Job Location: Minneapolis, MN
Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill’s global team of 155,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights and over 154 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive.
Your Internship
Gain real experience. Learn from the best. See how your work matters.
Our internships are designed to prepare you for your career journey, not a final destination. When you join our team, you are welcomed into a community committed to providing you with a safe environment to learn, grow and cultivate your skills. With our expansive learning resources, our well-respected leaders, and our carefully curated development courses, you will be equipped to confidently solve tomorrow’s global issues. And, truthfully, our future relies on you. Your innovative minds, your intentional collaboration, and your sincere desire to nourish the world. Your work may be local, but at Cargill, your impact will be global. Join our community to cultivate your curiosity, develop meaningful relationships and propel your career.
Data Scientist Internship
The Data Scientist Intern will work on multidisciplinary teams to develop proof of concepts, minimum viable products and fully deployable solutions. In this role, you will create innovative predictive models that will deliver significant value to our businesses.
Strategic Pricing Center of Excellence is a central team that works with Cargill’s various Food Ingredients and Bio-industrial (FIBI) businesses. Our mandate is to elevate Strategic Pricing capabilities and practices for FIBI businesses. As part of this, we aim to develop predictive pricing models leveraging Cargill’s vast data supply. To accomplish this, we are looking to build a team of data scientists who will drive this exciting journey.
As a Data Scientist intern within the Strategic Pricing Center of Excellence, you will work with pricing and other commercial teams, IT, and other data scientists to develop predictive pricing models that enable value-based pricing across Cargill. You will work on a multidisciplinary and collaborative team exploring, connecting and mining data. You will be working on projects that use statistical modeling and machine learning techniques to develop accurate and robust value-based pricing models.
Your Work
- Design decision making solutions and build tools globally relating to fundamental and non-fundamental influences on price levels of food ingredient products and commodity markets
- Develop scalable machine learning components to generalize models to other data sources and product groups
- Lead the discovery and prototyping of new quantitative pricing models and strategies
- Benchmark and back test models to gauge accuracy
- Maintain and enhance code repository
- Liaison with software development teams and business users to guide development of user-friendly pricing software
- Coordinate with the pricing teams on the model’s correct usage to validate conclusions and improvement opportunities
- Other duties as assigned
Our Programming
- With comprehensive learning resources at your disposal, you can take your learning in any direction.
- As employees, interns receive access to volunteer and community outreach opportunities and paid time off for volunteer activities.
- Throughout the internship, interns and co-ops are invited to participate in events that will give exposure to leadership, provide development opportunities, and offer the ability to network with cross-functional interns/co-ops across the U.S.
Internship Details
- Internships are typically 12 weeks in duration.
- Interns are paid hourly for time worked.
- Interns are responsible for transportation to and from work.
- Interns may have the opportunity to travel during their term.
- Interns who demonstrate outstanding performance and a curiosity to learn more may be offered an internship, co-op or full-time position to return the following year.
Our Benefits
No matter who you are or where you are, we have resources to meet your needs. As an intern, you’ll have access to a wide variety of programs to support you and help you thrive. Eligible programs and incentives include:
- Paid time off
- Mental Health and Wellbeing program
- Digital Learning Library
- Housing and Relocation Assistance for those that qualify
Our Network
Your development is our priority. With our outstanding global network, you will establish relationships, acquire mentors, and build your professional contacts. Our program encourages and orchestrates networking opportunities that will benefit you now and in your future career. During the internship, you will also receive consistent support from university recruiting staff, mentors, colleagues, and your supervisor.
Our Vibrant Community
At Cargill, you will be a part of our vibrant global community with a culture that celebrates diversity. This is a reflection of the clients we serve and generates an intellectually diverse set of employees. Business Resource Groups (BRGs) help us embrace our diversity, make our culture more inclusive and enhance our employees’ outstanding talents and perspectives to benefit our organization and employees.
Our U.S. Business Resource Groups Include
Asian Alliance Network, Cargill Young Professionals Network, Cargill Ability Network (iCAN), Cargill Ebony Council, Group Responsible for Orienting and Welcoming (GROW), Hispanic-Latino Council, Cargill Pride Network, Veterans & Military Support Network, and Cargill Women’s Network.
Job Locations:
- Wayzata, MN or Remote
- Home/Office Setting
Required Qualifications
- Right to work in the U.S. that is not based solely on possession of a student visa or a visa sponsored by a third-party employer
- Currently pursuing a Master’s degree from an accredited program in Data Science, Math, Econometrics, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Quant Finance or related degree
- Must be graduating between December 2023 and June 2024
- Must have a minimum of 2 years work experience in data science and/or data analytics
- Able to complete a 12-week internship in the summer (May/June – August 2023)
- Ability to commit to 40 hours a week
- Candidates must be geographically flexible and willing to relocate for an internship opportunity anywhere in the U.S.
- Proven ability to work optimally with individuals from a diverse set of backgrounds and cultures
- Strong problem-solving, statistics background and programming skills, preferably Python
- Knowledge of machine learning applications
- Proven ability to work optimally with individuals from a diverse set of backgrounds and cultures
- Must possess a high degree of initiative and resourcefulness in completing work with limited guidance
- Business proficiency in English
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior hands-on experience with predictive modeling
- Strong SQL skills
- Experience working with an international team
- Experience with Salesforce.com/CPQ and Statistical Pricing Optimization tools
- Experience using database, BI, and analytical tools
- Business proficiency in languages other than English
Cargill highly encourages vaccinations but does not mandate at this time. Upon hire, you will be asked to provide your vaccination status, and if unvaccinated or if you choose not to disclose, you would be expected to follow Cargill’s safety protocols for unvaccinated employees (i.e., mask mandates, and social distancing).
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.
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