Senior Director, Data Science

This is an exciting opportunity for a data leader to guide and keep on building RBNA's Data Science initiative and CoE. This senior position will deliver and identify the most exciting and complex data-driven support opportunities, for our North American market, but potentially supporting also other geographies. The Data Science Lead RBNA will also coordinate the collaboration with our Global Data Science team at HQ, Austria, aligning projects, concepts, frameworks, and ideas to create a constructive and information exchange, benefitting both teams.

You will partner with business leaders at RBNA and beyond to help translate business questions into analytical problems that can be solved by pragmatically applying the full Data Science toolbox, from simple analytical and statistical methods all the way to machine learning, where reasonable. Focus the CoE will support Red Bull's core can business, in areas such as Sales and Operations, but there is the possibility to also devote some of your time to other support opportunities from within the world of Red Bull. To further promote the broader RBNA data community, we will also expect you to have a broader view on ensuring analytics across an organization, also supporting other data programs beyond Data Science conceptually and from a data modeling perspective.

We're looking for someone with a solid experience managing data science and analytics teams and experience translating the value of complex data projects in an impactful way to partners, including senior management. This experience would have been built through concrete examples of running and structuring applied statistics, machine-learning and advanced analytics projects in previous roles. Successful examples of having put data products and concepts also into production with IT support.

To be successful in this role you have experience establishing Data Science and Advanced Analytics as an organizational capability within an already successful organization. This also includes being able to overcome pushback, even excel at it and find support and create support across departments and organizational hierarchies.

Areas that play to your strengths

All the responsibilities we'll trust you with:

Lead the Data Science Team

Lead, structure, and develop an outstanding Data Science team. Develop best practices for modeling, deployment, QA and testing across the Data Science team and wider business. Develop and sharpen a roadmap to ensure organizational support and budgetary support.

Deliver Value with Data

Connect Data Science capabilities with organizational strategy to lead projects which are growth-focused and deliver measurable value for Red Bull. Deploy data products to production, where applicable, and measure the value and improvement of Data Science projects. Be a force-multiplier by educating the wider Data community at Red Bull with the right tools, skill and data models.

Shape Data Strategy

Contribute to the development of Data strategy for North America and be an important RBNA representative for the global data strategy at Red Bull. Take an active innovation role in the company by identifying new business processes at RBNA that could benefit from Data Science support the approach at HQ, if relevant.

Be a Trusted Partner

Engage with business and HQ team members as a partner. Be a go-to resource for data and analytical questions from the business. Collaborate with the IT and Engineering teams to shape the continued development of the Data Science platform and tool ecosystem.

Your areas of knowledge and expertise

that matter most for this role:

• Experience guiding the development of data science and analytical concepts to solve business problems from both a technical and business perspective
• 7+ years' relevant work experience
• Exposure to FMCG/CPG industry
• Experience collaborating with IT professionals to develop data science support environments from an engineering, tooling and deployment perspective
• Experience seeing projects through from exploration to deployment
• 3+ years' experience hiring and managing data science teams
• Data storytelling skills
• General knowledge of statistical concepts and machine learning algorithms
• Programming understanding and popular visualization tool knowledge gained from working as a data scientist or advanced analyst in the past

The base salary range for this position is $ 175,750 to $ 194,250 + cash incentives

Actual salary offer may vary based on work experience.

The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Our current Benefits include:

Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision Plans, 401k Match, Family Leave, PTO & Paid Holiday Schedule, Pet, Legal, and Life Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement

(Benefits listed may vary depending on the nature of your employment and/or work location)

Red Bull North America, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, or any other classification protected by Federal, state, or local law. We will consider for employment all qualified Applicants, including those with Criminal Histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.