Sia Partners Ireland Graduate Data Science Consultant 2023

Company Description

Sia Partners is hiring graduate consultants to join a rotation programme across its Practices in the UK, including Growth and Innovation, Financial Services, Business and Digital Transformation and Energy. The programme will last 12 months, starting at the end of September 2023 and will be based in Sia Partners’ London office.

This is a fantastic opportunity for recent graduates to join one of the fastest growing management consulting firms globally. Sia Partners offers a unique value proposition for talented graduates: the opportunity to dive into the role of a full-time consultant from day one and benefit from early project-based responsibility and client exposure, while working with experienced and diverse practice/service specialists.

Graduate Consultants will get the opportunity to make a lasting impact on the business and our clients. You will benefit from constant mentoring delivered by a Senior Consultant/Manager throughout the duration of the programme and will have regular exposure to practice leads, getting feedback on your performance and guidance in personal and professional development. As with all Sia Partners employees, Graduate Consultants will undergo performance reviews twice per year and receive clear direction on areas for improvement moving towards a promotion.

Furthermore, Sia Partners will offer a vast range of training ranging from face-to-face sessions covering consulting basics to highly specialised online and gamified modules covering specific industry sector and functional topics.

Sia Partners offers several international mobility programmes to its consultants; participants to the 2023 Graduate Programme will be eligible to join these after the end of 12 months. For further information, please go to: http://sia-partners.com/careers/working-sia-partners.

Job Description

Sia Partners is a next-generation management consulting firm and pioneer of Consulting 4.0. Supported by Augmented & Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Data Science, we empower our clients to make the right decisions at the right time for the right reasons. 

The global Data Science capability at Sia Partners consists of more than 200 Data Scientists in the Center of excellence located in our hubs across Europe, North America, and Asia. The team in London will predominantly support projects across a diverse cross-section of business sectors including Healthcare, Banking, Energy, Defence, Technology, and others. 

To support its development, Sia Partners is recruiting graduate data scientists, in the final stages of their studies. They will be responsible for working in synergy with our various practices to take on projects, and tasks requiring the implementation of complex models to assist our clients with their problems.

You might find yourself working in one or more of the following disciplines to help our clients achieve their aims:

• Data analysis : Identify business issues by extracting, interpreting, and explaining insights from data. 
• Machine/Deep learning and statistics: Development of explanatory and predictive models for decision support through the development of algorithms, econometrics, forecasting, quantitative diagnosis, etc.
• Operational research: Assistance in the design and implementation of constrained optimisation solutions and simulation models.
•  Big Data: Algorithmic knowledge for the processing of large volumes of structured and unstructured data.

You will also contribute to internal data science projects hosted on Heka, our internal accelerator for data science projects: https://www.heka.ai/en

(For more information about our Data Science practice, visit our bots showroom : https://datascience.sia-partners.com/.

You can also see a video presentation of our AI services & solutions here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbnEoa9zHQY.)

As a Consultant, you will be responsible for…

•  Delivering high quality work with some oversight.
• Ensuring that the deep insights generated from advanced analytics translate into business impact.
• Supporting the delivery of projects, potentially working across several key clients in the UK and, if required, supporting overseas engagements.
• Identifying and referring opportunities on projects through industry news awareness, networking and initiative.
• Contributing to proposal development.
•  Developing an understanding of what the business does and the services your practice offers.
•  Supporting the development of Sia Partners assets and IP including methodology, tools, templates, guidelines, and leading initiatives to continuously improve and integrate them with other Sia Partners assets across the Practice.
•  Supporting the development of blogs and articles.

You can expect…

• A supportive atmosphere, where innovation and initiative are encouraged.
• A commitment to diversity, inclusion and employee well-being.
• Opportunities to flex your intellectual and creative muscles.
• Welcoming, friendly and professional colleagues.
• A personal development plan with clear goals for advancement.
• A meritocratic approach to promotion that rewards those who exceed expectations.
• A competitive salary, in line with the market and your peers.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• A performance-related bonus.
• Health, life, dental and travel insurance.
• An employer-matched contribution pension scheme.
• 25 days holiday per year, plus Bank Holidays.

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Qualifications

What skills and experience are we looking for?

• Graduated in 2022 or are due to graduate in Summer 2023.
• Curious and creative thinkers with a ‘can-do’ attitude;
• Enthusiasm for applying Data-driven solutions to business problems.
• Willingness to take on responsibility on high-value projects with dynamic structures.
• Excellence in statistics and quantitative analysis (theoretical and practical knowledge, intuition, ability to understand models and apply them).
•  Programming skills in Python and/or R. A solid foundation in other scripting or compiled languages may be suitable
• The ability to adapt rapidly, and work on a range of different business areas within a challenging environment and keeping to tight deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal and teamworking skills.
• Fluency in spoken and written English. Additional languages are nice to have.
• The right to work in the UK;
• To be on course for, or have achieved at least a 2:1 degree in any discipline (Undergraduate or Masters);
• Equivalent degrees will be considered from top-tier foreign educational institution

Additional Information

Apply within page with CV and Cover Letter. All screening questions within the application form MUST be answered. The application process will close on Tuesday 31st January, 2023.

Sia Partners is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs. 

Sia Partners is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.