Senior Data Scientist

Job reference 319572
Senior Data Scientist
Competitive salary, £5,500 Car allowance plus Healthcare, 18% annual bonus potential with 27.5 days annual leave, plus bank holidays rising with service and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates.
Permanent, Full time
Royal Mail Farringdon, London, EC1A 1AA

Royal Mail is going through one of the most exciting periods in its history, and the Operations team is at the beating heart of the change. We're building a green, optimised network, developing cutting-edge supply chain technology, and adapting the most iconic and historic logistics operation in the country to the fast-paced demands of the modern world. There has never been a better time to join us.

About the role

• You will be part of our newly-formed Data Insights team, leveraging cutting-edge technologies and data science techniques to enable data-driven decision-making across RM, delivering value for our customers.
• Working within the Transformation function, you will be responsible for driving insight generation, identifying and developing data-driven profitability opportunities.
• You will be expected to develop and apply state-of-the-art data science and artificial intelligence techniques to solve Royal Mail's business challenges.
• You will present, disseminate and explain our work via presentations, reports, external papers, blogs, and well-documented software packages.

About You

• For this role you should hold a Master's degree, or equivalent knowledge and practical experience, in a field with significant use of both computer programming and advanced statistical or quantitative methods.
• You should be able to demonstrate experience of developing end-to-end advanced statistical, machine learning, and optimisation systems including data cleansing, exploratory data analysis, model development, evaluation, visualisation, and monitoring.
• You have practical experience applying statistical modelling and experimentation to produce data-driven, evidence-based insights.
• You have knowledge of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence techniques, including leveraging pre-trained foundation models to solve challenging business problems or optimise workflows.
• You are fluent in Python and standard libraries for data science, statistics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence along with understanding cloud computing platforms.

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be an initial chat with the hiring manager on or from 23rd October.

Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean 'your' interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind. Royal Mail Group values both trust and our people.

We don't expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you.

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors, and military spouses/partners.

Closing Date: October 17th. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.