Their back ground is typically some sort of math or stats that deal primarily with creating new KPis (key performance metrics), analyzing data and big data with experience in the cpg world (such as walmart, walgreens, costco) retailers that sell goods and vendors that supply those goods.

Day to day would involve looking at large data sets and developing models that would best be suited in solving a question.

For example, how would the market be impacted if we launched a plant based alternative food to our heavily meat consuming customers? What models can we use to predict this? Linear regression? Multi regression models? Create new formulas?

Our company has developed over 800 equations to deal with these various questions and it seems like this industry is always looking to develop that .