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Depending upon the desired qualifications of the successful applicant, the hiring manager may elect to fill this position at a higher level within the job hierarchy.

The Strategy & Analytics Consultant will be responsible for supporting each of our Supply Chain Groups in meeting their analytical, decision-making, reporting, and metrics requirements.The successful candidate will serve as an expert in translating complex data into value-adding business insights and actionable findings. This work involves discovering business narratives told by the data and presenting them to business stakeholders and Supply Chain leaders by:

• Performing data exploration and data mining

• Developing and testing heuristics

• Creating and running analytical models

• Communicating results and conclusions in both written and oral presentation formats

• Creating business intelligence, dashboards, visualizations, and/or other advanced analytics reports to adequately tell the business narrative and offer recommendations that are practiced, actionable, and have material impact, in addition to being well-supported by analytical models and data.

• Identify unique opportunities to collect new data.

• Design new processes and build large, complex data sets.

• Strategize new uses for data and its interaction with data design.

• Locate new data sources, analyze statistics and implement quality procedures.

• Perform data studies of new and diverse data sources.

• Find new uses for existing data sources.

• Conduct statistical modeling and experiment design.

• Test and validate predictive models.

• Build web prototypes and performs data visualization.

• Conduct scalable data research on and off the cloud.

• Implement automated processes for efficiently producing scale models.

• Design, modify and build new data processes.

• Generate algorithms and create computer models.

• Collaborate with database engineers and other scientists.

• Implement new or enhanced software designed to access and handle data more efficiently.

• Train the data services center team on new or updated procedures

• Extract key observations and insights from internal and external data sources to support decision-making

• Data exploration, cleansing, validation and testing in order to optimize processes and discover value

• Collaborate with stakeholders, business partners, colleagues, developers, and business analysts to deliver high quality value-adding analytics solutions

• Deliver effective presentations of findings and recommendations to multiple levels of stakeholders, creating visual displays of quantitative information

• Support in the development and maintenance of automated applications, tools and processes

Note: This posting is for one position. Dependent on relevant experience, the level to which a candidate is aligned is outlined below.

• Bachelors Degree in Economics, Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Statistic or related degree and 5+ years related work experience

• OR High School/GED degree and 9+ years related work experience

Basic/Required Qualifications (Lead Consultant)

• Masters Degree and 5+ years related work experience

• OR High School/GED degree and 12+ years related work experience

Desired Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics or related degree

• Strong intellectual curiosity and affinity for numbers

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as the ability to bridge the gap between data science and business management

• Experience writing queries and developing data visualization tools for mining and synthesizing large datasets (e.g. Python, SQL, SAS, R, Power BI, etc.)

• Demonstrated problem solving, decision making and attention to detail skills

• Working knowledge of statistics, programming and predictive modeling

• Previous experience working in data mining or natural language processing

• Experience in leading change management and affecting positive organizational, process or culture change

• Strong understanding of and ability to use programming languages (e.g. Python, SQL, SAS, R, Power BI, etc.)

• Demonstrated leadership skills

• Previous experience in supply chain strategy and/or analytics groups

• Strong organizational and prioritization skills and ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment

• Strong critical thinking skills and the ability to relate them to the products or services the company is producing

• Strong knowledge of basic and advanced prediction models

• Data mining knowledge that spans a range of disciplines

• Strong exploratory analysis skills

• Exceptional organizational skills and is detail oriented

• Mastery of statistics, machine learning, algorithms and advanced mathematics

• Demonstrated high proficiency developing Microsoft Power Platform solutions, including Power Apps and Power Automate

• Demonstrated high proficiency developing Kofax RPA solutions

• In depth knowledge of data and processes related to Real Estate and Land Services

• In depth knowledge of data and processes related to Supply Chain functions

Working Conditions

• Virtual Mobility Classification- Work will be performed from a remote location after the onboarding period. However, virtual employees should live within a reasonable commute to the assigned Duke Energy facility.

• The assigned work location will be at one of the Duke Energy locations in North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, or Florida

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