Average Manager Scientist salary in Leicester

Scientist | 8-Month temporary assignment | East Midlands | Material Industry | £30-34k per annum | Start ASAPSummaryLocation: East MidlandsSalary: £30-34k per annumContract: 8 months temporary position, full-time, ending December 2026Join a leading materials company as a Scientist supporting their technical team.This role exists to help shape, refine and deliver solutions used across UK, with a strong focus on technical performance and customer impact. A great opportunity for candidates with a scientific or engineering background looking to grow their experience in a collaborative, cross-functional environment. What You'll Be DoingSupporting to create and test new technical solutionsWorking closely with multiple business functions-innovation, sustainability, digital and portfolio teams-to progress new product development projectsEnsuring customer needs are clearly understood and embedded into technical decisions and project outcomesHelping identify root-cause issues and applying structured technical processes to answer key project questionsContributing to continuous improvement in safety standards and championing safe working practicesEngaging directly with customers and maintaining clear, supportive communication throughout each projectTravelling to customer sites around the UK when required What We're Looking ForDegree in a science, engineering or related disciplinePrevious experience applying scientific or technical principles within projectsConfident communicator who can explain technical points clearly and factuallyOrganised, delivery-focused and able to manage multiple tasks with high accuracyCommitment to excellent safety behavioursFull UK travel flexibility when neededHow to Apply If you'd like to apply, please use the link provided or email your CV to For more information, please call Tom on . If this role isn't right for you, feel free to get in touch or visit to view other opportunities.About SRG SRG is the UK's leading specialist recruiter across the scientific, engineering, clinical, pharmaceutical, FMCG, energy, biotech, chemical and medical device sectors. As scientists ourselves, our deep technical understanding means we're passionate about finding the right roles for our candidates and the right talent for our clients.Keywords Technical Scientist, Materials, R&D Scientist, Systems Development, Product Development, Customer Solutions, Engineering Graduate, Materials Science, Innovation Projects, Technical Support, , System Performance, NPD, Field Support, East Midlands Science JobsGuidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Senior Data Scientist London or Leicester (hybrid, 1 day per week onsite) £60,000 to £75,000This is an opportunity to join a pricing team building innovative models that shape how pricing decisions are made. You will work with complex and novel datasets, develop predictive models, and help advance a modern modelling framework that delivers real commercial impact.The Company They are a well-established organisation investing in data science and advanced analytics. The pricing team operates with agility and encourages curiosity, experimentation and rapid learning. With strong leadership backing and a growing modelling roadmap, they are looking to add experienced Senior Data Scientists to support their next phase of development.The Role * Develop, refresh and combine pricing and footprint models that support pricing decisions. * Work with messy, complex datasets including geospatial and alternative data sources. * Build predictive and residual models across major products, contributing to a wider model chain. * Review and improve existing early-stage models, progressing them toward production readiness. * Explore new ways to manage and integrate multiple models within a stack. * Guide a junior Data Scientist and support their technical development. * Communicate model outputs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.Your Skills and Experience * Strong experience working with large, messy and diverse datasets. * Hands-on modelling experience using GLMs, XGBoost or similar predictive methods. * Proficiency in Python and SQL, ideally within a cloud environment such as Azure. * Experience combining or managing multiple models in a pipeline. * Clear communication skills with the ability to explain insights effectively. * A curious mindset and the ability to work at pace. * Insurance experience is welcome but not essential.What They Offer * A salary between £60,000 and £75,000. * Hybrid working with London or Leicester as a base. * The chance to build impactful pricing and footprint models. * Career development through ownership, visibility and coaching opportunities.

Senior Data Scientist, Alternative PricingLeicester You will work on complex pricing and customer selection problems, using modern machine learning and huge, messy datasets to shape how millions of customers are priced and selected. The Company They are a well-established UK general insurance provider with a strong focus on car, van, bike and home insurance. Data science and analytics sit at the core of their strategy, supported by significant investment in cloud technology and digital platforms. Their pricing and data science capability is regarded as one of the strongest in the UK insurance market. You will join a profitable, tech enabled organisation with the scale, data and backing to do cutting edge work.The Team You will join a specialist Alternative Pricing Product team that sits alongside a core pricing function. It is a small, collaborative team of around six people, where you will provide technical leadership and mentor a graduate data scientist.The Role As a Senior Data Scientist, you will:Focus on pricing and customer selection for car and van insurance within the Alternative Pricing Product team.Build predictive models that identify new ways to set prices and select customers, beyond traditional pricing approaches.Work with very large, messy datasets across multiple product lines, leading data exploration, cleaning and feature engineering.Deploy models into production using Python, SQL, Azure ML and an internal deployment platform.Collaborate with pricing, risk and product stakeholders to test ideas, run experiments and influence pricing strategy.Mentor junior team members and contribute to setting technical standards within the team.Your Skills And Experience You will bring:Strong commercial experience as a Data Scientist or in a similar analytics role working on predictive modelling.Hands on experience building and deploying machine learning models using Python and SQL, ideally in a cloud environment such as Azure.Practical experience with tree based methods such as XGBoost or CatBoost, and an interest in geospatial or graph based modelling.Confidence working with large scale, messy, multi source datasets, including complex data cleansing and feature engineering.Experience solving pricing, risk or customer prediction problems and understanding how models drive profit, loss and customer outcomes.How To ApplyIf you are interested in this Senior Data Scientist opportunity in Alternative Pricing, please apply with your CV to be considered for the next stage of the process.