Total 55 Senior Executive purchasing lead job vacancies in NSW - Sydney - City & Inner West

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join DataWorks, where you’ll be the technical lead for machine learning and predictive modelling projects. You will play a key role in developing end to end solutions and also own the implementation. This is a hands-on technical role where you’ll spend 80% of your time coding, building models and solving complex problems. While you’ll mentor junior team members and provide technical leadership, this is not a people management position although there is opportunity to do so in future as our small team grows.

Problems we’re working on include:

• Optimising marketing spend and mix for sustainable ROI
• Optimising call centre operations (prioritisation, demand) and driving performance with the right incentives
• Supporting marketing performance by analysing customer needs and effectiveness of creatives and other strategies

We have a hybrid working arrangement from our Sydney CBD offices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of data science models, responsible for designing and delivering technically complex Data Science initiatives that produce significant business value. Examples include churn prediction, forecasting on call centre performance and digital marketing demand, media mix models, clustering and segmentation, call centre activity simulation, speech to text and text analysis.
• Utilize advanced techniques in machine learning, deep learning, and causal inference to drive business insights and optimize performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (data engineers, business stakeholders, C Suite) to understand business needs and translate them into actionable data science solutions.
• Develop production-level code using Python, ensuring scalability and integration with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Use SQL and ETL processes to manipulate and extract data from relational databases.
• Communicate findings and insights effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Provide mentorship to junior team members and contribute to the overall growth of the team.

Advanced Technical Skill:

• Expert-level knowledge of machine learning techniques (e.g. GBMs, clustering) across a variety of business problems and data sets and experience across the full life cycle of model development,  deployment and maintenance. Proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language (e.g., Python, R)
• Strong ability to align technical solutions with business strategy, and to communicate complex findings to senior stakeholders
• Experience in setting timelines, deliverables, and navigating resourcing challenges
• You will have demonstrated clear and thorough logical and analytical thinking, as well as problem-solving skills and high attention to detail.
• Experience with visualization tools like PowerBI is a plus.
• Experience working in a cloud (AWS / GCP / Azure) environment is a plus

Why Join Us:

• Work in a small dynamic and innovative team driving real business impact, with strong buy-in from C Suite.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development in as a technical lead.
• Collaborative culture and cross-functional engagement with various teams and stakeholders. Autonomy in developing solutions and opportunity to drive high impact change in the business.

We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our innovative team and lead key projects involving machine learning, time series forecasting and LLMs. You will have a solid mathematical foundation and proven experience in developing and deploying production-level code.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of data science models, responsible for designing and delivering technically complex Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) initiatives that produce significant business value
• Utilize advanced techniques in machine learning, deep learning, and causal inference to drive business insights and optimize performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business needs and translate them into actionable data science solutions.
• Develop production-level code using Python, ensuring scalability and integration with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Use SQL and ETL processes to manipulate and extract data from relational databases.
• Communicate findings and insights effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Provide mentorship to junior team members and contribute to the overall growth of the analytics team.

The Successful candidate:

• Significant, demonstrable experience in data science or analytical roles
• You will have a track record of achievement in data science, analysis, applied statistics or machine learning
• Advanced Technical Skills: Expert-level knowledge of machine learning algorithms, model development, and deployment, with proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, R) and one database querying language (e.g., SQL). Experience with visualization tools like PowerBI is a plus.
• Business Acumen: Strong ability to align technical solutions with business strategy, and to communicate complex findings to senior stakeholders
• An academic background in statistics, mathematics, computer science, actuarial studies or similar is required
• You will have experience working in a cloud (AWS / GCP / Azure) environment
• You will have demonstrated clear and thorough logical and analytical thinking, as well as problem-solving skills and high attention to detail.
• Project Management: Experience in managing large, complex projects or multiple concurrent projects, including setting timelines, deliverables, and navigating resourcing challenges

Why Join Us:

• Work in a dynamic and innovative team driving real business impact.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development in a leadership role.
• Collaborative culture and cross-functional engagement with various teams and stakeholders.
• Competitive salary and benefits.

MEDIA IMPLEMENTATION: 

• Owns the media briefing and implementation of media plans for allocated film slate.
• Drives long lead media briefing and creative brainstorm sessions with the agency and key media partners
• Forward plans key media channels and placements
• Sets media objectives and feeds into the marketing brief for media requirements
• Reviews media plans in consultation with the marketing manager.  This includes checking:
• Flighting of activity
• Environments
• Costs & buying metrics
• Targeting
• Creative considerations
• Checking of TV spot lists (environments, creative allocation, durations)
• Review placement of key outdoor
• TV integration ie. toolkit allocations, sponsorships
• Head office reporting & creative allocation requests
• Provides feedback on full media plan to agency
• Reviews weekly TV and Digital reporting to identify learnings, efficiencies or action items
• Provides head office / marketing manager with media campaign summary
• Briefs in Exhibition 1st Party Data social campaigns which are complementary to our paid media activities

PUBLICITY INTEGRATAION

• Works with publicity team to deliver on key promotional objectives and integration
• Leads alongside publicity the Trailer break launch campaign 
• Responsible for delivering Trailer Break results for allocated film to broader business and works with Social Specialist to benchmark results
• Creative content strategies & influencer amplification
• Collaborates with publicity to review any spend associated with Screening events / media promotions / brand content campaigns

CREATIVE CONTENT

• Liaises with marketing and production executive on creative assets and deadlines
• Maps creative content for media placements in consult with Marketing & Production executive.

ORGANIC SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS

• Drives the briefing process for allocated film with external social media agency, this includes ;
• Communicating social media objectives 
• Outlining key publicity initiatives that need to be supported in social
• Provides an overview of ALL content that is available from advertising, publicity, head office bespoke social content.
• Provides direction on locally developed content requirements
• Outlines any key exhibition or partnership activity that needs to be supported or amplified in social
• Works with agency to identify any suitable influencers for content creation on our owned Universal channels
• Sets targeting and budget allocations for all paid social media activity in line with supporting digital AV and overall campaign weights
• Manages the social agency to respond to the brief and collaboratively develops a conversation calendar and action plan for each film. 
• Approves all organic social media content before it goes live
• Where required manages the social agency to deliver premiere activations