About this programme

Data Science is at the heart of decision making and customer treatments in Sky. We provide analytics to inform customer growth strategies, create tooling to drive personalised customer treatments and champion test and learn through experimentation.

You’ll learn from the best in industry get support in bringing your ideas to life. Impress us, and we may well offer you a full-time position on a graduate programme once you graduate.

What you’ll be doing

On our Data Science internship, you’ll have exposure across the business as you work with our stakeholders to help drive decision making using the power of data and insights. You’ll learn analytical techniques and use cutting edge predictive algorithms to deliver valuable insight to the business. You could be helping to build our next data product, predicting future customer behaviour, or unlocking the value of our content.

You’ll get exposure to one of our Data Science teams in Sky Data:

• Data Science & Analytics – Consumer – work closely with the commercial teams, building data science models and data products, helping to inform and drive strategic decisions.

• Data Science & Analytics – Content - work with our viewing data to build personalised customer experiences and help them to find more of what they love to watch.

• Data Science & Analytics – Product & Operations – work with the product teams to build new data tools and help to improve the effectiveness and performance of the products our customers use everyday.

What we’re looking for

You're a graduate from any degree discipline, or soon will be. You’re likely to have studied maths, statistics, computer science, economics, physics or be able to demonstrate your understanding of the use of data through personal or university projects. We’re interested in your passion for data and the drive and ambition you can bring to the team.

Other skills you may have include:

• Logical, end to end thinker
• An enthusiastic problem-solver, with numerical, presentation and IT skills
• Previous experience in data manipulation using Python, SQL, R, SAS, MATLAB
• Machine learning - academic experience on Supervised/unsupervised learning, regression, decision trees, random forests, boosting
• Enjoy task-focused delivery, a fast-paced environment and overcoming challenges
• Collaborative, great with people and keen on following recent trends in the market

To be eligible for this role you are required to have the appropriate right to work in the UK by the start date of the programme. Please be aware Sky does not offer sponsorship for this programme.

Status

Application deadline: 24th November 2024 (Please be aware that our applications may close earlier than expected due to high volumes but will close no earlier than 13th October 2024).