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Wave Group

Wave Group

Senior Data Scientist (Forecasting)

London Hybrid 5-10 yrs exp Staffing and Recruiting 88 employees£100k – £123k / year
Data ScienceQuantitative ModellingTime-series ForecastingPythonSQL

Requirements

Candidates must have over 5 years of experience in data science or quantitative modelling, specifically with time-series forecasting. Proficiency in Python and SQL across the full modelling lifecycle and experience communicating with non-technical stakeholders are required.

Job Description

💻 Job Title: Senior Data Scientist (Forecasting)

💰 Salary: up to £122.5k

🔥 Equity: up to 170% (!!!) - insanely generous 🥵

  • 70% guaranteed upon joining
  • up to 100% additional allotment based on performance in 1st year

📍 Location: Shoreditch (4 office days/week)

🌴 Benefits:

  • Private healthcare & dental cover
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • Office lunches

📦 Industry: Logistics

👥 Team: ~110

💸 Funding: ~$45m (Series A)

🛂 VISA sponsorship available if needed


This company is hands-down the hottest logistics scale up in Europe, taking the industry by storm and growing at an astronomical pace.


Every parcel that moves through their network generates thousands of data points feeding the forecasting engine that powers every operational decision — shifts, dispatch, routing, expansion. The Senior Data Scientist in this role owns a core domain within that engine, sitting in the company's biggest and most data-rich squad.


If you want to be at the heart of something genuinely transformative, this might be for you.


🛠️ What you'll be doing:

  • Owning a core domain in the forecasting engine (demand, expansion, parcel intelligence or sortation)
  • Building and maintaining models from exploration through to production deployment
  • Monitoring live model performance and improving accuracy over time
  • Translating problems from Sortation, Middle Mile, Last Mile, Routing and Commercial into DS problems
  • Quantifying model impact on cost per parcel to help prioritise the roadmap


✅ Must have requirements:

  • 5+ years in data science or quantitative modelling, ideally with time-series forecasting
  • Strong Python & SQL across the full modelling lifecycle (extraction to production)
  • Track record of taking models from notebook to production, monitored and trusted
  • Experience communicating model reliability to non-technical stakeholders
  • Comfortable working from ambiguous starting points


👍 Bonus points for:

  • Logistics or delivery network experience
  • ML experience where it materially improves forecast accuracy
  • Comfortable using AI tools (LLMs, code assistants) to accelerate workflow
  • Experience influencing technical direction as a team scales

Skills

Data ScienceQuantitative ModellingTime-series ForecastingPythonSQLMachine LearningModel DeploymentModel MonitoringData ExtractionStakeholder CommunicationAI ToolsLLMs

About Wave Group

Wave enables companies to scale. Our mission is clear. Fuel growth by building the teams and advisory support behind it. We combine talent and consulting to solve the same problem. How you hire. How you structure. How you move. We connect tech, product and data talent with companies shaping what’s next. From critical hires to full team builds. We provide consulting across hiring strategy, team design and market insight. Practical guidance. Clear decisions. Better outcomes. Our approach is human and precise. Defined search. Structured delivery. Straight advice. With over 1,000 public LinkedIn testimonials and 300+ partnerships, the work holds up.. Curious to learn more? hello@wavetalent.co www.wave-group.io/