Practice Lead, Data Science - Supply Chain

At Blend360 we want to ensure that our clients have access to the data analytics insights and innovations required to deliver against their Supply Chain goals and initiatives.  We also help our clients at the cutting edge of the application of ML AI  and Generative AI to solve for their supply chain optimization challenges. We are seeking a VP of Data Science who can drive our supply chain analytics offerings and deliver meaningful solutions that address our clients biggest challenges.

Accountabilities:

As the Supply Chain Practice Leader for our Data Science team you will be responsible for the strategy offerings and growth of the client base. Your role will be pivotal in driving upfront awareness of the value Data Science offers our clients helping them shape and formulate solutions and building the teams delivery capabilities in areas like demand forecasting predictivew maintenance inventory optimization and delivery routing.

ClientFacing Business Generation: Your supply chain expertise and experience will advise our supply chain clients on how to improve the efficiency reliability and speed of their operations. Youll collaborate with our clients to develop solution approaches define the scope of work and resources needed and drive the ROI and outcomes the project is designed to achieve. Our Data Scientists have the business acument to apply Data Science to many different business models and situations. 

Offering & Accelorator Development: Youll define the service offerings and standard project methodologies for delivering our supply chain engagements. Additionally youll work with our technical teams to create project accelerators that can be leveraged at the outset of projects to accelerate our progress. Partnering with the client management and marketing teams youll create the marketing assets client pitches and thought leadership that differentiate Blends approach and drive interest in our Supply Chain offerings in the market. 

Technical Solutioning and Oversight: Our Data Scientists possess deep expertise across a range of datadriven and mathematical solutions. Our work spans statistical analysis predictive modeling machine learning optimization and generative AIdriven approaches. The right candidate will be able to apply their Supply Chain expertise in a Data Science context effectively translating these concepts into technical solution approaches. 

Teamwork and Leadership: We work as a team and in this position you will lead by mentoring managing and by example. 

Conclusion: If you love to solve difficult problems and deliver results; if you like to learn new things and apply innovative stateoftheart methodology join us at Blend360.

Responsibilities

• Lead and drive the development of the Supply Chain practice for Data Science
• Proactively drive client interest with the client partner team delivering presentations to client prospects crafting solution proposals and driving throught leadership
• Act as an internal domain expert regarding supply chain optimization challenges solutions and technologies. Evangelize and champion Supply Chain withing the orgainzation to drive greater exposure and awareness with clients
• Problemsolve with practice leaders to translate the business problem into a workable Data Science solution: propose different approaches and their pros and cons
• Ability to provide ethical and positive leadership that motivates direct reports and develops their talent and skillset while achieving results
• Directly manage project work and overall performance including effective career planning; have difficult conversations and deliver constructive feedback with support from senior management.
• Interview hire and train new employees to grow the practice and talent
• Work with practice leaders to get stakeholder feedback get alignment on approacehs deliverables and roadmaps
• Develop a practice growth plan including milestones dates owners and risks and contingency plans
• Oversee the development of analytics tools and accelerators to drive high quality delivery of supply chain engagements

Qualifications :

• MS degree in Statistics Math Data Analytics or a related quantitative field
• At least 10 years Professional experience in Supply Chain Optimization with a focus in leveraging Data Science advanced analytics and AI 
• Strong problemsolving skills; ability to pivot complex data to answer business questions. Proven ability to visualize data for influencing.
• Comfortable with cloudbased platforms (AWS Azure Google)

Additional Information :

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Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Fulltime