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Data Scientist

Marmon Holdings · Carol Stream, IL · Full time

Posted Aug 24, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about a time you turned a vague business question into an analytical project with a clear answer.

What they are checking: Whether they can translate commercial questions into analysis that leaders can act on.

Tell me about a time your analysis was wrong or misused. What happened next?

What they are checking: Honesty and how they protect decisions from bad analysis.

What would you do

How do you decide between a simple model a stakeholder understands and a complex one that scores a bit better?

What they are checking: Whether they value decision-ready, explainable results over leaderboard accuracy.

A sales leader disagrees with your recommendation because it goes against their experience. How do you handle it?

What they are checking: Whether they can persuade with evidence and respect field knowledge at the same time.

About the work

Walk me through how you would build a pricing model for foodservice equipment and parts.

What they are checking: Whether they can handle price elasticity, deal data and business constraints in a usable model.

How would you model equipment lifecycle performance to predict when customers will need service or replacement?

What they are checking: Their approach to survival or failure modeling, which supports aftermarket and service growth.

What would you look for in customer data to spot churn or upsell opportunities?

What they are checking: Whether they can find customer behavior signals that matter for go-to-market decisions.

Commercial, operational and customer data rarely line up cleanly. How do you join and trust them?

What they are checking: Their data wrangling discipline when integrating messy enterprise sources.

How would you use generative AI tools responsibly in a commercial analytics team?

What they are checking: Whether they see real uses for AI-enabled solutions and know the risks with data and accuracy.

How do you take a model from a notebook into something the business can use every week?

What they are checking: Whether they can make solutions scalable instead of producing one-off analyses.

How do you measure whether a pricing change actually worked?

What they are checking: Their understanding of testing and causal measurement, since many things change at once.

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The full job description

As published by Marmon Holdings.

Marmon Foodservice Technologies, Inc. As a part of the global industrial organization Marmon Holdings—which is backed by Berkshire Hathaway— you’ll be doing things that matter, leading at every level, and winning a better way. We’re committed to making a positive impact on the world, providing you with diverse learning and working opportunities, and fostering a culture where everyone’s empowered to be their best. About the Job This role is a core contributor within the Commercial Analytics organization, supporting enterprise-level decision making across pricing, equipment lifecycle performance, customer behavior, and commercial strategy. The Data Scientist partners closely with Commercial Analytics leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to convert business questions into advanced analytical, machine learning, and AI-enabled solutions. By combining strong quantitative rigor with the ability to translate insights into practical recommendations, this role strengthens the Commercial Analytics function’s mandate to deliver scalable, decision-ready intelligence that drives growth, profitability, and continuous improvement across the commercial lifecycle. This role plays a critical part in advancing analytics across pricing, service/aftermarket, and go-to-market (GTM) decisioning. By integrating commercial, operational, and customer data, this role enables a more connected, end-to-end view of the commercial lifecycle—supporting data-driven decisions across acquisition, utilization, service, and replacement. This role is subject to our hybrid work model: we collaborate in the office on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. The rest of the week, you have flexibility to work wherever it suits you best. What You’ll Do • Translate business requirements into analytical, machine learning, and GenAI / Agentic AI solutions, ensuring outputs are decision-ready, actionable, and accurate. • Integrate and analyze large, complex datasets from multiple disparate internal and external sources, ensuring data quality, consistency, and analytical rigor. • Design and automate predictive, explanatory, and optimization models, including forecasting, segmentation, and scenario modeling. • Partner with stakeholders to define KPIs, success metrics, and measurement frameworks that align analytics with business outcomes. • Develop and test project-specific data engineering pipelines via API inputs, ingestion/clean-up scripts, for use in visualizations and explanatory, predictive, and optimized models. Act as key SME partner for IT Data Engineering team to seamlessly hand-off proposed pipeline structure for inclusion in enterprise Data Lake/Data Warehouse as needed. • Develop, deploy, and maintain statistical, machine learning, and AI-enabled models to solve business problems across pricing, lifecycle performance, customer behavior, operations, and commercial strategy. • Leverage generative AI and agent-based approaches to accelerate insight generation, pattern detection, and analytical workflows. • Communicate complex analytical findings clearly through dashboards, visualizations, and executive level presentations using tools such as Power Bi or similar platforms. • Collaborate with analytics, data engineering, and business teams to continuously improve analytical systems, models, and processes. Who You Are • Business Translator: You can bridge technical depth and business context, converting data science outputs into clear recommendations. • Innovative Thinker: You seek out new tools, methods, and AI-enabled approaches to improve insight generation and decision-making. • Quick Learner: You rapidly absorb new concepts and technologies, adapting easily to changing environments and priorities. • Collaborative Partner: You work effectively across functions and communicate confidently with technical and non-technical audiences. • Self-Directed: You take ownership of problems end-to-end and continuously look for opportunities to improve models, processes, and outcomes. • Analytical and Quantitative: You bring strong statistical, mathematical, and problem-solving skills to complex and ambiguous business questions. Skills / Experience We’re Looking For • Ability to design analytical approaches that align with business objectives, constraints, and success metrics. • Strong foundation in statistics, probability, and quantitative analysis, including descriptive and inferential techniques. • Familiarity with Generative AI and agent-based AI concepts and their application to business analytics and decision support. Hands‑on usage of Microsoft Copilot tools (e.g., Copilot for M365, Copilot Studio, or embedded Copilot experiences) to accelerate analysis, code generation, and insight synthesis, and embed AI‑assisted analytics into business workflows • Experience working within the Microsoft data (Fabric, PowerBI) and AI stack (Azure AI, Azure Machine Learning, AI Foundry) • Proficiency in data visualization and storytelling using Power BI, others. • Experience working with real world, imperfect datasets and applying sound data preparation and feature engineering techniques. • Experience with MS Azure or MS Fabric being a plus, or any cloud-computing environment. • Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills with the ability to influence decision makers. Required Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field. Master’s Degree holders encouraged. • Advanced proficiency in Python for data analysis, modeling, and automation. Strong experience building and validating machine learning models using Python/R and libraries such as pandas, scikit‑learn, or equivalent. • Strong SQL skills for querying, joining, and optimizing large relational datasets • Experience in data‑driven analytics or data science roles, applying quantitative methods to business problems and translating business requirements into analytical solutions. Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and employer sponsorship of visas is not available. Benefits We support your wellbeing with comprehensive and easy-to-use benefits that you’ll be eligible to enroll in on your first day of employment. Here are some of the highlights: • Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription Drug insurance plans • Access to a Health Advocate who is an expert in Marmon’s health plan • Tax-advantaged spending accounts for health and dependent care expenses • Wellness programs including Telehealth, Mental Health, Fitness, and Family Planning • Generous paid time off, holidays, and parental leave • Company-sponsored life insurance • 401(k) with fully vested company match; Marmon may also make an additional annual discretionary contribution to your account, whether or not you contribute on your own • Financial and retirement advising About Marmon Holdings Marmon Holdings, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway company, comprises 11 groups and more than 100 autonomous businesses with total annual revenue of $10 billion. Marmon’s 28,000-plus team members are celebrating the company's 70th anniversary in 2023 and helping write the next chapter of Marmon's story. Pay Range: 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 We offer a comprehensive benefits package that may include medical, dental, vision, 401k matching, and more! Following receipt of a conditional offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete additional job-related screening processes as permitted or required by applicable law . We are an equal opportunity employer, and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to their membership in any protected class. If you require any reasonable accommodation to complete your application or any part of the recruiting process, please email your request to careers@marmon.com, and please be sure to include the title and the location of the position for which you are applying.

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