Data Scientist

Data Scientists play a part in shaping Macmillan’s future, helping it become a more data-driven company. Using technology to harness and interpret increasing amounts of book-related information, our data scientists work closely with senior management, including the executive suite, to devise and implement evidence-based corporate policies. They work in a startup-like environment, free to experiment and explore ways in which they can broaden authors’ audiences, while enjoying the benefits of a time-tested business.

In this role, you will help answer tactical and strategic questions from stakeholders both within shared services and across the publishers. To do that, you will frame business questions; write statistical code to collect and analyze data; extract signals from noise; and communicate quantitative information to non-technical audiences.

What you'll do:

• Support and conduct analysis that provides insight on, for example, the book market, advertising and promotional effectiveness and consumer behavior
• Perform analyses for stakeholders
• Create reports and graphic-based presentations on the above topics
• Communicate results from the above analyses directly to stakeholders, explaining both the impact of, and confidence in, the results
• Build programmatic processes to retrieve and clean raw data, whether it is structured or unstructured
• Maintain and update these data processes
• Document how to use these data processes
• Provide regular reporting for key databases
• Work closely with a cross functional team to access and acquire relevant databases
• Generate ideas for new projects

What you'll bring

• Solid programming and problem-solving skills
• Good understanding of Stata/R and Python
• Knowledge of SQL
• Experience with data munging tasks in structured and unstructured formats
• Ability to clearly present analyses to non-technical audiences, often in a visual way
• Understands where analytics can create value in a business context

Ideal Experience/Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g., economics, statistics)
• 3-5 years of experience in a data analyst role

Macmillan Publishers is a global trade book publishing company with prominent imprints around the world, publishing a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats. Macmillan Publishers is committed to our authors, our employees, and to the environment.

U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, Picador, St. Martin's Press and Tor Books. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, Macmillan publishes under the Pan Macmillan name. The German company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.

Macmillan Publishers is a part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned media group of companies headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical ability, neurodiversity, age, family status, economic background and status, geographical background and status, and perspective. We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities of the world in their staffs, and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels. The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC.