The Opportunity

A rare opportunity to join a high-traffic UK digital marketplace that’s building a brand new data function as part of a major strategic shift.

This business sits on billions of data points across pricing, demand, seasonality and customer behaviour. They are now investing heavily in turning that data into a core revenue stream, building commercial data products for both internal teams and external partners.

You’ll report into a newly appointed Chief Data Officer and play a key role in shaping the next phase of growth.

Working Pattern

Hybrid working - 1 day per week onsite in Leeds.

The Why? (Top 3 Reasons to Apply)

1. Build a Data Revenue Engine

This isn’t incremental optimisation. You’ll help transform a mature digital platform into a data-led, B2B-focused business where insight directly drives recurring revenue.

2. High Impact Commercial Modelling

Work on pricing optimisation, forecasting, attribution, propensity modelling and real-time behavioural insights across millions of records.

3. Influence & Ownership

Join at an inflection point under a new CDO. High visibility, genuine autonomy, and scope to shape tooling, standards and direction.

The What…

As a Senior Data Scientist, you’ll design and deploy production-ready models that influence commercial performance and strategic decision making.

Core responsibilities include:

Building demand forecasting and price sensitivity models
Developing marketing attribution and Media Mix frameworks
Designing propensity and conversion scoring models
Deploying models into production using modern cloud tooling
Partnering with engineering to build scalable pipelines
Working directly with stakeholders to translate modelling into action

What You’ll Bring

Strong Python and SQL capability
Experience building and deploying ML models in production
Background in forecasting, pricing, behavioural or attribution modelling
Experience operating within AWS, GCP, Azure, Snowflake or Databricks
Commercial mindset with the ability to influence non-technical stakeholders

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