Global Fashion Leader
Data Science Team Design & Build
Challenge
Our client had a huge database of purchases and social media data from 50m+ Facebook followers but did nothing with the data.
New VP of Analytics wanted to assess the current skills and hire a new data science team to lead the change.
The existing team was fairly new to using data and therefore they needed support redefining roles and responsibilities, both internally and for the new prospective hires.
Solution
We undertook an initial consulting project – creating a skills map and levels for our client’s new data science capability.
We created role profiles that were required and enabled our client to make an internal assessment of the current skills they had.
The assessment led to a whole new team being required – simply the existing team had very few technical skills that were suitable.
The team needed to be graduate focused, dynamic and represent clients Brand – cultural fit was very important.
We ran all interviews on-site with our clients HR team and jointly made recommendations to the VP of Analytics on each candidate
Results
The new data science team was recruited over a period of 6-8 weeks
The interview to hire ratio was 6 appointments from 9 interviews.
The new team has worked on some of our clients most exciting projects to date and one of the appointees has now progressed to become their Chief Data Science officer.
The team continues to work on global analytics projects and leads the use of data to personalise all aspects of the customer experience.
