Scientific Advisor

About this opportunity:

We have an exciting opportunity to join Scottish Widows’ Investment Operations Data Analytics team as a Scientific Advisor within our Chief Investments Office.

This is a varied role where you'll be responsible for supporting the investment team with independent insight and advice on scientific issues, ensuring policy and decision-making is underpinned by science, rigorous evidence and sound analysis to help advise solutions supporting our customers.

You'll work collaboratively with a wide group of colleagues across Scottish Widows bringing your passion for statistical analysis to support the data & analytics function in the design of analytical and predictive data modelling.

We're looking for you to come from an academic or research-based background and have a passion and interest across multiple subject areas covering (amongst others) physics, chemistry, biology, electronics and behavioural statistics.

What you’ll be doing:

• Consuming, analysing and summarising publicly available research and academic literature supporting the team with independent insight.
• Providing advice, challenge and oversight to senior leaders on areas of scientific enquiry.
• Contributing to debate on scientific subject matter with investment impact, including areas of environmental and social policy.
• Working alongside our data function to test and measure consumer behaviour patterns and design future research pathways.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too!

What you’ll need:

• Experience of translating and synthesising research findings across a broad range of quantitative and qualitative disciplines.
• Understanding of statistical techniques associated with hypothesis testing and predictive modelling.
• Tight-knit collaboration and communication skills with the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and accurately.
• Experience in building strong networks across organisations.
• You'll be familiar with the peer-review research processes and credible academic publications.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares!
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Salary: £58,000 - £65,000

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our above offices.