Head of Data Science
What’s in it for you
Being a part of M&S is exactly that – becoming a part and playing your part. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and always evolving business built on core values.
Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…
- 20% Colleague discount on most things from furniture, fashion and food.
- A first-class welcome to M&S with a tailored induction and a wide range of training schemes to help with your learning and development. Having options to progress is something we’re proud of at M&S.
- Attractive annual bonus, based on company performance and personal objectives.
- Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
- Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices website. Including GymSave – that offers up to 25% off Gym Memberships and the option to become an M&S Shareholder using our ShareSave & ShareBuy Schemes
- Charity Volunteer Day – A paid day away from work to support your chosen charity.
- A very generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance
Every colleague at M&S has access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support – this includes access to our 24/7 Virtual GP, PAM Assist to support you & your family as well as many other schemes
What you'll do
- Lead one or multiple teams of data scientists to prioritise and solve real-life business problems, which align to business priorities and enable M&S to grow and better serve its customer base.
- Develop, mentor and coach individual team members.
- Run the concurrent development of multiple projects through an agile workflow.
- Use knowledge of data science techniques and statistics to both lead and regularly deliver sophisticated projects, with a robust commercial approach, being mindful that operationalisation is a key success criteria.
- Develop a long-term vision of the team, clearly demonstrate an expertise above and beyond current capabilities and introduce data science solutions into everyday business problems.
- Implement a highly visual and commercial approach when delivering data science projects that engages and challenges the thinking of non-technical audiences.
- Build industrialised data science products by promoting accurate software development standards and practices.
- Work with business and technology partners to establish a productive analytical and development environment.
- Work as a hands-on technical leader, take the ownership of delivering sophisticated projects, support their team members and play a role model.
Who you are
The below points are a guide to what skills we're looking for. If you don't meet all of the points below we still encourage you to apply. Through applying you give yourself the opportunity to be considered!
- Significant experience in landing data science capability, applying the most effective statistical /machine learning models on real world commercial problems and having measured the business benefits.
- A team leader who has line manager experience with an impactful team.
- Strong statistical background in segmentations, NLP, predictive modelling, and recommendation systems.
- Experience using statistical models such as regression, clustering, affinity analysis, causal inference models, time series, convolutional neural networks, and transformers.
- Comprehensive proficiency in key programming and scripting languages (e.g. Python, R, SPARK, SQL, etc) and software development skills.
- Ability to mine large & complex data sets - both structured and unstructured data and including (but not limited to) efficient extraction of data, transformation and application.
- Development of collaborative relationships with colleagues across the business.
- Ability to clearly communicate and translatdata science into practical insight, influencing across different levels within M&S.
Everybody is welcome
M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That’s why we’re revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There’s never been a better time to be part of our team. Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact. We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process. If you consider yourself to have a disability or learning difficulty which means you are unable to complete the application process online, please get in touch either by phone on 0345 300 3725 or by email recruitment.online@marksandspencer.com so we can make alternative arrangements for you.
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