Data Science Manager

About this role
BT are recruiting for a Data Science Manager to join our London or Bristol office on a permanent basis offering flexible hybrid working.

The Finance Centre of Excellence (CoE) is a core part of the Group FP&A team. The Finance CoE was established to help BT maximise the value that we gain from our investment in SAP, and to develop new Data Science capabilities that help unlock the value in our data. The CoE comprises three core delivery teams: Reporting, Planning and Data Science.

The Reporting and Planning teams lead the design, delivery and support of standardised templates, models and dashboards to enable best in class financial reporting and planning using SAP. The Data Science team connects Finance with operational data and analytical capabilities to enable greater access to insight and automation. In addition to the delivery teams, the CoE has a set of specialist roles to support delivery across the function (PMO, Change Lead, Communications Lead and Finance Lead).

This role is the Manager, Finance Data Science (Senior Data Scientist) within the Data Science team, and the focus of the role is to lead the development of new Data Science and analytics capabilities that improve insight, automation and strategic decision making. This is an exciting ‘green field’ opportunity to implement Data Science and analytics practices in a large corporate finance function.

Key responsibilities

• Delivering Data Science, analytics and automation projects to support commercial decision making, including the development of AI and ML capabilities
• Developing front-end applications to enable non-technical end-users to perform self-serve analytics tasks
• Driving the use of Predictive and Prescriptive analytics capabilities to enhance commercial decision making
• Supporting the creation and delivery of a Finance Data Science Strategy and Roadmap that adds measurable business benefits, and clearly defines requirements from BT’s Google Cloud Platform (GCP) deployment
• Providing regular status updates on progress, risks and issue resolution to the Senior Manager, Data Science
• Working closely with key stakeholder groups to ensure delivered capabilities meet or exceeds requirements
• Sharing technical expertise, and guiding stakeholders on the best ways to achieve their objectives
• Implementing best in class development practises to deliver flexible and versatile solutions
• Establishing robust checking and validation processes for Data Science capability development initiatives
• Maintaining sufficient understanding of performance trends to ensure support for key commercial challenges

Key skills required

• Expert Data Science or Advanced Analytics skills, preferably with Python, R, GCP (and SQL is beneficial)
• Experience deploying Data Science and analytics solutions to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of management processes and decision making
• Brilliant design, documentation and presentation skills including data visualisation (Qlik preferred)
• Experienced Data Scientist in a large organisation, with a strong track record of delivering efficiency and effectiveness improvements from the implementation of insightful and well-presented analytical solutions
• A commercially astute storyteller, comfortable discussing how operational performance is impacting company performance, and how your recommendations, backed by thorough analytics, can improve the current position
• A technical specialist, who leverages their skills and experience to drive commercial impact

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Upto 10% on target bonus
• Pension scheme
• Share save scheme
• 50% off BT and EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages, including BT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership, NOW Sport, Cinema and Kids.

We value different perspectives, skills and experiences. Diversity makes sense for us, our customers and our ambitions. We’re creating an inclusive working culture where people from all backgrounds can succeed. That’s why we welcome applications from all parts of the community.