Senior Data Scientist
Job Summary
Location: London Hybrid (1-2 days per week onsite)
Our Team: How we enrich everyday life
Youllbe joining the Data & Decision Sciences (DDS) team at the heart of Bauer Media Audio. We partner with teams across Digital Media Revenue Management Marketing and Consumer Promotions to turn data into actionable insights that drive audience growth commercialperformanceand better decision-making.
Working across nine European marketswerebuilding a modern data capability that combines analyticsexperimentationand machine learning to createreal businessimpact.
The Difference You Will Make
As a Senior Data Scientistyoullplay a key role in shaping how Bauer uses data to grow audiences optimise revenue and improve customer experiences. Working on challenges ranging from predictive modelling and experimentation to personalisation and decision scienceyoullturn complex data into practical solutions that influence business outcomes.
This is an opportunity to combine technicalexpertisewith commercial impact helping build the next generation of data products and capabilities within a leading European media business.
Your Role
Youlllead and contribute to end-to-end data science projects partnering with teams across the business to deliver actionable insights and scalable solutions.
Responsibilities include:
- Building and deploying predictive models to drive audience engagementretentionand revenue growth
- Designing and implementing experiments A/B tests and advanced analytics frameworks
- Working closely with stakeholders across Digital Media Revenue Management and Consumer Promotions
- Translating business challenges into data-driven solutions
- Collaborating with analytics product and engineering teams to develop and deploy models
- Championing best practice in data science experimentation and model development
- Mentoring junior team members and helping develop team capability
- Evaluating new tools technologies and approaches that can enhance business performance
- Communicating insights and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
The Skills You Will Bring
Essential:
- Strong experience in a Data Scientist or Senior Data Scientist role with a proventrack recordof delivering measurable business outcomes
- Advanced Python and SQL skills
- Expertise using modern machine learning and statistical modelling frameworks such as scikit-learn XGBoost and similar tools
- Experience building deploying and maintaining predictive models in production environments
- Strong understanding of experimentation A/B testing causal inference and advanced statistical techniques
- Experience working with modern cloud-based data platforms such as Snowflake BigQuery Redshift or equivalent
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to influence decision-making through data
- Experience working in agile cross-functional environments
- Strong commercial awareness and the ability to balance technical excellence with business impact
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to navigate ambiguity in fast-paced environments
- Experience mentoring or supporting the development of junior team members
Desirable:
- Experience within Digital Media Revenue Management Gaming Gambling or Consumer Competitions
- Experience with dbt Airflow Git or similar tools
- Exposure to personalisation recommendation engines or marketing technology platforms
- Familiarity with tools such as Tableau Braze Adswizz Rudderstack or Covatic
About Bauer Media Group
We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year we are one of Europes largest Publishers. From womens and celebrities magazines to TV listings to food and special interest we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany UK Poland and France both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries spanning the UK Ireland Poland Slovakia Denmark Sweden Finland Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation Bauer Media focuses on the long-term with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich peoples everyday lives.
Whats in it for you
- Youll have 28 days holiday bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
- Your development matters so access to our internal training provider Bauer Academy is a huge win.
- We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
- Youll have the opportunity for flexible working.
- And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here
We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. Thats why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness regardless of e.g. religion gender skin color disability in our house.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process please let us know by emailing
We are actively recruiting for this position so the job advert may close earlier than expected.
If you have any feedback regarding our UK recruitment process please email we would love to hear from you.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
At Bauer Media Group our purpose is to enrich everyday life by creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe.