Data Science Consultant

Data Science Offering Lead

Salary: £80,000 – £100,000 + benefits

Location: UK-wide (client-site travel required)

Clearance: SC or SC-clearable

Type: Permanent

We’re partnering with a growing consulting business that is expanding its Data & AI practice and looking for a Data Science Offering Lead to shape and build their end-to-end data science and ML capability. This role focuses on designing offerings, leading client engagements and delivering practical, production-ready ML and AI solutions that create measurable value.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading the development of the firm’s Data Science, ML and AI offering and go-to-market strategy.
• Working closely with clients to understand business problems and translate them into robust data-driven solutions.
• Designing and overseeing ML models, AI prototypes, PoCs, MVPs and scalable production solutions.
• Driving standards, best practices and technical excellence across all data science engagements.
• Supporting pre-sales, shaping proposals and leading workshops to demonstrate the art of the possible.
• Collaborating with engineering, strategy and consulting teams to deliver impactful AI-led transformation.
• Mentoring data scientists and helping build a strong, modern internal capability.
• Travelling nationally when required to support client delivery.

What you’ll bring

• Strong experience across data science, machine learning and applied AI.
• Proven ability to design end-to-end ML solutions—from discovery and modelling through to deployment.
• Excellent client-facing skills with the confidence to lead senior stakeholder conversations.
• Consulting experience and the ability to deliver clarity in complex or ambiguous situations.
• Good understanding of cloud ML platforms and modern tooling (Azure, AWS, GCP, MLflow, etc.).
• Passion for innovation, experimentation and pushing boundaries in AI/ML delivery.
• SC clearance or the ability to become SC-cleared.

Interested?

If this sounds like a role you’d thrive in, drop me your details for more information and a confidential conversation.