Senior Data Scientist - Mexico City

CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 347 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ approximately 13,000 people and operate in 60 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact. 

What does that mean for you? You’ll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You’ll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You’ll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities May Include:

• Collaborate with key stakeholders to identify business challenges, translating ambiguous problems into structured analyses using statistical modelling and machine learning algorithms.
• Lead the selection, validation, and optimization of models to discover meaningful patterns and insights, ensuring models remain relevant, reliable, and scalable.
• Drive continuous integration and deployment of data science solutions, optimizing performance through advanced machine learning techniques, code reviews, and best practices.
• 'Develop and deliver sophisticated visualizations, dashboards, and reports translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for business stakeholders.
• Present technical solutions to business stakeholders, using creative methods to explain complex concepts, increase understanding, and encourage solution adoption.
• Mentor and develop junior data scientists, fostering a culture of continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and skills development within the organization.
• Write clean, high-quality code, ensuring all outputs pass quality assurance checks, and contribute to the development of novel solutions to solve complex business problems.
• Stay informed on industry trends, emerging tools, and techniques, applying them to improve data science practices and encourage innovation within the team.
• Lead strategy development for one or more data products, managing roadmaps, identifying requirements, and collaborating with business stakeholders to ensure alignment with business goals.

POSITION PURPOSE

Our Asset Productivity team is actively seeking a Data Scientist to assist with continued development and implementation of models that can help us optimize the use of our assets (reduce losses, undercover patterns and anticipate issues).

The data scientist will work on the development and automation of tools leveraging cutting edge analytics and agentic techniques in partnership with different functions across Brambles.

This person will be working with large sets of structured and unstructured data (internal and external) to perform analysis, develop models and provide actionable insights ensuring high quality results aligned with maintaining internal service levels.

SCOPE

• Global

MAJOR / KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Learn about current data available and propose new data sources to current situation.

• Create optimization models based on business drivers to support Asset Control strategy.

• Responsible for developing tools aimed to proactively monitor the external variables that can affect our business in order to prepare and react better/quicker.

• Evaluate how to use data to extract key trends, predict key indicators and identify business opportunities/risks. Merge this information with CHEP specific business knowledge and develop actionable business insights in line with regional strategy.

• Implement agentic workflows to enhance current capabilities of Asset Productivity tools

• Support improvement initiatives & projects.

• Work closely with all internal stakeholders.

• Ensure best practices implementation in order to improve service to business stakeholders.

• Propose enhancements on new/current processes (standardization, usability, workload).

• Automate tools in order to provide outputs in a timely manner.

MEASURES

• Ensure accuracy on predictions algorithms.

• Ensure solutions created are aligned with Asset Control strategy.

• Ensure solutions are delivered on a timely manner.

• Internal customers satisfaction.

• Develop solutions in a scalable way, standard and automated.

• Develop processes to efficiently manage data.

KEY CONTACTS

Internal:  Regional Audit teams, Asset Control

  

QUALIFICATIONS

• Technology related degree and/or a minimum of 5 years’ working experience in a similar role

EXPERIENCE

• Previous data science experience applying advanced algorithms to address practical problems.

• Advanced hands-on experience in Python data libraries (Pandas, Scikit-Learn, Tensorflow).

• Proven track record in developing machine learning models (time series, clustering, and regression analysis).

• Experience with LLMs and Agentic workflows

• SQL experience (Ability to read/write complex SQL queries).

• Worked with measures and KPIs.

• Working on remote teams.

• Proved experience with Project Management (manage priorities, standardization, automation, troubleshooting and long-term planning).

• Experience with process automation and workload reduction.

• Experience implementing data new solutions from scratch.

• Experience with change management.

• Experience with software development (applied to data science).

• Experience with NLP and computer vision is a bonus.

• Proficient using Microsoft tools: Excel, Word, Power Point.

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

• Coding tools and Machine Learning.

• Data management and statistical analysis.

• GenAI and Agentic workflows

• Business mindset.

• Strong analytic skills.

• Customer oriented.

• Strong communication skills.

• Flexible and able to work under pressure.

• Diplomatic and sensitive when serving customers of a different mentality and culture.

• Ability to work autonomously and ability to work with remote teams.

LANGUAGES

Essential:  English

Desirable:  Spanish

Remote Type

Hybrid Remote

Skills to succeed in the role

Adaptability, Bitbucket, Cloud Infrastructure (Aws), Code Reviews, Databricks Platform, Data Science, Data Storytelling, Empathy, Experimentation, Git, Machine Learning (ML), Python (Programming Language), SQL Tools, Taking Ownership, Teamwork, Understand Customers

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to developing a diverse workforce in which everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has the opportunity to contribute to business success while realizing his or her potential. This means harnessing the unique skills and experience that each individual brings and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.

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