India is among the top ten priority markets for General Mills, and hosts our Global Shared Services Centre. This is the Global Shared Services arm of General Mills Inc., which supports its operations worldwide. With over 1,300 employees in Mumbai, the center has capabilities in the areas of Supply Chain, Finance, HR, Digital and Technology, Sales Capabilities, Consumer Insights, ITQ (R&D & Quality), and Enterprise Business Services. Learning and capacity-building is a key ingredient of our success.

ABOUT GENERAL MILLS

We make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Häagen-Dazs, we’ve been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell.

How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerate

us into the future as an innovative force for good. General Mills was founded in 1866 when Cadwallader Washburn boldly bought the largest flour mill west of the Mississippi. That pioneering spirit lives on today through our leadership team who upholds a vision of relentless innovation while being a force for good. For more details check out http://www.generalmills.com

General Mills India Center (GIC) is our global capability center in Mumbai that works as an extension of our global organization delivering business value, service excellence and growth, while standing for good for our planet and people.

With our team of 1800+ professionals, we deliver superior value across the areas of Supply chain (SC) , Digital & Technology (D&T) Innovation, Technology & Quality (ITQ), Consumer and Market Intelligence (CMI), Sales Strategy & Intelligence (SSI) , Global Shared Services (GSS) , Finance Shared Services (FSS) and Human Resources Shared Services (HRSS).For more details check out https://www.generalmills.co.in

We advocate for advancing equity and inclusion to create more equitable workplaces and a better tomorrow.

JOB OVERVIEW

Function Overview

The Digital and Technology team at General Mills stands as the largest and foremost unit, dedicated to exploring the latest trends and innovations in technology while leading the adoption of cutting-edge technologies across the organization. Collaborating closely with global business teams, the focus is on understanding business models and identifying opportunities to leverage technology for increased efficiency and disruption. The team's expertise spans a wide range of areas, including AI/ML, Data Science, IoT, NLP, Cloud, Infrastructure, RPA and Automation, Digital Transformation, Cyber Security, Blockchain, SAP S4 HANA and Enterprise Architecture. The MillsWorks initiative embodies an agile@scale delivery model, where business and technology teams operate cohesively in pods with a unified mission to deliver value for the company. Employees working on significant technology projects are recognized as Digital Transformation change agents.

The team places a strong emphasis on service partnerships and employee engagement with a commitment to advancing equity and supporting communities. In fostering an inclusive culture, the team values individuals passionate about learning and growing with technology, exemplified by the "Work with Heart" philosophy, emphasizing results over facetime. Those intrigued by the prospect of contributing to the digital transformation journey of a Fortune 500 company are encouraged to explore more details about the function through the provided Link

Purpose of the role

General Mills, Digital and Technology India, is seeking a Sr Data Scientist to join the Data Science team. Data Scientists within our team are dedicated to build enterprise intelligent automations and enable ML solutions on various use cases including but not limited to demand forecasting, text classification, operational analytics, logistics optimization, price optimization, ecommerce, and market mix modelling. They are also responsible for curating a community of practice to determine the best standards and practices around data science at General Mills.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Deliver on business problems:

• Partners with business stakeholders to deliver value add insights and intelligent solutions through ML and AI.
• Collaborates with ML engineers and systems engineers to ensure the models are deployed in a scaled and optimized way. Additionally ensure support the post-production to ensure model performance degrades are proactively managed.
• Expected to be an expert in the business domain spaces to understand and interact with the business stakeholders.
• Provide consultation and review the deliveries for the junior data scientists.
• Recognizes opportunities to apply external industry trends and implements them within role.
• Is considered an expert in at least one of functional areas; brings together business knowledge, resources, people, and technology to create more effective solutions.

Consultation:

• Lead Interactions with stakeholders to learn on problem statement and drive results.
• Be an advocate for data science team.
• Constructively challenge the other data scientists on approach
• Contribute to best practices as we evaluate new platforms, tools and pipelines.
• Mentor Jr. Data Scientist / Interns / Contractors • Collaborate with analytic leaders across functions.

Stakeholder Management

• Manage the assigned priorities, consistency of execution and managing resources.
• Develop trust and credibility with business leaders.
• Educate stakeholders on the GCP analytic practices.
• Closely collaborates with the stakeholders on projects and data science leaders to ensure practices are developed and enhanced to support accelerated analytic development and maintainability.

Collaboration:

• Works on problems of diverse scope.
• Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques.
• Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise.
• Lead research work to new analytic trends aligned to business.
• Demonstrates learning agility and ability to apply to work.
• Leverage and contribute to new open-source innovation

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

(Expertise in Section-2 and exposure to Section-1)

Section-1- Expertise in AI/ML OR Operations Research

• Expertise in supervised ML algorithms, regression, decision trees, ensemble models, time series, forecasting, neural networks
• Proven implementation of ML and AI practices
• Exposure to unsupervised learning and NLP
• Technical concepts and platforms- MLOps, Containerization, Data Lineage and Visualization.
• Proficiency on Google Cloud Platform, SQL, Python and R

Operations Research

• Experienced in constructing and solving Linear, Mixed integer, Constraint and nonlinear programming problems
• Must have hands on experience in solving large scale enterprise level optimization problems and knows how to optimize run time and memory utilization while solving large scale problem.
• Should be comfortable in designing own heuristic algorithms or implementing any known heuristic approach.
• Have worked in areas like network optimization, cutting stock, knapsack kind of problems
• Must have worked in at least a couple of major commercial/open source OR tools and software like python, Google OR tools, IBM Ilog Cplex, Gurobi, AIMMS, FICO express etc.

Other expertise and experience

• Minimum qualification- bachelor’s degree (full time)
• Total analytics experience required 10-12 Years.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science/Statistics/Applied
• Mathematics/Operations research/Industrial engineering from Tier 1 institute.
• 5+ years in a supply chain analytics with strong understanding of supply chain operations inventory management, manufacturing, and distribution
• Proficiency in FMCG/CPG domain
• Experience working with an Agile development methodology featuring sprints, point estimation and daily stand-ups.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and storytelling skills

Expert Level

• Domain: CPG
• Google Cloud Platform – VertexAI, BQ, Composer
• ML supervised algorithms
• LP/MIP mathematical modelling
• FMCG/CPG domain
• Python, SQL

Intermediate Level

• MLOps
• Google Cloud Architecture

Basic

• Deep Learning

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.