Senior Data Scientist

Haleon
London
6 days ago
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time left to apply End Date: March 12, 2025 (13 days left to apply)

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Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.

This is a unique opportunity to join our high performing Data science team

Hybrid role 1-2 days a week onsite at Bankside, London.

Key Responsibilities

  1. Participate in creating, evolving, and developing data science models for Commercial, Marketing, and Digital.
  2. Work closely with product owners, data engineers and machine learning engineers to deliver high quality data science powered solutions to interesting problems.
  3. Help prepare datasets to train and validate machine learning models.
  4. Define and implement metrics to evaluate the performance of the models, both for computing performance (such as CPU & memory usage) and for ML performance.
  5. Support the deployment of machine learning models on our infrastructure, including containerization, instrumentation, and versioning.
  6. Manage the whole lifecycle of our machine learning models, including monitoring, gathering data for retraining, and redeployments.
  7. Leverage third-party and syndicated data to provide value-added learnings on trade promotions, pricing, distribution, and digital shelving to key stakeholders and specifically for joint business operations.
  8. Conceive and implement statistical models and Multi-Variate Tests to measure the impact of business decisions and market disruptions to surface empirical insights.

Teamwork

  1. Contribute to a highly collaborative team with a culture of openness and ownership.
  2. Work closely with key stakeholders and influence them on business objectives.
  3. Enable collaboration by contributing to the development of our AI foundations and reusable assets for Forecasting, Optimization, Segmentation, Attribution Models and Experimentation.
  4. Perform code reviews and ensure exceptional code quality.
  5. Manage & mentor junior data scientists & apprentices.
  6. Build a culture of responsible AI, good governance, and ethics.

Qualifications & Skills

  1. MS or PhD degree in Data Science, Computer science, applied mathematics, statistics, or another relevant discipline with a strong foundation in modelling and computer science.
  2. Strong industry experience with developing machine learning models and creating software pipelines to build and make predictions with those models.
  3. Very good understanding of machine learning approaches and algorithms.
  4. Deep understanding of Statistical/Probabilistic programming and Linear Algebra.
  5. Be an expert in (Python, R, SQL) programming for Data Science and Time Series analysis.
  6. Have in depth understanding of statistical modelling / ML techniques for time series forecasting (ARIMA, ETS, Prophet, Time Series pattern detection, and ML methods).
  7. Strong experience with Causal inference, Intervention analysis, Counterfactuals Estimation, Optimization and Scenarios simulation.
  8. Solid experience with Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods.
  9. Experience using machine learning frameworks such as scikit-learn, Pymc, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Databricks ML, Keras etc., Experience with ML at scale.
  10. Experience coordinating projects across diverse teams.
  11. Proven attention to detail, critical thinking, and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a cross-functional team.
  12. Strong communication skills including to non-technical audiences.

Care to join us. Find out what life at Haleon is really like www.haleon.com/careers/

At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We're striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

As you apply, we will ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. We want to have an opportunity to consider a diverse pool of qualified candidates and this information will assist us in meeting that objective and in understanding how well we are doing against our inclusion and diversity ambitions. We would really appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete it. Rest assured, Hiring Managers do not have access to this information and we will treat your information confidentially.

Haleon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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If you require a reasonable accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at Haleon at any stage of the application process, please let your recruiter know by providing them with a description of specific accommodations you are requesting. We’ll provide all reasonable accommodations to support you throughout the recruitment process and treat all information you provide us in confidence.

Who are we?

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer healthcare company. Shaped by all of us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for millions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re building together. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

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