Lead Data Scientist

Brown-Forman Australia Pty. Ltd.; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary

Holiday bonus

Professional development programs

Job summary

A leading spirits company based in Louisville, KY, is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to spearhead advanced analytics initiatives. This position involves collaborating with business stakeholders to develop innovative solutions and tools to support data-informed decision-making. Candidates should possess significant experience in statistical modeling and programming languages such as R and Python. It's a great opportunity for those passionate about data science and analytics.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in developing data science solutions for a global organization (or 4+ years with a Master’s degree).
• Advanced experience in R or Python.
• Strong experience interfacing with Business Intelligence and data warehousing operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of end-to-end solutions leveraging analytics.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to implement analytics solutions.
• Design and develop methodologies for data acquisition.

Skills

Statistical Modeling

Data Visualization

R programming

Python

SQL

Machine Learning

Data Mining

Tableau

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in economics, statistics, or quantitative field

Master’s Degree in economics, statistics, or quantitative field

Tools

Tableau

PowerBI

Alteryx

Qlik

Job description

We believe great people build great brands. And we know there is Nothing Better in the Market than a career at Brown‑Forman. Being a part of Brown‑Forman means you will grow both personally and professionally. You will have the opportunity to solve problems, seize opportunities, and generate bold ideas. You will belong to a place where teamwork matters and where you are encouraged to bring your best self to work.

Total Rewards

At Brown‑Forman, we believe in recognizing the bold ideas, ethical decisions, and winning results that make the company’s short‑ and long‑term success possible. This recognition comes in many forms, to include your base salary, holiday bonus, and any incentives you may earn. We create an environment that nurtures and prioritizes continuous learning. You are empowered to take charge of your own development with a variety of customized, award‑winning programs available for every step of your career journey.

Nothing Better in the Market

Being a part of Brown‑Forman means you will grow both personally and professionally. You will have the opportunity to solve problems, seize opportunities, and generate bold ideas. You will belong to a place where teamwork matters and where you are encouraged to bring your best self to work.

The position will be responsible for thought leadership in advanced analytics and the development of new tools and algorithms to provide process‑oriented, cross‑functional analytics that inform business decisions and assist in developing solutions to business problems. The position will initiate and lead collaborative efforts with key stakeholders to find innovative applications for advanced analytics and implement sustainable tools that are used regularly by the corporation to support business decisions. As a Lead Data Scientist, this position will lead development of end‑to‑end solutions that are leveraged throughout the organization. Lead Data Scientists partner closely with business stakeholders and with the business intelligence and data management teams within IT.

What You Can Expect

• Statistical Modeling and Data Visualization: The development of the design, build‑out, and implementation of sophisticated modeling techniques to help solve key business problems for global partners.
• Identifying and developing highly efficient computer programming techniques to execute on modeling and analytical functions.
• The implementation of a process‑oriented approach of data science for Brown‑Forman to help drive success long term.
• Lead design for new and existing data sources to help the organization build new data sets and build deeper modeling techniques for revenue management, mixed media modeling, demographic research, production efficiencies, etc. across all business functions.
• Developing tools and methods to collect new information from new sets of data, helping to push the organization further in exploration and gathering of ‘big data’ – both structured data (e.g. takeaway, depletions, consumer demographics) and unstructured (e.g. text mining, natural language processing).
• Designing and prototyping contextually relevant visualizations, dashboards, and tools enabling data‑informed decision‑making using R, Python, SQL, Tableau, and other appropriate tools.
• Presenting, visualizing and depicting the deductions and rationale of findings in clear, easy‑to‑understand and engaging ways.

Strategic Data Acquisition

• Designing and developing methodologies to access and aggregate new data that has been identified in conjunction with cross‑functional partners.
• Designing and developing data schematics across existing and new sources of data to combine and build new databases for the organization to utilize.
• Auditing existing data systems to identify gaps in coverage against known business requirements or identifying new sources of information that may help reduce the overall cost.
• Making strategic recommendations on data collection and integration.

Education and Partnerships

• Exemplify and support best practices for Data Science across the organization.
• Champion the use of advanced analytical techniques throughout the organization and identify new opportunities to embed Data Science in new areas of Brown‑Forman.
• Mentor less experienced Data Scientists to strengthen our processes and deliverables.
• Assist in the development of educational products on best practices and new approaches in Data Science.
• Develop analytical tools and methods, as well as support special projects delivered to functional teams across the organization.

What You Bring to the Table

• Bachelor’s Degree in economics, statistics, or quantitative and analytically‑oriented education, and 6+ years of experience in developing data science solutions in a global organization, OR Master’s Degree in economics, statistics, or quantitative and analytically‑oriented education, and 4+ years of experience in developing data science solutions in a global organization.
• Advanced experience in R or Python with familiarity of both.
• Advanced experience with SQL and data warehousing tools & techniques.
• Advanced experience using and interpreting machine learning, statistical modeling, and linear optimization.
• Advanced experience in scalable computing for the purposes of expanding machine learning and data mining techniques.
• Advanced experience in data visualization tools such as Tableau, PowerBI, Alteryx, Qlik, etc.
• Strong experience building data solutions and interactive web applications for business end users.
• Strong experience interfacing with the Business Intelligence and data warehousing operations of an industry‑leading company.
• Experience with git and version control software & tools.
• Experience leveraging LLMs and AI agents to solve business problems is a plus!

What Makes You Unique

• Ability to manage multiple projects through prioritization.
• Experience collaboratively leading end‑to‑end projects.
• Ability to work independently and autonomously.
• Flexibility to adapt to new/unfamiliar tools and problems.
• Disciplined entrepreneurship within a team‑oriented environment.
• High standards, deep passion for Data Science and analytics, and a commitment to find out ways to make things work.
• Open, analytical, strategic and problem‑solving mindset.
• Ability to build data‑driven features for well‑designed applications.
• Ready to work collaboratively, and proactively define requirements to solve real, specific business problems.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Serve as a strategic thought partner to both IT & Business Stakeholders.

Who We Are

We believe great people build great brands. And we know there is Nothing Better in the Market than a career at Brown‑Forman. Being a part of Brown‑Forman means you will grow both personally and professionally. You will have the opportunity to solve problems, seize opportunities, and generate bold ideas. You will belong to a place where teamwork matters and where you are encouraged to bring your best self to work.

What We Offer

Total Rewards at Brown‑Forman is designed to engage our people to ensure sustainable and profitable growth for generations to come. As a premium spirits company, we offer equitable pay structures for individual and company performance alongside a premium employee experience. We offer a range of premium benefits that reflect our company values and meet the needs of our diverse workforce.

Brown‑Forman Corporation is committed to equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment. It is the policy of Brown‑Forman Corporation to provide full and equal employment opportunities to all employees and potential employees without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, veteran status, age, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability or any other legally protected status.