The Enterprise Data and Analytics (ED&A) group at Cencora is looking for a Data Scientist-I interested in leveraging internal and external data to answer a myriad of business questions related to sourcing, pricing, and distribution of pharmaceuticals across the United States. These problems may include segmenting customers by purchasing behavior, modelling customer lifetime profitability, forecasting financial and operational metrics, predicting win/loss rates in contract negotiations, and others.

 

Successful candidates will showcase a combination of business focus, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and programming knowledge to be able to quickly cycle hypotheses through the discovery phase of the project. Excellent written and communications skills to report back the findings in a clear, structured manner are required. Also required are the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with team members, as well as an innate curiosity around wanting to understand business processes, business strategy and strategic business initiatives to help drive incremental business value from enterprise data assets.

This position is located at our corporate headquarters located in Conshohocken, PA and offers hybrid on/off site flexibility

• Improve organizational performance though the application of original thinking to existing and emerging analytic methods, processes, products, and services, and employ sound judgment in determining how innovations will be deployed to produce return on investment

• Working with business stakeholders identify business problems, opportunities and/or initiatives for which analytics models may provide insights that can contribute to or drive the development of an approach or solutions

• Conceptualize, design, and develop analytics models in addressing complex business problems, discovering insights, and identifying opportunities that are of value to internal and external business stakeholders, typically using a hypothesis-driven approach

• Working with Business Solution Architects determine how to best source data, including identification of potential proxy data sources, and design business analytics solutions, considering current and future needs, infrastructure and security requirements, load frequencies, etc.

• Show strong team building and creative thinking skills, and a desire to “make a difference”

 

• Bachelor degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, or related field; Master degree preferred

• Typically requires one (1) to three (3) years of relevant data science work experience

• The ability to propose solutions to loosely defined business problems

• Strong programming skills, such as Spark or other big data frameworks, R, Python

• Experience using SQL to access and analyze data

• Experience in statistical analysis and machine learning algorithms

• Experience in the use of statistical packages.

• Familiarity with basic principles of distributed computing and/or distributed databases.

• Demonstrable ability to quickly understand new concepts-all the way down to the theorems- and to come out with original solutions to mathematical issues.

• Good communication and interpersonal skills.

• Knowledge of one or more business/functional areas.

What Cencora offers

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members’ ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. 

To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more.

For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora

Schedule

Full time

Affiliated Companies

Affiliated Companies: AmerisourceBergen Services Corporation

Equal Employment Opportunity

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email hrsc@amerisourcebergen.com. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned