Principal Data Science Analyst

Ingram Micro • Irvine, CA

2d • $116,000 - $197,200

About The Position

Accelerate your career. Join the organization that's driving the world's technology and shape the future. Ingram Micro is a leading technology company for the global information technology ecosystem. With the ability to reach nearly 90% of the global population, we play a vital role in the worldwide IT sales channel, bringing products and services from technology manufacturers and cloud providers to business-to-business technology experts. Our market reach, diverse solutions and services portfolio, and digital platform Ingram Micro Xvantage™ set us apart. Learn more at www.ingrammicro.com Come join our team where you’ll make technology happen in surprising ways. Let’s shape tomorrow - it’ll be a fun journey! The Principal Data Science Analyst will play a critical role in developing advanced analytical and machine learning solutions that support strategic initiatives across Sales, Vendor Management, Cloud, eCommerce, Finance, and Supply Chain. This role combines hands‑on modeling, deep analytical thinking, and strong business partnership. Your role: Break down highly complex, ambiguous business problems into structured analytical approaches, proposing innovative and technically sound solutions. Drive solution discovery with stakeholders by clarifying requirements, defining analytical feasibility, and shaping technical roadmaps for high‑impact initiatives. Act as a self‑starter who independently scopes, leads, and delivers analytical workstreams with minimal guidance, while ensuring timely, high‑quality outputs. Deliver insights for revenue growth, customer patterns, and operational efficiencies and translate complex data insights into actionable recommendations for technical and non-technical stakeholders, and business leaders Build, optimize, and deploy predictive and machine learning models. Lead analytics workstreams and collaborate with cross‑functional teams. Applies strong financial and analytical judgment to rapidly identify opportunities and act decisively, even when information is incomplete.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (master’s preferred) in a quantitative field.
• 8+ years of functional experience, including a minimum of 5+ years of position specific experience in data science or advanced analytics.
• Advanced SQL skills and Experience with GCP (Big Query, VertexAi a plus)
• Proficiency in visualization tools such as Google Looker, Qlik, PowerBI, Plotly Dash
• Strong analytical and modeling skills using Python (for its rich suite of statistical and modeling libraries like numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, etc.).
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence decisions.
• Demonstrates innovative thinking with the ability to challenge entrenched assumptions, navigate ambiguity, and quickly adapt in fast‑changing environments.
• Exceptional storytelling and presentation skills, with the ability to build compelling executive‑ready materials and clearly communicate complex analytical insights to diverse audiences.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in B2B, distribution, or supply‑chain analytics.
• Knowledge of MLOps and model deployment.
• Exposure to GenAI, LLM workflows, or automation solutions.

Responsibilities

• Break down highly complex, ambiguous business problems into structured analytical approaches, proposing innovative and technically sound solutions.
• Drive solution discovery with stakeholders by clarifying requirements, defining analytical feasibility, and shaping technical roadmaps for high‑impact initiatives.
• Act as a self‑starter who independently scopes, leads, and delivers analytical workstreams with minimal guidance, while ensuring timely, high‑quality outputs.
• Deliver insights for revenue growth, customer patterns, and operational efficiencies and translate complex data insights into actionable recommendations for technical and non-technical stakeholders, and business leaders
• Build, optimize, and deploy predictive and machine learning models.
• Lead analytics workstreams and collaborate with cross‑functional teams.
• Applies strong financial and analytical judgment to rapidly identify opportunities and act decisively, even when information is incomplete.

Benefits

• U.S.-based employees have access to healthcare benefits, paid time off, parental leave, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and wellbeing benefits, among others.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level