Optima Partners is a fast‑growing professional services firm helping leading organisations transform customer engagement at the intersection of marketing, technology and data. As we scale from 100 to 300 people we’re growing our Advanced Data Practice team through the appointment of a Head of Data Science to drive both client impact and team growth

About the role

In this role you will shape and deliver the data science agenda ensuring machine learning and analytics solutions are not only technically robust but deliver real measurable business outcomes for clients. You will sit at the intersection of strategy delivery and leadership building a high performing team while helping clients unlock value from advanced data and decisioning.

What you will be doing

• Lead and grow a multi-disciplinary data science team including data scientists and analysts

• Define and embed a best practice operating model for scalable and...