Fonterra Brands (Singapore) Pte. Ltd – Data Scientist Intern

Background

Global Foodservice is one of the focus areas for Fonterra. We have a large Emerging Asia footprint and built up market leading positions in the markets we play in. To help enable our double-digit growth strategy we are looking for a data scientist intern to support us in building a Competitive Intelligence & Market Dynamics hub.

The role will be tasked to support the Global Data Analytics Manager to build Business Intelligence expertise within our foodservice business and build a stronger understanding of consumers and customers.

Role Accountabilities:

- You will work on every aspect of the data pipeline — from the building and maintaining information systems to research, analysis, and presentation. You will leverage data to impact the organization’s most significant decisions.

-Focus on creatively collecting external, unstructured & semi-structured data

-Work with diverse, large, and complex datasets to solve dynamic and challenging problems

-Driving scalable, repeatable processes with existing tools (creating efficiency through collaboration)

-Perform statistical analysis and modelling

-Communicate and presenting findings

-Develop impactful reports, presentations, and ongoing deliverables

-Collaborate on new research opportunities across various functions

What we offer:

-Gain deep understanding of real-life projects that can significantly impact the business

-An opportunity to obtain practical insights into how large MNCs are run

-We will actively coach you on your data translator skills - to go from ‘geek-speak’ to people-speak in a way that is engaging to different levels of the organization

-Learn from a senior team which will help to develop your skills and competencies

-Get to understand B2B strategy execution and build deep knowledge of consumer and Customer trends

-Contribute to meaningful work that will be rolled out in Fonterra’s global markets

-Learn different data story-telling ways to bring life to your insights, and how you can tailor your approach by audience and format

 Key Project: Development of Competitive Intelligence & Market Dynamics hub

You will help us to discover the information hidden in vast amounts of data in order to make smarter decisions to service our customers better.

• As an Intern, you will use statistics and machine learning to power product and business decisions at scale
• Data mining using state-of-the-art methods
• Extending company’s data with third party sources of information when needed
• Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
• Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner
• Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance

Key Skills & Attitude:

-Currently pursuing Bachelor's or Masters in Mathematics/ Statistics/ Computer Science/ Econometrics or any other related discipline at a local University in Singapore.

-Curious mindset with an interest in honing your business acumen

-Self-motivated and works well in a fast-paced environment

-Experience with technical tools for analysis — Python (with Pandas, etc.), R, SQL, etc.; Python skills and previous software engineering background a plus

-Some experience with database systems, data wrangling and data visualization (Tableau)

-Able to confidently apply, interpret & translate statistical analyses into compelling and actionable recommendations

-Able to speak and write fluent English, Bonus – Mandarin

-Eligibility to work in Singapore is a must.

Note:

• Only students who are able to commit for the entire period of internship from 
• 4thJanuary to 30th June 2021 will be considered. 
• Selected student will be required to apply for a “Leave of Absence” to complete this internship.