Principal Data Scientist

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About the Organization

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a leading health technology company focused on improving people's health and enabling better outcomes across the health continuum from healthy living and prevention, to diagnosis, treatment and home care. Philips demonstrate advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights to deliver integrated solutions. Headquartered in the Netherlands, the company is a leader in diagnostic imaging, image-guided therapy, patient monitoring and health informatics, as well as in consumer health. Philips' health technology portfolio generated 2018 sales of EUR 18.1 billion and employs approximately 77,000 employees with sales and services in more than 100 countries.

Philips India Limited is a subsidiary of Royal Philips of the Netherlands, focused on improving people’s lives through meaningful innovation in the areas of Health Care and Personal Health. Philips has strong Brand Equity and recognized amongst most Innovative Companies globally growing better than industry and gaining market shares across categories.

In this role, you have the opportunity to

Provide data science solutions using advanced techniques, tools and methods to complex business problems. Create and maintain standards around data science for the company. Partner with businesses, markets and functions. Reporting Head of Information & Data Management

You are responsible for

• Co-create with business / market / functions or IT platforms on data science projects to meet the business need for insights and analytics using sophisticated data science techniques i.e. automation, crunching big data sets, machine learning or AI
• Setup projects to drive the business needs
• Participate in budgeting cycle, leading resources and running vendors
• Work on continuously updating data science strategy including evaluate emerging/cutting edge, open source, data science/machine learning libraries/big data platforms
• Strong proven experience in solving business problems through data science techniques, statistical modeling where simple analysis will not be sufficient
• Provide technical and people leadership to the data science team
• Ability to formulate multiple sophisticated business problems into hypothesis and proof of concepts for testing
• Coach, Guide and lead teams of internal and vendor resources
• Direct a team of 10-12 FTE data scientists and their priorities together with the partners and data & information strategy
• Lead P&L for the sub-department and the data science project portfolio
• Lead senior partner in the company in a matrix organization up to Executive committee levels, Market / BG / Function leaders
• Formulate strategies for incorporating new, latest and cutting-edge techniques and tools

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience

• Demonstrable sophisticated programming experience in Python or another programming language such as Java/C/C++/R;
• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills and the capability to translate data intelligence into valuable insights for the senior partners in the company
• Experience in data analytics and in statistical (regression, clustering and classification), descriptive and diagnosis methods; knowledge of forecasting methods
• A Master’s Degree or PhD in Computer Science, Econometrics, Artificial Intelligence, Applied Mathematics, Statistics or equivalent;
• Certifications or training in leadership MBA is a plus
• 15+ years of overall experience in data science, data analytics roles
• proven experience in multiple of machine learning, data mining, deep learning, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition areas
• demonstrated ability in creating and leading data science and analytics teams
• validated experience in creating and leading data science and / or data analytics strategy
• demonstrated ability in working in multinational companies with matrix structures including handling conflicting priorities from multiple partners

Why should you join Philips?

Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to create a healthier society through relevant work, focused on improving 2.5 billion lives a year by delivering innovative solutions across the health continuum. Our people experience a variety of unexpected moments when their lives and careers come together in meaningful ways. Learn more by watching this video.

To find out more about what it’s like working for Philips at a personal level, visit the Working at Philips page on our career website, where you can read stories from our employee blog. Once there, you can also learn about our recruitment process, or find answers to some of the frequently asked questions.

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