About this role :
- The group leader oversees:
- This role focuses on innovation, feasibility, and validation, not long-term production ownership.
Main responsibilities :
- Leadership & Team Management
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of data scientists, data analysts, and R&D/prototyping engineers
- Set technical direction, priorities and ways of working
- Foster collaboration between analytical and engineering profiles ·
- Foster collaboration with CAE team by giving them inputs to build reduced order models for process
- Ensure high standards of quality, rigor and documentation
- Strategy & Prioritization
- Define and manage the R&D and analytics roadmap aligned with business objectives
- Prioritize initiatives based on, business value, technical feasibility and time to impact
- Balance exploratory research with delivery of concrete outcomes
- Data Science & Analytics Oversight
- Data Exploration and Analysis
- Predictive & statistical modelling
- Ensure insights and models are actionable and decision-oriented.
- R&D Software Prototyping Oversight
- Oversee development of working prototypes that demonstrate feasibility and validate technical approaches
- Ensures prototypes are reproducible, well documented, and sharable with digital/IT teams
- Cross-Functional collaboration
- Act as a key interlocutor with business stakeholders, the product and process R&D team, and the digital/IT teams.
- Ensure smooth handover of validated concepts to production teams
Requirements :
- Masters or PhD in Data Science/Applied mathematics/Statistics
- Minimum of 8 years of experience
- Prior experience in leading multidisciplinary technical teams
- Strong understanding of statistical and machine learning models
- Large-scale data analytics
- Familiarity with modern analytics and prototyping stacks
- Ability to assess technical feasibility and risks
- Ability to align diverse profiles towards shared goals
- Strong ability to translate complex findings into business insights
- Comfortable communicating with senior stakeholders
- Strategic mindset with a focus on impact
Top Skills
What We Do
Verkor is a French industrial company based in Grenoble. With the backing of EIT InnoEnergy, Groupe IDEC, Schneider Electric, Capgemini, Renault Group, EQT Ventures, Arkema, Tokai COBEX, FMET managed by Demeter, Sibanye-Stillwater and Plastic Omnium, Verkor will ramp up low-carbon battery manufacturing in France and Europe to meet the growing demand for electric vehicles — and electric mobility as a whole — and stationary storage in Europe. Verkor is developing an enticing business model based on agility, sustainability and governance that is attracting the best talents from around the world. Its strong and agile team continues to grow as new challenges arise. Verkor is leading a unifying project that brings together the best partners for establishing the entire value chain in Europe and ensuring the optimal use of skills and resources. Verkor will draw on these strengths to open its entirely digital 4.0 pilot line in 2022. A model of excellence, competitiveness and resource efficiency, this innovation will be integrated into the gigafactory due for construction in 2024. Please apply today with an English CV on our website: https://www.verkor.com/en/join-our-team
