Senior Data Scientist

Job title:

Senior Data Scientist

Company

Carnival Corporation

Job description

Job Description:We recognise the value in having people with a variety of backgrounds, experience and skills in our business. That means the role requirements here should be seen as a guide, not a checklist. If you have more, less or different experiences, but relevant skills, we’d love to hear from you.We work flexibly and will help you to find a healthy balance of remote working and time in our fantastic Southampton office, collaborating, taking part in events and getting to know people that makes working with us so rewarding. We welcome the opportunity to discuss reduced hours and job share arrangements.The RoleThis role is for a highly skilled and experienced Senior Data Scientist to join our Revenue Management Department. The role will include data analysis, machine learning, statistical modelling, and data engineering principles, with a focus on revenue optimization and pricing strategies. It will take a main role in the development and maintenance of our Revenue. Management System, YODA. The role will play a crucial role in driving data-driven decisions, shaping our revenue strategy, and leading complex projects that impact the entire organization. An essential part of this role is the ability to translate scientific outputs into actionable business insights, ensuring that data science initiatives directly support business objectives.You will:

• Analyse large datasets to extract meaningful insights related to revenue trends, patterns, and anomalies.
• Develop, implement, and optimise advanced machine learning models and algorithms to predict revenue outcomes and optimise pricing strategies.
• Champion the role of science in advancing their revenue management capability across the business and at the appropriate level so that it is fully understood by all.
• Collaborate with data engineers to design and maintain scalable data pipelines and infrastructure that support revenue management initiatives.

Our role categories range from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President) so you can clearly see internal development opportunities. This role is a CUK07 and is offered on a full time, permanent basis, with hybrid working in our Southampton office, including up to two days from home.About YouFresh ideas and different perspectives are what excite us most and help us to succeed. Alongside bringing these to the role, you’ll also need:

• Excellent mathematical, computer and analytical skills.
• Experience with SQL
• Proven Operations Research/Data Science experience post masters applying research and other advanced methodologies to solve complex issues / strategic business problems, or a PhD in a relevant field.
• Very strong analytical, statistical and modelling skills, with experience manipulating and ‘making sense’ of data from disparate systems.
• Demonstrable experience within R/Python.

Being part of our team has its advantages…We’re a holiday company so we know there’s more to life than work. Our comprehensive range of benefits are designed to help your personal and financial health and wellbeing.

• A friendly welcome with help settling in
• Home and office-based hybrid working (up to 2 days from home)
• Regular office events including live entertainment, lifestyle events and charity partner fundraisers
• Extensive learning and development opportunities
• Annual bonus
• Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme
• Employee-led networks
• Employee Assistance and Wellbeing programmes
• Recognition scheme with prizes and awards
• Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
• Contributory Defined Contribution Pension scheme
• Company paid private medical and dental insurance and health assessment
• In-house Occupational Health help and access to digital GP
• Life Assurance
• Parental and adoption leave
• Employee Shares Plan
• Electric Car and Cycle to Work schemes
• Onsite restaurant offering range of healthy cooked and grab and go meals
• Discounted retail and leisure via discounts portal

Please note: Being able to create unforgettable holiday happiness is a brilliant opportunity so we often receive high volumes of applications for our roles. In these cases, we may close our job adverts early and aren’t able to consider applications once this happens.#LI-Hybrid#Job Functions: Research; Science; Strategy / Planning;#LI-KP1About Us:Holidays are one of life’s greatest pleasures. Having the chance to relax, escape and explore is a magical thing. And there is no better holiday than a cruise.No one knows cruising like Carnival UK, where talented people from across the globe come together to create unforgettable holiday happiness. As part of the world’s largest holiday travel and leisure company, we take enormous pride in bringing to life two of the most iconic brands from Britain’s rich seafaring heritage, P&O Cruises and Cunard. Collectively they have been delivering unbridled joy, boundless adventure and lifelong memories to millions of people for over 350 years. And in a multi-million pound global holiday market, where cruising has barely scratched the surface, we have the opportunity to do that for many, many more people.Our diverse yet tight knit teams share high standards, heartfelt values and passion for our purpose. Our Culture Essentials describe the expectations we have for ourselves and of each other, in building a culture that supports safe, sustainable, compliant operations and celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion.It’s through the successful delivery of these extraordinary travel experiences for our target markets and our distinctive culture, that we hope to become Travel’s Employer of Choice.

Expected salary

Location

Southampton

Job date

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 23:34:32 GMT

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