Data Scientist

Grainger Businesses • Lake Forest, IL

10d • $85,300 - $142,200 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Data Scientist plays a pivotal role in advancing Grainger’s strategic objectives by leveraging machine learning and statistical analysis to uncover insights that drive business value and fuel bottom-line growth. As part of the Finance organization, you will generate high-quality, data-driven insights that inform critical decisions and tell compelling stories behind the numbers. You’ll challenge the status quo, embrace complex problems, think big, and pursue innovative solutions that support Grainger’s mission to keep our customers' operations running and their people safe. This position must be located in Lake Forest, IL or downtown Chicago office requring 2-3 days per week in the office.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or other quantitative field. Required
• 2+ years experience in specialized research, such as informatics, data collection, scientific research and research equipment. Required
• Proficiency in databases such as Teradata, Snowflake or Oracle and querying languages (e.g. SQL)
• Experienced with at least one data science programming languages (e.g., Python, R) and working with structured and unstructured datasets.
• Experience with machine learning techniques such as classification, clustering, dimension reduction, regression, NLP algorithms, and time series modeling.
• Experience with statistical design of experiments, outlier detection methods, and statistical hypothesis testing.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or other quantitative field. Preferred.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the business to understand the problem space, identify the opportunities, and translate business problems into technical solutions using machine learning frameworks.
• Conduct exploratory data analysis and apply deep business knowledge to customer and marketplace data to uncover new business insights.
• Manipulate high-volume, high-dimensionality data from multiple sources, visualize patterns, anomalies, relationships, and trends, and perform feature engineering and selection.
• Design and conduct experiments, collect the data necessary to perform statistical hypothesis testing, and create inferences and recommendations.
• Create scalable, efficient, automated processes to support large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and deployment. Apply techniques such as classification, clustering, dimension reduction, regression, NLP, deep learning, time series forecasting to build explanatory, predictive, prescriptive models appropriate for solving different business problems.
• Create and present the materials necessary to effectively communicate the results of analytical work and associated recommendations.
• Develop expertise on Grainger's business operations, go-to-market model, and the broader Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) market.

Benefits

• With benefits starting on day one, our programs provide choice and flexibility to meet team members' individual needs, including:
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with coverage starting on day one of employment and 6 free sessions each year with a licensed therapist to support your emotional wellbeing.
• 18 paid time off (PTO) days annually for full-time employees (accrual prorated based on employment start date) and 6 company holidays per year.
• 6% company contribution to a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan each pay period, no employee contribution required.
• Employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing and free access to financial counseling, education, and tools.
• Maternity support programs, nursing benefits, and up to 14 weeks paid leave for birth parents and up to 4 weeks paid leave for non-birth parents.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees