Data Scientist

Our Marketing, Sales & Service organization advances Ford’s reputation as a visionary vehicle and mobility services company and helps deliver a trusted customer experience. Use your marketing, sales, and service expertise to turn data-driven insights into innovative solutions that enhance sales and customer loyalty. Join us and be the eyes, ears, and voice of Ford.

The Yield Management (YM) team supports all Ford Blue, Model e, and Ford Pro product lines and tackles the ~5 highest priority strategic and profit projects each quarter. The team works in “Value Sprints” with a dedicated team focused against a specific mandate for a dedicated period of time. The team applies problem-solving framework and leverages advanced analytics to derive insights and deliver tangible recommendations to create value for Ford.

Yield Management’s project portfolio aims to deliver a balance of:

• Near term vehicle line specific profit improvement or risk mitigation actions
• New or expanded enterprise capabilities
• Long term portfolio optimizations

This Yield Management position operates cross-functionally across Marketing & Sales, Brand, Product Marketing, General Management, GDI&A, Finance, & Ford Credit. Data Scientists come from a range of different backgrounds and work on specific “sprints” typically for 6-8 weeks.

This role is at the intersection of strategy, operations, and analytics, and is tasked with creating change and maximizing profits in the Ford+ plan. The immediate working team is highly collaborative and fast-paced. This is a high-exposure role with ongoing interaction with leadership across Ford Blue, Model e, and Ford Pro.

As a Data Scientist, you will perform analysis and modeling as part of Yield Management Scope:
Profit optimization & decision analysis, vehicle line demand estimation, price sensitivity analysis, counter-factual modeling, and hypothesis testing.

In sprints, Data Scientists are responsible for:

• Accessing and analyzing data to develop solutions, including leveraging advanced analytics tools and building ad-hoc data models
• Applying structured problem-solving mindset to sprints
• Considering enterprise-wide impact and sensitivity of sprint recommendations
  
  Communicating analysis insights and implications of sprint recommendations
• Apply and integrate latest analytical tools developed by Yield Management Advanced Analytics modeling team
• Assist in preparing presentations and reports for management and business customers

Additionally, Data Scientists support:

• Establishing the sprint mandate and problem statement with key stakeholders
• Leading analysis and developing insights and implications of decisions
• Delivering clear and actionable recommendations

• Bachelors degree Computer Science, Economics, Analytics, Business, Strategy, Finance, Mathematics/Statistics or related field
• 5+ years of relevant experience in Computer Science, Economics, Analytics, Business, Strategy, Finance, or related field
• 3+ years of various modeling methodologies, including economics, econometrics, statistics, data mining; be able to explain to a non-technical audience the results of your work
• 3+ years of experience working in Microsoft Excel and Power Point
• 3+ years in python and Database languages such as SQL

• MBA or PhD degree in Statistics, Economics, Computer Science in an appropriate field of study
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and programming/statistical software utilizing large datasets
• Knowledge of Marketing & Sales, including exposure to some combination of go-to-market strategy, brand marketing, field ops, sales, variable marketing, pricing, allocation, production, or supply chain
• Fast learning, hands on, aspirational and curious in technical excellence and innovation; have a lifetime learning attitude
• Be able to make reasonable judgment and conclusion with limited information and resources; be able to quickly convert a real business requirement into a solvable modeling problem, sort out relevant information, and judge the solution against business reality
• Executive communication experience (written and verbal)

As an established global company, we…