Data Scientist

The Travel Corporation; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Travel Corporation is hiring a Data Scientist in London to apply advanced analytics and machine learning on customer, booking, digital and behavioural data. You will work across segmentation, propensity, personalization, retention forecasting and CLV, translating analytical work into business actions.

You will sit with a growing data science team, collaborating with data engineers, analysts and product teams to deliver measurable outcomes while upholding responsible AI practices and

Qualifications

• Strong professional experience in data science or advanced analytics.
• Advanced practical capability in Python and SQL.
• A strong grounding in statistics and machine learning.
• Experience developing and validating predictive models.
• Experience with customer, transactional, behavioural or digital data.
• Understanding of experimentation and statistical measurement.
• Analytical curiosity paired with pragmatic commercial judgement.
• The ability to explain complex analysis clearly and connect it to business action.
• Exposure to segmentation, propensity, churn, forecasting, lifetime value or personalisation.
• Experience with Snowflake, cloud data science environments or production machine learning.
• Familiarity with responsible AI principles and reproducible practice.
• Experience in a global, multi-brand or multi-market business.
• Curiosity about travel, hospitality or global consumer businesses.

Responsibilities

• Turn customer and commercial challenges into structured analytical problems.
• Explore behavioural and transactional data to find insights others miss.
• Develop and evaluate statistical and ML models.
• Build segmentation, propensity, forecasting and personalisation solutions.
• Apply rigour to feature engineering, validation and performance.
• Design experiments to understand genuine impact.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering to productionise models.
• Monitor deployed solutions and drive improvements.
• Communicate findings clearly to technical and business audiences.
• Contribute to data science standards and responsible AI.

Skills

Python

SQL

Statistics

Machine learning

Data analysis

Experimentation

Business acumen

Communication

Tools

Snowflake

Cloud data science environments

Production ML

Job description

Data Scientist

Vacancy Information

• Location: London, UK
• Salary: Competitive
• Working Pattern: Hybrid, 3 days per week in the office
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Working Hours: Monday to Friday

At TTC, we are Enriching lives by connecting people and places.

For over 100 years, we’ve been bringing the world closer together by crafting journeys that create lasting memories, lifelong friendships and meaningful cultural connections. Across more than 70 countries and our award-winning brands, we design and deliver travel experiences that go beyond sightseeing - they change perspectives.

Behind every unforgettable journey is a passionate team making it happen. That’s where you come in.

Our Values

Five shared commitments shape how we work, and how we will work with you:

• Value Every Voice. We put people first.
• Act with Integrity. We do what is right.
• Explore Beyond Boundaries. We are driven by curiosity.
• Own the Outcome. We take responsibility for our decisions.
• Succeed Together. We have each other's backs.

The Role

This is applied data science. You will use advanced analytics and machine learning to understand our customers better and solve problems that genuinely matter to the business, working with customer, booking, digital, marketing and behavioural data.

You will work across segmentation, propensity, personalisation, retention, forecasting and customer lifetime value, with the space to explore and the support to grow. What matters here is not building technically interesting models, but connecting rigorous analytical work to decisions, actions and outcomes you can point to. You will sit alongside experienced data scientists, engineers and analysts in a capability that is being built and scaled right now.

What Will You Do?

• Turn customer and commercial challenges into structured analytical problems and testable hypotheses.
• Explore complex behavioural and transactional data to find what others have missed.
• Develop and evaluate statistical and machine learning models.
• Build segmentation, propensity, forecasting and personalisation solutions that reach real customers.
• Apply rigour to feature engineering, validation and model performance.
• Design and evaluate experiments to understand genuine impact.
• Work with Data Engineering to create reliable model inputs and productionise valuable solutions.
• Monitor solutions in the wild and keep improving them.
• Communicate findings clearly to both technical and business audiences.
• Contribute to data science standards, reproducibility and responsible AI practice.

About You

Essential

• Strong professional experience in data science or advanced analytics.
• Advanced practical capability in Python and SQL.
• A strong grounding in statistics and machine learning.
• Experience developing and validating predictive models.
• Experience with customer, transactional, behavioural or digital data.
• Understanding of experimentation and statistical measurement.
• Analytical curiosity paired with pragmatic commercial judgement.
• The ability to explain complex analysis clearly and connect it to business action.

Desirable

• Exposure to segmentation, propensity, churn, forecasting, lifetime value or personalisation.
• Experience with Snowflake, cloud data science environments or production machine learning.
• Familiarity with responsible AI principles and reproducible practice.
• Experience in a global, multi-brand or multi-market business.
• Curiosity about travel, hospitality or global consumer businesses.