Team Lead Data Science

Voor mijn opdrachtgever de Goede Doelen Loterijen (Nationale Postcode Loterij en VriendenLoterij) te Amsterdam ben ik op zoek naar een Team Lead Data Science.

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As Team Lead Data Science you will work with your team on predicting conversion probabilities for a million households. You will lead the development and implementation of advanced analytics solutions together with your team. And every day at work, you’ll be doing your part for all the charities we support.

Maurits van den Brand, Data Scientist: “Every day we aim to identify, discover & implement (new) possibilities, based on data intelligence, in order to keep on raising ever more funds for social organisations and causes across the world.”
 
As Team Lead Data Science, you’ll:

• Stay up to date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in data science and MLOps, and identify opportunities to apply new techniques or technologies to the team’s work.
• Lead and manage a team of 10 data scientists by providing mentorship, guidance, and professional development opportunities.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and innovation within the team.
• Work with other leaders, program managers, engineers, and business stakeholders to turn strategy into value. 
• Evaluate potential new talent.

• You hold a Master degree in econometrics, computer science, AI or similar with demonstrable work experience in Data Science (7+ years) and guiding team members (2+ years).
• You have experience in building machine learning models.
• A proactive, strategic and creative mindset with strong communication and collaboration skills.
• A critical thinker who always looks for areas of improvement.
• Knowledge of statistics and mathematics.
• Strong programming skills in Python.

About:

The Postcode Lottery Group is a marketing-driven international non-profit organisation. We operate lotteries to raise funds for a fairer, greener and healthier world. Our players win with their neighbours and generate money for charities together – it’s a win-win!   We’ve raised more than €12.6 billion for thousands of good causes since 1989. We’re the third-largest private charitable donor in the world. Working alongside more than 1,500 fellow team members in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and Norway, you’ll be helping to build a better world every day!  

About the department:

The Postcode Lottery Group is building an International Analytics Hub to provide our lotteries with the right models, tools, tech and best practices to help realise our growth ambitions. In the hub you’ll work with the business to identify value-adding business cases for advanced statistical analytics. You’ll work on exciting and challenging BI, data and AI projects that will create real impact for the lotteries and our beneficiary organizations.  

• A monthly salary, a variable year-end bonus and an excellent pension scheme, 28 days’ holiday a year based on a 40-hour week and flexible working hours.
• We believe it’s important that you’re able to keep developing professionally and personally, so we support ongoing training. The Lottery Academy offers a wide range of courses. And there are plenty of opportunities to grow within the organisation. 
• You’ll work in our sustainable building within walking distance of Amsterdam Zuid station and you'll get an NS Business Card, which lets you travel for free all over the Netherlands, even outside working hours! 
• We like to celebrate our successes with our colleagues and charity partners at well-attended monthly drinks and parties.
• We know exercising and relaxing are good for you. So we offer free boot camp, Pilates and kickboxing classes, and an employee running group that trains for events together. And you’ll enjoy free entry to more than 150 museums, plus theatre and cinema discounts.
• You’ll receive your full salary (100%) during childbirth and parental leave.
• To help you get involved in our charity partners’ work, we offer project visits and talks in our on-site auditorium. You can also volunteer three days a year during working hours, potentially with colleagues.

Join us:

We believe an inclusive organisation is the ideal breeding ground for creativity, collaboration and innovation. Employee solidarity is important to us, too. Each of us has a part to play in that – we are the organisation, after all. We strive to make everyone feel at home. That means keeping an open mind and paying attention to each other’s welfare. 

Can you see yourself as part of the team? We encourage you to apply – whatever your roots, religion, age, ability to work or life philosophy.