Data Science Manager

**Data Science Manager**:
Location: Bruz, France
Position Type: Unfixed Term
Job Function: Software Development

Our Industrial Microbiology Unit brings together more than 900 employees around the world. Our mission is to provide the agri-food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries with microbiology control solutions to improve product safety and quality.

Come and join a family-owned global company with a long-term vision, and a human-centered culture.

**What are your main accountabilities ?**

You will work in a global team, managing and expanding a diverse group of data scientists in both a leadership/ coaching role and as an individual contributor on strategic projects. You will need:

- the ability to understand and frame problems,
- the technical talent to identify and develop the best data approaches with the team,
- the project management skills to specify clear deliverables and prioritization for the team,
- and the story-telling needed to identify and communicate clear, understandable insights to non-technical audiences.

Your responsibilities:

- Manages team of 3-6 data science direct reports at different skill and experience levels
- Develops technical approach for data science projects with team
- Oversees multiple complex technical projects, with the ability to clearly define deliverables, timelines, roles and responsibilities with the team
- Interacts with customers as needed for customer insight, business development support and project delivery
- Strong communication, collaboration and support with key internal teams to deliver successful projects and solutions; close team interactions include software development, bioinformatics, project management, sales, marketing and executive management

**What is your profile?**
- 3 years of experience managing a data science team
- 4 year degree (or equivalent) in Data Science, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
- 5 years of experience in data science with focus on analyzing data
- 5 years of programming experience in at least one of the most employed programming languages in data science: Python, R, or similar high level languages
- Demonstrated Python proficiency and knowledge of Javascript, CSS and other programming languages for the web and data visualization are preferential
- Experience with common productivity software such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Comfort working in a dynamic, research-oriented group with several ongoing concurrent projects
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordinating across teams with multidisciplinary skill-sets.
- Technical skills :_
- Proven experience in machine learning and statistical modeling
- Proven experience in software and/or pipeline development for data science needs
- Ability to present data-based insights to non-data science audience

**Ways of working**:

- Passion for discovering novel solutions for the analysis of testing data and work with stakeholders to improve business outcomes.
- Creative mindset—ability and willingness to try new out-of-the-box approaches that might better fit the problem at hand
- Strong focus on value-creation for the customer and the team, in terms of short-term, day-to-day benefits and longer-term problem-solving
- Collaborative mindset as you will work with a global team of data scientists, bioinformaticians, microbiologists and software developers.
- Learning together—adept at contributing to a growing pool of data solutions and sharing knowledge within the international team
- Focus on communication—strong team interactions, and the ability to communicate analytic solutions to stakeholders and provide suggestions to implement improvements as needed to operational systems
- Capacity for self-development, independent work and flexibility to adapt to novel situations

**Location**: Lyon (FR)/ Rennes(FR) / Philadelphia (US) / Saint-Louis (US) / Chicago (US) / Ghent (BE)