Manager, Data Science - Remote

Solutions driven success.

XPO is a top ten global provider of transportation services, with a highly integrated network of people, technology and physical assets. At XPO Logistics, we look for employees who like a challenge and can communicate effectively in all situations. We want to leverage your skills and years of experience to drive positive results while ensuring a bright future for yourself and XPO. If you're looking for a growth opportunity, join us at XPO.

As the Manager, Data Science, you will play a pivotal role in the research and development of technology products, drive better and faster decision making across the company and support the creation of a global data science competency. You will work with business stakeholders across the company to ingest data analytics into every. You will also help grow a world-class data science team and mentor other data scientists, engineers, and analysts. This is an opportunity to drive tremendous business value at a rapidly growing, highly entrepreneurial company.

Pay, benefits and more.

We are eager to attract the best, so we offer competitive compensation and a generous benefits package, including full health insurance (medical, dental and vision), 401(k), life insurance, disability and more.

What you'll do on a typical day:

• Identify, implement and drive adoption of analytics-based solutions to business problems
• Perform quantitative research on large data sets
• Mentor other data scientists, engineers and analysts
• Serve as subject matter expert on data science, providing scientific support across the company and for end customers
• Carry out descriptive, predictive, prescriptive analytics and communicate findings to leadership and customers

What you need to succeed at XPO:

At a minimum, you'll need:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent related work or military experience
• 5 years of experience delivering solutions in at least two of the following: data science, data analysis, geospatial, finance, econometrics, cloud computing or big data and database management
• Experience with statistical modeling, data analytics and visualization using R and Python (Numpy, Pandas, Scipy, Plotly and Matplotlib)
• Ability to recognize problem types and the appropriate models to apply
• Experience writing SQL fluently, recognizing and correcting inefficient or error-prone SQL and performing test-driven validation of SQL queries and their results
• Strong programing and algorithm development skills as applied to working with large data sets
• Attention to detail and motivation to minimize error
• Experience with data modeling and data architecture
• Ability to mentor, teach, and motivate junior team members

It'd be great if you also have:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, Business or a related field; or recent college graduate with hands-on, moderately complex internship projects of greater than 6 months
• Superior skills in data mining and data cleansing techniques
• Data science specialization from Coursera, Udacity, Data Camp, etc.

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We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, disability, veteran or other protected status.

All applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment may be required to take and pass a pre-employment drug test.

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