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Senior/Principal/Lead Data Scientist

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8 months ago
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Job Description

Senior / Principal / Lead Data Scientist

London - Hybrid (3 days a week)

£70,000 to £120,000 + benefits


Please note: This role covers candidates benchmarked separately at either the Senior, Principal or Lead level. Feel free to apply if you fall between these three levels.


This is a great opportunity to join a globally established marketing consultancy - in an 80% hands-on, 20% technicalleadership/managementrole (Principal and Lead ONLY).


THE ROLE

In this position you will:

  • Drive machine learning projects across recommenders, segmentation, forecasting and optimising marketing spend
  • Work on advanced projects across GenAI and NLP
  • Work closely with an Engineering team, whilst remaining full stack in your projects
  • Report into Head of Data Science
  • Driving commercial value closely with senior stakeholders
  • Have a chance to upskill and mentor/manage, within a strong team of 8


Skills And Experience

  • Strong DataScience/Statisticalfundamental knowledge is required
  • Experience across some of recommenders, forecasting, pricing, churn, marketing etc. - this is a role for a generalist!
  • Exposure to some of GenAI, NLP, Computer Vision is a bonus
  • MSc in a ST...

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