Data Scientist, Intelligence

With over 1,400 team members in 31 offices on three continents, FGS Global is one of the world's leading strategic communications consultancies. In Europe, we are a team of over 450 employees spread across ten offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt (Main), the Hague, London, Munich, Paris and Zurich. When the stakes are high for our clients, especially in critical and complex situations, we safeguard their reputation and advance dialogue with key stakeholders on their behalf. Our approach is integrated, our teams are diverse with experience from journalism, corporate communications, digital communications, politics and investor relations.

The way we communicate is undergoing a fundamental change. This also applies to our clients, who find themselves confronted with entirely new stakeholder groups. In our Intelligence & Engagement Team, we assist our clients in understanding their stakeholders through quantitative and qualitative data analysis and in reaching them with tailored strategies across all communicative touchpoints, convincing them of our clients' objectives.

Join our team in Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, Paris or Amsterdam as

(Senior) Data Scientist; Intelligence & Engagement

to support our analytics and research efforts in Europe. You will be an integral part of an energetic group that seeks to set the standards of what actionable intelligence solutions look like in consulting. We combine insight with foresight to provide clients and colleagues with superior advice in moments that matter. Our Intelligence & Engagement unit works alongside the Global Development Team that designs and builds software for inhouse and client applications.

What tasks can you look forward to?

• Delivering analyses in the areas of stakeholder insights, conversation & media analysis, issues & crisis prediction, campaign & message performance, linguistic assessments and more.
• Using LLMs, additional machine learning techniques and advanced statistics to solve complex challenges for our clients.
• Relying on existing platforms and tools to collect and analyze data.
• Detecting hidden patterns, identifying trends, revealing drivers, predicting developments, visualizing similarities and differences, and otherwise leveraging data to deliver actionable insights.
• Contributing to designing and analyzing primary research from different sources.
• Collaborating on the research, planning and development of projects alongside colleagues with complementary skillsets.
• Supporting new business efforts by delivering data-driven insights.
• Assisting in the development of presentations, client decks and pitches.
• Educating and elevating the analytical skills within internal teams.

What should you bring along?

• Intellectual curiosity, critical thinking and a passion for tackling challenging problems.
• A proven track record in working/leading data projects hands-on while also seeing the big picture and connecting the dots.
• You have experience with the following tech stack: Unix/macOS terminal, SQL, Python (incl. Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-learn) Git, Docker.
• You have worked with API integration of leading LLM providers, such as Anthropic, Google, OpenAI etc.
• Experience with natural language processing skills, such as topic modelling, clustering techniques, pattern matching, etc.
• You can translate a business/communications problem into a data analysis approach and break it down into clear, manageable components.
• You are a team player and you have excellent communication skills. Your English is at business proficiency level.
• You have experience in working with business stakeholders and helping them to use data effectively.
• You are willing to acquire additional technical skills to help develop our toolkit and innovate with new solutions.

Nice to Have

• You have experience in working with BigQuery, Dataform, and/or Looker.
• You have strong data visualization skills and have used tools such as Tableau, Looker or PowerBI in the past.
• Experience with predictive modelling.
• Experience with primary research gathering and/or analysis.
• Additional language skills.

What we can offer you

• An inspiring working environment as well as the opportunity to work at one of our international offices for a limited period of time
• Exciting tasks and attractive development prospects
• Induction and individual support from an experienced colleague
• Deepening of your expertise with regard to different sectors and areas of competence through close cooperation of our integrated project teams
• Continuous training opportunities (FGS Global Academy)
• A dedicated, supportive and growing team
• A corporate culture that combines excellence with team spirit
• The opportunity to work flexibly both in our offices and from home

Don't meet every single requirement? Please don't worry Studies have shown that some groups like women or people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single requirement. At FGS Global, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. So, if you're excited about this role and our company but your previous professional experience doesn't match perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we would like to encourage you to apply anyway. You may just be the right candidate for this or another role.

We look forward to your complete application (incl. all relevant academic and professional certificates and/or reference letters). Feel free to contact our HR team by email at careers-

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