Data Scientist Location: North West
Industry: IT
Salary: £55000 - £62000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 27/08/2024
Data Scientist – Manchester, Hybrid
As a Data Scientist, you'll work within the Data Intelligence team to understand operational problems and priorities, gather business requirements, and design and deliver solutions. My client is a well-known finance company, and for this role, their major initiative is Personalised Credit Matching, which uses machine learning models throughout their customer-facing platform to identify the best product offers available to customers.
You'll be a member of a positive, forward-thinking team of data experts who deliver projects enabling the business to understand and predict business, partner, customer, and lender behaviour across all our business areas. You will learn and grow quickly in a highly dynamic team.
Key responsibilities for the Data Scientist role include: Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into effective Data Science projects, prioritised according to impact & business goals. Build an effective working relationship with chosen business areas to establish a strong ongoing understanding of their working methods and how data can be used to improve these. Produce data science analysis and insight to improve business performance. Examples of this recently include: PPC channel optimisation, Partner opportunity evaluation, Customer lifetime value re-purchase insight. Collaborate with the Product squads to ensure cross-functional dependencies are understood and alignment exists to ensure a smooth delivery. Present findings and insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Stay current with industry trends and emerging data visualisation technologies. You'll be experienced in understanding business requirements and how to turn these into Data Science solutions that can be used to create significant business value. You will have a track record of effective needs gathering, solution design, problem-solving and technical analytic skills. Ideally, you'll be accustomed to working in a high throughput environment of cross-functional teams and diverse stakeholders. You will be familiar with best practice solutions for Data Science and options for automation of this where appropriate so we can focus on the valuable work over the repetitive.
Key technical skills needed for the Data Scientist role include: Proficiency in at least one of Python and/or R. Demonstrable understanding of alternative analytical techniques and when to use each. Good understanding of SQL & relational databases. Robust data modelling and data visualisation skills. Experience dealing with large and complex data sets. This is an excellent opportunity for a passionate Data Scientist who wants to be part of a growing organisation that will offer state of the art technologies to work with, along with a great benefits package including an annual bonus.
Please send your CV today for immediate consideration.
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Recruiter: Nadine Bramley
Phone: 0161 9132621
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