Lead Data Scientist

LEAD DATA SCIENTIST

UP TO £90,000

HYBRID (LONDON 3 days per week)

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We are working with a leading strategy/consulting company with a global presence, that operate across various industries including Financial, Healthcare, Media, Retail etc. They are looking for a Data Science lead to join their Data and Analytics team (of 18).

ROLE:

• Consulting on various areas inside and outside of the business.
• Most of your time will be spent on the consulting side - using Data Science to solve client business problems. Then the rest of your time will be on internal projects such as finance or marketing.
• Focus areas include pricing, customer segmentation, Gen AI/LLMs, optimisation, and forecasting
• Project durations typically last 6 weeks
• You will mostly be working on European projects with occasional global assignments
• Python & SQL

REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum 3 years of experience, with a preference for those who have led projects and worked collaboratively on delivery
• Consulting experience required, preferably in strategy consulting or data science consultancy
• Experience with short-term projects (6-12 weeks) preferred
• Generalist data science experience or specialist who is comfortable being a generalist
• Ability to explain techniques in classification and clustering

PROCESS

1. 30-minute introductory call with the hiring manager
2. Technical case study with a tech team member
3. Commercial interview involving a project and report presentation
4. Final stage meeting with partners