Senior Data Scientist

Role: Senior Data Scientist

Location: Manchester, UK / Leeds, UK

Role Overview

As the client analytics team evolves, we are looking to onboard commercially savvy, independent Data Scientists to support and accelerate a predefined analytics backlog. The role requires strong technical capability, commercial acumen, and the ability to operate autonomously while driving measurable business impact.-defined analytics backlog. The role requires strong technical capability, commercial acumen, and the ability to operate autonomously while driving measurable business impact.

The Analyst/Data Scientist will design and deliver analytical solutions that help grow wallet share, increase market share, and improve customer engagement. They will also lead the creation of self-serve reporting and dashboards that enable stakeholders to track performance and key drivers.-serve reporting and dashboards that enable stakeholders to track performance and key drivers.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop insights and recommendations to increase wallet spend across key customer segments.
• Design and deliver initiatives aimed at growing market share, including tracking performance and conducting root cause analysis.-cause analysis.
• Build a self-serve dashboard to monitor market share, performance KPIs, and related contributing factors.-serve dashboard
• Own end to end delivery of analysis with minimal oversight—problem structuring, data extraction, modelling, and presentation.-to-end delivery of analysis with minimal oversight—problem structuring, data extraction, modelling, and presentation.
• Conduct data mining, manipulation, and validation using robust reconciliation practices.
• Identify and select relevant data points required for accurate and meaningful analysis.
• Build customer segmentations/profiles to inform commercial strategies and product decisions.
• Perform conversion and funnel analysis to understand customer behaviour and optimize interventions.
• Create business ready visualizations and structured reporting for senior stakeholders.-ready visualisations and structured reporting for senior stakeholders.
• Automate repetitive tasks, streamline data workflows, and improve analytical efficiency.
• Design and evaluate marketing campaign structures—targeting, proposition, test design, measurement based on statistical significance.
• Present insights confidently and manage stakeholder expectations through clear, proactive communication.
• Deliver high quality outputs at pace with minimal rework.-quality outputs at pace with minimal rework.

Skills & Experience Required

Technical & Analytical Skills

• Strong data mining, wrangling, and manipulation experience (SQL, Python, or equivalent).
• High competence in validation checks, reconciliations, and data quality assurance.
• Advanced data visualization capability (Power BI, Tableau, or similar).
• Experience building dashboards and business reporting tools.
• Familiarity with optimization and automation techniques in analytics workflows.

Commercial & Domain Experience

• Debit payments or current account experience within UK Financial Services (desired).
• Understanding of banking profitability, product economics, and business case modelling.
• Background in customer profiling, segmentation, and behavioral analytics.
• Experience designing and evaluating commercial or marketing campaigns.
• Strong understanding of conversion metrics and commercial performance levers.

Behavioral Competencies

• Highly independent and proactive, able to manage workload and prioritization autonomously.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence stakeholders.
• Delivers consistently to a high standard with minimal rework.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, outcomes driven environment.-paced, outcomes-driven environment.