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Job Purpose
The Senior AI & Modelling Specialist is a crucial, hands-on role that will serve as the technical engine of our centralized analytics function. You will take complex business challenges and turn them into powerful, data-driven solutions. By leveraging your deep expertise in computational science and modelling, you will design and build innovative simulations and algorithms that directly inform forecasting, strategic planning, and C-suite decisions. This is a unique opportunity to apply academic rigor to real-world business problems and see your work drive tangible commercial outcomes at a global FTSE 250 company.
Key Responsibilities
1. Serve as the R&D partner for the Head of Business Analytics, translating strategic business needs into executable analytical and technical designs.
2. Conduct hands-on, exploratory analysis and prototyping, building complex models and simulations (e.g., Monte Carlo) to test hypotheses and prove concepts for forecasting and scenario planning.
3. Provide technical leadership and guidance to our Data Science and Analytics team, ensuring the successful implementation, automation, and long-term scalability of the models you design.
4. Manage the entire modelling lifecycle, from initial design and development through to production, with a focus on delivering robust and accurate solutions.
5. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and source the data needed to build innovative and impactful analytical solutions.
Team Dynamics
This role reports into the Business Analytics Function, a centralized hub for data-driven strategy and execution. The role will be the cornerstone of a collaborative team:
· The Data Science and Analytics Team (Your Team): As the "R&D arm" of the function, this team is responsible for translating new business questions into actionable insights and innovative analytical solutions. You will be a key driver in this group, leading the technical design and prototyping of our most challenging projects.
· The Regional Performance Management Team: This team serves as the "boots on the ground," leveraging the tools you help to create to drive business performance.
· The Analytics Operations Team: This team formalizes and automates established analytical processes, ensuring the long-term stability and scalability of the tools and algorithms you help to develop.
The role offers a unique opportunity to directly influence the entire analytical value chain, from initial exploration and strategic guidance to scalable implementation and on-the-ground impact.
Personal Abilities:
- Exceptional Problem-Solving: A proven ability to break down complex, ambiguous business problems into manageable analytical challenges. You thrive on intellectual puzzles and can think creatively to find solutions.
- Deep Technical Acumen: You have a hands-on, expert-level command of computational science, statistical modelling, and coding (Python, SQL). You're comfortable getting deep into the data and the code to build prototypes.
- A Self-Starter Mentality: You're a proactive, hands-on individual who is excited by the opportunity to design and build new things from the ground up.
- Curiosity & Drive: A strong intellectual curiosity and a drive to stay current with the latest advancements in AI and data science, always looking for new ways to apply them to business challenges.
- Effective Collaborator: The ability to work closely with senior leaders to understand their needs and to provide clear, actionable guidance to the wider technical team.
About IWG
IWG is the world’s leading flexible workspace provider – with the world’s most ambitious growth programme to open 30,000+ new centres over the next decade to complement our international network of 4,000+ tech-enabled, sustainable and inspiring flexible work centres. Across our multiple brands, including Regus, Spaces, HQ and Signature, we’re provide world-beating workplace solutions to over 80% of Fortune 500 companies, including Netflix, EY, Amazon and Uber, as well as to local small start-ups, entrepreneurs and emerging businesses.
Carbon Neutral Workplaces
IWG’s purpose is to help everyone have a great day at work, while protecting people and the planet. We are proud to supply all our customers with carbon-neutral workplaces, and have a strong climate action plan in place to help us achieve our objective of Net Zero emissions by 2040.
Leading Employer Award
IWG is proud to be the recipient of a Leading Employer Award in 2022, 2023 and 2024. Awarded exclusively to the top 1% of employers, the accolade is testament to our diverse global workforce and the role everyone plays in bringing our purpose, culture and values to life, every single day.
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IWG and its brands, including HQ, Regus, and Spaces, are equal opportunity, affirmative action employers. We invite applications from all individuals, regardless of ethnicity, gender, disability, religion, or sexual orientation. All applications will be considered and evaluated based on merit. We do not practice unfair discrimination. Preference will be given to suitably qualified individuals from underrepresented groups, according to our Employment Equity Plan, as required by the Employment Equity Act of South Africa.
IWG and its brands, including HQ, Regus, and Spaces, are equal opportunity, affirmative action employers. We invite applications from all individuals, regardless of ethnicity, gender, disability, religion, or sexual orientation. All applications will be considered and evaluated based on merit. We do not practice unfair discrimination. Preference will be given to suitably qualified individuals from underrepresented groups, according to our Employment Equity Plan.
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