Data Scientist – Consultancy

Metrica Recruitment
London
8 months ago
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One of the largest providers of consulting and technology services, providing a collaborative, friendly and entrepreneurial environment. A truly global consultancy with offices based in central London and a broad client base of blue-chip companies, the company operates across a variety of sectors and industries.

Working within their data science and analytics team, you will provide expertise and structured thinking, allowing you to develop innovative analytical solutions to complex business problems.

The Role

This role will involve providing your expertise and logical thinking in a way that helps to develop exciting new analytical solutions for intricate business obstacles.

As a consultant you will work across multiple sectors including retail, financial services, and healthcare. Your role will focus on the delivery of a variety of projects; from developing a LinkedIn bot using Python to automate searches for new talent to developing a product-product collaborative filtering recommendation engine using Python, Django and Azure. Your role bridges the gap between complex analytics and management strategy of businesses, a core responsibility is explaining technical outcomes to non-technical stakeholders.

What to expect:

  • A strong basic salary with excellent benefits
  • Collaboration with high-end and blue-chip clients, within a variety of sectors
  • You will be based in their central London location, with national and global travel opportunities
  • Working within a well-established data science team, almost 200 consultants
  • The opportunity to work with cutting-edge software and programs

The Candidate

  • A numerical degree with a minimum 2:1 grade or equivalent from a reputable university
  • Over 18 months years of experience in operational research, customer analytics, BI analytics, data science
  • Excellent experience with Excel and SQL. Highly advantageous to have used Python or R as well as cloud computing platforms and big data tools
  • A commercially insightful and results-driven nature
  • An excellent level of consulting communication skills


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