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Data Scientist – Decision Science & Modelling

London, England, gb🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-23 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and deliver analytical models and decision-support systems to improve understanding, prediction, and decision-making across the business, focusing on complex real-world systems with imperfect data.

Role type

Senior IC data scientist (decision science & modelling)

Builds

Deployable analytical solutions, decision-support tools, and operational capabilities

Domain

Healthcare market research, life sciences, and decision science

Deliverable

production ML models | dashboards & analysis

Required skills

Statistical modelling, probabilistic modelling, Bayesian inference, forecasting, machine learning, simulation modelling, optimisation techniques, experimental design, Python or R coding, problem decomposition

Preferred skills

Digital twin systems, operational research, survey/panel data analysis, generative AI, model monitoring and governance

Technologies

Python, R

Responsibilities

Design statistical and simulation-based models; translate business questions into tractable modelling problems; quantify uncertainty and communicate confidence in outputs; develop frameworks for operational and commercial decision-making; validate models using testing and back-testing; partner with Engineering to translate models into scalable production solutions.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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