Sports Statistician
4 weeks ago
The Sun is the biggest news brand in the UK - and still growing - with a young, talented, diverse team which publishes the best coverage of news, sport, TV and showbiz, lifestyle and family value.
**Day to day**:
- Watching games and inputting stats through our company software.
- Have a deep understanding of the data, its limitations and meaning, including the investigation of data validity.
- Uncover trends in multiple sports datasets.
- Build and maintain data-driven predictive models.
- Build and maintain model validation metrics to regularly track performance.
- Have awareness of the limitations of any model output.
- Have an understanding of statistical robustness and validity.
- Taking on ad-hoc responsibilities as and when required.
**What we are looking for from you**:
- Unflappable under pressure and delivers work at a consistently high standard.
- Taking initiative and willingness to adapt.
- Positive attitude and good team player.
- Takes initiative in order to achieve desired results.
- Self-starter, organised and a good problem-solver, able to eliminate obstacles through creative and adaptive approaches.
- Experience working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams.
- Can demonstrate an understanding of the The Sun brand, both print and digital.
- Flexibility to work shift patterns, often late, across seven days.
**Life at News**
At News UK some of us **work flexibly**, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.
We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 8 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women’s Steering Group.
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the **Health and Wellbeing** of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme, as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage, counseling and legal support.
In addition we also offer:
- A generous **pension **scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
- 30 days **holiday **and up to 4 **volunteering **days per year;
- **Maternity **leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & **paternity **leave up to 2 weeks;
- Wide range of **training **available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any **reasonable adjustments** during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.
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