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Location: Hub based! Bristol, London or Glasgow

But you have the flexibility to work wherever suits you best

Team: Data Science

Salary banding: £80,000 - £110,000

Experience: Expert

Working pattern:Full-Time

Reporting to: Andrew Mohammed, Head of Data Science

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Data. Decarbonisation. Leadership

Top 3 qualities for this role:  Passionate. Strategic. Influential.

In the words of the team, you should leave your current role for this one because….

You will have the opportunity to build ML products that directly and meaningfully reduce carbon whilst driving OVO towards its Plan Zero goals. As a growing area of the business that is highly focused on innovation, there’s real scope for you to shape how we tackle decarbonisation. We have a great team and would really value a strategic leader who can ensure the team’s skills and experience are delivering maximum value for OVO, its customers and the planet.

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Team working for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how:

This role is fundamental to Plan Zero. The team is delivering the data science and insights that enables OVO to decarbonise customer homes. This could be modelling customer behaviour to ensure we’re offering products and propositions that our customers value or providing insights that help our customers manage their energy consumption.

This role in a nutshell:

As OVO moves closer to 5m customers, we are starting to reshape our data teams to enable our strategy to provide a world leading, carbon net zero, and digitally enabled experience. The data teams operate in a federated structure, with both central and embedded teams, to support our growing scale and ambition.

Reporting into a Head of Data Science, you will manage a team of data scientists and analysts developing innovative data products that deliver great business outcomes for our Retail teams. Your team will own the end to end development of machine learning models, covering prediction, propensity, segmentation, NLP Generative AI (and more!). You’ll be responsible for engaging with different business teams to understand their data science needs and prioritising projects with your stakeholders. You’ll also support the development of your team through mentoring and achievable career progression plans.

Your key outcomes will be:

• Engaging with stakeholders and senior leadership to define objectives and identify areas where data science can deliver the highest impact.
• Lead and inspire a multidisciplinary Data Science team, including specialists in machine learning, operational research, and data engineering, including the application of generative AI
• Take responsibility for the technical delivery of your team’s models and the analytics that support them. This includes ensuring productionised work is well monitored and maintained after release.
• Collaborate with your peer group of data science managers to define the frameworks and practices that enable our data scientists and analysts to have maximum impact.
• Work with external partners to tap into expertise and expand our capabilities. Assess ways to improve and supplement the data we collect, as well as the approaches we take.
• Champion the value of data science and advise on appropriate use of data in the business, actively exploring innovative approaches, particularly in generative AI

Within your first 3 months month you’ll:

• Define a roadmap that ensures your team are delivering value and aligned with OVO’s goals.
• Become the lead representative for the Data team in the Zero Carbon Living domain. This will involve attending steer-co meetings, setting up regular touch points with collaborators and handling incoming requests.
• Be familiar with the existing ML products, models and analytics that the team has produced to date.
• Define the ways of working for the team.

Systems:

• Python
• Google Cloud Platform - particularly BigQuery, VertexAI, Composer
• DataRobot
• Github

You’ll be a successful Senior Data Science Manager at OVO if you…

• Have experience leading a data science team, producing ML products, data solutions and tools/insights with true commercial impact.
• Enjoy being hands on and supportive. The ideal candidate will have both theoretical knowledge and hands-on experience in advanced data science techniques. Excellent database querying skills and good programming experience for example, ideally using Python.
• Are skilled in building relationships and handling the priorities of multiple teams.
• Enjoy being proactive in finding opportunities for data science, and support conversations regarding ‘buy or build your own’ decisions.
• Can define the best ways of working for the team through an existing knowledge of popular frameworks such as Agile.

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £80,000 and £110,000, depending on your specific skills and experience. If your expectations are a little different, have a chat with us!

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal. 

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay.  It’s an extra 9% of your salary on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, add to your pension, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits. Here’s a taster of what’s on offer: 

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays). For your healthWith benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and moreFor your wellbeingWith gym membership, gadget, travel and cyber insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, DNA testing, dental insurance, and more For your lifestyle With extra holiday buying, discount dining, culture cards, tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donationsFor your home  Get up to £300 off any OVO Energy plan (when you pay by Direct Debit), plus personal carbon offsetting and great discounts on smart thermostats and EV chargersFor your commute Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes, yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!

If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible..