Data Scientist - Supply Chain & Inventory Analytics

Experience -
4 to 6 Years

Important Note -
Looking for Candidates who can join us with 45 days

Location -
Chennai / Bangalore

Required Qualifications:
- Experience:
4–6 years in a data science, applied machine learning, or quantitative analytics role, with at least two years working on problems that reached production or live business use.
- Education:
Bachelor's or Master's in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Economics, or a related quantitative discipline.
- Programming:
Solid Python — pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, statsmodels. Comfortable writing clean, testable, reviewable code rather than notebook-only exploration.
- SQL:
Confident with complex joins, window functions, and query performance on large operational tables.
- Time-series forecasting:
Practical experience with classical and modern approaches — ARIMA/SARIMA, exponential smoothing, Prophet,



gradient-boosted trees for tabular time series — and the judgement to know when a simple baseline is the right answer.
- Supervised learning:
Solid grounding in regression and tree-based ensembles (XGBoost, LightGBM, Random Forest), including feature engineering, regularisation, cross-validation design, and honest error analysis.
- Statistical fluency:
Distributions, uncertainty quantification, confidence and prediction intervals, hypothesis testing, and the ability to explain what a model does not know.
- Communication:
Able to explain a model to a plant engineer with no statistics background and to defend it to a technically sharp reviewer, in the same week.

Preferred / Good to Have:
- Domain exposure to supply chain, inventory optimisation, spare-parts planning, MRO, maintenance planning, or procurement analytics.
- Familiarity with inventory theory — safety stock formulations, service-level targets, EOQ, reorder point logic, multi-echelon inventory concepts.
- Experience with intermittent and lumpy dem

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