Data Scientist (Contract)

Are you passionate about uncovering the hidden drivers behind business performance? We're looking for an experienced Data Scientist Contractor to help us identify what makes the highest-performing products in our portfolio stand out and translate those insights into actionable business decisions. The Opportunity You'll work on a high-impact project focused on understanding the characteristics of successful products across a large and diverse portfolio. Building on existing analysis, you'll validate current assumptions, apply advanced machine learning techniques, and develop a robust framework that explains the key drivers of product performance. This is a highly visible piece of work that will influence strategic decision-making across the business and provide direct exposure to senior leadership stakeholders. What You'll Be Doing * Validating and enhancing existing analytical models and hypotheses. * Applying unsupervised learning techniques to segment and cluster product data. * Building supervised learning models to identify and predict high-performing products. * Using model explainability techniques such as SHAP to uncover and communicate key performance drivers. * Turning complex analytical findings into clear, compelling narratives for both technical and non-technical audiences. * Developing scalable, programmatic solutions using data housed within Snowflake. * Creating engaging stakeholder-facing outputs, ideally leveraging Streamlit. What/Who We're Looking For * Proven commercial experience delivering Data Science projects from problem definition through to insight generation. * Strong expertise in both supervised and unsupervised machine learning. * Experience with model interpretability techniques, particularly SHAP. * Excellent stakeholder communication and storytelling skills. * Strong Python and SQL capabilities. * Experience working with Snowflake and ideally Streamlit. * Ability to challenge assumptions, validate existing work, and build trusted recommendations. Next Steps We are shortlisting w/c 1st June with the ideal start within the next 2 weeks. If you enjoy turning complex data into clear business value and want to help define what ''great'' looks like across a large product portfolio, we'd love to hear from you. #J-18808-Ljbffr