Remote Senior Data Scientist, Supply Chain Forecasting

Illinois Ag; Illinois; Remote; USD 100,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement benefits

Paid time off

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

US Foods is seeking a Sr Data Scientist to lead forecasting, optimization, and ML initiatives across supply chain domains, including demand planning, buying, and inventory optimization. You will work with cross-functional teams, mentor junior staff, and productionalize models for decision support.

The role emphasizes time series forecasting, optimization, ML/DL techniques, and DevOps/MLOps practices, with fully remote work across the U.S. (excluding HI and territories).

Qualifications

• Master's degree in data science/math/CS/statistics or similar with 3+ years experience, or Bachelor's with 6+ years.

Responsibilities

• Lead forecasting, optimization, and ML model development for supply chain problems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to align analytics with business needs.
• Mentor junior data scientists and guide deployment and retraining of models.
• Develop data exploration, feature engineering, and baseline modeling.

Skills

Communication skills

Agile/SCRUM

Time series forecasting

ML & Deep Learning

Python

SQL

Cloud platforms

DevOps/MLOps

Education

Master's or Bachelor's in data science/math/CS/statistics

Tools

Gurobi

Pyomo

PuLP

Job description

US Foods is seeking a Sr Data Scientist to lead forecasting, optimization, and ML initiatives across supply chain domains, including demand planning, buying, and inventory optimization. You will work with cross-functional teams, mentor junior staff, and productionalize models for decision support.

The role emphasizes time series forecasting, optimization, ML/DL techniques, and DevOps/MLOps practices, with fully remote work across the U.S. (excluding HI and territories).