Statistical Data Scientist Lead

Statistical Data Scientist Lead

• Location: Barcelona - Spain
• Hybrid
• Full time

Our Team:

At Sanofi we are chasing the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We at Global Supply Chain Strategy & Excellence support this ambition by driving strategy and excellence through innovation and digitalization, redesigning work, enabling people, and providing expertise.

At Supply Chain Business Analytics Center of Excellence, we are on a mission to ensure everyone can harness the power of data in every decision. Our ambition is to transform and disrupt the SC practice to make it data-driven and digitally enabled to simplify, accelerate and improve the impact of the decision-making processes steering for best-in-class SC performance.

We believe in empowering the business with execution visibility, advanced analytics and with interactive data visualizations from multiple data sources.

Our scope includes all Supply chain processes: Customer Care, Logistics (Warehousing, Distribution and transportation), Supply chain planning (Distribution requirements planning, Demand planning, Integrated Business Planning, Inventory and Supply Planning) and Production/Scheduling Planning, across all Plants, Regions and Markets and for all Business units (GBUs).

You will contribute to empower the life of our patients worldwide by extracting meaning from data and providing tangible and actionable outcomes using the latest available technics and technologies (AI/ML/GenAI).

Join us in this adventure!

Main responsibilities:

• Contribute to our forecasting capabilities through enhancements, automatization and expansion of our forecasting cycle. Defining statistical forecast automation strategies based on advanced cloud computing.
• Connect externally to bring outside in expertise in new technologies and techniques, and also benchmark
• Provide the best possible forecast signal as it drives decisions on the whole supply chain: what/where/when to buy, produce, ship, stock... so that our medicines are available to our patients in time and at the most efficient cost.
• Maintain and improve our current forecast engine code base and develop new features to include more statistical or machine-learning based models and algorithms
• Lead innovation projects related to the forecasting cycle and related to increasing the impact of our forecasts within the business
• Work with GBU Leads to integrate relevant transversal data for advanced predictive models including but not limited to Sinergy, finance promotions, patients, launch plan and indications, internal and external BOS and Economic Trends.
• Partner closely with the Digital Team in M&S in support of Global Supply Chain Strategy and Transformation to ensure the current forecast engine is sustained and robust within Sanofi Platforms
• Mentor the team on good coding practices
• Ensure a best in class and diverse team by leveraging people’s competencies, reinforcing capabilities, developing all supply chain professionals under their remit.
• Strive for standardization, simplification & digitization.
• Ensure that data is managed/analyzed in compliance with applicable quality, regulatory (Data Privacy, GxP, SOX, etc.) and cybersecurity requirements

About you

• Experience: + 8 years’ experience. Have a broad experience with time series forecasting, in particular on the statistical and machine learning models and algorithms. Experience in Data Science related projects. Developing people with new ways of optimizing internal forecasting process and collecting market intelligence. Previous experience improving forecast accuracy by integrating relevant transversal data for advanced predictive models.

• Soft skills: Model business problems into data solutions. Ability to understand and interpret forecasting algorithms. Rounded presentation skills; experience in usage of cloud computing technologies and digital platforms within AI framework. Proven leadership in team management and agile project management. High level of emotional intelligence and business integrity; role model for behaviours consistent with our company values. .
• Technical skills: program at an advanced level with R and Python. Experience with DevOps/MLOps lifecycle is a plus. SQL, Spark, Docker, AWS experience is a plus.
• Education: Degree in Statistics, Computer Engineering, Bioinformatics, Mathematics,  Economics or related fields. Master in Supply Chain Management, Engineering or similar preferred. PHD is an asset.
• Languages: Fluent in English, and fluency in Spanish and other languages is considered an asset. 

Manufacturing & Supply - Leadership Skills

• Enterprise Leaders: Are able to have the E2E vision of the business, prioritizing the common interest for the benefit of Sanofi and the patients. Are able to connect the dots for their teams and keep them engaged with the vision.
• Transformation Leader: Acts as change management and culture role model to foster employee’s engagement and build a psychologically safe and collaborative workplace.
• Decision Maker: Takes timely and data-based decisions in a fast moving and complex environment to drive performance and progress. Promotes an environment where decisions are taken at the right level.
• Performance Champion: Embrace digital innovation, AI, GenAI to democratize data and drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, quality, safety, and cost effectiveness.
• Business Ally: Understand business landscape Industry & business/client groups knowledge to translate the challenges & bring added value. Stay current with global external trends and integrate insights into strategies achieving sustainable competitive advantage.
• People Developer: Unleashes the potential of each one and prepares the leaders of the future.  Takes bold decisions to ensure the right talents are at the right place.

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!