MandM Direct is looking for a Data Scientist:
- Company: MandM Direct
- Location: Herefordshire, UK
- Role: Data Scientist
The Company
MandM Direct is one of Europe's leading off-price retailers, with over 2.5 million customers shopping with us every year. In today’s hypercompetitive environment, building a brand that our customers can trust is more important than ever. Our long term success is due to our fast-paced, innovative and adaptable environment which continues to keep up with the market’s demands.
The Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Data Science team for a Data Scientist to lead the development, deployment and monitoring of machine learning models and data analysis for a variety of business use cases.
What’s In It for you
- Competitive salary, bonus scheme and pension
- A great Company culture
- Flexi-time
- Your birthday off
- Subsidised canteen
- Generous staff discount
- Healthcare cash plan
- And tons more…
Your day-to-day duties and responsibilities will include
- Leading and delivering end-to-end machine learning projects for a wide variety of business use cases
- Monitoring and maintaining deployed machine learning models and ensure the on-going accuracy of results
- Presenting results and analysis from ML models and data analytics back to business managers, in a concise and effective way, enabling data driven decision making
- Collaboratively maintaining a business intelligence platform and all reports within, ensuring the correct definition of company metrics and the integrity of all connected data
- Performing ad-hoc project analysis and decision support across a wide variety of business projects spanning Marketing, IT, Operations and Finance
- Contributing to the machine learning roadmap to deliver projects that advance the company’s capability
- Maintaining and optimising the structure of data to assist all members of the Data Science Team in their work
- Working alongside other members of the Data Science team sharing and adopting ideas and best practice
- Proactively and continuously improving processes, systems and documentation.
Interested? To be considered you will need to demonstrate:
- Practical experience in designing, building and testing machine learning models for classification and regression. You could be an experienced Data Scientist, or a seasoned Data Analyst looking to make that next step
- Experience in detailed exploratory data analysis in Python, R or SQL. This should also include data cleaning and preparation
- A passion for data, you will love turning large, transactional datasets into meaningful commercial insights and will be adept at interpreting inter-related trends, patterns and data-points to solve pressing business challenges
- Presentation skills; the ability to reduce the complexity of a machine learning model into results that are explainable to non-technical colleagues
- Excellent organisational, problem-solving, project management and communication skills
- The ability to work to deadlines and be flexible to deal with changing business demands.
Hours of work
General office hours are 9.00am – 5.00pm, Monday – Friday; however, we do offer the benefit of Flexi-time hours.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Experience
- designing, building and testing machine learning models : 1 year (Required)
- detailed exploratory data analysis in Python, R or SQL: 1 year (Required)
Work remotely:
- Temporarily due to COVID-19
If you are interested, please apply in writing with your CV and detailed covering letter to Recruitment@mandmdirect.com.
Or drop me a direct message right here on the DataIKU Community to discuss further.
