Data Scientist, Policy Expert
£45-65k
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
Digital home & car insurance provider
Job no longer available
Digital home & car insurance provider
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
£45-65k
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
Policy Expert is a forward-thinking business that loves to get things done. Leveraging proprietary technology and smart data, we offer reliable products and a wow customer experience.
Role
Who you are
- Experience building machine learning models and deploying them into production, working with ML Engineers
- Good programming skills with Python and good working knowledge of SQL and experience querying large datasets
- Ability to apply knowledge in statistics and machine learning to real world problems
- Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of data science tools and techniques, which you can use to solve problems creatively and to create opportunities for the business
- A desire to interact with stakeholders and translating business problems into practical solutions
- Good team working and communication skills with ability to explain complex techniques to non-technical audience
- Able to work with Data Engineers to identify the data engineering requirements for a data science product
- Understand the need to cleanse and prepare data before including it in data science products
- Understand software architecture and how to write efficient, optimised code
- Knowledge of the insurance industry would be an advantage but not essential
- Ideally you will have experience working with the GCP vertex AI, or similar services
- Nice to have experience with creating solutions using GenAI
What the job involves
- This is an exciting time for us as we expand our Data Science capabilities to support our ambitious growth plans
- We are embarking on a new chapter where we are increasing the use of data science and real-time ML engineering techniques to take our market leading models to the next level
- And the customer is at the centre of this ambition
- We have a plethora of datasets and cutting-edge technologies that can (and should!) be leveraged to create propositions that customers will rely on and love
- As a Data Scientist you will be building predictive statistical models and machine learning models and pipelines to drive business growth. You will work with ML Engineers to ensure those are deployed in production and delivering real value
- Developing data science and ML solutions (using, e.g., python, SQL, GBM, random forests) to drive growth, solve problems and increase automation across the business
- Work within a cross-functional team (product managers, ML engineers, analysts) to deliver business goals
- Influence and input into priorities using data to quantify new opportunities
- Design and monitor A/B tests isolate the impact of initiatives
- Be a champion of data science and ML, communicating its value to colleagues across the business
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Policy Expert is a trusted insurance provider, serving more than 1M home and car insurance customers across the UK since its launch in 2011. Policy Expert was the first insurer to be designed for aggregator sites, allowing it to capitalise on the growth of price comparison sites like Compare the Market and GoCompare.
It is a part of QMetric Group, which set out to redesign what an insurer should be, even before 'InsurTech' was a word. It has streamlined how people buy insurance by building its own tech and owning the process end to end. With a strong belief that competition and transparency are key to the future of any market, QMetric launched Policy Expert to meet the changing consumer trends over the past decade.
Since its founding, it has recorded significant year-on-year growth to become one of the UK’s ten biggest home insurance providers while diversifying its proposition by entering the motor market in 2019. Now, with Cinven acquiring a majority shareholder, Policy Expert is in a great position to further accelerate its growth and expand even further in the years to come.
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Company benefits
- 💸 We match your pension contributions up to 7%
- 🏥 Private medical & Dental cover
- 📚 Learning budget of £1,000 a year + Study leave (with encouragement to use it)
- 😁 Enhanced maternity & paternity
- 🚉 Travel season ticket loan
- 🎟️ Access to a wide selection of London O2 events and use of a Private Lounge
- 🌈 Employee Wellbeing Programme
- 🚪 Prayer room in office
Company values
- We act with Expertise
- We work as a Team
- We care about People
- We stick to our Principles
- We get things done
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Adam Powell
(Co-Founder & COO)COO at Policy Expert since 2010, prior to which he was the Head of New Markets at Simply Business.
Steve Hardy
(CEO)Previously a Non Executive Director at Roojai, QMetric Group, C-Quence.
People progressing
Paul started as a Business Analyst back in 2019 and has been fundamental in our growth and now Policy Experts Head of Delivery.
Ezgi joined back in 2019 in the Business Analysis team. She has excelled in her work and really contributed to building out the function. In 2023 she was promoted to Head of Business Analysis and in 2025 further promoted to Senior Product Manager.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Policy Expert
- We’re committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where every employee feels welcome, and different perspectives are valued and encouraged. We respect and value people's differences. In fact, we welcome it, as this brings a wider range of ideas, opinions and experience.
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