Lead Commercial Data Scientist

Dow Jones
London, UK
about 1 month ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Information Engineering Python (Programming Language) Salesforce.Com SQL Databases Snowflake Usage Tracking Machine Learning Operations Databricks

Job description

  • Build and productionise predictive deal-scoring models that analyze historical win rates, engagement data, and market triggers to rank inbound leads for and White Space opportunities for Sales.
  • Develop “Next-Best-Action” recommendation algorithms integrated directly into Salesforce, providing Account Executives with automated, real-time prompts for the highest-value upsell and cross-sell angles.
  • Architect automated account health dashboards that translate complex institutional API and software usage patterns into scannable sales alerts, flagging high-risk client contraction or accounts primed for expansion.
  • Engineer white-space & TAM analysis models to systematically audit the global commodity market, identifying untapped logos and potential enterprise customers currently missing from our pipeline.

Pricing Algorithm Optimization & Revenue Defense

  • Design dynamic price elasticity and optimization models that simulate client price tolerance across various customer segments to maximize ARR during annual renewals.
  • Develop contract value simulation matrices that arm Account Executives with data-backed parameters for high-stakes enterprise negotiations, protecting pricing boundaries.
  • Quantify the specific commercial revenue upside of raw feature updates or new energy index methodologies, telling product and sales leaders exactly how to monetize new data assets.

Cross-Functional Sales Enablement & Engineering

  • Partner directly with Sales/Revenue Operations and Data Engineering to build, maintain, and clean automated sales data pipelines within cloud environments (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks).
  • Translate highly intricate mathematical models into intuitive, low-jargon dashboards, training global commercial teams to trust and execute on data-driven sales leads.
  • Establish rigorous data quality loops ensuring that automated alerts pushed to the sales floor are completely accurate and actionable, directly maintaining trust in internal forecasting tools.

Requirements

  • Education : Master’s or Ph.D. in Data Science, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, Economics, Business Analytics, or a closely related quantitative field.
  • Experience : 5+ years of practical data science experience, with a heavy emphasis on sales intelligence, revenue analytics, or go-to-market data science inside a B2B SaaS, FinTech, or Price Reporting Agency (PRA) setting.
  • Technical Stack : Advanced mastery of Python or R, production-grade SQL, and deep experience linking machine learning workflows to Salesforce CRM via automated APIs .
  • Methodology Expertise : Proven skill in supervised classification (lead scoring), predictive churn forecasting, customer segmentation (clustering), and value-based price optimization modeling.
  • Domain Knowledge : High comfort with the enterprise sales funnel (pipelines, conversion rates, ARR, net revenue retention) alongside an interest in physical energy and chemical supply chains.

Success Profile

  • Sales-First Mindset : Driven by the thrill of closed deals and absolute pipeline growth, seeing math as the ultimate tool to unlock hidden commercial revenue.
  • Elite Communicator & Collaborator : Able to collaborate effectively in a matrix environment and to stand in front of a global sales floor or senior revenue executives and explain advanced data science models using simple, highly motivating language.
  • Fast-Paced Operator : Comfortable deploying iterations quickly, prioritizing rapid sales-enablement wins without sacrificing the absolute integrity of the underlying code.

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