Skills

Leadership Monitoring Decision-making Analytics NLP

Job Specifications

Senior/Lead Data Scientist - Housing - £60K

Hybrid - 1/2 Days a month in Liverpool office

Are you a Data Scientist looking for a role with real scope to grow, including an active progression pathway through to a Head of Department role, and direct mentorship from Directors?

A leading UK accommodation provider is building its AI capability from the ground up and needs a Data Scientist to lead foundational AI projects with a clear pathway to Head of AI within 18–24 months. They're seeing rapid growth including expanding into the European market, and the opportunity to grow your own team will arise.

This is a rare chance to own high-impact AI delivery (chatbots, predictive analytics, automation) while being mentored into strategic leadership by a senior Director. You'll define the roadmap, choose the tech stack, and shape how AI transforms operations across a national portfolio.

Year One – Technical Delivery:

Build AI-powered solutions for customer support, predictive maintenance, and demand forecasting
Deploy NLP models for automated request triage and workflow optimization
Establish foundational AI governance (ethics, risk, model monitoring)
Work cross-functionally with operations, commercial, and IT teams

Year Two+ – Strategic Leadership:

Own the enterprise AI roadmap and influence executive decision-making
Lead AI adoption across the business and present to senior leadership
Build and manage the AI function (team, budget, partnerships)
Shape responsible AI frameworks and regulatory compliance

What we're looking for:

Data Scientist with some exposure to AI/ML projects - predictive models, forecasting, NLP etc
Apetite to progress into a leadership-focused role
Experience in housing/hospitality/tourism companies would be a plus

About the Company

We are immersed in the Tech & Data ecosystem giving us invaluable insight into this exciting and everchanging market. Due to our deep network, we can unearth the best talent, rather than the 15% of active job seekers on the market. We make the recruitment process as simple and pain-free as possible for our clients. For recruitment to be truly successful it needs to be a business partnership. We invest time in getting to know the organisation that we are partnering with, spending time onsite with the hiring manager and team... Know more