Senior/Principal/Lead Data Scientist

Harnham

London

10 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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