Lead Data Science Consultant

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🌐 Germany, Portugal – Remote

🇩🇪 Germany – Remote 🇵🇹 Portugal – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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📊 Data Scientist

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Centric Software

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1001 - 5000 employees

💼 Consulting

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📦 Logistics

💰 $24M Series D - Centric Software on 2014-07

Consulting • Food & Beverage • Logistics

Centric Software is an enterprise SaaS company that provides product lifecycle management (PLM) and retail planning solutions for brands, retailers and manufacturers. Its modular offerings — including Centric PLM, Centric Planning, Centric Pricing & Inventory, Centric Market Intelligence, Centric Visual Boards and Centric PXM — help organizations accelerate time-to-market, optimize assortments, pricing and inventory, and deliver AI-driven product content and market insights. Centric’s platform is used by fashion, retail and consumer goods companies to improve collaboration, increase margins, reduce inventory and support sustainability and compliance goals.

📋 Description

• Grow the data science consulting team from four people to ten over the next year • Set hiring standards and develop consultants through regular feedback, growth paths, and technical standards • Decide how projects are staffed, how knowledge is shared, and how quality is checked • Act as the senior technical counterpart for customers from onboarding through production • Translate business processes and commercial questions into modeling approaches • Explain analytical results in language planners and buyers can use • Lead difficult customer projects when needed • Own forecasting, pricing, and inventory models using time series, statistical modeling, supervised learning, and optimization • Determine appropriate applications for Generative AI in customer onboarding and unfamiliar data mapping/linking • Distinguish proven methods from experiments and establish technical clarity for the team • Partner with Product, Engineering, and Implementation on solution requirements • Feed evidence from customer projects into the product roadmap • Design and analyze A/B tests to resolve open questions with data

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on data science work, including substantial customer-facing experience • Experience leading people or projects, such as a team lead, chapter lead, or sustained project lead • Strong grounding in classical machine learning and statistics • Excellent SQL • Solid Python, including Pandas, NumPy, and Statsmodels or equivalent • Ability to scope projects, estimate effort, maintain timelines, and flag risks early • Excellent communication in English • Degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, physics, economics, or a related field • Experience in retail, fashion, or consumer products • Practical work with LLMs beyond prompting, such as retrieval, evaluation, or agentic workflows in production • Experience with big data environments such as PySpark • Familiarity with pricing or behavioral price effects • Additional languages beyond English

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote/home-based work arrangement • Travel once or twice a year, usually when a customer is within a couple of hours of where you live • Competitive salary and benefits • Global team with deep expertise in planning, pricing, and inventory optimization

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