Senior Data Scientist

We're recruiting on behalf of a high-growth, venture-backed tech business operating in the logistics space. They're not your typical logistics company; they've built their entire operation around data, and it shows in how they've scaled. Profitable and scaling rapidly, with ambitious plans for growth throughout this year and beyond.Their data team punches well above its weight relative to the size of the business, and the work their scientists do has a direct, daily impact on how the operation runs. This isn't a team building dashboards; models go into production and drive real decisions.What the role involvesWe're looking for a Senior Data Scientist to take ownership across one of two interconnected areas: forecasting and pricing.On the forecasting side, you'll build and maintain models that predict how demand moves through the network, informing decisions on capacity, planning and operational resourcing. On the pricing side, you'll develop the intelligence that drives how the business prices its services dynamically, experimenting and iterating based on what plays out in live operations.It's a senior IC role with genuine autonomy. You'll own problems from first principles through to production, and have meaningful input into how the team approaches modelling as it grows.What we're looking for5+ years in data science with a track record of models that drove real decisionsStrong Python and SQL, comfortable across the full modelling lifecycleExperience with time-series forecasting methods, and/or modelling marketplace or pricing dynamicsProduction-minded; you've taken models beyond the notebookClear communicator with non-technical stakeholdersA systems thinker who cares about downstream impact, not just model performanceDomain experience in logistics isn't needed; curiosity and the ability to get up to speed fast is what counts.Hybrid, London.