Data Scientist, Corporate Analytics & Decision Support

SAS•Cary, NC

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Corporate Operations & Planning (CO&P) division at SAS plays a vital role in defining and aligning the organization with its top strategic and operational priorities, ensuring clarity, accountability, and enterprise-wide cohesion. CO&P addresses four critical challenges for SAS: ensuring the right strategy, enabling better decisions, improving operational effectiveness, and strengthening our competitive advantage. Within CO&P, the Corporate Analytics & Decision Support (CADS) team provides the analytical rigor and performance insights necessary to drive executive decision-making and long-term business success. As a Data Scientist on the CADS team, you will serve as a strategic individual contributor, working in a high-impact team that elevates enterprise analytics at SAS. This position is instrumental in enabling trusted analytics and fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement across the organization.

Requirements

Masters degree in a field that includes strong coverage of applied mathematics and statistics, computer science, or engineering.
Minimum 5 years of experience engineering data and creating data products such as BI reporting, dashboards, and data models
Proven track record of collaborating with business stakeholders and technical experts to deliver outcomes.
Strong proficiency with analytical tools such as SAS, Python, R, SQL, or equivalent.
Effective communication skills, especially with senior leaders and nontechnical audiences.
Proven ability to manage high visibility deliverables in a dynamic environment.
Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.

Nice To Haves

Collaborating – Working cooperatively with others to help a team or work group achieve its goals.
Driving for Results – Setting high goals for personal and group accomplishment; using measurement methods to monitor progress toward goals; tenaciously working to meet or exceed goals while deriving satisfaction from that achievement and continuous improvement.
Quality Orientation – Accomplishing tasks by considering all areas involved, no matter how detailed; showing concern for all aspects of the job; accurately checking processes and tasks; being watchful over a period of time.

Responsibilities

Partner with the team to develop and drive the analytical agenda that supports SAS’s strategy, corporate planning, and enterprise performance management.
Own the end‑to‑end delivery of enterprise analyses and high‑impact corporate insights, ensuring cross‑divisional and cross‑functional alignment.
Define and advance analytical strategy, frameworks, and standards that strengthen enterprise decision‑making.
Ensure SAS’s most critical decisions are informed by trusted, high‑quality analytics and forward-looking insights.
Strengthen the company’s operating rhythm and performance management capabilities by building clear decision frameworks that guide prioritization, investment, and trade‑off analysis.
Synthesize complex analyses into concise, actionable recommendations for senior and executive leadership.
Anticipate emerging trends and performance risks, proactively surfacing insights before they become formal requests.
Lead analytical workstreams by setting direction, scoping projects, and coordinating contributors to deliver cohesive, high‑quality outcomes.
Leverage the SAS Viya platform (including SAS Studio, SAS Data Explorer, Visual Analytics, and SAS Environment Manager) and GitLab to conduct advanced analytics.
Contribute to the enterprise analytical roadmap supporting corporate strategy, performance measurement, and decision support.
Establish and promote standards for model design, forecasting, scenario analysis, data quality validation, and insight generation.
Identify and implement opportunities to automate, streamline, and modernize enterprise reporting and modeling processes.
Partner with business and data owners, CIS, and cross‑functional teams to strengthen data governance, harmonize definitions, improve data quality, and streamline data flows.
Design, maintain, and enhance enterprise dashboards and reports aligned to strategic priorities.
Provide analytical support for annual corporate planning, strategic initiatives, and investment decisions, including scenario and sensitivity analysis.
Partner with the PMO and Corporate Development to deliver insights that strengthen strategic initiative execution.
Serve as a trusted advisor by communicating insights with clarity, confidence, and business relevance through executive‑level presentations and forums.
Represent the team in cross‑department meetings, enterprise forums, and steering groups to elevate the visibility and impact of CO&P analytics.
Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization’s secure software development goals.
Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
Medical plan options include:
PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There’s a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
An industry-leading 401k plan.
Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development
Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.