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We equip retail, fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home and consumer goods brands with pioneering best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products. Our technology powers brands to streamline processes, drive efficiency and operate with confidence in an ever-changing market.\nOur story is one of rapid growth, bold ideas and extraordinary opportunities. We’re here to challenge the status quo-and we’re looking for brilliant people who want to do the same. No matter where you are in the world, this is your chance to be part of something exceptional.\nAbout the Role\nAt Centric, we help some of the world's most recognized fashion, beauty, and home brands decide what to stock, what to promote, and what to charge, and we help them do it with AI. Our AI-based planning and pricing solution runs at more than 50 customers across over ten countries.\nAs Lead Data Science Consultant, you run the team behind that work. Four data scientists today, ten by the end of next year. You decide who joins, how the team works, and how we turn a customer's messy historical data into forecasts and pricing decisions they are willing to act on.\nThe role has two halves that have to fit in one person. One half faces the customer: you sit with retailers and brands, you work out how they really make their decisions, and you turn that into something a model can answer. The other half is technical: you keep the methods honest, you know when a gradient boosting model is the right answer and when it is not, and you are curious about what Generative AI can take over in work that used to be manual.\nIf you want to build a team and stay close to the mathematics at the same time, this is that role.\nWhat You'll Do\nBuild and lead the team\nGrow the data science consulting team from four people to ten over the next year, and set the bar for who gets hired.\nDevelop the consultants in your team with regular feedback, clear growth paths, and technical standards that hold across projects.\nDecide how the team works: how projects are staffed, how knowledge moves between them, and how quality gets checked before anything reaches a customer.\nOwn the customer-facing analytical work\nAct as the senior technical counterpart for our customers, from the first onboarding workshop through to the solution running in production.\nTurn business processes and commercial questions into concrete modelling approaches, then explain the result in language a planner or a buyer can use.\nTake the hardest projects yourself when that is what the situation needs.\nPush the methods forward\nOwn the forecasting, pricing, and inventory models our customers depend on: time series, statistical modelling, supervised learning, and optimization.\nDecide where Generative AI earns its place. The first targets are customer onboarding and the mapping and linking of unfamiliar data structures, which is where most of the manual effort sits today.\nKeep a clear line between what is proven and what is still an experiment, and make sure the team knows which is which.\nWork across the organization\nPartner with Product, Engineering, and Implementation on what the solution needs next.\nCarry the evidence from customer projects back into the product roadmap.\nDesign and analyze A/B tests that settle open questions with data instead of opinion.\nWhat You Bring\nMust-Haves\n8+ years of hands-on data science work, a good part of it spent in front of customers and not only in front of code.\nExperience leading people or projects, whether as a team lead, a chapter lead, or a sustained project lead others relied on.\nA strong grounding in classical machine learning and statistics. You can explain why a method works and where it breaks.\nExcellent SQL and solid Python (Pandas, NumPy, Statsmodels or equivalent).\nThe instinct to run a project: scoping it, estimating effort, keeping a timeline honest, and flagging early when something will not land.\nExcellent communication in English, including a feel for how much detail a given audience actually wants.\nA degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, physics, economics, or a related field.\nPerfect-to-Haves\nExperience in retail, fashion, or consumer products.\nPractical work with LLMs beyond prompting, for example retrieval, evaluation, or agentic workflows in production.\nBig data environments such as PySpark.\nFamiliarity with pricing or behavioral price effects.\nAdditional languages beyond English.\nWhy Join Us\nYou build the team. Six hires over the next year, and you set the standard they are measured against.\nRemote, and we mean it. Our customers sit in more than ten countries, so we do not move people around for the sake of it. Expect to travel once or twice a year, usually when a customer happens to be within a couple of hours of where you live.\nWork with consequences. Our models set prices and stock levels at companies you have heard of, and the effect shows up in their numbers.\nA field that is still open. 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