Data Scientist

Loadsure UK Ltd
London
2 months ago
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As a Data Scientist you will be a key member of the Data team collaborating with product and engineering teams to further develop an understanding of needs. Your primary role will be to research and devise innovative statistical models for data analysis enabling smarter business processes by using analytics for meaningful insights. While mining, interpreting, and cleaning our data, this person will be relied on to ask questions, connect the dots, and uncover hidden opportunities for realizing the data’s full potential.

You will be highly organized and comfortable building relationships and working with all levels of the firm. Stakeholder management and communication will be vital to the success of the role.

This position requires a self-driven, high-energy, professional who’s passionate about disrupting an industry and wants to be rewarded for their performance and contributions.

We believe that with a growth mindset, tech-first innovation, and focused execution, anything is possible. We value others’ insights and ideas to build a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and lighthearted environment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with team members to collect business requirements, define successful analytics outcomes and design data models fit for current and future business questions
  • Identify relevant data sources and sets to mine for client business needs, and collect large structured and unstructured datasets and variables
  • Analyze data for trends and patterns, and interpret data with clear objectives in mind
  • Implement analytical models in production by collaborating with software developers and machine-learning engineers
  • Collaborate with the Loadsure Data team to support internal reporting requirements and client reporting
  • Identify cost-saving and revenue opportunities
  • Help the finance team by providing data-driven insights for financial planning, forecasting, and risk management
  • Help the sales team by building models that can identify potential leads, predict customer churn, and optimize pricing strategies
  • Help the actuarial team by analyzing claims data, developing risk models, and supporting pricing decisions
  • Help the marketing team by analyzing customer behavior, segmenting audiences, and measuring the effectiveness of marketing campaigns
  • Help the product team by analyzing product usage data, identifying areas for improvement, and developing new product features

Skills and Qualifications

Essential:

  • c. 5-7 years experience within Data Science ideally with experience as a Data Scientist or similar
  • Proficiency with data mining, mathematics, and statistical analysis
  • Advanced experience in pattern recognition and predictive modeling
  • Experience with Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau, SQL, and programming languages (ex: Java/Python, SAS, R)
  • Ability to work effectively in a dynamic, research-oriented group that has several concurrent projects
  • Accuracy and attention to detail
  • Very strong communication skills - having the ability to explain technical concepts to a non-technical audience
  • Self-starter who takes initiative
  • Thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth, rapidly changing technical environment
  • Enthusiastic about emerging technology and Insurtech

Desirable:

  • Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in statistics, applied mathematics, or related discipline
  • Experience working on data within Insurance, a B2B company and/or Commercial Team
  • Ability to drive commercial outcomes using insights derived from data

About Us

We’ve combined groundbreaking AI and industry expertise to create a service that goes beyond conventional cargo insurance. This is holistic freight protection.

With trailblazing end-to-end InsurTech, our mission is simple: empower brokers to better serve the freight community, maximizing profits and minimizing losses for all.

At Loadsure, we celebrate the spirit of individuals and empower them to grow. Fostering a culture of personal freedom, mutual respect, and collaboration, we enable the professional success of each person, regardless of race, ethnicity, culture, nationality, religious belief, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, marital status, or disability. Understanding, communication, respect among all people: This is how we’re nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace in which everyone can thrive.

We Strivefor continuous growth and excellence in everything we do.

We Unitethrough collaboration, leveraging our diverse strengths to achieve common goals.

We Pioneerinnovative solutions, embracing new technologies and forward-thinking approaches.

We Deliveroutstanding results, ensuring reliability and quality in every project.

Why work for Loadsure?

  • Competitive salary
  • Fantastic company stock options
  • Remote working with great flexibility
  • 25 annual leave days, in addition to our recognized national holidays
  • Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption/shared parental leave
  • Birthday day off
  • Subsidized gym/wellbeing membership
  • Strong healthcare coverage for employees and their families
  • A culture of work-life balance
  • A community that gives back
  • Engaging and collaborative work environment
  • An exciting opportunity to work with a talented team that’s passionate about what they do and believes in their product and people
  • Career development opportunities
  • Online learning platform

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