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Marketing Data Scientist - Flexible Working Available

Employer
GVC Group PLC
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
29 Apr 2019

Job Details

We are looking for a data scientist that will help us discover the information hidden in vast amounts of data, and help us make smarter decisions to manage our customers better and deliver even better products. Your primary focus will be in applying data mining techniques, doing statistical analysis, and building high quality prediction systems integrated with our marketing strategy and products/processes.

 Responsibilities:

  • Create statistical models and performance monitoring systems needed to optimise the Marketing and Customer management of an online gaming product. Models are applied to identify and solve underlying business logic problem statements.
  • Build predictive models and machine-learning algorithms and deploy those algorithms into a live production environment.
  • Conduct research and development activities, data exploration and discovery, develop prototypes, algorithms and proof of concepts, using leading data science and innovative Big Data solutions.
  • Present information using data visualization techniques
  • Propose solutions and strategies to business challenges
  • Build data products to extract valuable business insights
  • Identify valuable data sources and automate collection processes
  • Undertake preprocessing of structured and unstructured data
  • Analyze large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns
  • Collaborate with Engineering, Marketing and Product development teams

Qualifications

Knowledge/Expertise/Qualifications: 

  • The candidate should possess a degree in a quantitative field like Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Operational Research (or comparable studies)
  • SQL
  • Ability to code in R or Python
  • Experience in Base Management modeling - churn, propensities, forecasting
  • Strong math skills (e.g. statistics, algebra)
  • Analytics mind-set skill with the ability to turn a business question / problem into an analytics plan, answering the question of what data to use, how to transform it, what methods / models to apply, how to turn the outcome into usable, actionable output
  • Put forward opportunities that can be solved through advanced analytics and then work to develop these plans
  • Will and skill to quickly learn about new fields.
  • Willingness to travel.
  • Pragmatic thinking & high degree of attention to detail.

Company

We’re one of the world’s largest sports betting and gaming groups; part of the FTSE 100 and with more than 25,000 people working for us across the globe.

Via our unique proprietary technology platform, we offer sports betting, casino, poker and bingo, and operate some of the industry’s most popular online brands including Ladbrokes, Coral Gala, bwin, Sportingbet, partypoker, partycasino and Foxy Bingo.Starting from small beginnings, we’ve grown at a rapid pace and have big ambitions for our future.

We believe our exceptionally talented people are behind our success story.

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