We are currently hiring for a Senior Data Scientist within the Commercial team in Group Protection, responsible for designing and pricing insurance products. The Data & Analytics function plays a critical role in owning the data lifecycle and delivering insight and modelling that directly influences pricing, profitability and customer outcomes.
You’ll join a small, high-impact team where you’ll have real ownership, visibility and the opportunity to shape end-to-end data science solutions. This is a hands-on role where your work will move beyond theory into practical application, solving real business problems and driving measurable commercial value.
What you'll be doing:
- Developing and delivering data science solutions using a variety of data sources to inform business decision-making and improve customer outcomes
- Applying machine learning techniques to design accurate and effective models tailored to business needs
- Leading stakeholder engagement and managing relationships, translating technical outputs into clear business insights
- Sourcing, cleansing and engineering data, including performing exploratory analysis and preparing datasets for modelling
- Visualising model outputs and analytical results to a high standard, championing data visualisation best practice
- Collaborating with data professionals and stakeholders to automate and productionise data science solutions
- Ensuring robust documentation and undertaking peer review and quality assurance to maintain accuracy and integrity
- Providing subject matter expertise across data initiatives to enhance customer experience and business performance
Who we're looking for:
- Experience working with large and complex datasets with strong attention to detail
- Strong knowledge of machine learning techniques and model development approaches
- Proven ability in data manipulation, feature engineering and dataset creation
- Experience building and deploying models from experimentation through to production
- Confidence working with stakeholders, gathering requirements and guiding on analytical approaches
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, R and SQL for data science and analysis
- Experience working across multidisciplinary teams and delivering collaborative data solutions
Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:
- The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
- Generous pension contribution
- Life assurance
- Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
- At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
- Competitive family leave
- Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
- There are many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
- We’re creating net‑zero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our sustainable, modern offices across the UK, all designed to bring people together and elevate the in‑person experience