translates business requirements into semantic access, conceptual, logical and/or physical data models


Analytics:
Solves business analytics problems and communicates results and methodologies
Works in Agile or iterative processes with business stakeholders and validates findings
Develops experimental design approaches to validate findings or test hypotheses
Validates analysis by comparing appropriate samples
Employs the appropriate algorithms to discover patterns


Data Quality:
Assesses, with business stakeholders, the expected qualification and assurance of the information in support of a use case
Defines the validity of the information, how long the information is meaningful and what other information it is related to
Working with Data Engineers, develops data profiling and preventative procedures to improve data quality
Analyzes data issues and works with Data Engineers for problem resolutions
Identifies problematic areas and, with Data Engineers, conducts research to determine the best course of action to correct the data, identify, analyze, and interpret trends and patterns in complex datasets


Communications and Presentation:
Presents and depicts the rationale of findings in easy-to-understand terms for the business
Can clearly present and depict the technical and statistical methodologies applied to a problem to other data scientists, engineers, and analysts
Presents back results that contradict common belief, if needed
Communicates and works with business subject matter experts

Change Advocacy, Coaching and Mentoring

Educates the organization both from IT and the business perspectives on new approaches, such as testing hypotheses and statistical validation of results.

Helps the organization understand the principles and the math behind the process to drive organizational buy-in
Provides technical coaching and mentoring to less-experienced team members and "citizen" data scientists

Support

Troubleshoots and implements enhancements and fixes to systems as needed

What your background should look like

Bachelor degree in mathematics, statistics or computer science or related field; Master degree preferred
Typically requires 3+ years of relevant quantitative and qualitative research and analytics experience
Solid knowledge of statistical techniques
The ability to come up with solutions to loosely defined business problems by leveraging pattern detection over potentially large datasets
Strong programming skills (such as Hadoop MapReduce, Spark or other big data frameworks, Java, Python) and statistical modeling (like SAS or R)
Experience using SQL to access and analyze data
Experience using machine learning algorithms
Proficiency in the use of statistical packages
Proficiency in statistical analysis, quantitative analytics forecasting/predictive analytics, multivariate testing and optimization algorithms
Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Knowledge of one or more business/functional areas

Building Relationships

Intermediate (I):

Establishes and maintains networks and alliances Shares information and readily determines who to go to for relevant information
Seeks assistance and feedback in the problem solving process
Partners with others to achieve expectations

Business Function Knowledge

Intermediate (I):

Involves the key players in identifying operating needs, issues and solutions. Proposes technical plans that are aligned with business objectives and technical requirements
Takes and leads actions to enhance business function standards and performance with the participation of business and technical partners

Business Process Knowledge

Intermediate (I):

Maps full business processes and designs operational process flow
Facilitates group input and drafts proposals for process improvements
Identifies resource implications. Implements process improvement recommendations within the context of overall business processes.

Communications for Results

Intermediate (I):

Conducts discussions with and writes memoranda to all levels of colleagues and peer groups in ways that support troubleshooting and problem solving
Seeks and shares relevant information, opinions, and judgments
Handles conflict empathetically
Explains the context of inter-related situations, asks probing questions, and solicits multiple sources of advice prior to taking action

Information Seeking

Intermediate (I):

Utilizes a variety of information and data sources pertaining to organizational and professional trends
Checks the source for omission and accuracy
Identifies the sources that are appropriate for specific types of information. Checks for bias and omission
Seeks out the appropriate people to approach for guidance either formally or informally depending on the type of issue
Links information in a lateral as well as linear manner
Finds hidden data
Relates and manipulates data from various sources to create a fuller picture. Investigates and uncovers root causes of a problem or issue

Initiative

Intermediate (I):

Seeks out new challenges that require risk taking
Determines the resources, team support, and technical needs necessary to enable success and procures them
Keeps responding to the challenge in spite of obstacles and setbacks.

Teamwork

Intermediate (I):

Consistently fosters collaboration and respect among team members by addressing elements of the group process that impedes, or could impede, the group from reaching its goal
Engages the "right people," despite location or functional specialty, in the team by matching individual capabilities and skills to the team's goals
Works with a wide range of teams and readily shares lessons learned

Thoroughness

Intermediate (I):

Identifies potential areas of conflicting priorities and vulnerability in achieving standards
Reviews department's progress against established goals, objectives, service level targets and project milestones
Supports others in achieving deliverables by efficiently allocating resources and providing common organizing systems, techniques and disciplines
Maintains a proactive work review and approval process prior to assignment completion
Solicits internal and external customer evaluation of performance and devises measures for improvement

What Cencora offers

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members' ability to live with purpose every day.

In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness.

This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave.

To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more.

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Schedule

Full time

Salary Range

$84, ,890

This Salary Range reflects a National Average for this job. The actual range may vary based on your locale.

Ranges in Colorado/California/Washington/New York State-specific locations may be up to 10% lower than the minimum salary range, and 12% higher than the maximum salary range.

Affiliated Companies:

Affiliated Companies:
AmerisourceBergen Services Corporation

Equal Employment Opportunity

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company's continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals.

Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements.

If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call or email We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis.

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