Data Scientist
Hybrid working (mixture of working from home and in the office)
The role of a data scientist in the pricing science team is a mixture of exploration and support. The Data scientists are the chief avenue of new techniques, approaches, and ways of doing things into our price modelling process. They are also responsible for the maintenance of the tools that are used by the price modelling teams.
You will be joining our Data and Pricing team: 45 Pricing, Statistics, Data Science and BI analytical professionals, working together to drive our business forward. The team will help you to develop your skills, teach you new ones and give you the opportunity to grow your vocation and career.
Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:
- Develop a strong understanding of how we price Motor and Home insurance products
- Develop an understanding of how and where we can improve current processes & practice
- Introduce and lead research and development projects to improve the performance and efficiency of the machine learning models
- Collaborate with Technical Pricing Team to identify business problems and recommend solutions
- Adapt working with our current tools and developments that are mainly based on R and Python
- Collaborate with our data scientists in the maintenance of the existing tools and platforms
- Work with other data scientists
Skills, Experience and Knowledge:
- Programing skills in Python or R (or both) and their relevant data science and statistics libraries
- Knowledge on data manipulations, machine learning, advanced analytics, and statistical techniques
- Ability in communicating with the team members and written and verbal presentation skills
- Ability to engage in teamwork and to collaborate with the team to produce the best outputs
- Degree qualification in relevant discipline e.g., mathematics, computer science, computer engineering, statistics (advantageous)
- Experience in insurance or other financial services (advantageous)
Why chose us?
Here are some of our amazing benefits:
- Free lunch any day you are in the office
- A hybrid working model (split of working from home and the office)
- Entry into a monthly prize draw
- 25 days annual leave, which increases 1 day per year until the maximum of 30 days is hit (this excludes bank holidays)
- A virtual GP service
- Opportunity for volunteering days
On top of this, you will also get access to our flexible benefits which includes buying and selling holiday, cycle to work scheme, technology scheme, gym flex and so much more.
BGL Insurance, part of the Markerstudy Group, is a leading digital distributor of insurance to three million customers. BGL Insurance provides a range of motor, home and life insurance products in partnership with several of the best-known brands in UK financial services and through own brands Budget Insurance, Dial Direct and Beagle Street, all supported by state-of-the-art, award winning, contact centres and market leading digital platforms.
With over 1,700 colleagues across three sites in Peterborough, Sunderland and Wakefield, BGL Insurance uses its passion, scale and expertise for the benefit of its customers, offering unrivalled value, ease and confidence.
Diversity and Inclusion
We're a diverse community of dedicated, innovative and talented professionals. Inclusive by instinct, we encourage our people to create and share ideas – supporting their growth and celebrating their uniqueness. We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and stand firmly against discrimination of any kind.
Please submit a cover letter with your application or you can send your cover letter to bglicareers@bglgroup.co.uk (once you have applied) including the job title in the subject line.
We look forward to reviewing your application!