Key Responsibilities

During your industrial placement, you will be a fully-fledged member of the team, working on a variety of exciting client-facing projects, helping answer strategic questions with big data. The type of work will vary significantly depending on the project but can include:

• Supporting the development of hypotheses for “the answer” and defining tests to validate or disprove these hypotheses

• Undertaking exploratory analysis to develop the burden of proof for hypotheses

• Developing Machine Learning models in Python or R, for applications such as customer segmentation, marketing strategy and optimisation, pricing strategy, etc.

• Supporting the deployment of data platforms, visualisation & Machine Learning models in the client’s technical and business architecture

• Acting as a business partner to senior colleagues as well as clients, to advise on strategic decisions

• Collaborating with client teams to ensure successful delivery of projects, which can include helping ensure access to data, setting up collaboration processes, etc

In addition to client-facing work, you will also have the opportunity to support internal IP development – working with the team to understand how we can implement new technologies to improve our processes, better define our proposition, develop methodologies etc.

Core Skillset

We believe that a successful candidate will possess the following skills:

• Exceptional business acumen and “commercial knack”: Having a good sense for where opportunities for growth and optimisation exist within a business, being able to relate technical aspects into their business impact, etc.

• Strong analytical profile: An ability to dissect business problems through analysis end-to-end, i.e. to define an approach, execute it, and critically analyse its results. A general ability to work with numbers and data.

• Collaboration and team work: An ability to work in small, fast-paced teams – being able to understand one’s role within the project structure, deliver against it, and be flexible when needed.

• An entrepreneurial mindset: DVS is a fast-growing startup and as such is suited to someone with an entrepreneurial mindset. This means having the ability to be flexible, proactive, and to get things done – even if these are not things you have done before, or even know how to!

Working Arrangement

• Start Date: August/ September 2025

• Duration: Flexible, approx. 9-12 months

• Location: Borough Townhouse, 70 Borough High Street, SE1 1XF

• Hybrid model, c.3 office days/week

• 40-50 hours per week depending on project demands

Remuneration

The industrial placement offers a highly competitive salary of £30k p.a. 

 All interviews will be completed by early February.