Senior Data Scientist

2 weeks ago

Cardiff, United Kingdom Rostella Limited Full time

**Option for hybrid working - very flexible.**

Hedgehog has been providing car insurance for 3 years, and we are now looking to accelerate our business with support from new partners. We are rapidly growing and looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our Pricing team and build a variety of MachineLearning and statistical models that will inform decision-making and improve profitability.

While the office is based in Cardiff, the position offers the flexibility of hybrid working.

**Your key responsibilities**:

- Develop and maintain statistical models to analyse pricing performance and increase total profitability.
- Recommend rating action and changes to existing models based on detailed reviews of competitive position, customer behaviour, claims performance and profitability.
- Evaluate the potential impact of new data sources on performance and manage the integration into new models.
- Establish and evaluate tests to assess the relative performance of competing pricing structures and models.
- Peer review models and proposals created within the team
- Develop the team’s understanding and use of machine learning frameworks.

**Your skillset and experience**:

- Demonstrated ability to analyse data to support decision-making.
- Able to identify, investigate and explain data trends.
- Experience using various programming languages, such as Python or R, preferably within a Cloud environment
- Proven experience using supervised learning techniques such as GLM's, GBM’s and random forests.
- Interest in the full end to end process of building, implementing and reviewing machine learning models
- Excellent communicator, able to convey complex results to technical and non-technical staff.
- Creative approach to problem solving.
- Able to identify and understand stakeholder concerns and propose actions to address them.
- Able to use own initiative and progress work independently, delivering within agreed timescales
- Able to mentor more junior members of the team.
- 3+ years' in a data science role, preferably insurance personal lines.

**Qualifications**:
**What can we do for you?**

**We believe we can offer you a great working environment as we’re so passionate about our people. Here are just some of the benefits and perks that we offer**
- £40,000-£65,000 salary
- 25 days' holiday allocation plus bank holidays
- A great central Cardiff working location with opportunities for hybrid working.
- Nest Pension Scheme

**The Company**:
Rostella is based in the heart of Cardiff and provides quality car insurance services to car insurance provider Hedgehog. This means we provide a range of functions including customer service, claims handling, underwriting, pricing and other car insurancerelated functions. We're a data-driven, agile company where everyone is expected to come up with ideas and help implement them to continually improve what we do and how we do it. Our aim is to create and maintain an industry-leading customer experience

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