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Our FTSE100, Global organisation continues to grow, moving from strength to strength and as we work towards our Destination 2025 strategy, our journey in the data and insight space continues to be exciting!

We need to create a place where people ask the right questions, seek insights, and predict trends, to drive value and stay ahead of the competition. To make this happen we’re creating a new culture, we’re shifting mindsets, we’re investing in our people by building capability across our business and we’re ensuring our new data and analytical tools are best in class.

This role will support that journey by working within the Data Science team to build efficient productionised Data and ML pipelines, to support the business in data lead decision making.

We are looking for a hands-on expert to build, automate and maintain the data resource for Data Science and across the wider Customer Insight team.

We currently need a skilled Data Scientist to join our rapidly growing team. The ideal candidate will have expertise in developing statistical models and algorithms to extract insights from large data sets and effectively communicate these findings to stakeholders. You will play a central role in analysing extensive data, formulating innovative models, and producing actionable recommendations to shape our business strategies.

This is a transformative time at RS Group, with numerous large-scale data projects underway that will dramatically enhance our customer data access. You will leverage this data to inform decisions, develop models, and maximize customer engagement through personalized communications. We are especially interested in individuals who can creatively transform business challenges into data science solutions, demonstrating a blend of teamwork, initiative, and technical skills. If you are passionate about making a significant impact in a fast-paced, evolving environment, this role is for you.

What you will be doing:

• Utilize your expertise in statistical analysis and machine learning techniques to extract valuable insights from complex datasets.
• Identifying and applying appropriate analytical techniques in building predictive and prescriptive models
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project goals, develop data-driven solutions, and drive impactful outcomes.
• Design and implement advanced algorithms and predictive models to optimize business performance and enhance decision-making processes.
• Work with Data Engineers to explore, cleanse, and transform data from various sources, to derive suitable features for models.
• Communicate complex findings in a clear and concise manner to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What we are looking for from you:

• Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Understanding of and expertise in Python, including writing unit tests, building packages, and writing reusable/maintainable code
• Experience building standard supervised (GLM, ensemble techniques) and unsupervised (clustering) models in prior professional roles, and an understanding of standard industry libraries (pandas, sklearn, keras etc)
• Solid experience in applying statistical modelling, machine learning, and data mining techniques.
• Expertise in working with large datasets and utilizing data visualization tools.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.

Who are we?

RS Group is a global omni-channel solutions partner for industrial customers and suppliers. Our business has operations in three geographical regions – the Americas, EMEA and APAC, supported by global organisations for supply chain, corporate functions, marketing, and product & supplier management.

Our market today is large, fragmented, local in nature and digitally immature. Only a few international distributors serve it, with many regional and local providers, who largely trade offline. Currently we estimate the global market value to be c.£400bn, with our global market share <1%. We stock over 2,500 supplier brands, 500k products and 63% of our sales are digital.

We are going through a period of change, as part of our Destination 2025 strategy, which positions us as becoming first choice for customer, suppliers, people, and communities. Our strategic priorities are:

• Best customer and supplier experience
• High-performance team
• Operational excellence
• Innovation
• Reinvestment to accelerate growth

We’ve been on an incredible journey, but the best is yet to come; are you ready to join us?

Benefits

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits that you’d expect from a FTSE listed company which include annual performance bonus, private healthcare and generous holiday entitlement, in the UK&I, we’ve just introduced a number of new Family Friendly Policies including:

• Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation
• Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome
• Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause
• Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery and gender confirmation surgery

Additions to Fertility coverage including IVF for lesbian couples and information/support around surrogacy and adoption for all

We are RS Group.

Our Vision is to be first choice for all our stakeholders, and we know that starts with our people. At RS we want everyone to show up to work as themselves and know that they will be supported and encouraged to develop and grow. We want work to be a place that excites and empowers, a place where you can be passionate and challenge people to think differently.

We want to hire the best talent, people who share our values and understand that when we act with respect and humility, we can do great things. That’s why we’ve put our purpose at the heart of our organisation, we want to make amazing happen for a better world. We empower our people to make a difference, innovate to make more possible and deliver to make it happen.

Are you ready to explore the possibilities?