Data Science Manager - Market Research Consultancy
Posted 13 hours 32 minutes ago by MrWeb Ltd.
Job Spec:
We are looking for an inquisitive, ambitious, and dynamic individual to join the Data Science team of an established research consultancy to help them continue to develop innovative ways to deliver insight, strategy and consultancy to clients. In your role as a Data Science manager, your skills and deep understanding of Data Science and Analytics will be key in uncovering valuable insights to guide clients' decisions. You'll rely on your solid skills in data analysis, machine learning, and statistical modelling to lead smaller projects and contribute to larger ones. Moving beyond purely technical work, you'll start to manage people and lead analytics initiatives. Throughout, you'll keep growing your expertise, learning new techniques, and pushing the boundaries of what data can tell us.
You will:
- Run a range of key standard methodologies and execute them with little supervision;
- Align client business problems into analytical solutions;
- Lead data science projects with your manager's supervision;
- Conduct research to identify new opportunities for data science applications within the industry and spot new opportunities to meet client needs;
- Develop custom scripts or tools to streamline routine tasks;
- Present results of data science solutions to internal and external clients;
- Get involved in team development initiatives and run new methodologies;
- Get involved in company-wide initiatives and developments; and
- Contribute to internal and external meetings with ideas and suggestions.
You must:
- Have at least 3 5 years' experience running statistical analysis on a range of data sources, especially survey data;
- Have excellent communication skills and can easily and clearly explain complex concepts in plain English;
- Have experience leading major projects and can easily and clearly explain complex analytical concepts to colleagues and clients in plain English;
- Consistently demonstrate excellent communications skills, the ability to prioritise and multi task on a daily basis, whilst meeting deadlines;
- Take pride in and produce high quality work, with attention to detail, and have the respect of your colleagues;
- Are a team player and care about elevating and developing junior members of the team;
- Are interested in social attitudes and what makes people, consumers and businesses tick;
- Technically, be comfortable with supervised and unsupervised methods such as clustering and regression.
Technical must haves:
- Experience in Conjoint analysis, either using the Sawtooth suite of programmes or otherwise;
- Experience running Segmentation projects using different clustering methods;
- Expertise with R and/or Python.
Nice to haves:
- Interest in current affairs and politics;
- Experience or knowledge of standard survey analytics such as MaxDiff, TURF, Key Drivers Analysis;
- Experience or knowledge of Bayesian methods, machine learning methods, text analytics;
- Experience or knowledge of analysing client's CRM data;
- Experience or knowledge of organisational or financial analytics;
- Ability to programme in VBA and build Excel based simulators.
Who to contact: Email your CV (in confidence) to , quoting the reference above, or contact Andrew Goobey, Andrew Mercer, Caroline Rock or Rebecca Meaton on .
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