Data Scientist

You will be a professional with a Technology or/and Retail industry background, proficient in Agile Methodology with a good understanding of Digital Technologies, including but not limited to Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Insights Engineering, Data Warehousing, and Data Science.

In this role you will be a domain expert, manage data and insights as a product, partnering with data product managers, data engineers and other DT team members to deliver data products, such as dashboards, ML applications and much more to ease the business stakeholders for making crucial business decisions.

Data Scientist

How You Will Make a Difference:

Strategic Problem Solving

• Understand the "big picture" context of VF's business and analyze data with a business-first mindset.
• Translate complex business challenges into structured analytical plans.
• Apply practical and creative thinking to craft effective, scalable solutions.

Product Management and Partnership

• Identify internal and external collaborators to curate data assets and produce actionable insights.
• Build strong relationships with business stakeholders to understand problems and co-create analytical solutions.
• Confidently communicate insights and recommendations to executive audiences.

Product Design and Development

• Collaborate with data engineers and product managers to instrument, acquire, and structure data assets critical to measuring the success of data products.
• Design and implement scalable data science solutions that align with product roadmaps and business goals.
• Be a Data Champion and Evangelist
• Promote a data-driven culture by hosting learning sessions, exploring new tools, and improving team processes.
• Embrace an experimentation mindset-focus on outcomes, iterate quickly, and validate solutions through testing.

How you will do it:

• Define the optimization problem, specify requirements and investigate options (models & optimization algorithms) for solving the problem and create an analytical plan
• Use business thinking, engineering skills, statistical techniques, and data science practices - such as experimentation, forecasting, clustering, etc. – to wrangle data and deliver relevant and trustworthy insights.
• Generate insights (e.g., performance metrices and much more) to accelerate business growth and formulate comfortably and confidently to executive audience
• Contribute to the innovation through advanced algorithms by identifying gain in efficiency in the business processes that aligns with related product roadmap.
• Communicate and coordinate effectively with the Development Team
   

What Success Looks Like:

• Deep understanding of VF's data landscape and business priorities
• Delivery of impactful data products and insights that drive decision-making
• Strong partnerships with business units and external partners to foster innovation and digital transformation

Free to Be, Inclusion & Diversity

As a purpose-led, performance driven company, we strive to foster a culture of belonging based on respect, connection, openness, and authenticity. We are committed to building and maintaining a workplace that celebrates the diversity of our associates, allowing them to bring their authentic selves to work every day.

Skills for Success:

• Minimum 3+ years of experience in data science or advanced analytics roles
• Proven experience applying ML techniques in supply chain domains, such as:
  • Production forecasting
  • Logistics and route optimization
  • Supplier performance analysis
• Experience working in cross-functional teams with product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders
• Educational position requirements: A formal education and subsequent undergraduate/graduate degrees in data science, statistics, applied mathematics, analytics or a related field, are nice to have, but we are most interested in your total experience and professional achievements.

What we expect you already know:

• Proficient in common analytical programming languages (e.g. Python or R) and SQL.
• Strong understanding of statistical and machine learning methods such as experiment design, causal inference, quasi-experimental methods, common ML models, recommendation systems, etc.
• Familiar with end-to-end data product development, including data model design, quality review, deployment, and maintenance in cloud environment.
• Proficient in telling data stories in a wide range of formats, including slides, charts, and dashboards (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI), and can coherently articulate the business impact of your insights.
• Able to plan projects in agile methodology and in detail, set schedules, coordinate resources across product, data, and engineering teams, complete projects end-to-end, and make sure timelines and quality expectations are met.
• Business acumen preferably in the domain of Product Supply or/and Supply Chain.  
• Front end customer experience design skills are a plus.
• Affirmative in opinion and decisive in actions.
• Integrity and courageousness – Dare to say “No” for the Company’s best interests when needed.
• Empathy – Sensitive and communicative in a multiple stakeholders’ situation.
• Open-minded to ideas and inclusiveness.
• End-to-end mindset.
   

What we will teach you:

• Strong knowledge of digital platforms across the region and the globe.
• Advanced Agile product management and development lifecycle specific to the product supply industry. 
• Comprehensive understanding of global supply chain technology trends and emerging digital solutions.  

VF Guiding Principles: Live with Integrity, Act Courageously, Be Curious, Act with Empathy, and Persevere.

What’s In It for You

We’re in the business of unleashing human potential, driven by the ideas, energy and commitment of our people. That’s why we offer comprehensive benefits that encourage mental, physical and financial well-being for all VF associates. When it comes to benefits, we’re the total package. Go to MyVFBenefits.com and click on “Looking to Join VF?” to learn more.

Our Parent Company, VF Corporation

VF is one of the world’s largest apparel, footwear and accessories companies connecting people to the lifestyles, activities and experiences they cherish through our family of iconic outdoor, active and workwear brands. At the heart of our journey lies our company-wide purpose: We power movements of sustainable and active lifestyles for the betterment of people and our planet. This is our purpose. It’s the reason we come to work every day. It’s a commitment shared by our global associates across all brands. Our purpose unites us and leads us to pursue our goals, together. This is our calling. Learn more at vfc.com.

We just have one question. Are you in?