Junior Data Scientist

Job description

Junior Data Scientist

“I want a direction to follow and challenges to stretch me”

Nestlé Research Center, Vers-chez-les-Blanc, Switzerland
6/8-months period of time contract, act. rate 100%

Nestlé Research Center (NRC) located near Lausanne, Switzerland is one of the leading research laboratories in food and nutritional sciences. With more than 600 collaborators from 50 nations, NRC has a strong position in the international scientific community supported further by more than 200 external scientific partnerships and University collaborations and 270 scientific publications each year (learn more about the NRC at www.research.nestle.com). NRC has an excellent reputation in food and nutrition research that has benefited consumers for over a century. By bringing together its knowledge in Nutrition and Health, Food Science, Food/Consumer Interaction, Food Quality and Safety, Nestlé opens the way to develop Good Food and Good Life: to offer tasty foods that procure health as well as pleasure for our consumers. In this global and multicultural environment, Nestlé, a food, nutrition, health and wellness company aims to work with the best scientists in the world.

To support its research strategy, the Food Safety and Quality competence pillar at the NRC is seeking a: Statiscian for Quality and Food Safety who will join the Statistics and Bioinformatics for Quality group and work closely with scientists in the statistics field.

The 6 month contract is a replacement of a maternity leave. It will consist in getting familiarized with the work of a statistician at Nestlé R&D, more specifically in the field of analytical method assessment and statistical modelling. The statistician will have to analyze data of ongoing projects, provide technical assitance on analytical method validation following internal guidelines and develop e-learnings based on the existing training material. The statistician will also participate to the development or improvement of existing approaches on analytical method assessment or chemometry, depending on his/her background.

Main responsibilities:

· Integrate the internal guidelines on method validation to be able to give statistical technical assistance in this field,

· Create e-learnings according to existing training material,

· Provide technical assistance at all stages of projects, from design to final report.

· Propose new approaches for statistics for Quality and Food Safety

Required profile:



· Master degree in Statistics or Chemometry,

· Interest for food products and interest for applying statistics to ensure the quality and safety of food products,

· Good knowledge of descriptive statistics and linear models,

· Skilled in R or Matlab,

· Good level of written and spoken English (French is an advantage).

Show us that you have strong initiative capabilities as well as your pro-active collaboration abilities. Your curiosity and capacity to be autonomous will be your main assets for this position. Your organizational skills and ability to work in an interdisciplinary environment will contribute strongly to you and our success. If you are interested, please apply in English at www.nestle.com/jobs

The Nestlé Group is the World's leading Nutrition, Health and Wellness Company with 88,8 billion Swiss Francs in sales in 2015, more than 335,000 employees worldwide and 436 factories in more than 85 countries. We offer an attractive and dynamic international working environment with constant opportunities for development, reflecting our conviction that people are our most important asset. Learn more about our Group and reasons to join us on www.nestle.com.