Job Description

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ohnson & Johnson is currently recruiting for a Data Scientist (New Consumer Health Company). This position will be in Kolkata, West Bengal; Skillman, NJ; New Brunswick, NJ, but open to consideration of talent at any major J&J Consumer Health Office location globally (EMEA, LATAM, APAC & NA Regions) as well as Remote.

Caring for the world, one person at a time has inspired and united the people of Johnson & Johnson for over 125 years. We embrace research and science -- bringing innovative ideas, products, and services to advance the health and well-being of people.

With $82.1 billion in 2020 sales, Johnson & Johnson is the world's most comprehensive and broadly based manufacturer of health care products, as well as a provider of related services, for the consumer, pharmaceutical, and medical devices markets. Employees of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies work with partners in health care to touch the lives of over a billion people every day, throughout the world.

If you have the talent and desire to touch the world, Johnson & Johnson has the career opportunities to help make it happen. Thriving on a diverse company culture, celebrating the uniqueness of our employees, and committed to inclusion. Proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Johnson & Johnson is the world's most comprehensive and broadly-based healthcare Company, touching the lives of nearly a billion people every day. Our Family of Companies throughout the world compete in consumer, pharmaceutical, and medical devices & diagnostics markets and have the skills and resources to tackle the world's most pressing health issues.

Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Consumer Health business to create a new publicly traded company. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 24 months, and it will be subject to legal requirements including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, as required, and other customary conditions and approvals.

It is anticipated that, following the conclusion of the transaction, this position may be conveyed with New Consumer Health. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to the successful candidate by New Consumer Health at an appropriate time and would be subject to any necessary consultation processes.

Role and Responsibilities:

Data Analytics & Digital Acceleration is a newly formed team that will lead the transformation of Consumer Health towards a data and digital first culture with the deployment of rapid, high value end-to-end (E2E) data products and solutions.

As a member of this team, you will be responsible for targeted E2E Data and Digital outcomes that require a cross-functional focus to unlock our growth strategy leveraging Data Science/AI and Intelligent Automation.

The team is business-led, technology enabled and will have responsibility to enable achievement of the J&J Consumer Health 3-year strategic growth objectives viz. Net Trade Sales Acceleration, Gross Profit Optimization, and Free Cash flow optimization.

One of the key focus areas for this team will be to design, build, and maintain scalable and robust models that support end-to-end data products.

Our larger mission is to drive organization-wide growth and impact for the 1.2B consumers & healthcare professionals who use our products and services.

As a trusted member of the Data Analytics and Digital Acceleration Team, this role will be uniquely positioned to collaborate with executives across the business to define, scope and oversee Data Science solutions to address critical business and analytical needs and deliver actionable insights across functions and regions, and enable outcomes that matter in our local markets.

As a strategic problem solver and an emerging expert in Data Science, this role will empower our technology and business partners through the management and delivery of high-quality insights and Data Science solutions that will be foundational in achieving our digital-first ambitions.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide technical expertise and delivery across a range of Data Science initiatives

Model Development & Evaluation by selecting appropriate machine learning models for tasks, building and working versions of models using Python and other open-source tools; and evaluating and explaining the performance of models in the business context

Business Insights & Feature Engineering: Perform exploratory data analysis (EDA) to understand relationships and identify opportunities to influence business outcomes

Collaborate with business stakeholders to better understand problems and drive model improvements

Share insights from EDA and modeling with the broader team

Assist in Building data science and augmented analytics solutions for strategic initiatives: Support the Lead Data Scientist in building models for end-to-end data products

Generate key business insights by employing solutions such as real-time reporting, predictive analytics, and end-to-end dashboards

Create and implement models on Big Data: Research and implement solutions leveraging big data technology (Open Source, GCP, AWS or Microsoft) to ingest, process and analyze large, disparate data sets

AI at scale: Build and apply AI at scale (natural language processing & generation, machine learning, artificial intelligence, etc.) as appropriate for strategic initiatives
Qualifications

Position Requirements:

A minimum of a Bachelor's degree is required.

A minimum of 8 years of experience in a Data Science role

Strong background in feature engineering and ML modeling

Strong business analytical skills to understand business context and develop solutions that meet functional needs

Familiarity of software development best practices (version control, code review & testing frameworks)

Experience in building highly scalable ML/AI services and working with sophisticated real-time, near real-time data processing pipelines on Big Data (Hadoop/Spark etc.)

Possess broad knowledge of the entire Data Science lifecycle, including data engineering, statistics, and model governance

Collaborative and eager to partner with other Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and business stakeholders to drive the best possible outcomes

Possess a growth mindset, receptive to coaching, mentorship and feedback

Takes initiative to learn new technologies and techniques and takes steps to improve team processes and resources

Possess the ability to manage ambiguity and shape new initiatives independently

Strategic thinker with big picture orientation/business acumen and strong interactions with key stakeholders

Has an innovative, agile, and high-performing team mindset

Familiar and stays abreast with the latest advances in the market, trends, and modern technology frameworks (e.g., Agile, XOps)

Preferred Competencies:

Reasonable coverage over a breadth of areas such as:

Connecting to various data sources and structures: APIs, NoSQL, RDBMS, Hadoop, S3, Blob Storage, etc.

Setting up data and experimental platforms

Hands-on experience with languages/tools/libraries/capabilities such as: Python, Java/C#, RapidMiner, SAS, Scala, SQL, Hive, Pig, Spark, Weka, NumPy, PyMongo, R, scikit-learn, XGBoost/LightGBM, Tensorflow, etc.

Pattern recognition and predictive modelling

Recommendation engines, scoring systems, A/B testing

Experience in one or more of the following: Dataiku, DataRobot, Databricks

An advanced degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or other equivalent disciplines is preferred

Experience in the Consumer Health industry is a plus
Primary Location
India-West Bengal-Kolkata-
Other Locations
North America, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Europe/Middle East/Africa
Organization
Johnson & Johnson Private Limited (8080)
Job Function
Info Technology
Requisition ID
2206075196W