What can you expect as a Data Science consultant at Cmotions?

When the term consulting comes to mind, many people think of 12-hour workdays and making PowerPoint presentations. Fortunately, these assumptions are often incorrect and do not apply to Cmotions. In this article, we will tell you more about Cmotions' culture and what you can expect as a Data Science consultant (henceforth consultant).

Consultant assignment

There are different flavors in working with our clients. As a consultant, you often work for a client for a longer period of time, ranging between 4 and 12 months. However, some clients hire us on a project basis and these are usually shorter assignments. The starting point is that we work with the client to find the best solution to add concrete value.

Challenging work and adding value are common desires of a consultant, but variety is also important. As a consultant you work for many different companies, each using different (cloud) systems and tooling. The teams in which you will be working also differ from each other, so that in time you will notice that you will find it easier and faster to get to grips with a new environment. To maintain a good balance between variety and adding value, we regularly discuss progress with the client.

Is the client satisfied?
Are you satisfied?
Do you challenge each other enough?

Based on the outcome of these conversations, your focus within an assignment may change or you may decide by mutual agreement to move forward with a new assignment.

Our clients

Cmotions was founded in 2001 and originally focused on marketing analytics in business. In recent years the focus has broadened to include (semi) government and charities. Some of our clients include:

For a comprehensive list of clients, please see the home page or check out our case studies.

In addition, Cmotions now operates abroad. This is because Cmotions has become part of The Digital Neighborhood, an internationally oriented IT & data organization that includes nine companies.

Meanwhile, three consultants have started their first international assignment. Together with the Danish subsidiary Delegate, they are going to work for a large Danish client. Delegate's colleagues take care of the complete data infrastructure and our consultants use that data to add value to the business through analysis, visualizations, machine learning and more. The fact that they occasionally go to Copenhagen for team-building activities to do so is a nice extra.

Work of a consultant

But what does the work look like? To give you a good and honest picture of what you will be doing, we literally asked this question to some of our consultants, read their experiences below.

Ernst | 2 years with Cmotions

"In my first assignment at a large energy supplier, I joined a fun and knowledgeable team of data-driven marketing specialists, created specifically for medium-term projects.

Some of my work:

Building and validating machine learning models for various energy products
Close collaboration with Data Engineers to put these models into production
Proactively promote the use of version control within the team and beyond
Launching the "Python Ambassadors" to encourage the use of and sharing of knowledge about Python
Fully automating a periodic customer survey process

During this assignment, I also found out that I find Data Engineering interesting. In consultation with Cmotions, I started a relevant 6-month training already during the assignment. The knowledge and experience gained from this assignment and the training I apply daily in my current assignments."

Philip | 1 year at Cmotions

"Although a year ago I might not have expected to start working as a consultant, after more than six months I can take stock and confidently say that it has been a very good choice. I have since worked on several assignments, all in the field of data analytics and data science.

As a consultant at Cmotions, in addition to the assignments you work on, you will also have the opportunity to work with colleagues on internal projects to share the knowledge you have gained with each other, or to learn new things that you do not always encounter in your work. Of course you hear that more often, but in this case it's really true.

The assignments are always very diverse, and I experience a lot of freedom to be able to choose the tooling or programming languages I want to do the work in. Not sure what to do? Then there are always several colleagues ready and eager to help you."

Bert | 6 months employed by Cmotions

"I have been working for Cmotions for (over) six months now and I can't help but be positive. I have already worked for 3 different clients in this short period of time and am now moving into the fourth. Because of this variety, I feel I have learned a lot very quickly.

Within the projects you get the freedom to tackle them the way you think is right and should you unexpectedly run into something you don't know, all colleagues are incredibly helpful and everyone is willing to share their knowledge.

In addition to client assignments, there are all kinds of initiatives internally that you can participate in to take on fun projects and learn new things together with your colleagues."

Jeanine | 9 years with Cmotions

"Before I started at Cmotions, consulting didn't appeal to me. It seemed inconvenient to me to work in different places each time, and not to have a base anywhere. Now, nine years later, I am still enjoying it immensely. On the one hand, this is because clients give us space and responsibility to design projects. On the other hand, within Cmotions there is room for interactive knowledge sharing, for example in the form of workshops. This way you do not only have colleagues at the client, but also within Cmotions.

In addition to my assignments, I work on several other initiatives:

The Analytics Lab: our incubator playground where we aim to drive innovation.
Project Friday: a project of several Friday afternoons focusing on knowledge development and fun.
Creating and organizing Data Analysis Hackathons.
Developing Data Science products.

The freedom, diversity, nice clients, but especially the work environment mean that I still enjoy working at Cmotions to this day."

Our specialties

Mutual knowledge sharing is very important to us at Cmotions. Not only for our own development, but also to be able to add more value faster for our clients. To underscore the importance of this, we established specialty groups several years ago.

An important reason why clients work with us is because - in addition to our specific and often technical knowledge and experience - we are able to communicate clearly about it. To ensure that our knowledge remains up-to-date, we work together with colleagues on internal projects in the specialties groups. More information about the specialties can be found on our website. Since Cmotions has a broad orientation within the data field, we have several specialties: