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The Pharmacy Analytics team at Meijer leads the strategy, development and integration of analytics for Meijer Pharmacy. Data Scientists on the team will drive data wrangling, statistics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and system efficiencies by delivering innovative data driven solutions. Through these applications, data scientists drive material business value, mitigate business and operational risk, and significantly impact customer experience. This role works directly with merchandising, marketing, operations, IT, and vendor partners.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Deliver against the overall data science strategy to drive a safe and secure patient experience, marketing, customer loyalty, and operational performance.
- Partner with stakeholders to define requirements which meet system and customer experience needs for data science projects.
- Partner with stakeholders to understand the journey that will be improved with the data science deliverables.
- Build prototypes for, and iteratively develop, end-to-end data science pipelines including custom algorithms, data transformations, statistical models, machine learning and artificial intelligence functions to meet end user needs.
- Partner with product development and technology teams to deploy pipelines into production environment following Safe Agile methodology as required.
- Develop data driven solutions for strategic cross-functional initiatives, develop and present business cases, and gain stakeholder alignment of solution.
- Help to define, document and follow best practices for ML/AI development at Meijer.
- Deliver communication to data consumers to ensure they understand data science products, have the proper training, and are following the best practices in application of data science products.
- Monitor and analyze Key Performance Indicators to ensure the usage, adoption, health and value of data products.
- Partner and communicate with internal teams and IT to ensure the architecture of data and systems are meeting data science team service level needs
- Maintain relationships with key partners, suppliers and industry associations and continue to advance data science capabilities, knowledge and impact
- This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required
What You'll Bring With You:
- Advanced Degree (MA/MS, PhD) in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Sociology or related quantitative field
- 4+ years of relevant data science experience in an applied role preferable in retail, pharmaceutical, logistics, supply chain or CPG industry.
- Demonstrated strength in using: Python, Databricks, Azure ML, Azure Cognitive Service, SQL, PySpark, Numpy, Pandas, Scikit Learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch.
- Experience with Azure Cloud technologies: Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, ADLS, and Azure DevOps/MLOps
- Experience with Microsoft Fabric, PowerBI Reporting, Semantic Models, Ontology, Copilot
- Experience working with large datasets and developing ML/AI systems such as: natural language processing, speech/text/image recognition, supervised and unsupervised learning models, forecasting and/or econometric time series models
- Proactive, curious and action oriented
- Ability to collaborate with, and present to internal and external partners
- Able to learn company systems, processes and tools, and identify opportunities to improve
- Detail oriented and organized
- Ability to meet production deadlines
- Strong communications, interpersonal and organizational skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Understanding of intellectual property rights, compliance and enforcement. Appreciation of HIPAA and other personal health or credit information confidentiality.
Skills Required
- Advanced degree such as an MA, MS, or PhD in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Sociology, or a related quantitative field
- At least 4 years of relevant applied data science experience
- Experience in retail, pharmaceutical, logistics, supply chain, or CPG industries
- Demonstrated proficiency with Python, Databricks, Azure ML, Azure Cognitive Services, SQL, PySpark, NumPy, Pandas, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, and PyTorch
- Experience with Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, ADLS, Azure DevOps, and MLOps
- Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Power BI reporting, semantic models, ontology, and Copilot
- Experience working with large datasets and developing machine learning or artificial intelligence systems
- Experience with natural language processing, speech, text or image recognition, supervised and unsupervised learning, forecasting, or econometric time-series models
- Ability to collaborate with and present to internal and external partners
- Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills
- Ability to meet production deadlines and learn company systems, processes, and tools
- Understanding of intellectual property rights, compliance, enforcement, HIPAA, and personal health or credit information confidentiality
Meijer Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Meijer and has not been reviewed or approved by Meijer.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as a meaningful part of the total package, with medical, dental, and vision options and additional supplemental coverage. The availability of wellness programming and online doctor visits further strengthens the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are positioned as solid, including 401(k) access and Roth 401(k) options that some find valuable. Union-negotiated structures are also associated with above-average pay and benefits in certain service roles.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are a recurring bright spot, including paid time off, vacation time, and holiday pay that can accumulate over time. Paid parental leave is also part of the package, supporting work-life needs alongside PTO.
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What We Do
It takes guts to start a business during the Great Depression. And it takes vision to keep it going. Our founder, Hendrik Meijer, opened Thrifty Acres in 1934. Almost thirty years later, his son, Fred, pioneered the world’s first ever supercenter – setting the table for who we are today: a multi-billion-dollar household name in retail. Of course, we’re not done. Not by a long shot. We recently launched the nation’s largest grocery home-delivery service – reinventing the business of grocery shopping … again. A lot has changed over the years, except for one thing; we’re still family owned. And that sense of family runs deep in everything we do. It’s the difference between selling a product and serving a community, and it’s the reason we’ve given back over $30 million to local food pantries in the last ten years. So, if you appreciate the pioneering spirit of Meijer, we’d like to connect with you. Because the bigger our family, the better
