Operations Research Scientist Internship
Framingham, MA

Job Description

Description

Position Summary

The Research Scientist Intern is responsible for supporting research, development, and deployment of advanced analytics-based applications at Staples such as transportation network optimization, vehicle routing, demand/capacity forecasting, pricing/promotion analytics.

Primary Responsibilities

* Work closely with key business partners to understand business and operation challenges. Apply analytical methods to solve them, resulting in a significant, positive impact on the Staples' bottom-line.
* Identify and monitor key performance levers for important initiatives to ensure that we can exceed performance and cost targets.
* Develop tools (reporting, visualization, and planning) and deploy them for use by functional teams to support strategic and tactical initiatives.
* Work closely with database developers and architects to build data models to develop a framework to enable a data driven problem solving environment.
* Research, design, and implement data models and innovative algorithms to analyze diverse sources of data to realize actionable results.
* Communicate results to executive leadership.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

* Pursuing PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Applied Physics or related fields.
* Hands-on experience with mathematical modeling and optimization techniques.
* Familiarity with machine learning, data mining and statistical inference.
* Hands-on experience with querying databases to drive required analysis independently and swiftly.
* Excellent ability to communicate complex quantitative analysis in a clear, precise, and actionable manner to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
* Keen attention to details and ability to dive deep.

Preferred Qualifications:

* Experience in building analytical models: optimization, statistical and machine learning.
* Experience with demand/capacity forecasting.

Additional Requirements

* The ability to think big, manage ambiguity to move quickly and deliver results in an entrepreneurial environment.
* Fearless but thoughtful in their pursuit of results.
* Flexible, resourceful and easily adaptable to changes in environment and prioritization.

Staples is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.

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