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
