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Data Science Manager

Arch Insurance
Birmingham
2 days ago
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Birmingham, Colchester, Southampton, London, Manchester, United Kingdom

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With a company culture rooted in collaboration, expertise and innovation, we aim to promote progress and inspire our clients, employees, investors and communities to achieve their greatest potential. Our work is the catalyst that helps others achieve their goals. In short, We Enable Possibility℠.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities

  • Work closely with business partners to understand the business problems they are trying to solve and help develop and prioritize the best-suited analytics solutions.
  • Collaborate in cross-functional teams and share ideas to solve complex business problems.
  • Build strong partnerships with peers across the organization to support project goals and boarder team needs.
  • Oversee the build of predictive models using advanced analytics techniques including GLMs, natural language processing, and machine learning.
  • Develop powerful insights using a variety of analytical tools, techniques, and technologies, and deliver results which drive business decisions.
  • Discover, explore, and analyse internal and external datasets for the purpose of developing advanced analytics models.
  • Help establish best practices and repeatable processes for the Strategic Analytics team.
  • Provide thought leadership on new, innovative techniques, approaches and software.
  • Guide, support, mentor and develop the growing team of predictive modelers and data scientists.

Desired Skills

  • Ability to design, build and implement statistical models, with an understanding of a range of analytical techniques such as predictive modelling, NLP and data mining.
  • Data manipulation and analytical skills in languages such as Python, R and / or SQL.
  • Familiarity with cloud-based platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake and Azure is an advantage, but not essential.
  • Effective task / project management and general organization skills.
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills; ability to convey complex concepts to technical and non-technical people across the organization.
  • Exceptional teamwork skills required to play a key role in cross-functional teams. Ability to collaborate and build trusting relationships with business partners.
  • Natural curiosity to understand the world around you and question as needed.
  • Comfortable handling ambiguous concepts and breaking down complex problems into manageable pieces.
  • Ability to apply critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills.

Experience

  • Experience in advanced analytics roles, a significant portion of which should be in the insurance industry.
  • Experience working in an analytical role within an insurance environment is an advantage.
  • Hands-on experience developing and deploying real-time predictive models.
  • Experience delivering business value from small or non-standard data sets.

Qualifications

  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Actuarial Science,Data Analytics, or equivalent

Do you like solving complex business problems, working with talented colleagues and have an innovative mindset? Arch may be a great fit for you. If this job isn’t the right fit but you’re interested in working for Arch, create a job alert! Simply create an account and opt in to receive emails when we have job openings that meet your criteria. Join our talent community to share your preferences directly with Arch’s Talent Acquisition team.


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