Job Description

No Relocation Assistance Offered
# 154742 - Piscataway, New Jersey, United States

The data scientist is responsible for developing data-driven approaches and infrastructure to inform and accelerate product innovation, product design, and product development. This person will work with cross functional teams to gather, wrangle, cleanse, structure, and build models that are distributed to the greater R&D team and aligned with organizational goals. The role applies data analytics to enable new revenue-generating business models and improve underlying business processes for cost savings.

Responsbilities:

• Write and implement custom code for web scraping, social media mining, and associated data ingestion and pre-processing
• Write and implement custom code to extract data from internal systems and perform associated data engineering/cleansing
• Develop, validate, and implement programmatic approaches for data visualization, descriptive statistical analysis, and predictive modeling.
• Work with client teams to develop and implement custom solutions for decision-support services
• Interface with IT to build and manage data warehouses for global use.
• Support, train, and assist global R&D scientists via meetings, training sessions, and mentorship to aid the adoption of data analytics tools.

Write, refine, and manage python scripts for data analytics

Work with individuals throughout R&D to find key data sources, assess quality, and devise strategies for utilization

Work with current databases to build pipelines for manipulation, visualization, and descriptive/predictive modeling

Design data flows to extract data from organizational architecture and ETL into cloud architecture

Build data advanced visualizations including dashboards and custom javascript implementations

Support outside vendors and extract deliverables

Share knowledge with immediate data science team through regular presentations of progress, struggles, and advances

Assist in training R&D scientists on basic python skills

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor\'s Degree:Technical degree Preferably Computer Science
• 1-5 Years of Programming Experience with statistical computer language: Python, Julia, R, Java

Proficiency with SQL implementations (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, BigQuery)

Proficiency with statistical concepts including descriptive analysis, experimental design, Bayesian statistics, sub-setting, and regression

Proficiency with statistical and data mining techniques including generalized linear model/regression, random forest, boosting, trees, text mining, social network analysis, dimensionality reduction algorithms

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

Proficiency with machine learning techniques such as clustering, decision tree learning, na\xc3\xafve Bayes, support vector machines, Q-learning, temporal difference, adversarial networks, and neural networks

Proficiency with frameworks including TensorFlow, Theano, CNTK, scikit-learn, Caffe, Keras, Spark MLlib

Proficiency with distributed data/computing tools: Map/Reduce, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Gurobi, etc

Visualizing and presenting data for stakeholders using: D3.js, plotly, seaborn, ggplot, etc

Ability to work with cloud data architectures

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Salary Range $79,000 - $116,550

Pay is based on several non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to experience, education, skills and office location. In addition to your salary, Colgate-Palmolive offers a performance based bonus and competitive benefits package.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law.

Are you interested in working for Colgate-Palmolive? You can apply online and attach all relevant documents such as a cover letter and resume or CV. Applications received by e-mail are not considered in the selection process. Become part of our team. We look forward to your application.

Colgate-Palmolive is a leading global consumer products company, tightly focused on Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition. Colgate sells its products in over 200 countries and territories around the world under such internationally recognized brand names as Colgate, Palmolive, elmex, Tom\'s of Maine, Sorriso, Speed Stick, Lady Speed Stick, Softsoap, Irish Spring, Protex, Sanex, Elta MD, PCA Skin, Ajax, Axion, Fabuloso, Soupline and Suavitel, as well as Hill\'s Science Diet and Hill\'s Prescription Diet.

For more information about Colgate\'s global business, visit the Company\'s web site at . To learn more about Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures\xc2\xae oral health education program, please visit . To learn more about Hill\'s and the Hill\'s Food, Shelter & Love program please visit . To learn more about Tom\'s of Maine please visit .

Reasonable accommodation during the application process is available for persons with disabilities. Please contact Application_Accommodation@colpal.com with the subject "Accommodation Request" should you require accommodation.

Colgate-Palmolive