Sr Data Scientist I Global

Job Description

At McCormick, we bring our passion for flavor to work each day. We encourage growth, respect everyone's contributions and do what's right for our business, our people, our communities and our planet. Join us on our quest to make every meal and moment better. Founded in Baltimore, MD in 1889 in a room and a cellar by 25-year-old Willoughby McCormick with three employees, McCormick is a global leader in flavour. With over 14,000 employees around the world and more than $6 Billion in annual sales, the Company manufactures, markets, and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavourful products to the entire food industry, retail outlets, food manufactures, food service businesses and consumers. While our global headquarters are in the Baltimore, Maryland, USA area, McCormick operates and serves customers from nearly 60 locations in 25 countries and 170 markets in Asia-Pacific, China, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and the Americas. At McCormick, we have over a 100-year legacy based on our “Power of People” principle. This principle fosters an unusually dedicated workforce requiring a culture of respect, recognition, inclusion and collaboration based on the highest ethical values. Position Overview To provide the business with data insights that will help increase revenue and/or lower costs. ^ Provide technical leadership and focus on generating insights for business customers. ^ Individual should help shape strategies for our consumer units globally. Key Responsibilities Leadership, Project Lead, management of key stakeholders for key data science projects and presentation of results. Bringing new insights to the business, leads data mining and analytics, interpreting and reporting of large integrated data sets built with structured and unstructured data; develops tools to leverage new proprietary data sources (SAP Analytics Cloud SAC, S/4Hana LeoConnect Fiori, Analysis for Office A40). Statistical model building and deployment in the areas of forecasting, marketing mix and consumer insights. Continuously seeks out industry best practice and skills development to create new capabilities for data analytics at McCormick to drive marketing strategy. Required Qualifications & Experience Bachelor's Degree in Statistics (or Statistics Major) or Data Analytics. Minimum of 8 years of experience in analytics. Extensive experience analyzing complex datasets, generating insights and building robust statistical models. Comfortable working with structured and unstructured data. Expertise in R, MS-Office required. Familiarity with brands (McCormick and competition) and their metrices. Interpersonal Skills Able to influence and navigate across multiple functions and regions (Procurement, Marketing, Sales, R&D, Finance etc.) to leverage enterprise data seamlessly for insights that can be leveraged across the business. Sound timely decisions grounded in data but also intuition, welldeveloped emotional intelligence. This role will interact with subordinates and superiors in the global analytics organization as well as with the “internal” customers/sponsors of the work. He/she will most likely join a senior colleague in meetings with the business and on occasion, present findings from the analyses. McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.