Datafloq

Data and Technology Insights

Lead Data Scientist

Location:  London, GB /

APPLYCompany: Harnham
Skills required: Analytics, Data Science, Marketing, Python, REST, SQL, Strategy
Technologies required: Python, SQL
Date: December 13, 2024

LEAD DATA SCIENTIST

UP TO 90,000

HYBRID (LONDON 3 days per week)

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