Job Description
The Sr. Data Scientist - Network Modeling & Optimization will be a senior technical contributor responsible for leading complex analytical and modeling projects and supported by a small dedicated team of Data Scientists. This role's primary responsibility will be updating, running and improving existing Supply Chain network models to support business planning and one-off decisions both tactical and strategic. The role will be hands-on. The role will also assist and advise in the development of new models and readiness for production.
The Network Modeling & Optimization team within Supply Chain Analytics develops analytical capabilities that help Best Buy evaluate its supply chain network across cost, capacity, customer service, product flow, inventory placement, and operational feasibility.
This role is hybrid, which means you will be required to work up to three days/week on site at the Best Buy corporate office in Richfield, Minnesota. You can work virtually from home or another non Best Buy location on days not expected in the office. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.
What You'll Do
The Network Modeling & Optimization team within Supply Chain Analytics develops analytical capabilities that help Best Buy evaluate its supply chain network across cost, capacity, customer service, product flow, inventory placement, and operational feasibility.
This role is hybrid, which means you will be required to work up to three days/week on site at the Best Buy corporate office in Richfield, Minnesota. You can work virtually from home or another non Best Buy location on days not expected in the office. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.
What You'll Do
- Develop and maintain analytical inputs and optimization models representing facilities, transportation lanes, demand, product flows, costs, capacities, service requirements, and business rules.
- Evaluate strategic and tactical scenarios involving facility location, network assignments, capacity, sourcing, inventory placement, transportation, and product flow.
- Validate model behavior, diagnose infeasibilities and data-quality issues, and clearly communicate assumptions, limitations, tradeoffs, and recommendations to business and technical stakeholders
- Translate ambiguous supply chain questions into structured analytical problems by defining objectives, available decisions, constraints, assumptions, data requirements, and expected outputs.
- Ability to translate complex physical processes into simplified functions that preserve the essential real-world characteristics but simple enough to become inputs for mathematical models.
- Support complex network modeling and optimization projects from business-problem definition through model development, validation, interpretation, and recommendation.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to Data Scientists and analysts while establishing reusable modeling practices, documentation standards, and quality controls.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Supply Chain Analytics, or a related quantitative field-or equivalent experience.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Industry | Retail |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1966 |
| Website | http://www.bestbuy-jobs.com/ |
About Company
Energetic teams. Fun atmosphere. Exciting opportunities.
That’s what you’ll find at Best Buy. Care to join us?
You can feel the energy here. And we’re not talking about the hum of electronics (there’s that, too). We’re talking about people.
Best Buy employees are friendly, enthusiastic and willing to help you succeed. Sure, we’re a big company — the world’s largest consumer electronics retailer — but that doesn’t stop us from having fun while doing what we love: bringing technology into people’s lives in meaningful ways.
When you join our team, we consider you part of our Best Buy family. And what you do here every day will support our goal to make people’s lives better, easier and more enjoyable through the great products we sell.
So if you’d like using your talents to help improve people’s lives, bring it! We’d love to have your energy here.
Skills
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Business Modelunmatched
- Business Supportunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Computer Scienceunmatched
- Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
- Data Analysisunmatched
- Data Qualityunmatched
- Data Scienceunmatched
- Documentation Modelsunmatched
- Documentation Standardsunmatched
- Economicsunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Industrial Engineeringunmatched
- Mathematical Modelingunmatched
- Mathematicsunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Model Validationunmatched
- Network Supportunmatched
- Operations Researchunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Product Costingunmatched
- Product Flowunmatched
- Statisticsunmatched
- Supply Chainunmatched
- Supply Chain Optimizationunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Work From Homeunmatched
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