Data Scientist

Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 6 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.

The Marketing Data Scientist at Sky Business is at the heart of our data-driven decision-making, applying advanced statistical and machine learning techniques to elevate marketing strategy and execution. In this critical role, you will work with large and complex datasets to design models, uncover insights, and build scalable data products that drive marketing performance. Your expertise will be instrumental in solving challenges such as customer segmentation, churn prediction, campaign optimization, and marketing automation. By combining data science, engineering, and business acumen, you’ll directly impact how we acquire, retain, and grow our customer base .

What you’ll do:

• Run our Marketing Customer Database, ensuring data is segmented, cleansed and compliant for multiple Marketing channels.

• Combine multiple sources to assure a 360 view. Join our 1st and 3rd party data to gain practical insights: customer data, prospect data and analytics data

• Deliver optimised datasets to drive prospect acquisition and customer retention & upsell campaigns. Ensuring adequacy, accuracy and legitimacy of data

• Feed into requirements for appropriate platforms and solutions for the housing and analysis of data and improvements across our Data technology ecosystem

• Leverage sophisticated data analysis techniques and algorithms to evolve our segmentation model, to better understand and predict prospect and customer intent and eligibility for targeting

• Be part of a Data Governance Forum, responsible for developing and owning policies to be rolled out internally and assuring alignment to data governance policies and data quality processes, through quality threshold determination, strategic data quality monitoring and longer-term remediation strategies

• Liaise with 3rd party data providers on specific data requirements

• You will lead a small team of data and reporting analysts

What you'll bring:

• Passion for solving business problems with data and ground breaking technology

• Minimum of 4 years’ experience in Data modelling (Segmentation, Attribution, Churn, Predictive modelling) or similar discipline, knowledge of data mining tools such as Modeller Saas, Python

• Data warehousing experience, including ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) skills. Knowledge on extracting and combining information from different data sources.

• Strong Business Intelligence skills and the ability to bring data to life

• Big data and analytical skills including SQL for enabling large scale data transformation and analysis, across a range of technologies

• Knowledge of data analytics tools, and experience using data platforms and technology: Cloud based platforms e.g. Google Cloud Platform. Data visualisation tools e.g. Tableau (or similar, Datorama), Google Data Studio, GA Cloud based platforms

• Statistical analysis skills to feed decision making

• Critical thinking and problem-solving, using data to solve business challenges

• Management experience

Sky Connect is a new, exciting division of Sky. We're passionate about giving small businesses a better broadband experience and we've learnt everything we know from one of the leading providers of business broadband in the United States, Comcast. With an exciting, fast-paced start up environment, we're looking for exceptional people, to help drive our business forward. And with the support of a truly trusting and collaborative team, you'll grow alongside our business.

There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to #LifeAtSky: the perks. Here’s a taster:

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place

• A generous pension package

• Private healthcare

• Discounted mobile and broadband

• Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experience

The world has changed. And so have we. We’ve embraced hybrid working and split our time between unique office spaces and the convenience of working from home.

You’ll find out more about what hybrid working looks like for your role later on in the recruitment process.

Your office base:

Osterley

Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There are also plenty of bike

shelters and showers.

On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch

the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed, and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Inclusion

At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we’re happy to discuss flexible working.

We are a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need to your recruiter as early as you can.

Why wait?

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. A job you love to talk about.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.