Competence Lead, Data Science

at  Sanoma Media

Sanoma Media Finland is the leading Finnish multi-channel media company. Our newspapers, magazines, tv and radio channels, online and mobile media offer information, experiences and entertainment. Our products reach most Finns every day. Join us in building media for the generations to come!
We are looking for a Competence Lead, Data Science who is passionate about coaching and people leadership.
In this role, you will lead the development of your competence team´s Data Science skills, both at the team and individual levels. You will define standards and work methods and support your team members with professional challenges. You will facilitate learning, development and knowledge sharing both within and between areas of expertise in collaboration with other Competence Leads.
You will also be responsible for employee-related matters such as recruiting new talents. Typically, the Competence Lead role takes up to 50% of your working time. In addition to leadership responsibilities the expectation is that the chosen person would do Data Science -related work as a team member in one of the new multi-disciplinary teams or other business domains.
The leadership of functional goals and daily operations primarily falls under the responsibility of the multi-disciplinary team leaders, but you will support them in achieving the goals and solving the toughest challenges.

In this role, we hope you to have:

• Strong professional expertise and passion for developing your own and others’ skills
• Experience, proven success and enthusiasm for leadership, as well as an understanding of and ability to apply the principles of coaching leadership
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, and the ability to create a positive work environment that enables effective and goal-oriented work
• Experience in developing and implementing work methods or standards
• The ability to form a long-term strategic vision for how your area of expertise should develop at Sanoma Media Finland
• Openness to new ideas and a desire to develop them together with others

We offer you:

• The opportunity to grow as a leader and as an expert in your area of expertise
• An experienced team with a scientific yet lean mindset that you will help to do their best
• A key role in a new operating model that is highly significant to Sanoma Media Finland’s future success
• Access to a modern and well maintained data infrastructure
• A set of unique, diverse and large scale data sources to work with
• A strong emphasis on well-being at work and a healthy work-life balance
• Flexible remote-working options, but also a work place in Sanomatalo – one of the nicest office buildings in Helsinki
• Support and mentoring in your new role

Desired skills:

• Excellent people and collaboration skills, ambition, and a desire to coach, guide, support and develop people’s skills. Prior team lead experience an asset
• A broad understanding of data science, advanced analytics, AI/machine learning methods and their fundamentals, with several years of experience in applying these methods to real world data
• A degree in a quantitative field (e.g. machine learning, statistics, quantitative social science, operations research, bioinformatics, economics, computer science, mathematics, physics)
• Understanding of the media and subscription business and its dynamics, from data/process levels to business outcomes would be an asset
• Strong practical experience with modern analytics and data science tools and environments (e.g. Databricks, R, Python, SQL, GCP, AWS, Snowflake)
• We are an international team so fluent English language is required as well as permanent work permit in Finland

Interested? Don´t hesitate to apply by using the application form as we close the application process as soon as we find the perfect candidate! For more information, please contact CDO Mikko Eskola, mikko.eskola(a)sanoma.com.
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Employment type: Permanent

• Strong professional expertise and passion for developing your own and others’ skills
• Experience, proven success and enthusiasm for leadership, as well as an understanding of and ability to apply the principles of coaching leadership
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, and the ability to create a positive work environment that enables effective and goal-oriented work
• Experience in developing and implementing work methods or standards
• The ability to form a long-term strategic vision for how your area of expertise should develop at Sanoma Media Finland
• Openness to new ideas and a desire to develop them together with other