Supply Chain - Data Scientist, GCP-Senior Manager

At PwC, our people in data and analytics focus on leveraging data to drive insights and make informed business decisions. They utilise advanced analytics techniques to help clients optimise their operations and achieve their strategic goals. In data analysis at PwC, you will focus on utilising advanced analytical techniques to extract insights from large datasets and drive data-driven decision-making. You will leverage skills in data manipulation, visualisation, and statistical modelling to support clients in solving complex business problems.

Growing as a strategic advisor, you leverage your influence, expertise, and network to deliver quality results. You motivate and coach others, coming together to solve complex problems. As you increase in autonomy, you apply sound judgment, recognising when to take action and when to escalate. You are expected to solve through complexity, ask thoughtful questions, and clearly communicate how things fit together. Your ability to develop and sustain high performing, diverse, and inclusive teams, and your commitment to excellence, contributes to the success of our Firm.

Skills

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Craft and convey clear, impactful and engaging messages that tell a holistic story.
• Apply systems thinking to identify underlying problems and/or opportunities.
• Validate outcomes with clients, share alternative perspectives, and act on client feedback.
• Direct the team through complexity, demonstrating composure through ambiguous, challenging and uncertain situations.
• Deepen and evolve your expertise with a focus on staying relevant.
• Initiate open and honest coaching conversations at all levels.
• Make difficult decisions and take action to resolve issues hindering team effectiveness.
• Model and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.
  
  

Position: Senior Associate

Industry: CPG

Domain: Range of Analytics (Descriptive to Advanced) depending on the client problem

About Acceleration Center Bangalore

At PwC, we connect people with diverse backgrounds and skill sets to solve important problems together and lead with purpose—for our clients, our communities and for the world at large. It is no surprise therefore that 429 of 500 Fortune global companies engage with PwC. Acceleration Centers (ACs) are PwC’s diverse, global talent hubs focused on enabling growth for the organization and value creation for our clients.The PwC Advisory Acceleration Center in Bangalore is part of our Advisory business in the US. The team is focused on developing a broader portfolio with solutions for Risk Consulting, Management Consulting, Technology Consulting,Strategy Consulting, Forensics as well as vertical specific solutions. PwC's high-performance culture is based on passion for excellence with focus on diversity and inclusion. You will collaborate with and receive support from a network of people to achieve your goals. We will also provide you with global leadership development frameworks and the latest in digital technologies to learn and excel in your career. At the core of our firm's philosophy is a simple construct: We care for our people. Globally PwC is ranked the 3rd most attractive employer according to Universum. Our commitment to Responsible Business Leadership, Diversity & Inclusion, work-life flexibility, career coaching and learning & development makes our firm one of the best places to work, learn and excel

We are looking for experienced leaders with a strong analytical background (and overall professional experience of 10+ years) to work in our Analytics Consulting practice in Mumbai, Bangalore.

Senior Associate’s will work as an integral part of business analytics teams in India alongside clients and consultants in the U.S., leading teams for high-end analytics consulting engagements and providing business recommendations to project teams.

Education: Advanced Degree in a quantitative discipline such as Computer Science, Engineering, Econometrics, Statistics, Operations Research or Information Sciences such as business analytics or informatics

Required Skills: Successful candidates will have demonstrated the following skills and characteristics:

Must Have

• Proven expertise in supply chain analytics across domains such as demand forecasting, inventory optimization, logistics, segmentation, and network design
• Well versed and hands-on experience of working on optimization methods like linear programming, mixed integer programming, scheduling optimization. Having understanding of working on third party optimization solvers like Gurobi will be an added advantage
• Proficiency in forecasting techniques (e.g., Holt-Winters, ARIMA, ARIMAX, SARIMA, SARIMAX, FBProphet, NBeats) and machine learning techniques (supervised and unsupervised)
• Strong command of statistical modeling, testing, and inference
• Proficient in using GCP tools: BigQuery, Vertex AI, Dataflow, Looker
• Building data pipelines and models for forecasting, optimization, and scenario planning
• Strong SQL and Python programming skills; experience deploying models in GCP environment
• Knowledge of orchestration tools like Cloud Composer (Airflow)
  
  

Nice To Have

• Familiarity with MLOps, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and orchestration tools (e.g., Cloud composer)
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills at the executive level
  
  

Roles And Responsibilities

• Assist analytics projects within the supply chain domain, driving design, development, and delivery of data science solutions
• Develop and execute on project & analysis plans under the guidance of Project Manager
• Interact with and advise consultants/clients in US as a subject matter expert to formalize data sources to be used, datasets to be acquired, data & use case clarifications that are needed to get a strong hold on data and the business problem to be solved
• Drive and Conduct analysis using advanced analytics tools and coach the junior team members
• Implement necessary quality control measures in place to ensure the deliverable integrity like data quality, model robustness, and explainability for deployments.
• Validate analysis outcomes, recommendations with all stakeholders including the client team
• Build storylines and make presentations to the client team and/or PwC project leadership team
• Contribute to the knowledge and firm building activities