Data Scientist

An excellent opportunity has arisen to join a world leading global organisation, our global FMCG client, the powerhouse behind brands such as Sure, Rexona & Lynx have an opening for a Data Scientist with Python experience, to be based at their offices in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey. This is a temporary role for 6 months working Monday to Friday paying up to £39,500 per annum, pro rata, depending on experience.

To remain competitive in the future, our clients business needs to continue its path to become data intelligent. The Information and Analytics team is responsible for building data, data science and analytics as a core capability to help the business become data intelligent and drive business and organization performance.

This is an exciting new role in the Data Science Centre of Excellence team in, which is tasked to deliver maximum value from data to drive business and organization performance.

The role works closely with the Information & Analytics Supply Chain team, that helps markets win in procurement, manufacturing and distribution, leveraging close engagement with market Supply Chain leaders and the Data Science excellence team to solve for both large transformation programs and near-term business problems.

Key accountabilities:

This role will focus on advanced demand forecasting, building models that enable markets to make better planning decisions. It will deliver the priority projects agreed between I&A Supply Chain lead and the markets.

• With guidance from the Senior Data Scientist, understand the business problems and how to deliver relevant insights that lead to actions.
• Gather data and build machine learning models to solve advanced forecasting problems requiring predictive and / or prescriptive analytics
• Support product teams scaling models into low-touch solutions to provide optimal ROI from data science.

.Experience and Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Machine learning forecasting techniques
• Experience of Statistical modelling
• Fully operational in Python coding
• B.S. or M.S. in a relevant technical field (Operations Research, Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, or Mathematics)
• Working experience in a data science role, if from a supply chain/manufacturing focus then this would be beneficial
• Experience managing projects from start to finish
• Experience working with software development teams to convert modelling approaches into scalable tools
• Passion for empirical research and for answering hard questions with data
• Ability to apply an agile analytic approach that allows for results at varying levels of precision
• Ability to communicate complex quantitative insights in a precise, and actionable manner to business leaders