Senior Data Scientist
Bauer Media Group Senior Data Scientist
Location: London, Hybrid (1-2 days per week onsite)
Our Team: How we enrich everyday life
You'll be joining the Data & Decision Sciences (DDS) team at the heart of Bauer Media Audio. We partner with teams across Digital Media, Revenue Management, Marketing and Consumer Promotions to turn data into actionable insights that drive audience growth, commercial performance and better decision-making.
Working across nine European markets, we're building a modern data capability that combines analytics, experimentation and machine learning to create real business impact.
The Difference You Will Make
As a Senior Data Scientist, you'll play a key role in shaping how Bauer uses data to grow audiences, optimise revenue and improve customer experiences. Working on challenges ranging from predictive modelling and experimentation to personalisation and decision science, you'll turn complex data into practical solutions that influence business outcomes.
This is an opportunity to combine technical expertise with commercial impact, helping build the next generation of data products and capabilities within a leading European media business.
Your Role
You'll lead and contribute to end-to-end data science projects, partnering with teams across the business to deliver actionable insights and scalable solutions.
Responsibilities include:
- Building and deploying predictive models to drive audience engagement, retention and revenue growth
- Designing and implementing experiments, A/B tests and advanced analytics frameworks
- Working closely with stakeholders across Digital Media, Revenue Management and Consumer Promotions
- Translating business challenges into data-driven solutions
- Collaborating with analytics, product and engineering teams to develop and deploy models
- Championing best practice in data science, experimentation and model development
- Mentoring junior team members and helping develop team capability
- Evaluating new tools, technologies and approaches that can enhance business performance
- Communicating insights and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
The Skills You Will Bring
Essential:
- Strong experience in a Data Scientist or Senior Data Scientist role, with a proven track record of delivering measurable business outcomes
- Advanced Python and SQL skills
- Expertise using modern machine learning and statistical modelling frameworks such as scikit-learn, XGBoost and similar tools
- Experience building, deploying and maintaining predictive models in production environments
- Strong understanding of experimentation, A/B testing, causal inference and advanced statistical techniques
- Experience working with modern cloud-based data platforms such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift or equivalent
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence decision-making through data
- Experience working in agile, cross-functional environments
- Strong commercial awareness and the ability to balance technical excellence with business impact
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to navigate ambiguity in fast-paced environments
- Experience mentoring or supporting the development of junior team members
Desirable:
- Experience within Digital Media, Revenue Management, Gaming, Gambling or Consumer Competitions
- Experience with dbt, Airflow, Git or similar tools
- Exposure to personalisation, recommendation engines or marketing technology platforms
- Familiarity with tools such as Tableau, Braze, Adswizz, Rudderstack or Covatic
About Bauer Media Group
We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.
What’s in it for you
- You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
- Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win.
- We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
- You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working.
- And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here
We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing careershub@bauermedia.co.uk
We are actively recruiting for this position, so the job advert may close earlier than expected.
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