Graduate Data Scientist - Health and Pharmaceuticals

Application Deadline

April 25, 2024

Department

Graduate

Employment Type

Full Time

Location

London

Workplace type

Onsite

Compensation

£26,500 / year

Are you looking to start your career in one of the world's largest market research organisations? 

The Healthcare Global Modelling Unit (GMU) is a large team of specialists/analysts that support client facing market research teams, providing methodological advice, statistical modelling and data science techniques. 

We are one of the largest analytics teams at Ipsos and we have a global presence with analysts in five countries, supporting Ipsos’s Healthcare teams around the world.

The Role

As a Graduate Data Scientist, you’ll be assisting senior members of the Data Science team in the UK and Malaysia and gaining exposure to and experience in a great number of analytical techniques.
 

Some of your core responsibilities will include:

• Cleaning and restructuring data sets.
• Learning a wide range of statistical analysis techniques to support the team on the full range of GMU solutions.
• Showing willingness to lend a hand/ take a proactive team approach to help others.
• Plan time well and carry out tasks to an expected standard.
• Become knowledgeable about the market research industry, client sectors and the Ipsos analytical offer.

Additionally your day to day focus with either be:

• Text Analytics and gaining familiarity with Python and Natural Language Processing libraries.

OR

• Driver modelling and working with syndicated patient data.

About You

To be successful you’ll need to be comfortable working with data and not afraid of computer code or learning new technologies. The ideal candidate will have:

• Some experience of Excel and/or the ability to use other statistical software
• Good understanding of basic statistics and data science techniques
• Passion for new technologies
• Good organization, communication and teamwork skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Be creative, curious and innovative
• An interest in reading and working with text data

Other Desirable skills

• Experience of programming language, especially Python
• Experience of working in a cloud environment
• Experience working with databases (in particular SQL or BigQuery)
• Experience of machine learning models
• Experience working with medical datasets or healthcare knowledge

Our Offer

Our Generation Ipsos programme provides a comprehensive foundation in research and how it’s practically applied in a commercial environment. You’ll be trained in client management, project and operational management, equipping you to partner with researchers, Project Management colleagues and other teams to deliver excellence for our clients,. You’ll learn through real  life, hands-on experience, webinars, seminars and  specialist workshops.

We’ll provide you with dedicated training designed to achieve the industry recognised Market Research Society (MRS) Advanced Certificate accreditation. Networking is a key skill, so we have Early Careers events with other Graduates, Placement Students, and Interns across the company.
 

Having a flexible working culture where we support our colleagues and celebrate our successes is important to us. We invest our time in you and you’ll benefit from working alongside our expert teams. 
 

Your manager will help you set goals to achieve your personal objectives throughout the year and help you exceed these.

And the fun stuff …

• 25 days’ holiday which increases over time to 30 days, plus an extra day for your birthday
• Annual summer and All Staff events
• Team socials, including Christmas parties
• Season ticket loan
• Future talent loan - an optional and interest-free loan of up to £1000 to help with any unexpected costs, so you can focus on having a great start to your career
• A huge variety of benefits e.g. pension contributions, income protection, winter flu jabs, eye care vouchers, online and high street discounts
• Opportunity to participate in and benefit from participation in our multiple Diversity and Inclusion Belong groups, which bring together people with shared identities and interests to ensure that their voices are heard through the company and that Ipsos can continue to carry out research that is most representative of the UK and wider world today.

Those who are successful at the application stage will be progressed to a virtual interview. The final stage will be an assessment centre held at our Thomas More Square Office (London) in May.

We are committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views. We recognise that this is important for our business success - a more diverse workforce will enable us to better reflect and understand the world we research and ultimately deliver better research and insight to our clients.

About Ipsos

Global leader in market research, Ipsos delivers reliable information and true understanding of Society, Markets and People. Our solutions use data from surveys, polls, social media or qualitative, and provide actionable insights into the experience and opinions of citizens, consumers, patients, customers, employees.