Senior Data and Insight Scientist

4. Collaboration & Influence

• Work collaboratively with internal teams, research partners, and advisory groups
• Present insight to senior leadership, Board members, and external stakeholders
• Act as a trusted technical adviser within multidisciplinary teams

5. Capability Building & Innovation

• Improve analytical tools, methods, and workflows across the organisation
• Champion best practice in:
  • Data ethics
  • Reproducibility
  • Accessibility
• Mentor colleagues and contribute to a strong analytical culture
• Support the organisation’s shift toward data informed decision-making

What you bring

We do not expect applicants to demonstrate all of the specific skills outlined, and we are interested in hearing what you can bring to the role.

Essential

Technical and Data

• Solid data analysis and transformation skills, using modern analysis languages (SQL, Python, R) within a cloud-based data environment
• Experience working with both exploratory (notebook-based) and production code
• Experience with data engineering principles and cloud-based data architecture

Statistical and Analytical

• Solid applied statistics, including:
  • Hypothesis testing
  • Regression analysis
  • Confidence intervals and effect sizes
• Experience working with complex survey data, including:
  • Weighting
  • Sampling design
  • Cross-national comparison
• Ability to develop reproducible, auditable analytical workflows
• Strong numerical judgement and attention to data quality

Communication

• Effective verbal communication, including presenting to senior and external audiences
• Clear written communication, translating analysis into clear reports and narratives
• Ability to:
  • Translate ambiguous stakeholder questions into analytical problems
  • Translate findings into actionable insight

Ways of Working

• Senior individual contributor mindset with end-to-end ownership of work
• Effective stakeholder management across a complex organisation
• Experience working with international partners and multidisciplinary teams

Desirable

Technical and Systems

• Familiarity with:
  • GCP / BigQuery
  • dbt or Dataform
  • Git/GitHub workflows
• Experience integrating data from multiple systems (e.g. CRM, finance, web analytics)
• Experience using BI tools (e.g. Looker Studio, Tableau, Power BI)

Advanced and Emerging

• Experience applying AI/LLM tools within analytical workflows
• Experience developing internal analytical tools (e.g. Shiny or equivalent)
• Working knowledge of web analytics data (e.g. GA4)

Statistical / Domain

• Background in survey methodology, social statistics, or policy-relevant analysis
• Experience working with international datasets
• Use of machine learning techniques where appropriate

Leadership and Delivery

• Experience mentoring or developing others
• Experience working with research or communications partners
• Ability to support organisational change toward stronger evidence use
• Experience in building networks, relationships, and ultimately and partnerships with relevant organisations
• Experience of championing data sharing, data collection, data use internally and externally

Design and data storytelling

• Experience in static design work to ensure data led reports are accurate and accessible
• Experience in dynamic web visualisation as a narrative tool or as a lead generator
• Evidence of engaging mixed methods storytelling

Role Impact

This role is central to the Foundation’s credibility, influence, and effectiveness. By ensuring that evidence is:

• Technically robust
• Clearly communicated
• Decision ready

the Senior Data and Insight Scientist enables the organisation to:

• Shape strategy
• Improve programme delivery
• Strengthen organisational impact
• Contribute to global conversations on safety and wellbeing

About us

Lloyd’s Register Foundation is an independent global charity with a unique structure and an important mission: engineering a safer world. We reduce risk to people and property and enhance the safety of the critical infrastructure that modern society relies upon. We do this by investing in high-quality research, innovation, education and skills development, and by convening stakeholders to form ambitious partnerships and coalitions. Our unique structure comes from the fact that we own a significant trading company, Lloyd’s Register (LR). We share the same mission and work together to make the world a safer place.

Be a part of

Lloyd’s Register is wholly owned by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a politically and financially independent global charity that aims to engineer a safer world by promoting safety and education. For a thriving ocean economy, Lloyd’s Register colleagues and Lloyd’s Register Foundation work together to fund research, foster industry collaboration, and develop action-oriented solutions to make the world a safer place.

Want to apply

We hire people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, women, people identifying as LGBTIQIA+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, careers and other varied groups. We are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application and we will do everything we possibly can to support you.

This position is available on a full-time basis, however, the Foundation is open to discussing applications for this role with flexible and part-time working options.

If you don't tick every box in these ads, please don't rule yourself out. We focus on hiring people who share our goal of working together to make the world a safer place.

We care, we share, we do the right thing.

If you have further questions about this role, please contact us at careers@lr.org and we will respond to you as soon as possible.

Diversity and Inclusion at Lloyd's Register:

Together we are one Lloyd’s Register, committed to developing an inclusive and safe workplace that embraces and celebrates diversity. We strive to ensure that all applicants to LR experience equality of opportunity and fair treatment, because we believe it is the right thing to do. We hope you do too.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we have committed to:

• Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible.
• Communicating and promoting vacancies offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job.
• Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long-term health condition, enabling them to stay in work.
• At least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people