Data Scientist

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Division: CCG RSD NA & Emerging Markets

How will you make an impact?

The Data Scientist will be part of the NA Marketing Science team within the Research and Safety NA division. This position provides an exciting way for an experienced, high-aptitude employee to work with an accomplished team and make immediate contributions! You will learn how to navigate complex business concerns and translate them into processes and algorithms. These solutions will be presented to fellow Data Scientists, analysts, and business partners. There will be a continuous challenge to develop new capabilities and improve existing ones on a wide variety of projects. The Data Scientist will choose the approach taken.

What will you do?

• Quickly grasp the sophisticated business priorities and marketing objectives to translate them into algorithms and communicate the results to collaborators with varying degrees of technical background

• Collaborate with peers in Marketing, Portfolio Management, and Sales to identify key business needs and areas of opportunities

• Proactively identify and evaluate growth opportunities to be translated as recommendations for our Commercial and Marketing teams to drive revenue

• Apply advanced data algorithms to design and optimize models that drive increased engagement and revenue on Digital Marketing channels.

• Develop strategies and requirements to make use of artificial intelligence and automation to enhance business decisions.

• Effectively respond to requests for ad hoc analyses.

• Develop visualizations and key performance indexes to guide decisions and track effectiveness

How will you get here?

Education

• Bachelor's Degree plus 4+ years of relevant experience in data science, analytics, statistics, applied math or related field required; Master's Degree preferred

Experience

• Proven understanding of SQL Server, Databricks, Spark, and/or Oracle

• Proficiency in Python (or PySpark) and SQL

• Business analytics knowledge required; pricing or marketing analytics a plus

• Exposure to a variety of operating systems and computing platforms including AWS/cloud computing a plud

• Experience operating in a fast-paced environment, balancing multiple priorities a plus

• Experience with key digital marketing technologies such as marketing automation, CRM, analytics packages, and predictive lead scoring a plus

• Understanding of life science industry and distribution a plus

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Extracting data from multiple sources, cleaning and validating for duplicates and other anomalies

• Employing math and statistics into algorithms to generate real-time predictive systems

• Aligning and adapt business problems to the most efficient machine learning algorithm

• Writing code from scratch to create solutions that don’t align with any available turnkey package

• Selecting and explaining the best analytical technique for the problem

• Understanding how to create a computationally efficient solution

• Accurately managing data coming from multiple domestic and international sources

• Proactively creating solutions as opportunities are identified

• Exceptional project management skills and the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects to complete responsibilities in a timely and accurate manner

• Must embrace team spirit and have strong interpersonal skills

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including an ability to communicate across business areas

• Initiative-taking with bias for action.

• Must show the ability to demonstrate the Thermo Fisher values (The Four I’s) – Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement

About Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our team of more than 100,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

Compensation and Benefits

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs

• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards