Data Scientist (Contract)

YourShortlist Original Ltd; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 111,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

Pursuit Marketing, Glasgow, is seeking an experienced Data Scientist to take an ML capability from prototype through to production in a hands-on delivery role.

This 14-week contract offers £600–£700 per day, outside IR35, with hybrid working in Glasgow. Starting September 2026, there is potential to extend based on performance and business needs.

Qualifications

• Proven track record taking ML models to production.
• Experience with GCP, BigQuery and Vertex AI.
• Strong Python and SQL skills.
• Experience in feature engineering and model evaluation.
• Ability to explain model outputs to technical and business audiences.
• Experience with B2B sales data or CRM is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Define clean, modelling-ready datasets and robust validation around them.
• Train and optimise models across multiple B2B datasets, including ranking and weighting.
• Build scoring outputs, reporting and visualisations that commercial teams can act on.
• Retrain, test and refine models against live data as volumes scale.
• Work closely with CRM and SDR teams to embed outputs into day-to-day processes.
• Help establish the processes and infrastructure needed to make ML repeatable and scalable.

Skills

Google Cloud Platform

BigQuery

Vertex AI

Python

SQL

Feature engineering

Statistical validation

Model evaluation

Data wrangling

Job description

Glasgow, United Kingdom | Posted on 09/01/2026

Glasgow-based, hybrid working | £600–£700 perday | Outside IR35
Pursuit Marketing runs B2B outbound salescampaigns at scale.
We’re looking for an experienced Data Scientistto take an ML capability from prototype through to production. This is ahands-on delivery role, rather than a research position.

The details

• £600–£700 per day, depending on experience
• Outside IR35
• Glasgow based, with hybrid working
• Starting September 2026
• Initial 14-week contract, with potential to extend

What you’ll do

• Define clean, modelling-ready datasets andbuild robust validation around them
• Train and optimise models across multiple B2B datasets, including ranking andweighting
• Build scoring outputs, reporting and visualisations that commercial teams canact on
• Retrain, test and refine models against live data as volumes scale
• Work closely with CRM and SDR teams to embed outputs into day-to-dayprocesses
• Help establish the processes and infrastructure needed to make ML repeatableand scalable

If you're a Data Scientist who enjoys takingmodels out of the notebook and making them work in the real world, we'd like tohear from you.

Requirements

What we’re looking for

• A proven commercial track record taking MLmodels from prototype through to production
• Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery and Vertex AI
• Strong Python and SQL skills
• Experience in feature engineering, statistical validation and modelevaluation
• Comfortable working with messy, imperfect real-world data rather than cleanbenchmark datasets
• Able to explain model outputs clearly to both technical and commercialaudiences

Experience with B2B sales, outbound, CRM orconversation intelligence data would be a bonus, but isn't essential.

• £600–£700 per day, depending on experience
• Outside IR35
• Glasgow based, with hybrid working
• Starting September 2026
• Initial 14-week contract, with potential to extend