Royal London Group Hiring for Associate Data Scientist Job at Edinburgh, Scotland Full Time

Royal London is the largest mutual life insurance, pensions and investment company in the UK. Since its foundation 160 years ago, Royal London has supported millions of people to protect and provide for themselves and their families.

Our culture is welcoming, friendly, flexible and we aim to make you always feel included. We welcome applications from individuals who have taken an extended career break or those who are transitioning from different sectors.

To support this we are always open to discussing flexible working arrangements and as we transition to hybrid working we will discuss working patterns or locations that ensure you have the freedom to be your best. It’s what makes Royal London a great place to work.

We believe that being together some of the time will help our colleagues to feel truly connected to our Spirit of Royal London culture. Many of us value the passing conversations, social interactions and building relationships that comes from being together in the office.

Role Purpose

As an Associate Data Scientist you will – under supervision, contribute to the delivery of analytics, data science, and Machine Learning projects to create insights, answer key business questions, solve business problems, and support decision making at all levels of the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

Build appropriate data assets to support analysis.

Prototype solutions to explore business hypothesis in an agile and iterative way which supports a learn fast/fail fast methodology.

Communicate findings and results of these initiatives back to the business, stakeholders, and subject matter experts.

Engage with others and maintain effective relationships with immediate team members, peers, and immediate customers.

Work with more senior team members to distil insights and findings into clear stories that are relevant to the business.

Visualise and share insight in readily consumable formats for a non-technical audience.

Ensure Business area risk responsibilities are understood

Understand and apply the key risks and control framework in your business area

Essential Criteria

Understanding of BI and analytics tools, such as Tableau, SQL, R, Python, Power BI

Degree level qualification in mathematics, statistics, economics, engineering, physics or other subject area with significant mathematical content, or relevant experience

Enthusiasm and willingness to learn the application of analytics and data science to solve real life business problems

Desirable Criteria

Some understanding of the principles of software engineering

Experience within Financial Services

Confidence to engage with stakeholders at all levels

What We Offer

We’ve always been proud to reward employees by offering a number of benefits such as Pensions and Protection, Performance and role-related benefits, Lifestyle and Wellbeing

Our culture comes from within, or to put it another way, it comes from our people. It’s what makes Royal London a great place to work.

Our People Promise is something we live up to every day. We know we can rely on you, and you can expect plenty from us in return.

Glassdoor ranked us among the best places to work in the UK in 2021

We are an equal opportunities employer. We work hard to attract the best talent for our award-winning team. We believe that embracing difference makes us stronger. Our diverse people bring us different skills – whatever their educational background, disability, gender, age, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.

In fact, the first pillar of our People Promise i s designed to make sure you ‘work somewhere inclusive’. We want to live up to this promise; it’s good for our people and good for our customers too, because our workforce should reflect our communities.