Career Area: Technology, Digital and Data

Job Summary

The Data Scientist will support and lead analytics initiatives within the supply chain, logistics, and transportation domains. This role is responsible for developing analytical models, generating insights, and enabling process partners through effective use of advanced analytics tools and techniques. The position is based in Bangalore and reports to the Analytics Manager.

What You Will Do

- Lead analytics and optimization projects across transportation, logistics, supply chain, network design, and transportation modeling domains.

- Develop and enhance transportation models and digital supply chain solutions to optimize costs, improve service levels, and support strategic decision-making.

- Analyze transportation and logistics data to drive network optimization, freight efficiency, carrier performance, and cost reduction opportunities.

- Build robust data pipelines, ETL processes, dashboards, and visualizations to support modeling, forecasting, and operational decision-making.

- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver scalable analytical solutions and drive continuous improvement, automation, and innovation in transportation analytics.

What You Have

Domain Expertise

- Knowledge of Supply Chain, Transportation Management Systems (TMS), Transportation Modeling, Logistics Optimization

Technical Skills

- Strong proficiency in Python for AI/ML, optimization, analytics, and automation.

- Experience with SQL, data engineering and data integration.

- Working knowledge of AI/ML,



Generative AI, Operations Research, and predictive analytics.

- Experience developing dashboards and data visualizations using Power BI or similar tools.

Values-Based Competencies (VBCs)

Intermediate to advanced proficiency in:

- Integrity Trust

- Building Inclusive Relationships

- Customer Focus

- Problem Solving

- Priority Setting

- Decision Making

Required Qualifications Experience

- Bachelor s or Master s degree in Engineering/Technology, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, or related fields.

- 4-6 years of experience in logistics analytics, transportation, optimization simulation, machine learning, or AI.

- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL/SAS

- Experience using MS Office tools and standard statistics/data visualization tools.

- Solid communication, presentation, analytical, and project management skills.

- Ability to work collaboratively in team settings with high attention to detail.

Desired Qualifications

- Basic working knowledge of supply chain optimization tools (e.g., BY Transportation Modeler, Supply Chain Guru, or similar).

- Experience developing data science solutions in Python (ML, AI, Optimization).

- Skilled in Microsoft Office 365.

- Experience with visualization tools such as Power BI or similar

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📌 Data Scientist I - Supply chain Analytics (Bengaluru)
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