Junior Data Scientist

• Job Title: Junior Data Scientist
• Level & Responsibility: This role is aligned to an Executive level and may be known as a Junior Data Analyst in other businesses.
• Salary: £28,000+ per annum, depending on experience plus a 10% bonus scheme
• Location & Hybrid Working: Nottingham, 2 days minimum per week in office.

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The role

We are looking for a Junior Data Scientist to join our Insight team as part of Boots Media Group within our Threefold Agency.In this role, you'll apply analytical, problem-solving, and coding skills to retail data sources to extract insights. You'll also improve processes for faster, more accurate campaign evaluations and collaborate with the Boots Data Science team to optimise data use for targeting and evaluating retail media.

Why SMG?

We are dedicated to supporting our employees to be the best version of themselves both inside and outside of work. We have an extraordinary culture built by exceptional people and it’s because of this that we’ve been recognised by Best Companies within the top 5 best Marketing & Media agencies to work for, with a World Class and Outstanding accreditation across the past 2 years.

We are also dedicated to continuously reviewing and improving our benefits package to offer the best that we can for our people. We have a whole page dedicated to our benefits here, but here's some of our favourites...

💰 10% discretionary bonus scheme

🧘‍♂️ £1,800 yearly wellbeing fund (on top of your salary!) towards your personal wellbeing and passions

🫶 4 additional Wellbeing Days - one to be taken each quarter, dedicated to focusing on your wellbeing

📚 £500 yearly “Uni Fund” towards learning and development

🎧 Free headspace subscription

🕐 4pm Friday finishes all year round

🥳 Two fully paid conferences a year at Summer & Winter, as well as a dedicated team that put on activities and celebrations throughout the year

Why you?

In line with our company values, within your role you'll want to stay honest, stay hungry, stay foolish, and most importantly, have fun! More specifically, you'll have / be:

• Proficiency in Python
• A degree with strong quantitative elements or equivalent experience that demonstrates the ability to work with large datasets
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills - you will be presenting complex results to less technical audiences
• Highly organised and able to work on several projects at once
• Previous work experience is not required, but an inquisitive nature with a desire to learn quickly is essential for this

P.s. we try really hard to make sure that we list only essential criteria here, BUT if you think you can do an amazing job, yet don't have every single thing on this list, we'd still love to hear from you.

What you'll be doing

We pride ourselves on creating challenging and exciting opportunities, meaning that no two days are the same. However, here's an idea of what your responsibilities will look like:

• Analyse data to assess campaign performance.
• Build audience groups and evaluate media impact using Machine Learning.
• Develop metrics for long-term insights (e.g., Customer Lifetime Value).
• Support Data Standardisation by providing media touchpoint data.
• Automate insights for the Audience 360 product.
• Off-site media evaluation, statistical measurement, and data visualisation.
• Improve processes through automation and data engineering.
• Identify API solutions for faster data processing into our proprietary tool, Plan-Apps.

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