Head of Data Science

Job description / Role

The Head of Data Science will set up, define and lead on all data science projects for our client. The role will involve managing a team that sits within the wider BI function and provides insight from a huge number of data sources on exciting projects which will have a huge impact.

Client Details
Michael Page Digital have exclusively partnered with a Government entity for this position.

Description
- Define and lead the identification and subsequent implementation of best practice methods to collect, manage, sanitise and use different data sources and data streams and make sense of them.
- Manage all Data analysis and data modelling projects
- Perform advanced data driven statistical modelling and develop predictive models and statistical learning models
- Undertake cluster analysis and other advanced data mining practices to gain insight across a number of different data sets
- Support and work with stakeholders across to the business to add value through data

Job Offer
An industry leading package is on offer as well as the change to do quality work as part of a diverse and progressively thinking team.

Requirements

Please ONLY apply if you meed all the below criteria:

- Masters degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics or similar
- Full technical proficiency in high-level programming languages (such as Python, SQL or R)
- 5+ Years of practical, hands-on experience in database programming
- Solid experience in visualisation software and applications
- Excellent track record in managing large data sets: capturing, cleansing, aggregating, mining and analysing
- Proven track record in trend analysis, multivariate statistics, sampling, bias reduction, automation and generalisation
- Ability to manage stakeholder relationships and manage a team.

About the Company

Michael Page is one of the world's leading professional recruitment consultancies, specializing in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world.

The Group has operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. In the Middle East we focus on the areas of:

Finance & Accounting Banking & Financial Services Procurement Property & Construction Engineering & Supply Chain Oil & Gas Technical and Engineering Human Resources Sales Marketing Technology Secretarial Executive Search Legal

The Group operates through 161 offices in 33 countries and employs over 5,000 employees worldwide.