Data Scientist Bristol, England
Job description
About The Role
RAC have the exciting opportunity to appoint a commercially focussed Data Scientist to join our Data Insight Team on a permanent basis. This role will be a hybrid role, where you will spend two days in the office in Bradley Stoke, Bristol and three days at home.
The core function of this role is to be responsible for delivering insight to support our group marketing priorities. As well as building statistical models, propensity to buy, machine learning, segmentation and econometric time series models, life time value models in appropriate tools to help the business make decisions.
What You’ll Do…
On a day-to-day basis you will inform business leaders and their decision-making through commercial understanding of the business area you support, with emphasis on the following key areas:
- Ensure our data assets and insight are used to maximise business growth for the business.
- Provide insight that helps define and deliver the strategic priorities and implement the strategic plan
- Create optimisation models to help us grow our business
- Create compelling business cases for investment and change, which are backed up by sound analytics
- Ensure the value of data is maximised internally and used compliantly.
What You’ll Need…
To be considered for this role having experience as an internal consult or a similar role and a degree qualified in a relevant subject such as maths, economics or business is beneficial, along with the following;
- Practical knowledge of how to use the latest analytical thinking in a commercial environment and knowledge of best tools for the job.
- Experience in translating strategic thinking into actionable pragmatic and deliverable plans.
- Experience in using data and insight to constructively challenge the status-quo and organisational myths.
- Has used multiple insight tools including, but not limited to R, Python, DBT, Git, Azure ML, Power BI, Tableau and SQL.
In return, we offer…
At the RAC, our colleagues do whatever it takes to help our customers. And we believe in rewarding you in return. As well as a competitive salary, there’s also an annual bonus scheme in place. Plus, you’ll have all these extra benefits
- FREE RAC Breakdown cover from day one
- Car salary sacrifice scheme – including offers on electric vehicles
- Hybrid working
- Group Life Assurance of up to 4 x salary
- Offer a study support package.
Health and wellbeing benefits – including healthcare cash plan and private medical insurance and a number of lifestyle discounted benefits
