Job Description

Make Your Mark at Ipsos

Ipsos is recruiting for a Junior Data Scientist with 12 to 18 months commercial experience ideally in a market research setting. We are seeking someone with a passion for solving complex problems and highly competent in mathematics, statistics modelling/understanding and programming skills working on production quality collaborative projects with emphasis on understanding and use of methods algorithms.

Keen to work on complex mathematical/scientific problems? Have experience using a range of advanced mathematical / physical models / statistical models /machine learning methods? If this is what you are looking for from your next role, then please read on....

Data science is at the very heart of Ipsos projects and provides an important central resource covering large media industry measurement contracts, syndicated surveys and ad hoc insight projects.

The Data Science Unit has been created in Ipsos in direct response to the way the converging media and advertising market is moving. Their remit reflects the growing industry importance of Big Data, passive measurement technologies, complex modelling, data visualisation, data integration and calibration methodologies.

What is in it for you?

This is not your average data scientist role, this role is about:

• Giving you the autonomy to solve problems which directly impact our daily lives whether it is our television viewing habits, radio listening habits to other forms of media consumption.
• Creative, innovative, passion, flexibility, adaptability, tenacity and agile, these are just some of the words that describe the culture of our team. This is an opportunity for you to make an impact whilst also having a realistic chance to learn and develop your skills further.

The Role:

You will be delivering advanced analytics and data science elements of complex research projects and to continue to develop and extend their skill set.

The role will involve working on projects for a multitude of clients within Ipsos covering range of industries – television, radio, print, online, outdoor, mobile, entertainment, music, telecoms and technology.

This role is a central role in the day-to-day work of our specialised audience measurement data science team. Working in this role, you will be:

• Maintaining production systems for our audience measurement contracts – which involves working with the senior stakeholders to detect new modelling solutions and data improvements that need to be implemented.
• Using machine learning techniques to improve lookalike models in our production systems or to calibrate the datasets to external sources.
• Working on analytics projects for our in media development for some of the top media organisations in the UK.
• Providing advice, guidance and knowledge on key sector related issues
• Manipulating data and data processing in R, Python, SQL and Google Cloud Platform
• Developing machine learning models with senior data scientist guidance
• Assuring quality control and quality assurance of team data production capabilities
• Working with the core Audience Measurement Data Science team on all industry measurement contracts we run (Route, Rajar, BBC Compass and other).
• Working on a variety of ad-hoc projects run through the Media Development service line.
• Engaging with stakeholders across the business (internal and external).
• Producing internal deliverables with Senior Data Science personnel
• Advising the research team on how to use the data or analysis.
• Managing good professional relationships with clients and internal stakeholders

About you:

To be successful in this role you will need the following skills and experience:

• 12 to 18 months commercial experience (market research experience highly desirable)
• Familiarity using a range of advanced mathematical / physical models / statistical models /machine learning methods, while understanding the principles of the methodologies, assumptions, advantages and disadvantages over other methods in different scenarios and how the methodologies work
• Modelling at a level beyond pipelining third party model classes
• Keen to work on hard mathematical/scientific problems with perseverance important
• Experience doing research and development within a project to find the best methodology to be applied to data from multiple data sources, including wrangling of complex data
• Strong intuition for data including statistical and machine learning principles
• Aptitude and interest for simulation, optimisation, graph theory, sampling and model checking and validation in modelling
• Strong Programming background and of deployment of production standard code as part of data science workflows: Python or R - writing functionally and/or OOP
• Familiarity in git with collaborative development of data science workflows / products
• Familiarity with containerisation* and cloud computing
• Enthusiasm for data science and strong team player with ability to work independently, learn and knowledge share
• Ability to communicate solutions effectively with range of stakeholders of range of technical understanding and likewise gather and formulate requirements
• An interest in enriching data sets

Benefits:

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you as an individual. Our standard benefits include 25 days annual leave, pension contribution, income protection and life assurance. In addition, there are a range of health & wellbeing, financial benefits and professional development opportunities.

We realise you may have commitments outside of work and will consider flexible working applications - please highlight what you are looking for when you make your application. We have a hybrid approach to work and ask people to be in the office or with clients for 3 days per week.

We are committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views. We recognise that this is important for our business success - a more diverse workforce will enable us to better reflect and understand the world we research and ultimately deliver better research and insight to our clients. We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident scheme, certified as Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. We are dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

Ipsos is one of the world’s largest research companies and currently the only one primarily managed by researchers, ranking as a #1 full-service research organization for four consecutive years. With over 75 different data-driven solutions, and presence in 90 markets, Ipsos brings together research, implementation, methodological, and subject-matter experts from around the world, combining thematic and technical experts to deliver top-quality research and insights. Simply speaking, we help the biggest companies solve some of their biggest problems, serving more than 5000 clients across the globe by providing research, data, and insights on their target markets. And we are proud of our continuous efforts in making Ipsos the best place to work!