Data Scientist - Supply Chain (Procurement & Product Costing)

Corvus People
Belfast, County Antrim, United Kingdom
Today
£50,000 – £70,000 pa

Salary

£50,000 – £70,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
On-site
Seniority
Mid
Education
Degree
Posted
5 May 2026 (Today)

Role: Data Scientist – Supply Chain (Procurement & Product Costing)

About the Role

We are seeking a Data Scientist to join our Supply Chain Data Team, working closely with Procurement. The initial focus of this role is to develop pragmatic, decision‑enabling analytics and data science tools that support key procurement activities, including:

Product cost roadmaps (for both new product introductions and established products)

Product cost controls

Product cost reduction initiatives

The role requires a practical mindset: working with multiple data sources of varying completeness and quality, balancing analytical rigour with business reality to deliver insights that are useful, timely, and trusted. Over time, the role will expand into broader procurement analytics use cases.

Key Responsibilities

Design and build analytical and predictive tools that enable product cost roadmaps, helping procurement teams understand how product costs are expected to evolve over time and why

Develop models and monitoring tools to support product cost controls, including identifying variances, emerging risks, and cost pressures

Create data‑driven analyses to identify and quantify opportunities for product cost reduction

Analyse and explain the drivers of cost changes, going beyond transactional data to account for upstream supply chain impacts, supplier and market dynamics, external data enrichment, and macro‑economic or geopolitical influences.

Work with data from multiple internal and external sources, often with incomplete, inconsistent, or imperfect data, applying pragmatic assumptions and transparent methods

Perform scenario and sensitivity analysis to support negotiations, sourcing strategies, and planning decisions

Clearly document and communicate model assumptions, data limitations, and confidence levels so stakeholders understand both insight and uncertainty

Apply data science techniques to additional procurement use cases as needs evolve

Partner closely with procurement stakeholders to ensure analytics are aligned to real decision‑making processes

Contribute to reusable models, data assets, and practical analytics standards within the Supply Chain Data Team

Essential Skills & Experience

Strong data science capability, including statistical analysis and predictive modelling

Proven experience building costing, financial, or commercial models, ideally in procurement or supply chain contexts

Advanced proficiency in data preparation, analysis and modelling, including model explainability methods

Advanced proficiency in Python, SQL. Familiarity with Snowflake.

Demonstrated ability to work pragmatically with messy, incomplete, or low‑quality data, making sound judgement calls rather than waiting for “perfect” datasets

Experience integrating and reconciling data from many sources with differing definitions and levels of maturity

Ability to clearly explain analytical outputs, assumptions, and limitations to business stakeholders

Strong commercial awareness and a business‑focused approach to analytics

Desirable / Nice to Have

Experience using Dataiku

Understanding of procurement contracts, pricing mechanisms, and cost structures

Experience working closely with procurement or finance teams

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