AI & Data - Vice President

AlixPartners, LLP; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job description

At AlixPartners, we solve the most complex and critical challenges by moving quickly from analysis to action when it really matters; creating value that has a lasting impact on companies, their people, and the communities they serve. By understanding, respecting, and honouring the needs of our employees, clients, and communities, AlixPartners actively promotes an inclusive environment. We strongly believe in the value that diversity brings to our experiences and are committed to the perpetual enhancements of initiatives, policies, and practices. We hold ourselves accountable by providing the space for authenticity, growth, and equity for everyone. AlixPartners has embraced a hybrid work model to provide flexibility and support our employees’ work-life integration. Our hybrid model combines a mix of in-person (at client site or AlixPartners office) and remote working. Travel is part of this position, but the frequency may vary based on client, team, and individual circumstances.

What you’ll do

Our Artificial Intelligence & Data experts work within integrated teams from enterprise improvement, financial advisory and turnaround and restructuring; meaning the jobs we do cover every aspect of a business. Along with this, our seasoned professionals are recognised as experts in their respective fields, leveraging their skills and experience to create measurably improved outcomes for our clients. In this challenging role, you will be responsible for using your data analytics and technology skills to improve your client’s performance.

As part of our team, you will lead organisations through their most complex business problems using data, analytics and technology. You will work across a number of industries, clients, and project roles. As an integral part of the project team you will use data to assess client performance and help define their business objectives and strategy. You will conduct the analysis, generate insight and help develop a strategy for improving the overall business performance. You will be challenged to then present the business case for the value of the approach to your client.

Business Management Consulting

• Help formulate hypotheses of potential issues and reasons for client performance.
• Conduct data driven analysis to develop strategies for improving client performance.
• Present findings, key insights and proposed solutions to client management.

Data and Technology

• Extract, manipulate, transform and analyse data from a wide variety of corporate structured and unstructured sources, 3rd party providers and publicly available data.
• Leverage cloud data processing frameworks like Apache Spark, Databricks, or similar for handling, processing and analysing complex, high-volume data both structured and unstructured.
• Ability to script repetitive data tasks in an explainable and documented way.
• Experience with using cloud products and solutions through APIs, particularly MS Azure and AWS.
• Ability to design multi-step data pipelines combining scripted transformation and API calls to various services.

Data Science

• Use Python or R, alongside SQL to analyse and model complex, high volume data.
• Develop and apply clustering, classification, regression, anomaly detection, natural language processing, or GenAI models to business use cases.
• Deploy models and track their performance to ensure they meet business objectives and deliver value.
• Design and implement reports and visualizations that present insights clearly, concisely, and engagingly, aligning with business objectives and key analytical questions.
• Effectively communicate technical approaches, implementations, and findings to a non-technical audience.

What you’ll need

• The ideal candidate will have a mix of consulting and industry/technical experience.
• Relevant project management experience in analytics within a leading or analytics-focused consulting firm.
• Demonstrable knowledge of data, technology and one or more data-focused programming languages such as SQL, Python, R.
• Experience with generic programming languages such as Java, C++, Rust, Go, JavaScript etc. is a plus.
• Experience using data-driven analysis to develop strategies and improve business performance.
• Strongly motivated to be a player in a team that is constantly working to improve themselves through discovering new analytics techniques and software tools to improve the quality of our work.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Adaptability with strong multi-tasking and time management skills. Excel in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment with high achievers and demanding client expectations.
• Strong teamwork skills with the ability to adapt dynamically to changing business conditions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Willingness to work outside of normal business hours, and in particular as unique projects/needs arise.
• Ability to work full time in an office and remote environment; physically able to sit/stand at a computer and work in front of a computer screen for significant portions of the workday.

The firm offers market-leading benefits that provide flexible options to support our employee’s needs including health benefits to help prioritise their physical and emotional well-being, time-off policies to help to recharge and financial/ retirement benefits that offer income protection and support long-term planning.

AlixPartners is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, status as a protected veteran, or disability.

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