Data Scientist Intern (4 months)
SGS & Co is a global brand impact group delivering speed and quality through innovation and insights to drive impact for our world-class clients. We combine deep expertise in design, graphic services, production, technology, and process optimization with unmatched marketplace understanding, dynamic ideas, and client-first customer service. We bring the world’s best brands to life and set them up for success in the modern world.
SGS & Co shifts brands to impact through the strength of our people. Our team of nearly 5,000 employees across 30+ countries works collaboratively to exceed client expectations today and anticipate how we’ll need to pivot together to win tomorrow. We take pride in our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion along with our ambition to lead the industry to a more sustainable future to drive positive impact for our clients, our people, and our planet.
Profile
Responsible for modeling complex business problems and discovering business insights through the use of statistical, algorithmic, mining, and visualization techniques. The data scientist contributes to building and developing the organization’s data infrastructure and supports the senior leadership with insights, management reports, and analysis for decision-making processes.
Key Responsibilities
Understands the decision-making process, workflows, and business and information needs of business unit heads and service manager/owners
Translates business needs into analytics/reporting requirements to support executive decisions and workflows with required information
Proactively mines data warehouses to identify trends and patterns and generates insights for business units and senior leadership
Performs large-scale experimentation to identify hidden relationships between variables in large datasets
Researches and implements cutting-edge techniques and tools in machine learning/deep learning/artificial intelligence to make data analysis more efficient
Determines requirements that will be used to train and evolve deep learning models and algorithms
Visualizes information and develops engaging reports on the results of data analysis using data visualization tools
Advises product teams on new products, features or updates through data-based recommendations
Develops frameworks and processes to analyze unstructured information collected through social media platforms i.e., wikis, blogs, instant messaging, etc. and traditional sources such as e-mail and SharePoint
Supports user experience specialists and information architects to enhance information visualization through development of dashboards and user interfaces
Distributes best practices to analytics and product teams and provides consultations for their data-based experimentations
Skills
Up-to-date knowledge of machine learning and data analytics tools and techniques
Strong knowledge in predictive modeling methodology
Experienced at leveraging both structured and unstructured data sources
Willingness and ability to learn new technologies on the job
Demonstrated ability to communicate complex results to technical and non-technical audiences
Demonstrated ability to work with minimal supervision
Experience
Education Requirements
Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics or related fields