Data Scientist Associate Consultant M,F,D; Hybrid

Location London

Job Description

About L.E.K. Consulting

L.E.K. Consulting is a premier global strategy consulting firm that partners with clients to solve their most critical business challenges and deliver high-impact outcomes. We bring deep industry expertise and rigorous, evidence-based insight to global corporations, growth companies and private equity investors, helping them turn strategy into action.

How do we deliver impact? It’s the people. We hire exceptional individuals and invest in their growth through hands-on client work, close collaboration and a culture of ownership, inclusion and continuous learning. Across every level, curiosity unites us and challenge excites us. Founded more than 40 years ago, L.E.K. employs more than 2,200 professionals worldwide and is consistently recognized as one of the industry's best firms to work for.

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The Team

L.E.K.’sDigital

Dataand AIteamworkalongside and support case teams in solving a range of digital and analytical problems, enabling L.E.K. to provide clients with the best possible advice.

Theteam’scollaborative approach is unique: our consulting teamsleveragea high-powered self-service toolkit and domainexpertiseto build the analysis that underpins our commercial recommendations. As part of our team, you will be working alongside experienced project teams to develop cutting edge solutions to our clients’ toughest commercial problems.

The opportunity

As an Associate Consultant (Data Scientist) in L.E.K.’s Digital Data& AI team(DDA), you will help redefine how our case teams and clientsleverageanalytics and technology to solve their most complex challengesandtransformations.

This role offers a unique opportunity to blend L.E.K.’s hallmark analytical rigor with emerging

Digital andAIcapabilities to drive smarter, faster, and more scalable insights.

You will start to lead analytical modules, begin to determine the approach to data science problems and turn findings into client recommendations. You will also contribute to proposals, help define good analytical practices and develop junior colleagues, with guidance from experienced project leaders.

Day-to-day responsibilities andrequiredskills include:

• Starting to lead fast-paced project modules
  that apply digital and data science techniques including planning the work, directing junior colleagues, reviewing outputs and managing delivery
• Supporting case teams
  in selectingtheappropriatedata,digital and AI-enabled approaches, and helping them tie the insights to the commercial deliverable
• Applying knowledge ofdigital,data science and AI practices
  , and starting to help define team standards for model validation, reproducible code, documentation, code review, data governance and responsible AI use
• Supporting the DDA team
  , contributing to data science capability building, internal training materials, awareness initiatives
• Coaching junior data scientists
  , review their work, give actionable feedback and contribute to their training and development
• Starting to contribute to proposals by shaping analytical approaches, assessing feasibility, estimating the work involved and preparing proposal materials
• When not on project ideating, helping develop and deploying internal tools
• Investing in your own development
  , supported by strong senior sponsorship and dedicated time and resources to pursue personal growth goals

What we are looking for

The Associate Consultant (Data Scientist) role suits anyone with a passion to crack commercial and analytical problems and help enable others to do the same.

In addition to technical skills, we are looking for bright and driven people who want to deploy their knowledge and skills within high-impact…