Competitive salary, £5,500 Car allowance plus Healthcare, 18% annual bonus potential with 27.5 days annual leave, plus bank holidays plus bank holidays rising with serve and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
Permanent, Full time
Royal Mail Farringdon, London, EC1A 1AA
Royal Mail is going through one of the most exciting periods in its history, and the Operations team is at the beating heart of the change. We're building a green, optimised network, developing cutting edge supply chain technology, and adapting the most iconic and historic logistics operation in the country to the fast-paced demands of the modern world. There has never been a better time to join us.
About the role
- You will be part of our newly-formed Data Insights team, leveraging cutting-edge technologies and data science techniques to enable data-driven decision-making across RM, delivering value for our customers.
- Working within the Transformation function, you will be responsible for driving insight generation, identifying and developing data-driven profitability opportunities.
- You will be expected to develop and apply state-of-the-art data science and artificial intelligence techniques to solve Royal Mail’s business challenges
- You will present, disseminate and explain our work via presentations, reports, external papers and blogs and well-documented software packages.
About You
- For this role you should hold a Master’s degree, or equivalent knowledge and practical experience, in a field with significant use of both computer programming and advanced statistical or quantitative methods.
- You should be able to demonstrate experience of developing end-to-end advanced statistical, machine learning and optimisation systems including data cleansing, exploratory data analysis, model development, evaluation, visualisation and monitoring.
- You have practical experience applying statistical modelling and experimentation to produce data-driven, evidence-based insights.
- You have knowledge of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence techniques, including leveraging pre-trained foundation models to solve challenging business problems or optimise workflows.
- You are fluent in Python and standard libraries for data science, statistics, machine learning and artificial intelligence along with understanding cloud computing platforms
Extra Benefits
• RMG Share Schemes - partnership and matching share offer
• Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
• Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
• Supportive and generous company sick pay
• Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It’s free, and it’s for everyone.
*Available only to perm employees
Next Steps
The next stage of the selection process will be an initial chat with the hiring manager on or from 23rd October.
Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean ‘your’ interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind. Royal Mail Group values both trust, and our people.
We don’t expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you.
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