Senior Data Scientist, Food Industry, 9-month FTC
UK Wide - Homebased
£55,000 - £65,000 pro rata
Must have food / FMCG experience
This Senior Data Scientist is a newly created data project role working with food manufacturing around sustainability. Bring your food industry knowledge to this exciting FTC project.
The role of Senior Data Scientist has been created due to recently secured funding to help build a new technology platform supporting supply chain and sustainable food systems. The target outcome for this project is to access new sources of from within major food manufacturing companies.
This role will essentially design and build data frameworks compatible with the project requirements, data architecture and existing demand formats, and preserving and enhancing data integrity across the architecture.
Due to the nature of the project, it is essential they add food expertise within the technical team and therefore this Senior Data Scientist – Food Industry Sourcing has been created.
With this in mind the essential experience is…
- Proven and demonstrable expertise in data science, demand planning and analysis, or other similar roles in food manufacturing, including support for complex technology projects
- Experience with Material Requirements Planning and ERP systems
- Proficiency and demonstrable experience with SQL, Python, and Azure
- Experience working with large data sets and ETL (Extract Transform Load)
- Power Suite or Tableau experience
- Data modelling, pipelines, dashboarding
- Global demand forecasting
- And (ideally) optimisation modelling
This is a hybrid role and will require someone who is happy to travel and work independently with a number of internal teams and stakeholders.
This is a 9-month fixed term contract, however there is a potential for it to be extended due to the long-term prospect of the project.
Please apply with your CV today or contact Nicole to discuss further.
*Please note anyone without food industry experience will not be considered*
REF. NCM48286
