This is a rare opportunity, moving at the speed of a start-up. You will bridge the art of what is possible across today's rapidly evolving Data Science and Machine Learning landscape

Your work will help bring our customer centric strategies to life. As we move through a digital transformation, you'll be joining us at the right time. Leveraging data and analytics is a critical area of transformation and you would be at the very heart of this!

Client Details

With our head office in Leeds, we are a UK wide retail company, We're a really values-led organisation. Our mission means we encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively with each other, valuing everyone's input. We get on with things, we make them happen.

We have recently formed a customer decision science and analytics team focusing on building personalisation and recommendation models to power targeted customer communications, This role will play a key part in managing the team and helping deliver our analytics capability.

Description

The successful Data Science Manager will be responsible for but not limited to:

• Collaborating with internal stakeholders to develop a prioritised plan for building the desired outcomes and measures for our Rewards (loyalty scheme) and our company wide Data Science activations.
• Lead a team across Segmentation, Propensity & Affinity and General Data Science squads.
• Drive development of our core Data Product, evolved around a technology concept of feature store, integrating numerous data sets and developing thousands of features at Customer level.
• Drive our activation programme across Segmentation and Propensity & Affinity, creating a portfolio of trusted, explainable, and well-documented models used across the whole business
• Build enterprise-grade, competent and fully operationalised Data Engineering and Data Science systems, consumed via micro-service led architectures, API stores and advanced MI/BI customer-facing layers.

Profile

The successful Data Science Manager will able to demonstrate an understanding of but not limited to:

• A Data Science professional with expertise in applying Data Science and Machine Learning solutions to customer-facing outcomes.
• Ability to lead / mentoring a team of high performing Data Scientists who have built and operationalised Data Science solutions.
• Ability to explain complex modelling approaches in simple terms and develop compelling narratives that connect modelling results with business problems.
• Strong project management skills, including managing technical resources and multiple priorities & milestones.
• Leading Data Science solutions on Azure cloud using Azure tools, Databricks, Spark, Dask, TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.

Job Offer

Work Where it Works. Our hybrid way of working gives you the choice to work where it works. This enables you to complete your daily tasks where you will be the most effective. It offers a mix of working from home and in an office environment that works best for you and your team. We would love to talk to you about this.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Company car or £5,700 car allowance, plus discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• 10% colleague discount, free parking and many additional rewards.

For more information and a confidential chat, reach out today.

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