Job Description

REQ ID: 114996
JOB TITLE: Analytics & Digital Data Scientist
SALARY: Competitive
POSTING END DATE: 14/07/2023
LOCATION: Gaydon

Beyond Property, Purchasing, HR and IT, more than being part of our Finance or Marketing teams, beyond even Sales and Service, every role in every business area offers unique opportunities to make an impact on the future of mobility and the automotive industry.

WHAT TO EXPECT

JLR are reimagining the future of modern luxury, delivering modern all-electric luxury brands backed by a sustainable supply chain. To do this, we are aiming to become a truly data-led company - and embedded digital skills are a critical enabler for JLRs ambitious Reimagine strategy.

Within JLR Supply Chain we are challenged to fundamentally transform the way we work to enable us to meet future sales volumes and customer delivery expectations in this unprecedented era of global supply chain disruption. We are compelled to streamline and digitise business processes and increase transparency and information-sharing across our end-to-end supply chain.

This role sits within the newly forming Supply Chain Analytics & Digital Team - an embedded cross-disciplinary group of highly technical data professionals who move fast using the latest technologies, sharing standards and best practices with our colleagues in the JLR central digital team, using this relationship to support talent development across the enterprise as part of the wider digital community.

In this delivery role, you\'ll be part of a fun, inclusive, learning, flexible, value focussed team backed by growing supply chain domain expertise and fearless in the face of a thorny technical problem or highly complex data sets. You will assist in the design and delivery of transformational Digital products that sit within the wider Supply Chain process.

You will use your mathematical skills and scientific approach to help with the formulation and implementation of the company\'s future Digital strategy for Planning, particularly in our use of Optimisation and forecasting models to guide our planning scenarios. You will use your technical knowledge to translate the business supply chain question into the correct mathematical formulation and technically implement it, assisting the business with interpreting and diagnosing the output and proactively suggesting improvements.

WHAT YOU\'LL NEED

• Educated to degree level a mathematical or operational research subject preferred
• Previous experience working in a team as a data scientist or optimisation specialist
• Experience of developing production data science model deployments
• Python or equivalent (i.e. Java) development experience including common data science libraries
• SQL development and experience in relational or no-sql databases
• Proven ability to lead small teams in technical assignments

SO WHY US?

Bring all this to the home of premium innovation, and you\'ll find the opportunities to further your career with a world-class team, a discounted car purchase and lease scheme for you and your family, membership of a competitive pension plan and performance related bonus scheme. All this and more makes Jaguar Land Rover the perfect place to continue your journey.

This role may offer the opportunity for hybrid working where you can split your time between working from home and in the office. At Jaguar Land Rover, hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement providing employees with more choice and flexibility around how, when and where they work, if suitable for their role. Further details can be discussed with the Hiring Manager at interview stage.

Please be aware that we may close this vacancy for applications before the stated deadline if we receive a high volume of interest. We strongly advise you to submit your application as early as possible.

Jaguar Land Rover is committed to equal opportunity for all.

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