Data Scientist

Company: Dept Agency
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Location: Manchester
Job Description:

Overview

As a Data Scientist in DEPT’s EMEA Data & AI practice, you design data-driven solutions to complex client challenges and help optimize media budgets through advanced modelling. You will lead media effectiveness work, including Media Mix Modelling, incrementality, and multi-touch attribution, while contributing ML expertise across client streams. You’ll deploy scalable AI systems and communicate insights to senior stakeholders, acting as a trusted data science advisor. This role blends hands-on analysis with cross-functional collaboration to deliver measurable business impact.

Pay / Benefits

  • global opportunities
  • benefits that help you thrive
  • autonomy to solve client problems

Responsibilities

  • Design data-driven solutions using ML and AI to deliver business value
  • Lead media effectiveness projects: MMM, incrementality, attribution to guide budget allocation
  • Develop end-to-end scalable ML/AI systems: training, inference, deployment, monitoring in the cloud
  • Lead a multidisciplinary team of engineers, consultants and stakeholders
  • Explain complex technical concepts to clients with progress reports and demos
  • Translate model outputs into actionable recommendations for senior marketing leadership
  • Advise clients on data science implementation and data-driven decision making

Key requirements

  • MSc degree in a quantitative field
  • Hands-on experience building media effectiveness solutions (MMM, incrementality, attribution)
  • Strong understanding of marketing strategy and customer journeys
  • Solid foundation in traditional statistics; openness to ML/AI advances
  • Proficiency in Python with data science libraries
  • Strong SQL and data warehousing experience (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)
  • Knowledge of MLOps and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Experience with version control (Git) and deployment tools (Docker)
  • Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving; strong communication skills
  • Excellent communication; ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences
  • Analytical thinking and problem-solving
  • Proactive, collaborative mindset
  • Python (scikit-learn, pandas, NumPy, SciPy)
  • SQL
  • Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift

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Posted: October 17th, 2026