Senior Data Scientist
Role: Senior Data Scientist
Location: Manchester, UK / Leeds, UK
Role Overview
As the client analytics team evolves, we are looking to onboard commercially savvy, independent Data Scientists to support and accelerate a predefined analytics backlog. The role requires strong technical capability, commercial acumen, and the ability to operate autonomously while driving measurable business impact.-defined analytics backlog. The role requires strong technical capability, commercial acumen, and the ability to operate autonomously while driving measurable business impact.
The Analyst/Data Scientist will design and deliver analytical solutions that help grow wallet share, increase market share, and improve customer engagement. They will also lead the creation of self-serve reporting and dashboards that enable stakeholders to track performance and key drivers.-serve reporting and dashboards that enable stakeholders to track performance and key drivers.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop insights and recommendations to increase wallet spend across key customer segments.
- Design and deliver initiatives aimed at growing market share, including tracking performance and conducting root cause analysis.-cause analysis.
- Build a self-serve dashboard to monitor market share, performance KPIs, and related contributing factors.-serve dashboard
- Own end to end delivery of analysis with minimal oversight—problem structuring, data extraction, modelling, and presentation.-to-end delivery of analysis with minimal oversight—problem structuring, data extraction, modelling, and presentation.
- Conduct data mining, manipulation, and validation using robust reconciliation practices.
- Identify and select relevant data points required for accurate and meaningful analysis.
- Build customer segmentations/profiles to inform commercial strategies and product decisions.
- Perform conversion and funnel analysis to understand customer behaviour and optimize interventions.
- Create business ready visualizations and structured reporting for senior stakeholders.-ready visualisations and structured reporting for senior stakeholders.
- Automate repetitive tasks, streamline data workflows, and improve analytical efficiency.
- Design and evaluate marketing campaign structures—targeting, proposition, test design, measurement based on statistical significance.
- Present insights confidently and manage stakeholder expectations through clear, proactive communication.
- Deliver high quality outputs at pace with minimal rework.-quality outputs at pace with minimal rework.
Skills & Experience Required
Technical & Analytical Skills
- Strong data mining, wrangling, and manipulation experience (SQL, Python, or equivalent).
- High competence in validation checks, reconciliations, and data quality assurance.
- Advanced data visualization capability (Power BI, Tableau, or similar).
- Experience building dashboards and business reporting tools.
- Familiarity with optimization and automation techniques in analytics workflows.
Commercial & Domain Experience
- Debit payments or current account experience within UK Financial Services (desired).
- Understanding of banking profitability, product economics, and business case modelling.
- Background in customer profiling, segmentation, and behavioral analytics.
- Experience designing and evaluating commercial or marketing campaigns.
- Strong understanding of conversion metrics and commercial performance levers.
Behavioral Competencies
- Highly independent and proactive, able to manage workload and prioritization autonomously.
- Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence stakeholders.
- Delivers consistently to a high standard with minimal rework.
- Comfortable working in a fast paced, outcomes driven environment.-paced, outcomes-driven environment.