Salary range:
Up to £32-34k p.a. depending on experience, plus £4k training and development
budget
FTE: 40 hours/week
Term: Fixed Term (24 months)
Closing date: 31/08/2021
The Department of Computer & Information Sciences and
The Department of Marketing in partnership with Adimo (www.adimo.co) is
seeking to appoint a Data Scientist (KTP Associate) to focus on
state-of-the-art NLP techniques to understand the core properties of recipe
ingredients and associated customer behaviour. Adimo is live in over 50
countries worldwide so it’s important that the solution is multi-lingual,
performant and scalable.
Adimo is a leading consumer goods marketing technology
company. The world’s leading household brands such as Nestle and Diageo rely
on Adimo to make their marketing shoppable, measurable and effective. Their
technology turns any brand touchpoint into a frictionless path to purchase -
connecting shoppers with a means of buying products, right in the moment of
consideration.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to
create technology that is used by millions of people worldwide and develop a
product that is the first of its kind.
You will be
based predominantly at the company’s premises in Glasgow, but will be
employed by and have access to facilities of the University of Strathclyde including
Archie West Supercomputing Centre. Drs. Dmitri Roussinov (from CIS) and
Graeme McLean (from Marketing) will provide academic support for the
project.
A key
feature of the KTP position is a personal training and development allowance
that you can use to develop skills related to the project that will help you
to advance your career. You will also have the opportunity to register for a
research degree (free of charge) based on the work carried out on the project.
The
position offers the KTP Associate the following benefits:
- A challenging and rewarding job, with real responsibility within
the work environment.
- A planned program of training courses, including a £4,000 personal
development budget.
- Mentoring from industrial and academic supervisors.
- Support and resources from the University.
- The chance to
implement strategic development within an innovative company.
- The opportunity of a
permanent position with the company; 70% of KTP host companies make a
permanent job
offer to their Associate at the end of the project.
- Adimo have
expressed their willingness to provide sponsorship for an Associate wishing
to study towards a PhD.
The post
will be initially based remotely (subject to Covid-19 guidelines) then at the
company premises in Glasgow.
The project is part of the Knowledge
Transfer Partnership (KTP) programme that aims to help businesses improve
their competitiveness and productivity through better use of knowledge,
technology and skills that reside within the UK knowledge base. Successful
Knowledge Transfer Partnership projects are funded by UK Research and
Innovation through Innovate UK and are part of the government’s Industrial
Strategy. To find out how KTP works and the vital role you will play if you
successfully secure a KTP Associate position please visit: www.ktpws.org.uk. There are over 200 vacancies
currently available at www.ktp-uk.org/graduates or search ‘KTP jobs’.
Informal
enquiries about the post can be directed to Billy Wallace, Knowledge Exchange Fellow (w.wallace@strath.ac.uk
/ 0141 548 3911).
Formal interviews for this post will be held in September 2021.
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