Business Data Scientist

About Kinaxis:
**About Kinaxis**:

- Elevate your career journey by embracing a new challenge with Kinaxis. We are experts in tech, but it’s really our people who give us passion to always seek ways to do things better. As such, we’re serious about your career growth and professional development, because _People matter _at Kinaxis.

In 1984, we started out as a team of three engineers based in Ottawa, Canada. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, and support 40,000+ users in over 100 countries. As a global leader in end-to-end supply chain management, we enable supply chain excellence for all industries. We are expanding our team in Chennai and around the world as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.

Our journey in India began in 2020 and we have been growing steadily since then Building a high-trust and high-performance culture is important to us and we are proud to be Great Place to Work® CertifiedTM. Our state-of-the-art office, located in the World Trade Centre in Chennai, offers our growing team space for expansion and collaboration.

**Location**
- Chennai, India

About the team:
As a member of the Innovation and Data Science team, the Business Data Scientist (BDS) has progressive knowledge and skill in the areas of data science and machine learning to help develop data-driven insights and solutions to solve Kinaxis customers’ most pressing supply chain challenges. The BDS will work as part of a team to solve complex business issues through effective data analysis, statistical modeling, and machine learning techniques and be part of customer facing projects.

About the role:
**What you will do**:

- Develop cutting edge expertise in Kinaxis’ AI/ML capabilities to translate customer’s business needs into actionable insights that can drive business improvements.
- Support customer to define and implement value metrics and KPIs that will demonstrate visible business success.
- Evaluate and measure models’ outputs to ensure client requirements are met and drive continuous value.
- Seamlessly collaborative with cross functional teams of Data Scientists, machine learning engineers, data engineers and customer business teams to complete challenging machine learning projects.
- Provide on-going support to customers to continually improve their AI/ML models by demonstrating and delivering value.
- Present findings and results to customers and/or internal stakeholders.
- Work with pre-sales and help shape a point of view for each customer about how the Kinaxis capabilities can best support them.
- Develop a strong understanding of the RapidResponse solution.

**Technologies we use**:

- Proficiency in analyzing and validating data, machine learning models or statistics using Python, Spark, SQL in various development environments. Hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g. Oracle, MySQL, MS Sql Server, PostgreSQL) and Hive, cloud environments.
- Working knowledge of distributed computing techniques
- Experience in building Reports/visualizations to share findings and summaries to both clients and internal streams

**What we are looking for**:

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, statistics, mathematics, data science or a related field. Master's degree or equivalent experience preferred.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in data science, data analytics, machine learning and/or mathematical modeling environments, driving business insights to solve complex problems.
- Knowledge of supply chain planning or management processes in any one of Kinaxis’ markets such as Retail, Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, High Tech, etc
- Working knowledge of Machine learning stack such as Kubernetes, Docker, Project Jupyter, Kafka and workflow engines.
- Ability to understand customers businesses and supply chain needs and leverage it to effectively design solutions to drive business value.
- Excellent interpersonal, presentation and client relationship building and facilitation skills (meeting sessions, conflict resolutions, brainstorming etc.)
- Ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Able to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple projects simultaneously and driving them to completion.
- Flexibility to accommodate occasional meetings with internal teams or customers in different time zones.

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Why join Kinaxis?:
**Work With Impact**: Our platform directly helps companies power the world’s supply chains. We see the results of what we do out in the world every day—when we see store shelves stocked, when medications are available for our loved ones, and so much more.

**Work with Fortune 500 Brands**: Companies across industries trust us to help them take control of their integrated business planning and digital supply chain. Some of our customers include Ford, Unilever, Yama