Job Title: Ice Cream Data Scientist
Location: Colworth Science Park
About Us:
At Unilever Ice Cream, we are dedicated to delivering exceptional ice cream experiences that delight our customers and stand out in the marketplace. As a leader in the ice cream industry, we strive to understand and anticipate market trends and consumer behaviours. We believe that deep consumer insights are the key to driving innovation and maintaining our competitive edge.
The Ice cream business is particularly dynamic, with the high number of products as well as facing multiple large and small-scale competitors in each of the major trend growth areas. The Consumer Technical Insights team is a thought leader in the development, application and roll out of both insight and value optimization tools to direct our core brands to deliver against rapidly evolving opportunities within fast moving consumer trends in the marketplace.
JOB PURPOSE
We are seeking a talented and motivated Data Scientist to join our Consumer Technical Insights (CTI) team within our ice cream business. We are looking for someone with a natural curiosity and desire to interrogate and connect data to help us translate what consumers want into technical action standards that our Research and Development (R&D) teams can deliver against. In this role, you will leverage advanced AI and machine learning techniques, along with data exploration, analysis, visualization tools, and statistical analysis, to translate data into meaningful recommendations that drive our business forward. You will also play a crucial role in identifying and integrating emerging technologies and methodologies to ensure our data science practices remain at the forefront of industry advancements.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Defining and developing innovative approaches for capturing both structured and unstructured data, which can be used for modelling and insight generation.
- Executing data pre-processing activities to ensure data is fit for analytics and predictive model development.
- Analysing data sets using a diverse set of statistical and modelling techniques and developing models and algorithms using Machine Learning and AI.
- Developing and implementing data analytics and visualisation tools and dashboards (together with functional experts, partners and stakeholders) to enable confidence in rapid data and AI driven R&D decisions.
- Supporting the CTI and wider R&D team with data cleaning, transformation and structuring to enable visualisation, analysis and upload to dashboards where applicable.
- Ensuring data is managed with the upmost ethical standards, including safeguarding consumer personal and sensitive data.
- Building strong and collaborative relationships with both internal and external partners.
- Presenting data in an appealing and engaging way tailored to the audience with fully detailed debrief to R&D teams and senior stakeholders as required.
- Staying current with data science techniques, industry trends and emerging technologies, particularly in AI and machine learning, and supporting the implementation of these where appropriate.
- Travel <10% of time
ALL ABOUT YOU
- Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Computer Science or a related field.
- Relevant years of experience in Data Science, Statistics or Data Analysis, preferably in a consumer research or marketing analytics role.
- Highly competent with data capture and analytics tools and bringing together large volumes of data from multiples sources.
- Experience in developing machine learning models using Python or R. and using Power BI, or similar, to develop standard visualization dashboards.
- Knowledge and experience working with statistical/modelling software such as JMP, SAS, MATLAB or MINITAB are an added advantage.
- Ability to develop Design of Experiments (DOE).
- Strong collaboration and teamwork skills.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to summarise and present results in an impactful way, tailored to the audience.
- Interest or knowledge in consumer research methods.
- Ability to work on multiple projects and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to identifying opportunities for improvement.
Why Join Us:
- Opportunity to work with a talented and passionate team in a growing ice cream company.
- Continuous learning and professional development opportunities.
- A culture that values innovation, collaboration, and a commitment to excellence.
- Flexible work environment with hybrid work.
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About Unilever
Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.
Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’
What We Offer
Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.
Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.
Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self. To find out more, including about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Unilever | Unilever.
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What We Do
Be part of the world’s most successful, purpose-led business. Work with brands that are well-loved around the world, that improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We promote innovation, big and small, to make our business win and grow; and we believe in business as a force for good. Unleash your curiosity, challenge ideas and disrupt processes; use your energy to make this happen. Our brilliant business leaders and colleagues provide mentorship and inspiration, so you can be at your best.
Our portfolio ranges from nutritionally balanced foods to indulgent ice creams, affordable soaps, luxurious shampoos and everyday household care products. We produce world-leading brands including Lipton, Knorr, Dove, Axe, Hellmann’s and Omo, alongside trusted local names and innovative-forward thinking brands like Ben & Jerry’s, The Dollar Shave Club and Dermalogica.
Every individual here can bring their purpose to life through their work. Join us and you’ll be surrounded by inspiring leaders and supportive peers. Among them, you’ll channel your purpose, bring fresh ideas to the table, and simply be you. As you work to make a real impact on the business and the world, we’ll work to help you become a better you.
