Data Science Consultant
Data Science Offering Lead
Salary: £80,000 – £100,000 + benefits
Location: UK-wide (client-site travel required)
Clearance: SC or SC-clearable
Type: Permanent
We're partnering with a growing consulting business that is expanding its Data & AI practice and looking for a Data Science Offering Lead to shape and build their end-to-end data science and ML capability. This role focuses on designing offerings, leading client engagements and delivering practical, production-ready ML and AI solutions that create measurable value.
What you'll be doing
- Leading the development of the firm's Data Science, ML and AI offering and go-to-market strategy.
- Working closely with clients to understand business problems and translate them into robust data-driven solutions.
- Designing and overseeing ML models, AI prototypes, PoCs, MVPs and scalable production solutions.
- Driving standards, best practices and technical excellence across all data science engagements.
- Supporting pre-sales, shaping proposals and leading workshops to demonstrate the art of the possible.
- Collaborating with engineering, strategy and consulting teams to deliver impactful AI-led transformation.
- Mentoring data scientists and helping build a strong, modern internal capability.
- Travelling nationally when required to support client delivery.
What you'll bring
- Strong experience across data science, machine learning and applied AI.
- Proven ability to design end-to-end ML solutions—from discovery and modelling through to deployment.
- Excellent client-facing skills with the confidence to lead senior stakeholder conversations.
- Consulting experience and the ability to deliver clarity in complex or ambiguous situations.
- Good understanding of cloud ML platforms and modern tooling (Azure, AWS, GCP, MLflow, etc.).
- Passion for innovation, experimentation and pushing boundaries in AI/ML delivery.
- SC clearance or the ability to become SC-cleared.
Interested?
If this sounds like a role you'd thrive in, drop me your details for more information and a confidential conversation.