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The Position
Role: Senior Data Scientist
Location: Hyderabad / Chennai
Years of Experience: 6+ years
A healthier future. It's what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love.
That's what makes us Roche.
Mission
Roche has established the Global Analytics and Technology Center of Excellence (GATE) to drive analytics- and technology-driven solutions by partnering with Roche affiliates across the globe. GATE enables data-led decision-making and innovation across healthcare and biotech operations
You will work closely with the U.S. Strategic Customer Support Consulting team dedicated to Roche's most important diagnostic customers — large reference laboratories, hospital networks, and integrated health systems. The team's mandate is to help these customers run more resilient, efficient, and cost-effective supply chain operations.
Your Opportunity
As the Senior Data Scientist in this team, you will own the forecasting, optimization, and machine learning work that underpins our customer engagements. You will inherit and evolve an existing production forecasting engine, harden it for scale across accounts, and extend it into a broader supply chain optimization framework. You will also provide recommendations and strategic support on other various customer supply chain initiatives, related to forecasting, optimization and machine learning.
This is a hybrid technical–consultative role. Roughly half your impact will come from the depth and rigor of the models you build; the other half will come from your ability to sit across the table from a senior customer stakeholder, understand their operational reality, and convert a model output into a decision they act on.
Experience in Gen AI, LLM, NLP, and ML Ops will be considered an added advantage, supporting Roche's future-ready analytics and AI roadmap.
How You'll Work
You will be part of a wider data and analytics community at Roche, and your best work will happen in partnership with it. You will collaborate closely with our product and visualization teams to make sure the models you build reach business and customer teams as clear, usable views — translating forecasts, inventory recommendations, and risk signals into the reports and interfaces people actually work from. You must operate well with ambiguity and changing priorities.
Key Responsibilities:
Serve as the data science lead on strategic consulting engagements for Roche's top diagnostic customers, partnering with consultants and account teams from problem framing through to delivered impact
Engage directly with business consultants — primarily through virtual forums, to scope problems, test hypotheses, and align on success measures
Translate customer supply chain pain points — stockouts, over-ordering, bottlenecks, working capital lock-up, erratic consumption, expiry and wastage — into well-posed modelling problems, and then into deployed, usable solutions
Deliver consumption forecasting and replenishment recommendations at the customer account level, helping customers order the right quantity at the right time, and helping Roche plan against real downstream demand
Work internally with other technology teams to ensure solutions built can be used throughout the transition to ASPIRE and other similar system changes (i.e. Agility/ARID migration to Snowflake, Google to Microsoft)
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