Position Summary
The Senior Director of Data Science would be leading Data Science for the SSA (SSA) team. We are seeking an innovative and analytical thinker to champion our data-driven strategies for the region. As a Senior Director, you are expected to participate in business development, guide team to develop predictive and prescriptive models, develop context-based proto-types and high impact storyboards to promote a data-driven strategy and solutioning approach for the company. The candidate should be aware of & comfortable in using new technologies such as Agentic AI & Gen AI.
Principal Responsibilities
- Manage and execute projects and client engagement for all the clients in SSA for VCA
- Leverage learnings from other region and apply those in SSA
- Provide leadership and mentoring to junior resources within SSA DS team
- Establish and maintain relationship with key stakeholders in SSA market
- Work closely with Hub DS team to leverage data solutions & consumer signals to create efficiency within the region.
- Use strong banking knowledge to design and develop campaign processes for the clients
- Provide leadership to identify strategic and tactical innovation opportunities around data and data-related processes that will promote fact-based decisioning processes
- Help set strategic direction and roadmap for the Data Science group in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Work with regional and global Data Science teams to develop high-quality analytic products and solutions that promote growth and business development for the region
- Keep us at the forefront of technical advancement in Data Science by introducing cutting-edge tools and techniques for generating business insights
- Develop next-generation analytic methods where existing techniques are not adequate to address business challenges
- Review, direct, guide, and inspire the analytical work of junior members in the team
- Collaborate with technology partners to build an Analytics Technology Ecosystem that supports advanced decisioning
- Managing team workload, providing prioritization guidance for project flow to improve process efficiency
- Manage and grow talent within the team
- Develop, share, and build global best practices and knowledge management within the team
- Socialise innovative ideas and approaches that are scalable and have market demand