Global Manufacturing Decision-Intelligence Scientist

Agilent Technologies, Inc.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Agilent Technologies, Inc. in Singapore seeks a Decision Support Data Scientist to own the quality and integrity of insights for senior-management decisions.

You will apply statistics, forecasting, ML/AI, and business understanding to strengthen manufacturing performance and enable fast enterprise decisions. You will build analytics for the Global Manufacturing Control Tower, translate data into trustworthy narratives, and define KPIs, scenarios, and recommendations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data science, decision science, manufacturing analytics, or equivalent.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to frame decisions and translate data into actionable recommendations.
• Experience producing executive-level insights, decision-support analyses, forecasts, scenarios, and management narratives for senior stakeholders.
• Strong hands-on experience in statistics, forecasting, scenario modeling, diagnostic and predictive analytics, ML, and AI in manufacturing/operations.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, or R; experience using enterprise data-visualization tools such as Tableau/Power BI/Qlik/Spotfire.

Responsibilities

• Own the analytical quality and integrity of Control Tower insights, ensuring conclusions, forecasts, scenarios, and recommendations are accurate and evidence-based.
• Structure ambiguous business questions into clear decision problems with defined decisions, options, assumptions, hypotheses, evidence, and success criteria.
• Develop decision-intelligence and performance insights across productivity, throughput, capacity, quality, yield, and operational risk.
• Define and validate KPI logic, baselines, targets, thresholds, and leading indicators with proper interpretation.
• Select and apply statistics, forecasting, diagnostic analytics, ML, and AI based on the business question; quantify uncertainty and trade-offs.
• Produce executive performance narratives, driver analyses, early-warning signals, and evidence-based recommendations.
• Build and validate analytical prototypes/models using Python, SQL, R, BI tools, and cloud technologies; document methods for reproducibility.
• Monitor analytical performance post-deployment and recalibrate when required.
• Collaborate with Analytics, Project Lead, Engineering and Operations to align analytics with priorities and standards.
• Lead the analytical workstream from framing to value assessment with cross-functional alignment.

Skills

Decision science

Statistics

Forecasting

Machine learning

AI

Python

SQL

R

Data storytelling

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Data Science, Statistics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Analytics

Tools

Python

SQL

R

Tableau

Power BI

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud)

Job description

Agilent Technologies, Inc. in Singapore seeks a Decision Support Data Scientist to own the quality and integrity of insights for senior-management decisions.

You will apply statistics, forecasting, ML/AI, and business understanding to strengthen manufacturing performance and enable fast enterprise decisions. You will build analytics for the Global Manufacturing Control Tower, translate data into trustworthy narratives, and define KPIs, scenarios, and recommendations.