Data Scientist, Digital

The details

Newton is a high growth and successful management consultancy, employing the brightest and most curious minds in the industry. We are unique in that our fees are guaranteed against delivered and measurable results. Newton has grown to be one of the most effective operational performance improvement consultancies in the UK. Newton boasts an impressive client base of household names and bluechips, delivering impressive tangible benefits in areas including process optimisation and cost reduction. We are small enough that every individual can make a huge impact, both internally and externally.

Newton’s rapidly growing Digital practice delivers digital transformation across our largest and most complex programmes, including data science and analytics, systems change, technology and data architecture. The team is fully embedded into our core consulting teams and enable solutions worth tens of millions of pounds to our clients. The Digital practice is one of Newton’s specialist capabilities, along with Change Management;these teams work seamlessly with the core consulting body to enable delivery of exceptional results for our clients. All our work is delivered by a single, coherent team, aligned to the clear goals of the Programme. Together, these specialist capabilities form a critical part of Newton’s proposition.

We are seeking Data Scientists with strong Python skills to become a core part of our Digital team. These roles will be focused on large improvement programmes, working alongside Newton’s Operational Consultants and clients. These are leadership roles which include improving, developing and embedding a data-driven decision-making capability within our clients. We passionately believe in the value and potential of this capability and we aim for it to represent more than 10% of our business by 2021.

The Role

Leading the gathering, manipulation and analysis of data on major transformation programmes within the client-facing consulting teams Getting under the skin of client data and processes to understand where value can be added Changing the way Newton uses data and digital by guiding and mentoring colleagues on how to gather, manipulate and analyse data effectively Building effective relationships with stakeholders in the client organisation, influencing and coaching to help them implement a data-driven capability within their organisation Creating new opportunities to deliver value to clients through data and digital Being held up as a role model amongst the wider business with a reputation as an inspirational leader; influencing and improving internal processes and delivering training Managing and developing consultants within your team

The Candidate

The ideal candidate will have:

5 years plus experience and tangible results of projects that include:

Implementing data-driven actionable insights that drive change across an organisation

Rapidly prototyping and deploying data-driven solutions using a variety of languages Creating compelling data-driven stories that resonate with stakeholders Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of different types of data Finding and working closely with data professionals across an organisation Embedding a data-driven culture with stakeholders Significant experience in using Python plus one or more data engineering/science languages such as SQL & R, to find opportunities and insights in data Working knowledge of data visualisation tools such as Qlik, Power BI, Spotfire, Tableau, etc Expertise and experience in data science, machine learning and statistics Interest and endurance in taking on diverse and complex data problems