Data Science Manager

?? £500-£600/day | ? 3 months (IR35 TBC) | ? 2 days/week in office

About the role
Our client is looking for a hands-on Data Science Manager to take full ownership of their pricing optimisation function. This is a 3-month contract leading a small international team, focused on refining and deploying pricing models that directly impact trading performance across multiple markets.

You'll be managing everything from strategy to code, balancing high-level pricing approaches with deep technical involvement in building, testing, and improving algorithms.

Key responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end pricing product: develop, improve, and deploy pricing models tailored to market and product dynamics

• Drive experimentation and A/B testing to validate pricing strategies

• Collaborate closely with commercial teams to ensure models align with trading goals

• Work with data engineering teams to maintain robust pipelines and smooth deployments

Tech stack:

• Python (must-have)

• GCP

• Tableau

About you:

• Background in pricing optimisation.

• Comfortable leading a team but still very hands-on - coding, analysing, and iterating

• Excellent communicator who can simplify technical work for commercial stakeholders

• Past titles likely include Lead Data Scientist, Head of Data Science, or similar