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Data Scientist

Recruiter
BSI (British Standards Institution)
Location
London / Hybrid
Salary
Competitive salary + benefits
Closing date
18 Jul 2022
Reference
IF0009630

Job Details

We are looking for a Data Scientist to join our Marketing Data and Insights team.

This is a new permanent role and a chance to join a growing team looking to transform BSI into an insights-driven organisation where all decisions are underpinned with robust data analysis.

We are looking for an individual who is passionate about unlocking value from data.

The position provides a unique chance to build and implement advanced analytical solutions from scratch. This will provide the global BSI marketing teams with insights and tools that have not been available historically, allowing a step chance in how the wider team can operate.

The successful jobholder will be reporting to the Data Science Manager and will be working from our West London office on a 2/3 day per week.

About the company 

BSI is the UK’s National Standards Body, but we are much more than that. We are an international organisation that tackles the problems businesses have by leading the development and embedding of best practice. We help companies access new markets, accelerate innovation, become more resilient and sustainable, and build trusted customer relationships.

Standards protect and create trust, but they are only one aspect of our work. Ensuring conformity with standards and regulatory frameworks accelerates our clients’ ability to improve and grow. Our consulting expertise and insights create a rich environment for innovation. Our work across these interconnected areas unlocks value for clients that is not always apparent when we start.

Sustainability is becoming the galvanising force in the world, and the world of business. Using our unique position to help organisations become more sustainable and resilient is at the heart of our strategy, alongside the pressing need our clients must create trust in a digital world. Innovation, acceleration, and assurance are how we help our clients prosper and benefit society.

Our profits are reinvested in the work we do and the difference we make. Our unique history, presence, and ways of working have earned us a reputation as a trusted catalyst of change: in business, society and the world.

This is an exciting time to join the business as it starts to implement its new strategy. It will be a chance to contribute to new ways of working and drive significant improvements through the use of data.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop a Marketing data science plan and projects roadmap Automate and streamline the current reporting requirements within the Data and Insights team Represent the marketing team in wider BSI data and analytics improvements projects
  • To ‘evangelise’ the use of data science to drive business improvements
  • To help to build a data science community across the organisation
  • Proactively engage key functional stakeholders in establishing the business requirements and opportunities for data science studies
  • Identify the data sources required, collect, migrate, and cleanse the data to support analysis
  • Extract data insight and present data and conclusions to stakeholders in a compelling way, utilising data visualisation and other business intelligence tools (Tableau/Power BI) for reporting Co-ordinate with various technical/functional teams to implement the data products and monitor the results.

What we are looking for:

Education/Qualifications

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent
  • A degree in a numeric discipline (for example, maths, computer science, engineering) (Desirable)

Knowledge & Experience

  • A highly numerate and analytical individual with substantial experience in embedding data-driven insight into a business
  • Excellent knowledge of the creation, assessment, and implementation of Machine Learning models
  • Demonstrable experience in delivering results of the analysis in formats that are engaging to the wider business through visualisation and storytelling
  • Experience in digital marketing data analysis including data collection, analysis, and measurement (Desirable)
  • Good knowledge of the Microsoft Azure analytics stack including Azure Data Lake and Databricks (Desirable)

Technical Skills

  • A high degree of proficiency in Python to wrangle data from multiple, disparate sources
  • Proficiency in visualisation tools such as Power BI, Tableau, d3.js
  • Demonstrable experience in using Natural Language Processing to solve business problems (Desirable)
  • Experience in building data-driven apps/products as part of the delivery of machine learning models (Desirable)

 Personal Qualities

  • A highly motivated individual with experience in delivery in complex, global, matrix structured organisation
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Able to work with a wide range of stakeholders from across the businesses (technical and non-technical) to deliver projects.

What we offer!

We offer a highly competitive starting salary with 27 days annual leave with the opportunity to increase this to 30 days, company-paid private medical insurance, an excellent company-contributed pension scheme, and a wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your lifestyle. Plus, as we’re situated just above Gunnersbury Tube station it makes for an easy commute, or you can use the free on-site parking if you’d prefer to drive.

Company

BSI (British Standards Institution) is the business standards company that equips businesses with the necessary solutions to turn standards of best practice into habits of excellence.

Formed in 1901, BSI was the world’s first National Standards Body and a founding member of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

Over a century later it continues to facilitate business improvement across the globe by helping its clients drive performance, reduce risk and grow sustainably through the adoption of international management systems standards, many of which BSI originated.

Famed for its marks of excellence including the instantly recognizable Kitemark®, BSI’s influence spans multiple sectors including aerospace, construction, energy, engineering, finance, healthcare, IT and retail.

With over 70,000 clients in 150 countries, BSI is an organization whose standards inspire excellence across the globe.

Company info
Location
Kitemark Court
Davy Avenue
Knowlhill
Milton Keynes
MK5 8PP
GB

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