Head of Data Science
Learn more about the general tasks related to this opportunity below, as well as required skills.
Salary: £110K – £120K + bonus
Location: Manchester, 2-4 days a month
Overview
We’re working with a high-growth business that is scaling its data function to the next level. Data scientists here have traditionally combinedញ្ជ? reporting with predictive modelling, but the business is now creating a dedicated leadership role to bring focus, structure and engineering rigour to the discipline.
Responsibilities
As Head of Data Science, you’ll lead a growing team of 6+ scientists embedded across product and functional teams, while also setting the technical direction and ensuring alignment with company-wide OKRs. You’ll drive the transitionanchement towards machine learning engineering, championing end-to-end ympäris? model ownership from research through to deployment in production. This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the data science strategy, support the career growth of talented scientists, and deliver measurable impact in areas such as search, pricing, personalisation, vouchers, marketing, operations and finance.
Skills and Experience
- Proven leadership experience in data science or machine learning, ideally within product‑led or consumer‑facing organisations
- Strong background in building and deploying ML models at scale in production Gov environments
- Ability to structure and lead embedded data science teams, partnering effectively with senior stakeholders across multiple domains
- Hands‑on technical expertise xwzovoh with tools such as Databricks, Python, Spark, GCP/BigQuery
- Engineering mindset, with experience moving teams toward machine learning engineering best practice
- Credibility to lead long‑tenured individual contributors while providing direction, mentorship and career development
Seniority Level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment Type
Full‑time
Job Function
Information Technology
Industry
Data Infrastructure and Analytics
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