Junior Data Scientist - Temporary Role

Job Description

• Help to deliver complex and innovative projects in the digital, social and big data space.
• Extracting, manipulating and analyzing different datasets (like social, search, PRM) to obtain business insights.
• Generating business insights to support senior leadership decision making
• Storyboarding and creation of final outputs
• Devising and advising on options for new analytics techniques and methods
• Working with advanced tools, such as natural language processors, visualization tools etc, where some domain knowledge is required and/or programming skills are necessary
• Build fundamental statistical/econometric/machine learning models for service delivery, according to the definitions and designs of the Signature Projects Manager
• Create Python/R based tools to obtain advanced business insights.
• Stay informed about upcoming trends in the space of social media, digital and data science or any other major changes to keep PDC on leading edge of digital analytics
• Providing ad-hoc analysis or support for executive-level requests of the PDC organization.
• Build queries and conduct analysis to fulfill advanced business requests

Job Requirements

• Numeric background (degree or equivalent, Masters preferred)
• Some business experience
• Strong willingness to learn and can-do attitude
• Some ability to code (Python or R required, SQL and JS preferred)
• Some experience with social listening and NLP tools
• Some ability to devise statistical/econometric/machine learning models
• Experience driving business value from consumer insight
• Experience with visualization tools (Tableau, Qlik, D3 or equivalent)
• Some experience with consumer goods data sets
• Passion for the social and digital world and its implications for business