Data Scientist

Company Description

SGS is the world's leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. SGS is recognized as the global standard for quality and integrity. With more than 94,000 employees, SGS operates a network of over 2,600 offices and laboratories around the globe.

Job Description

Data Scientist - SGS North America, Inc., Rutherford, New Jersey. Providing thought leadership on advanced analytics, identifying issues and opportunities, and proposing feasible solutions; Conducting rigorous analyses on large, complex data sets providing strategic insights, hypotheses, and conclusions based on findings; Mining and analyzing data from company databases to drive optimization and improvement of customer solutions, marketing techniques and business strategies; Collaborating with different functional teams to implement models and monitor outcomes; Serving as a trusted partner for the business stakeholders while understanding their business and strategy; Developing processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy; and Creating the business semantic layer through the creation of clean, reliable, and scalable "single-source-of-truth" datasets and dashboards while complying with internal standards, regulations and procedures.

Qualifications

Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Computer Science or related field plus three (3) years of experience in any occupation with the required experience/skills.  Experience must include: Three (3) years experience with providing strategic insights, hypotheses and conclusions based upon multiple data sources of the business; Three (3) years experience with Business Intelligence solution development to identify issues and opportunities and drive optimization of business operations and strategies; Three (3) years experience with Data Management including Data Exploration, Data Modeling, Data Preparation, (Extract, Transform, Load), Database Management Systems and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP); Three (3) years experience with Data Analysis including Ad Hoc Analysis, Scenario and What-If Analysis, Statistical and Regression Analysis, Predictive Analytics and Forecasting; Three (3) years experience with Reporting and Data Visualization including Ad Hoc Reporting, Auto-Schedule Reports, Interactive Reporting and Reports Exporting with Interactive Data Visualizations and Data Storytelling.

Additional Information

SGS is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and as such we recruit, hire, train, and promote individuals in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, nationality, disability, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristics protected by law.
 
To successfully perform this job, an individual should be able to carry out each essential duty satisfactorily with or without reasonable accommodations. The requirements mentioned above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. 

This job description should not be interpreted as a comprehensive declaration of duties, responsibilities or requirements, but a general overview of the job. Nothing contained herein restricts the company’s rights to assign or reassess duties and responsibilities to this job at any point in time. 
 
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