Data Scientist (Search/Ranking/Recommendation)

Contract Data Scientist - Search Order / Ranking / Recommendation

£480/day | Outside IR35 | 3-4 months | Remote / Hybrid

I'm working with a major consumer travel business looking to bring in a hands-on Data Scientist to support a project focused specifically on search order, ranking and recommendation.

The business manages a large inventory of holiday properties, and the core problem is deciding which properties should appear, in what order, for a given customer search.

This is not a generic Data Science role. Previous experience with search ranking / sort order / recommendation systems is essential.

The role will involve:

• Improving the search order / ranking logic used to surface properties to customers • Building and refining recommendation and ranking models • Working across ranking by destination, country, brand, park and individual property / unit level • Running A/B tests and experiments to measure the impact of ranking changes • Measuring performance against customer and commercial KPIs • Analysing how factors such as price, brand, region and country affect sort order performance • Building out a broader dashboard / KPI framework • Working with behavioural and transactional data • Feeding findings and recommendations back to product and business stakeholders

Essential experience:

• Hands-on experience with search ranking / search order / sort order • Hands-on experience with recommendation / recommender systems • Strong Python and SQL • Snowflake • AWS •…