Our Client is a chemical and engineering company. The company has a $30 million Singapore-based initiative to spur the digital transformation of our business across the region. The role is for the Asia Pacific Digitalization Hub that develops solutions for the company’s regional as well as global team across all aspects of the business including our manufacturing operations, supply chain management, business and sales processes, and external customer engagement.

The role involves applying data science, machine learning and operations research techniques to solve challenging problems across multiple business units. Project opportunities will include but are not limited to visualization, statistical analysis, data modeling, predictive modeling, prescriptive modeling and optimization. The candidate will be asked to combine an understanding of business problems with data driven decision making to significantly impact company’s operating profit.

The candidate will be also involved in the development of analytics applications from proposal through commercialization and be expected to work closely with operations and business teams across APAC. As a result, he/she will need to develop credible business cases for new applications.

Key responsibilities

• Involved in product development from concept initiation through commercialization
• Work directly with customer data to derive actionable insights
• Develop statistical or machine-assisted approaches to problems at massive scale
• Build out tools and infrastructure for data analysis
• Work cross-functionally with other business leaders to realise new business opportunities
• Contribute to the technical vision around the tools we use
• Innovate and build new (data) products that move company metrics

 Key skills to have

• BS or higher in Engineering, Mathematics, or Computer Science, with a specialization in data science or related area
• Hands-on experience and theoretical understanding of machine learning techniques
• Familiarity with common analysis tools- SQL, iPython, or R etc.
• Experience working in agile scrum teams
• Ability to develop full scope products including data pipelines, analytics and results presentation
• 5+ years of relevant industry experience
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Exceptional presentation skills to convey complex solutions to business stakeholders and executive leadership
• Availability to travel up to 25%