Senior/Principal/Lead Data Scientist

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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% technical leadership/management role (Principal and Lead ONLY).

THE ROLE

In this position you will:

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

Skills And Experience

  1. Strong Data Science/Statistical fundamental knowledge is required
  2. Experience across some of recommenders, forecasting, pricing, churn, marketing etc. - this is a role for a generalist!
  3. Exposure to some of GenAI, NLP, Computer Vision is a bonus
  4. MSc in a STEM subject (Maths, Physics, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering etc.)
  5. Strong communication skills, and commercially driven
  6. Experience leading projects and ideally small teams

This role cannot sponsor.

Please contact Chris at if you are interested in applying!

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