At a Glance
- Tasks: Uncover key drivers of product performance using advanced data analysis and machine learning.
- Company: Dynamic company focused on impactful data-driven decisions.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, flexible working arrangements, and exposure to senior leadership.
- Other info: Join a collaborative team and enhance your career in a fast-paced environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by shaping business strategies with your data insights.
- Qualifications: Experience in Data Science, strong Python and SQL skills, and excellent communication abilities.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 70000 £ per year.
Are you passionate about uncovering the hidden drivers behind business performance? We're looking for an experienced Data Scientist Contractor to help us identify what makes the highest-performing products in our portfolio stand out and translate those insights into actionable business decisions.
The Opportunity
You'll work on a high-impact project focused on understanding the characteristics of successful products across a large and diverse portfolio. Building on existing analysis, you'll validate current assumptions, apply advanced machine learning techniques, and develop a robust framework that explains the key drivers of product performance. This is a highly visible piece of work that will influence strategic decision-making across the business and provide direct exposure to senior leadership stakeholders.
What You'll Be Doing
- Validating and enhancing existing analytical models and hypotheses.
- Applying unsupervised learning techniques to segment and cluster product data.
- Building supervised learning models to identify and predict high-performing products.
- Using model explainability techniques such as SHAP to uncover and communicate key performance drivers.
- Turning complex analytical findings into clear, compelling narratives for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Developing scalable, programmatic solutions using data housed within Snowflake.
- Creating engaging stakeholder-facing outputs, ideally leveraging Streamlit.
What/Who We're Looking For
- Proven commercial experience delivering Data Science projects from problem definition through to insight generation.
- Strong expertise in both supervised and unsupervised machine learning.
- Experience with model interpretability techniques, particularly SHAP.
- Excellent stakeholder communication and storytelling skills.
- Strong Python and SQL capabilities.
- Experience working with Snowflake and ideally Streamlit.
- Ability to challenge assumptions, validate existing work, and build trusted recommendations.
Next Steps
We are shortlisting w/c 1st June with the ideal start within the next 2 weeks. If you enjoy turning complex data into clear business value and want to help define what 'great' looks like across a large product portfolio, we'd love to hear from you.
Data Scientist (Contract) employer: The MRJ Group
Join a forward-thinking company that values innovation and analytical excellence, where your contributions as a Data Scientist Contractor will directly impact strategic decisions and drive business performance. With a collaborative work culture that encourages professional growth and development, you'll have the opportunity to engage with senior leadership while working on high-visibility projects in a dynamic environment. Located in a vibrant area, our company offers unique advantages such as flexible working arrangements and access to cutting-edge technology, making it an ideal place for those looking to make a meaningful impact.
