Senior Data Scientist

About Seven Senders

Seven Senders is the leading delivery platform to ship parcels. The company connects shippers with its carrier network of over 100 carriers in Europe, enabling them to use excellent local shipping as a competitive advantage. With additional delivery services such as Claims Center, Insurance, Return Portal and Labels, Seven Senders makes international shipping a simple matter. Automated shipping notifications, tracking and monitoring solutions ensure a transparent shipping process. Monthly reports and analyses enable data-based optimization of international shipping performance. Shippers receive everything from a single source and reduce complexity. 

Position

The business intelligence team at Seven Senders aims at providing the basis for a truly data-driven company. 

In our data warehouse we combine and model internal and external data from a multitude of data sources along the 7S supply chain for further internal and external consumption, advanced intelligence and process automation.  

You will

In your role as Senior Data Scientist, you will bring us to the next level in terms of speaking data. As such, you will be responsible for building up data science capabilities within the business intelligence team as well as leading and implementing data science projects. You will report directly to the Head of Business Intelligence.

• Scoping, leading, and executing data science projects (incl. stakeholder management and communications)
• Performing hands-on work to build integrated data sets, analyse data sources (ML/AI), and build compelling visualizations
• Work on a variety of data science projects with business impact in the area of logistics (e.g. quantity and time-related forecasting) 
• Take ownership for the whole project from idea to further optimization until go-live
• Providing technical advice on analytics projects
• Visualising and communicating results (e.g. in interactive dashboards)
• Presenting results to project stakeholders, including c-level
• Sharing knowledge, contributing to drive change within the digital network, presentations and communications within the digital community, dissemination of best practices (patterns), etc.

Your qualification

• At least 5 years of previous experience in Business Intelligence at a senior  level
• Proven experience in leading and executing data science projects
• Experience in understanding, structuring and integrating data 
• Experience using inferential statistics/machine learning
• Significant working experience in Python
• Very good command of English in speaking and writing (German not required)
• Good communication skills
• Curiosity for data and data-driven decisions, interest in business problem solving, creativity

Will be a plus

• Previous experience in e-commerce or logistics
• Experience in BI reporting tools (e.g. Looker, Tableau)

What we offer

• Flexible working hours
• Your work will drive the growth of a very successful startup towards Europe’s leading delivery platform
• Highly motivated and experienced team that wants to push boundaries
• Modern business intelligence tech stack (Snowflake, Looker, Talend, AWS)
• Rapidly growing, multi-national team with long-term prospects
• A lively startup atmosphere in the heart of Berlin (including kicker and rooftop terrace)
• Personal development and conferences budget
• Free in-house Academy for your professional development
• Relocation support
• The latest Hardware and OS
• Other perks like free drinks, sweets, fruits, weekly tapas and great team events