Data Scientist

Company Description

Merkle is a leading digital and customer experience management agency present in more than 25 markets. We are 12,000 souls dedicated to improving how companies and organizations serve customers and citizens, driving more effective, seamless, and enjoyable customer experiences from first touch to life-long loyalty. Merkle is part of the Dentsu Group family with sister agencies Carat, dentsu X, and iProspect. We are all champions for progress and committed to achieving meaningful change across business and society.

Job Description

Are you a problem solver, explorer, and knowledge seeker within data… Then maybe you are our new team member.

Our Data & Analytics practice is growing, we are currently 55+ consultants across Northern Europe (located in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam) who specialise in designing, configuring, collecting, managing, visualising, and analysing data from A to Z; with a purpose to optimise our clients' businesses through data intelligence that can drive better data-driven decisions.  

Within our Data Science teams we are looking for a new colleague with some years of experience within data science and business analysis.  Someone who is passionate about creating world-class data and analytical solutions in partnership with like-minded colleagues and clients, that enable the deployment of enhanced customer experience.  

A little info on your new role

Through innovative ways of using data, analytics & decisioning technologies you will help our clients understand the full relevance of their data assets and translate these into actionable decisions that help drive business value within all their customer interactions.

You will play a central role in our Data & Analytics, working on a variety of exciting and challenging client projects, all with a focus around delivering enhanced customer experience.  From data wrangling and data manipulation, to data exploration and interpretation of complex data via data mining, to prescriptive analytics and data visualisation, through to building predictive models via advanced analytical techniques (machine learning / AI); you will take a key role in our client projects, helping to shape and deliver value via data and insights.

Qualifications

You are already a driven and experienced Data Scientist, but are now looking for new opportunities to develop and further your career.  We expect you to match the following:

• 2-5 years of real-world business experience in a data science, business analysis, or a data stewardship role
• Detailed hands-on experience of data prep, data analysis, plus building and implementing ML/AI models
• Fluency with scripting in Python, R, or other
• Experience cooperating with business stakeholders to ensure data/analytical solutions deliver business needs, with the ability to present complex data & analytical solutions in an easy way
• Experience with data integration
• Take initiative and is committed to continuously improving our working methods
• Work well both independently and as part of a team (both locally & remotely)
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, economics, or equivalent

Preferred (but not necessary):

• Experience of working within a consultancy/agency
• Familiarity with data & analytics cloud platform technology
• Familiarity with marketing, decisioning & sales tools (e.g. Salesforce, Adobe, Pega, Sitecore, Tealium, TreasureData, etc.)
• Experience with data visualisation & deploying performance metrics (e.g. via Tableau, PowerBI, Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics etc.)

Additional Information

Smells like team spirit

We don’t have a slide for fast travel between our two floors, but we have plenty of reasons why you’ll love working at Merkle. We offer:

• A nice pension scheme
• Health insurance
• Your own balance of office vs. remote work
• Weekly Friday bars (yup, your weekend buzz is on us!)
• Daily-cious breakfast and lunch from our in-house chefs
• An unlimited amount of coffee, tea, and supportive colleagues
• Wine tasting club, running club, game nights, grand parties, fun events
• A creative environment that lets you think 27 kilometers outside the box

We have employees who’ve stayed with us for 5, 10, 15, even 20 years! This is surely due – in part – to our flexible working conditions and consideration for each person’s needs. There’s room for you to be yourself, including dressing however you like. We try our best to take good care of each other, our clients, and the world around us.

This also means we don’t hire brilliant jerks. Do you have a knack for pitching the right ideas, but have your head up your own amazingness? Well, for that reason, we’re out. More than likely, though, you’ll make an awesome addition to our team, and we can’t wait to meet you!

How to apply

Is your heart racing a little now? If you can see yourself in all this – both the job and being part of Merkle – we would love to hear from you.

Please send us your application & CV through our application system.

There is no application deadline. Finding the right candidate is more important to us than a speedy process. We remove the job ad when filling the position.

For any questions regarding the position, please contact Anna Lynge, Talent Acquisition Manager; anna.lynge@merkle.com