R&D Data Scientist

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.
Working as part of a cross-functional team you make use of your Data Science and Statistic skills to help our product developer community to accelerate on Innovation Growth and Productivity. The end goal is to propose to our consumers best products and technologies to maximize and optimize their experience.

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Easiness to handle complexity and problem-solving mindset
• Key team player communicating effectively with diverse stakeholders (verbally and writing including technical writing)
• Prioritizing and managing activities in Digital
• Identifying problems proactively and creating and implementing solutions independently
• Applying fundamental technical understanding to interpret and analyze data to reach clear conclusions
• Communicating effectively
• Putting the consumer at the heart of development activities

How you will contribute:

With the support and guidance of a manager and together with a group of data scientists you will work in close collaboration with our product developer community (Latin America region but also globally) as well as with our supporting functions in order to help them to:

• Formulate their problems & challenges in a quantitative and rational manner
• Design the best data-driven approach to solve those problems identify optimal recipes as well as technologies and drive Growth and Innovation
• Input (with design of User Interfaces) store (create or use appropriate data management systems) and treat the data (recipe process analytical sensory) with appropriate advanced modelling techniques
• Communicate the results to key stakeholders in an impactful way to influence decision-making
• Educate and upskill people to adopt more efficient digital ways of working
• Share technical knowledge with your peers to further advance on our state of the art in Digital

More about this role

What you need to know about this position:

• Help R&D teams to formulate their problems to be solved to smartly design experiments analyze and create valuable actionable insights considering data of different nature (sensory recipe process etc) applying statistics and developing fit-for-purpose models to be used by our product developers to optimize our technologies and grow our business.
• Automate work processes to accelerate product development and decision-making.
• Take ownership of new streams of data that we collect along with the stakeholders and bring healthy data practices for success of various work tracks. Develop strategies and methods to bring efficiency in data collection and governance.

Requirements

Must have:

• Bachelors or a masters degree in a quantitative discipline with prior experience in a data science role in a professional setting (3 years)
• Strong quantitative skillset with experience in statistics machine learning linear algebra.
• A natural inclination toward applying analytical thinking to solve complex problems.
• Knowledge/experience with programming languages including Python (preferred) R SQL etc.
• Prior experience with data visualization tools and libraries such as Power BI Tableau Matplotlib Seaborn etc.
• Knowledge of machine learning techniques including regressions tree-based models clustering neuralnetworks PCAs etc. with prior experience in utilizing them
• Knowledge and experience in advanced statistics.
• Good communication skills to promote cross-team collaboration.
• Advanced English Level Essential

Good to have:

• Experience using cloud computing platforms (Azure AWS GCP)
• Experience with computer vision signal processing methods NLP deep learning method
• Multilingual coding knowledge/experience: Java JavaScript C C etc.
• Experience with any web development libraries such as Flask Dash Streamlit React etc
• Interest for Food Technology.

Work schedule: full time

Business Unit Summary

Mondelez México has been in the country since 1927 and currently employs 6000 wonderful people. Our diverse portfolio includes iconic and mouth-watering global brands such as Trident Oreo Philadelphia and local jewels like Clorets and Bubbaloo. We are leaders in the making of cream cheese powdered beverages and confectionsin fact we make seven out of every 10 chewing gums consumed by Mexicans. Our growth is supported by our cutting-edge manufacturing facilities such as our Puebla Plant and Nuevo León HUB which are the largest gums candies and biscuits factories in the world in terms of volume. You can buy are products in 900000 places in Mexico. We are also home to one of the 11 technology centers Mondelez International has worldwide a specialized gum and candy facility that places us at the forefront of innovation and development in the country and drives our purpose to lead the future of are pioneers in the country in work-life balance practices such as extended maternity leave open spaces remote work and flexible working hours.

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender sexual orientation or preference gender identity national origin disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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