Manager: Data Science

2 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa OutsideCapital Full time

Our Client is dedicated to ensuring people’s safety and providing quality customer service. This role is the perfect opportunity for an experienced Data Science Manager to lead a team tasked with driving strategic intent and operational effectiveness. You will manage a small team and be responsible for delivering Data Science related objectives in collaboration with their relevant business units.

Responsibilities include:

- Advanced and Predictive Analytics: Utilize machine learning techniques and build predictive, descriptive and behavioral models to achieve various business performance indicators, identify business opportunities and link insights to actionable recommendations.
- Manage the optimization cycle and quantify the impact of models on the business, its customers and other stakeholders.
- Data and Analytics Strategy: Plan all business and technical aspects of different data and analytics systems and platforms, and understand their features and properties.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Develop stakeholder engagement through identifying stakeholders, and manage relationships and collaboration across the business.
- Insights and Reporting: Lead execution and interpretation of complex reports, identifying and interpreting complex patterns and trends. Calculate the ROI of projects and models and present to key stakeholders.
- Data Exploration: Perform complex statistical analysis and utilize data mining, modelling and testing techniques to enable data analysis.
- Leadership and Direction: Communicate actions to implement the functions strategy, and motivate people to commit to these and to do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.
- Performance Management: Set objectives for direct reports or project/account team members, and manage and report on team performance.
- Data Management: Manage key aspects of the data management system with guidance from senior colleagues.
- Continuous Improvement: Review existing operations in own area of work and other business units, and implement innovation processes.
- Project management: Manage a portfolio of projects and deliver on project outcomes.
- Organizational Capability Building: Use the organization's formal development framework to identify team's individual development needs.
- Matric
- 3 - year degree in Information Technology / Sciences / Informatics / Applied Mathematics / Statistics / Quantitative sciences / Actuarial sciences / Data Mining / Economics
- Master’s Degree in Information Technology / Sciences / Informatics / Applied Mathematics / Statistics / Quantitative sciences / Actuarial sciences / Data Mining / Economics (Advantageous)
- 6 or more years working experience within an analytical, data science or computer science environment
- Experience in the Financial Services Industry, Short-Term Insurance (Advantageous)
- 2 - 4 years management team lead experience of a small team 2-6 people


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