IT Data Scientist (Freelance)

Your challenge
Become a team member of the Manufacturing IT department who is challenging, developing, and implementing Data-Driven Factory solutions related to Industry 4.0. As a Data Scientist, you will work closely together with multiple teams Global and within the factory of Drachten. Provide data science solutions using advanced techniques, tools, and methods to complex factory problems. Create and maintain standards around data science for the company. 
 

Your responsibilities
Ensure strategic direction for data science capabilities for Philips is created and kept up to date on a regular basis. Continuously evaluate the latest techniques in Artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, statistical analysis. Implement advances algorithms for business problems based on statistical analysis, coding, deep learning, advanced data mining techniques, etc. Invent new algorithms if necessary, to bring predictive, advanced statistics/learning-based solutions. 
 

Job overview and insights

• Co-create with business / market / functions or IT platforms on requirements
• Interpret and analyze data problems and come up with viable solutions, hypotheses, and proof of concepts
• Ensure quality of data and solution developed. Lead and drive data mining, creating algorithms, collection of data, collection of procedures during the design, build phases of a project
• Lead and drive in deployment and testing of the solutions and insights. Working with big data and databases
• Demonstrable advanced programming experience in Python or another programming language such as Java/C/C++/R
• Strong analytical and social skills and the capability to translate data intelligence into valuable insights for the senior stakeholders in the company
• Experience in data analytics and in statistical (regression, clustering, and classification), descriptive and diagnosis methods; knowledge of forecasting methods
• Ability to identify and solve multiple complex business problems. Create appropriate hypotheses and solution directions that can be tested using data science techniques
• Manage and lead multiple data science projects
• Manage (via influence) small teams of junior data scientists across internal and vendor resources to complete the projects
• Manage senior stakeholders in the company in a matrix organization (product owners and their managers) Reporting into Senior Data Scientist or Data Science lead.
   

Your team
You are a member of MIT (Manufacturing IT) within the Engineering organization. The Engineering Department provides high-volume industrialization at Philips Drachten and is situated between the supply and innovation departments. The MIT provides and secures the IT/OT within the factory. Philips Drachten develops and produces electrical Shaving devices, Mother and Childcare products, and parts of Oral Healthcare products. Industrialization requires highly advanced production processes, IT solutions and is characterized as dynamic and innovative.
 

Our offer
We welcome you to a challenging, innovative environment with great opportunities for you to explore. Our benefits are very competitive and designed around your preferences.

We are looking for

• A Masters Degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Econometrics, Artificial Intelligence, Applied Mathematics, Statistics or equivalent;
• Certifications or courses in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, R-Python scripting, etc. from a reputed institute is a plus (e.g. Coursera institute, regular universities, ARTiBA, etc.)
• Experienced within Production

Person type (Insights)

• Team player
• Analytical/problem solving
• Independent acting
• Result-driven
• Able to work under time pressure
• Open communication to all organizational levels
• Open-minded

Become a team member of the Manufacturing IT department who is challenging, developing, and implementing Data-Driven Factory solutions related to Industry 4.0. As a Data Scientist, you will work closely together with multiple teams Global and within the factory of Drachten. Provide data science solutions using advanced techniques, tools, and methods to complex factory problems. Create and maintain standards around data science for the company.

The Randstad companies are responsible for finding and contracting talent for project roles at Philips. If you are selected for a role you will be contracted by the broker or employed by a Randstad company, and will not be an employee of Philips.