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Data Scientist - Up to £600 per day

Oliver Bernard
London
5 days ago
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Data Scientist, Supply Chain Optimisation

Up to £600 per day

Contract. 6 months. Zurich, London or Berlin. Start ASAP.


The Role

You will build and productionise large scale optimisation models for supply chain planning. The goal is to create a high performing optimisation capability that integrates with Anaplan and supports key planning decisions across the business.


What You Will Do


• Design and build optimisation models for supply chain use cases using Python and MILP

• Handle very large model instances at scale (30 to 40 million variables) and drive improvements in build and solve time

• Translate business constraints into mathematical formulations that work in production

• Work with data from BigQuery and ensure model data pipelines are efficient and reliable

• Partner with supply chain stakeholders to shape requirements and deliver practical solutions

• Support integration of optimisation outputs into Anaplan and wider planning tools


What You Need


• 5 plus years experience as a Data Scientist or Operations Research specialist

• Strong background in Operations Research and Mixed Integer Linear Programming

• Proven experience building and tuning large scale optimisation models in production

• Strong Python skills for modelling and optimisation

• Solid SQL skills with experience working with BigQuery

• Experience in supply chain optimisation and strong stakeholder management


Contract Details

• 6 month contract

• Start date: ASAP

• Location: Zurich, London or Berlin

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