Full-Time Data Scientist
Job Description
Job title: Data Scientist
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 22nd February 2022
Location: Nether Alderley, Edinburgh, or London
Royal London is the largest mutual life insurance, pensions, and investment company in the UK. Since its foundation 160 years ago, Royal London has supported millions of people to protect and provide for themselves and their families.
Our culture is welcoming, friendly, flexible and we aim to make you always feel included. We welcome applications from individuals who have taken an extended career break or those who are transitioning from different sectors.
We believe that being together some of the time will help our colleagues to feel truly connected to our Spirit of Royal London culture. Many of us value the passing conversations, social interactions and building relationships that comes from being together in the office.
Role purpose
As a data scientist, you will help to drive the efficiency of Royal London’s marketing plans, using techniques such as machine learning you will develop models that help to explain and predict the impact of our activity.
Using model outputs, you will advise senior marketing managers on planning, execution, and evaluation of marketing campaigns to meet business targets in line with Royal London’s strategy.
Key responsibilities
- Produce answers to complex marketing questions by working with stakeholders and SMEs across all areas and levels of the business.
- Present findings to senior marketing decision makers both orally and using dashboards and/or visualisations to maximise ease of understanding and correct interpretation.
- Promote a data driven approach to decision making by demonstrating the value of data science as a vital tool driving commercial success.
- Build, maintain & develop predictive analytical models to improve targeting and forecasting.
Essential Criteria
- BSc level degree in numerate/scientific/computing discipline.
- Experience of distilling data into insight and being able to present it to non-technical colleagues.
- Experience of using data science to solve business problems.
- A keen understanding of marketing channels and techniques for evaluating their effectiveness.
- Strong communication skills and diplomatic approach to managing relationships with in-house and external partners.
Desirable Criteria
- Experience with analytical software, e.g., R, Python, SAS, or SPSS.
- An understanding of Econometrics.
- Experience working with agency partners.
What we offer
- We’ve always been proud to reward employees by offering a number of
such as Pensions and Protection, Performance and role-related benefits, Lifestyle and Wellbeing * Our culture comes from within, or to put it another way, it comes from our people. It’s what makes Royal London
- Our
is something we live up to every day. We know we can rely on you, and you can expect plenty from us in return. have again ranked as among the best places to work in the UK
We are an equal opportunities employer. We work hard to attract the best talent for our award-winning team. We believe that embracing difference makes us stronger. Our diverse people bring us different skills – whatever their educational background, disability, gender, age, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.
In fact, the first pillar of our is designed to make sure you ‘work somewhere inclusive’. We want to live up to this promise; it’s good for our people and good for our customers too, because our workforce should reflect our communities.
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