Junior Data Scientist — Insights & Modeling

WPP; København; Hybrid; DKK 420,000 - 540,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

WPP, the Activation arm of WPP Open Intelligence, is seeking a Junior Data Scientist in a hybrid setup to turn data into trustworthy insights. You will work with Python or R, SQL, and statistics to deliver scoped analyses under mentorship.

You will learn team standards, collaborate with product and data engineers, and contribute to production-ready analytics while growing toward more advanced data science work.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on skills in Python or R for analysis and solid SQL for querying and transforming data.
• Clear communication of analysis, limitations, and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with notebooks or scripts, Git, and basic validation of analysis code.

Responsibilities

• Learn and apply team standards for exploratory analysis, experimentation, and reproducible data science work.
• Partner with product, analysts, and data engineers to deliver well-scoped analyses, metrics, and model-backed features under guidance from senior data scientists and engineers.
• Help define questions, validate assumptions, and document findings so stakeholders can act on clear, trustworthy insights.
• Support building and evaluating models or statistical approaches for defined problems, including basic monitoring and sanity checks after deployment.
• Contribute to data quality checks, feature understanding, and lightweight governance so inputs and outputs stay reliable and interpretable.
• Investigate anomalies in metrics or model behavior, document root causes, and implement fixes or escalations with mentorship.

Skills

Python / R

SQL

Statistics

ML concepts

Data Visualization

Git

Communication

Cloud basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Jupyter notebooks

Plotly/Matplotlib

BI tools

Job description

WPP, the Activation arm of WPP Open Intelligence, is seeking a Junior Data Scientist in a hybrid setup to turn data into trustworthy insights. You will work with Python or R, SQL, and statistics to deliver scoped analyses under mentorship.

You will learn team standards, collaborate with product and data engineers, and contribute to production-ready analytics while growing toward more advanced data science work.