Manager, Data Science-Commercial Marketing Solutions
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Job Location:
The Woodlands, TX - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Department:
Job Summary
Fortifi Food Processing Solutions is a global leader in providing innovative equipment technologies and services to the protein processing industry. We are building the future of food processing by combining deep industry expertise with advanced digital automation and customer engagement capabilities. At Fortifi our people are our strength we value innovation ownership and collaboration to drive meaningful impact for our customers worldwide.
The Opportunity
We are seeking a Manager Data Science & Advanced Analytics to serve as the foundational leader of Fortifis data science function. This highly visible role blends hands-on technical expertise with proven leadership skills to deliver high-value analytics projects and incubate new capabilities that transform how Fortifi engages customers personalizes marketing and grows profitability.
This is a true player-coach opportunity: youll roll up your sleeves to design pipelines build models and deliver insights while also mentoring new hires and coordinating external contractors as the function scales. You will be the cornerstone in Fortifis broader strategy to strengthen pricing excellence and lay the foundation for next-generation digital marketing and customer engagement capabilities.
What Youll Do:
Build Capabilities
- Establish data science standards best practices and scalable frameworks across Fortifi.
- Build and maintain data pipelines integrating disparate systems to support analytics across pricing commercial finance and marketing.
- Architect and manage robust data structures that enable scalable repeatable insights.
Deliver Results
- Develop and deploy models in areas such as:
- Pricing optimization and elasticity modeling.
- Installed base & entitlement intelligence.
- Customer segmentation personalization and digital marketing.
- Forecasting recommendation engines and other advanced commercial use cases.
- Translate business needs into data science solutions with measurable impact.
- Manage external contractors/vendors to accelerate and scale delivery.
Lead & Grow a Team
- Serve as the first-line manager of Fortifis growing data science function.
- Hire mentor and develop the first wave of team members.
- Provide coaching career guidance and opportunities for growth.
- Foster a culture of innovation ownership and data-driven collaboration.
Partner Across the Business
- Collaborate with Pricing Commercial Finance Marketing and Technology teams to prioritize initiatives.
- Partner with senior leaders to incubate new capabilities enabled by data science.
- Communicate technical results to executives in clear impactful ways.
What Were Looking For
- Bachelors degree required; a Masters degree is preferred.
- 510 years of professional experience in data science advanced analytics or applied machine learning.
- Strong technical skills in Python SQL and ML frameworks (e.g. scikit-learn TensorFlow PyTorch).
- Solid grounding in data engineering fundamentals: pipelines integration and architecture.
- Hands-on experience deploying and maintaining models in production environments.
- Proven leadership or team management experience with ability to mentor and develop talent.
- Experience managing external contractors or vendors.
- Strong business acumen ideally within manufacturing industrial or B2B contexts.
- Excellent communication skills able to translate technical work into executive-ready insights.
- Experience with customer analytics personalization or marketing data platforms a strong plus.
Why Join Fortifi
- Be the foundational leader shaping a new function at a global industrial innovator.
- Work on high-impact projects that directly influence pricing profitability and customer engagement.
- Join a collaborative culture that values ownership innovation and growth.
- Build a career in a company committed to transforming the future of food processing.
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Organizational Management
- Presentation Skills
- Agile
- SAFe
- AWS
- Solution Architecture
- Conflict Management
- Data Management
- Scrum
- Team Management
- Pre-sales
- Management Consulting
About Company
Developing and manufacturing innovative precision cutting and trimming tools for the food processing and industrial manufacturing sectors. Learn more about Bettcher® tools today!
