Senior Data Scientist

 Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

With category leading brands such as Sensodyne, Voltaren and Centrum, built on trusted science and human understanding, and combined with our passion, knowledge and expertise, we’re uniquely placed to do this and to grow a strong, successful business.

This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.

This is a unique opportunity to join our high performing Data science team

Hybrid role 1-2 days a week onsite at Bankside, London.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in creating, evolving, and developing data science models for Commercial, Marketing, and Digital

• Work closely with product owners, data engineers and machine learning engineers to deliver high quality data science powered solutions to interesting problems

• Help prepare datasets to train and validate machine learning models

• Define and implement metrics to evaluate the performance of the models, both for computing performance (such as CPU & memory usage) and for ML performance

• Support the deployment of machine learning models on our infrastructure, including containerization, instrumentation, and versioning

• Manage the whole lifecycle of our machine learning models, including monitoring, gathering data for retraining, and redeployments

• Leverage third-party and syndicated data to provide value-added learnings on trade promotions, pricing, distribution, and digital shelving to key stakeholders and specifically for joint business operations

• Conceive and implement statistical models and Multi-Variate Tests to measure the impact of business decisions and market disruptions to surface empirical insights

Teamwork

• Contribute to a highly collaborative team with a culture of openness and ownership.

• Work closely with key stakeholders and influence them of on business objectives.

• Enable collaboration by contributing to the development of our AI foundations and reusable assets for Forecasting, Optimization, Segmentation, Attribution Models and Experimentation.

• Perform code reviews and ensure exceptional code quality

• Manage & mentor junior data scientists & apprentices

• Build a culture of responsible AI, good governance, and ethics

Qualifications & Skills

• MS or PhD degree in Data Science, Computer science, applied mathematics, statistics, or another relevant discipline with a strong foundation in modelling and computer science.

• Strong industry experience with developing machine learning models and creating software pipelines to build and make predictions with those models

• Very good understanding of machine learning approaches and algorithms

• Deep understanding of Statistical/Probabilistic programming and Linear Algebra

• Be an expert in (Python, R, SQL) programming for Data Science and Time Series analysis

• Have in depth understanding of statistical modelling / ML techniques for time series forecasting (ARIMA, ETS, Prophet, Time Series pattern detection, and ML methods)

• Strong experience with Causal inference, Intervention analysis, Counterfactuals Estimation, Optimization and Scenarios simulation

• Solid experience with Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods

• Experience using machine learning frameworks such as scikit-learn, Pymc, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Databricks ML, Keras etc…, Experience with ML at scale

• Experience coordinating projects across diverse teams.

• Proven attention to detail, critical thinking, and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a cross-functional team

• Strong communication skills including to non-technical audiences

Care to join us. Find out what life at Haleon is really like www.haleon.com/careers/

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