{"id":3825458,"url":"https://alion.io/job/general-mills-data-scientist-ii-analytics-engine-optimization","title":"Data Scientist II, Analytics Engine Optimization","company":{"id":93250,"name":"General Mills","domain":"generalmills.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/general-mills","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":97,"open_postings":15,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0.2,"time_to_fill_p50_days":37,"computed_at":"2026-11-06T05:58:05Z"}},"role":"Data Science","role_family":"Data Science","seniority":"middle","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Mumbai, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"A/B Testing","optional":false},{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Alteryx","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Tableau","optional":false},{"name":"Talend","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-05T18:18:59Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-05","last_verified_at":"2026-11-06T05:04:59Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"COMPANY OVERVIEW\nWe exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best - bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one another and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.\n\nJOB OVERVIEW\nThe “Insights and Analytics” organization within General Mills’ Strategy and Growth function is responsible to deliver integrated consumer, customer, category, and business performance insights to power smarter, faster decisions and next-best actions, enabling precision in brand strategies, campaign execution, media and investment optimization across our US businesses and brands. The Insights and Analytics org has integrated teams operating from our Minneapolis and India offices. This is a newly created Data Scientist II role within our Analytics Engine Optimization org and will be based in our India office.\nPurpose of the role\nAs a Data Scientist II on the Analytics Engine Optimization team, you will be responsible for conducting analysis, applying statistical and mathematical techniques, and developing models to support digital marketing measurement and investment optimization across our global portfolio. The role will measure and analyze digital, investment, and sales data to evaluate marketing effectiveness, support optimization efforts, and serve as the Marketing Analytics SME. In this role you will partner across Insights & Analytics, The Agency, Digital & Technology, Sales, Finance, Operating Units (OUs), and Business Units (BUs) to leverage Data and Advanced Analytics to solve problems and implement key initiatives.\nWe are looking for candidates with strong Data Science, Measurement, and Marketing expertise with a passion to solve complex problems. You will work on projects with high impact and create a new generation of products, tools and capability within an Agile environment. The role will also have exposure to many functions within the company and globally to gain a unique perspective on the business from marketing effectiveness lens.\nBased in the General Mills India Center (GIC), this role will operate as part of General Mills’ global model, with day-to-day work direction and priorities closely connected to U.S. based functional partners and managers.\nKEY ACCOUNTABILITIES\nPartner with marketing and business stakeholders to define analytical problems, success criteria, data requirements, and measurable business outcomes.\nDevelop and implement data-driven solutions using advanced analytics and machine learning techniques to measure marketing effectiveness.\nBuild, validate, and maintain causal inference pipelines and measurement strategies such as Marketing Mix Models.\nCreate statistical and machine learning models to quantify the campaigns and interactions that affect consumers’ purchase behavior.\nBuild statistical model-based Omni-channel marketing solutions to optimize investment and maximize impact across different channels.\nDevelop attribution model solutions to optimize the delivery and timing of marketing initiatives across different channels and audiences.\nDesign, recommend, and measure statistically proven A/B tests by applying best practices.\nCommunicate insights, model outputs, and recommendations clearly to non-technical audience.\nPartner with third-party vendors/agencies to define measurement strategy. Ensure the necessary data will be available at the right level to enable evaluation and optimization of marketing programs.\nConstruct production ready, reusable, large scale or scalable complex optimization, simulation & machine learning models that provide real time insights aligning with General Mills Data Science standards.\n Contribute to existing Data Science projects and initiatives.\nDevelop forecasts and build simulation models to predict the outcome of complex and real-world scenarios.\nResponsible for monitoring and improvement of model performance metrics in terms of accuracy, optimal near optimal recommendations with feedback incorporated from business partners.\nUnderstand both current uses and future state of promotional planning/optimization at General Mills, capture ongoing needs, and support integration with existing systems, data sets, reports.\nProvide thought leadership and apply creative analytical solutions to ad-hoc projects.\n Possess R&D mindset by prototyping and carrying out tests.\n Influence, educate, and train the organization to adopt new processes and systems\nVet Analytics components with 3rd-party tools, evaluating their performance and providing recommendations to help drive procurement decisions.\nMix analytical insights with business knowledge to build solutions that work in the real world\nMINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS\nBachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Physics, or related quantitative discipline\nMinimum years of relevant experience in Data Science, Modeling, and Advanced Analytics\nExpertise in problem-solving including experience/knowledge of statistical measurement, forecasting, and econometrics\nWorking knowledge in statistical algorithms, predictive modeling techniques, especially Regression, Bayesian, Classification, Boosting, and Optimization models\nStrong SQL skills\nExpertise level knowledge in Python or R\nWorking knowledge of relational databases and Cloud-based environment such as GCP\nExperience working data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau), and data integration platforms (e.g. Alteryx, Talend)\nExperience in Data Mining, building and working with APIs\nFamiliarity with Data Clean Room technology.\nProven knowledge and understanding of development in Agile environment\nExceptional Communication Skills - ability to clearly and simply communicate complex results to a wide range of audiences\nLearning agility - ability to work in white space to build new analytical processes and tools\nFamiliarity with syndicated data sets (Nielsen/IRI).\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS\nMaster’s Degree in a quantitative field\nExperience working within a marketing analytics agency, tech platform, or enterprise consumer brand\nExperience working in a large, matrixed organization with multiple concurrent stakeholders and priorities.\n\nELIGIBILITY\nApplicants must meet minimum age qualifications in the country in which the job is located.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6495,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"India","iso":"IN","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Snack Food","Pet Food, Supplies & Care","Frozen Food","FMCG & Consumer Brand Groups"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-05T18:18:59Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":37,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-06T05:58:05Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/general-mills-data-scientist-ii-analytics-engine-optimization","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/general-mills-data-scientist-ii-analytics-engine-optimization.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-06T06:54:01Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":12216,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-07T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":93250},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=93250"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fgeneral-mills-data-scientist-ii-analytics-engine-optimization"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fgeneral-mills-data-scientist-ii-analytics-engine-optimization"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fgeneral-mills-data-scientist-ii-analytics-engine-optimization"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/general-mills-data-scientist-ii-analytics-engine-optimization\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fgeneral-mills-data-scientist-ii-analytics-engine-optimization"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3825458}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"generalmills.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3825458},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}