Job no: 558953
Work type: Full time
Site: Redditch
Categories: Data and Analytics
Location: West Midlands, Worcestershire
Salary: Competitive

ABOUT US

At Halfords, our mission is to inspire and support a lifetime of motoring and cycling. As a specialist retailer, we lead the market through customer-driven innovation and a distinct product range. We are dedicated to providing our customers with an integrated, unique, and convenient service experience—from e-bike and electric vehicle servicing to on-demand solutions. Our commitment is to foster customer loyalty by offering compelling reasons to keep coming back to our stores, ensuring a lifetime of motoring and cycling enjoyment.
The teams at our Redditch Support Centre work with every other area of our business, putting them at the heart of the action and playing a key role in our success and growth. Everyone brings their individual knowledge and experience to work every day, working as one team to keep things moving smoothly.
If you’re willing to get stuck in, you’ll love it here too. So put yourself at the heart of a dynamic, fast-paced working environment where expertise and focus take people far.

THE ROLE

As a Data Scientist, you’ll play a pivotal role in embedding data-driven thinking across the business, delivering high-impact models that shape pricing, customer experience, and operational performance. Joining a small but ambitious team, you’ll lead end-to-end project delivery: from identifying high-value opportunities and shaping hypotheses to building robust models and deploying them into production via Azure Databricks. It’s a high-trust environment where your curiosity, rigour and creativity will translate into real-world results.
You thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments where data science is both technical and consultative. You’re confident owning the full lifecycle exploring large datasets, applying advanced modelling techniques in Python and PySpark, and clearly communicating insights to stakeholders across multiple different business functions. With solid experience in SQL, Databricks and Power BI, you understand how to turn models into decisions and bring stakeholders with you on the journey.
For you, this is an opportunity to help shape the future of data science within a major UK retailer. With a framework still in its early stages, you’ll be influential in defining how data science is adopted across the business. Whether it’s customer segmentation, price elasticity or next-best-action engines, you’ll get stuck into a broad and varied portfolio and play a key role in embedding intelligence into the heart of our digital and customer-facing strategies.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the full lifecycle of data science projects from scoping opportunities and defining benefits to model deployment and real-world impact
• Deliver end-to-end solutions including opportunity identification, data extraction and transformation, feature engineering, model selection, and production deployment
• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders and end users to embed data science solutions into operational and strategic workflows
• Communicate complex modelling techniques and outcomes clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Contribute to a varied portfolio of use cases spanning pricing, supply chain, customer behaviour, and employee engagement
• Work in close partnership with the wider Data and Technology teams, using our Azure-based Databricks lakehouse and surfacing models through our Enterprise Integration Layer