Data Scientist

We are looking for a Data Scientist to join our Sales & Strategic Planning Team.

• University degree from a reputable university, preferably from statistics and engineering background.
• Can be either a high performing technical lead analyst who's interested in helping build something from scratch, or experienced manager who's retained hands-on analysis skills and is happy to take on a role which will need to be 100% hands-on initially.
• Must have business focused CRM, Customer Insight,Marketing Analytics capability with significant expertise in data asset 
• 5+ years of professional work experience as a Data Scientist on strategy or full-life cycle projects is required
• 5+ years recent hands-on experience working with data mining tools like SAS/SPSS or R is required
• Must have a grounding with using SQL and the ability to manipulate data into format to allow analysis work to be carried out upon it
• Experience with data mining and predictive modeling to include Time Series Analysis, Logistic Regression, Linear/Non-Linear Regression etc models
• Commercially savvy, able to clearly link together the business problems with analysis work, arriving at a point of insight which is meaningful and can be turned into action 
• Comfortable working with large, complex data sets 
• Experience with machine learning – text mining, NLP, neural networks, Hadoop, Python, etc.
• Previous experience managing complex analysis work and delivered with a high degree of autonomy
• Highly numerate, preferably demonstrated through academics 
• Good communication skills,