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Senior Data Science Manager

SaltChandler's Ford, Hampshire🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 27 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This leadership role offers significant impact by driving data-driven decisions and personalization within a respected retail organization, complemented by a competitive salary and bonus structure. You'll thrive here if you are passionate about mentoring talent, shaping roadmaps, and developing advanced analytics solutions, with the flexibility of a hybrid work model requiring minimal office visits. This is an excellent opportunity to advance your career by influencing stakeholders and delivering measurable business value.

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Schedule
Full Time
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Senior Data Scientist (leadership role) - Customer Data - 100K + 50% bonus + 6,500 car allowance - Southampton

Senior Data Scientist, Data Science Manager, Leadership, Leading Data Science, Retail, Python, SQL, Roadmaps, Cloud Analytics, Southampton area 2-3 days a month minimum.

You will be leading a Data Science team to deliver machine learning and advanced analytics solutions that improve customer insight, drive commercial decision-making and enable personalisation across a retail organisation.

You will be able to challenge approaches, raise standards, coach technical talent and influence senior stakeholders across Customer, Digital, CRM, Loyalty, Retail Media, Finance, and Technology.

This role will require you to be in Southampton 2-3 days a month

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead, coach and develop a high-performing Data Science team.
  • Own and deliver the Data Science roadmap, prioritising work based on business value.
  • Oversee the development and deployment of machine learning models, including churn, customer lifetime value, forecasting, segmentation and recommendation.
  • Ensure solutions are scalable, robust, governed and production-ready.
  • Partner with business and technology stakeholders to translate commercial challenges into data-driven solutions.
  • Drive best practice in data science, model governance and technical delivery.
  • Deliver measurable business value through the effective use of data science.

Skills & Experience:

  • Proven experience leading Data Science teams in a commercial environment.
  • Strong knowledge of machine learning, statistics, Python and SQL.
  • Experience developing and deploying predictive models using customer and commercial data.
  • Experience with cloud analytics platforms (e.g. Databricks, Snowflake or BigQuery).
  • Strong stakeholder management, communication and leadership skills.
  • Commercially focused with the ability to prioritise and deliver high-impact outcomes.

Data Science Manager, Leadership, Leading Data Science, Retail, Python, SQL, Roadmaps, Cloud Analytics

Skills

SQL
Machine Learning
Snowflake
BigQuery
CRM
Databricks
Forecasting
Python
Stakeholder Management

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