Data Lead

Job description

We’re looking for a data lead to help us build and maintain our country-scale supply chain services and ensure availability of life-saving commodities across public health and pharmacy networks. Our ideal data lead will be an experienced cross-functional collaborator and able to contribute to:

Data products - You will play a lead role in exploring our near-realtime historical and operational data to derive meaningful operational and commercial insights, and assemble reports for internal and external clients

Data driven tools - You will support operational and business decisions by developing and iterating on data-driven components for our supply chain platform, modelling phenomena such as demand patterns, product and client clustering and price elasticity, and working with the engineering team to put these models into production use

Data management - Working with our engineering team, your job will include defining and driving database schema - and where appropriate, infrastructure - optimisation to support our routine and ad hoc analytics

As a lead you will support junior data support staff, and will work closely with data and application engineers.

Note that at Field, analytics drive many parts of our country operations. Our data lead will be providing models and analytical solutions to drive these operations, so while we strive to protect space for exploratory research and model development, the role will include working with ops and engineering teams on the implementation and iteration of live tools as well.

Required

• Professional experience applying advanced statistical methods to data management and analysis
• Advanced working knowledge of and professional experience with querying and manipulating data using relational databases (postgres), document databases (elasticsearch, couchdb), spreadsheets (google sheets, excel)
• Pro SQL and relational database management skills
• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions, and identify discrepancies and opportunities for improvement
• Excellent quantitative communication skills and proven ability to problem solve with a multi-disciplinary team
• 6+ years of experience in a database management, data science role or equivalent
• Graduate degree in scientific or mathematical field

Location: Berlin

Bonus

• Professional experience in demand forecasting and supply planning a huge plus
• Desire to travel to work with our international teams
• Strong gif game