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79%

Mission

79%

Hours flexibility

79%

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Job Description

Company Description

We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.

Great journeys start with Trainline 🚄

Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 125 million monthly visits and £5.3 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, and affordable as it should be.

Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh, Berlin, Madrid, and Brussels. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey!

Job Description

Introducing Data Science & Analytics at Trainline 👋

Data Science & Analytics is central to how we build products, delight our customers and grow our business. Our Data Scientists & Analysts are embedded in cross-functional teams which exist across product and marketing. Data Scientists & Analysts have a high degree of autonomy and are empowered to drive the success of their teams, using all data and techniques at their disposal.

This is a perfect role for a Senior Data Scientist looking to move into management or a hands on Data Science Manager, you will start in the role in a more hands on capacity, learning the space and data, with headcount to hire 1 Data Analyst initially and this expected to grow over time. You’ll be focussed in Trainline Partner Solutions (TPS). This is our B2B arm and comprises white label products for carriers, and our Business Travel Booking Platform. As the most senior Data Science & Analytics person in TPS you’ll be responsible for working in cross-functional, senior team to lead the strategy for the space, influence data engineering/BI roadmaps to help develop the data maturity and develop the test and learn, goaling drive approach to product development.

Our Data Science leaders need to wear two hats, as an expert in leader of the data science and analytics space, but also as a business lead in the company. As a leader in TPS, you will work with your Product, Marketing, Engineering and Commercial counterparts to set out the long-term strategy for the teams at Trainline and ensure we execute on this within the team whilst being responsible for communicating this vision and progress to it to senior leadership within the company.

You will also have a close working relationship with Data Engineering, Machine Learning and BI teams as the data representative in the Pillar leads group to ensure all of data is working on the right problems to move Trainline forwards.

Management experience is desired, but, for the right candidate, a long history of success as an individual contributor and a desire to progress your career into management is also acceptable. Experience working in a data driven tech organization is also desired, while a history of thinking strategically in a data driven way is required.

As a Data Science Manager at Trainline, you will... 🚝

Be responsible for influencing product, marketing and business outcomes, have the autonomy to make things happen and must obsess about having business impact. More specifically you will:

  • Lead a team of ~1 Data Scientists / Analysts
  • Drive a high standard of work and hold a high bar for impact within your org
  • Mature how we achieve growth in a data driven way across your team
  • Lead, with your cross functional counterparts, the strategy and delivery of the TPS
  • Think big, clearly setting out a strategy and ensuring data driven execution

Our tech stack 🔑

  • SQL, Python, R, Tableau, Power BI, AWS Athena + more!

Qualifications

We'd love to hear from you if you... 🔍

  • Have experience in leading data driven decision making for a tech product, ideally with some relevant experience in the B2B space
  • Have experience managing a data driven team and holding a high bar for analysis for 1+ years
  • Have experience in driving growth in an online product for 6+ years
  • Have experience setting the strategic direction and thinking big
  • Hold the ability to distil and communicate results of complex analysis clearly and effectively to all levels including senior management
  • Have experience of marketing evaluation and measurement of success. For example, running holdout/incrementality testing to evaluate campaign effectiveness or deploying new bidding models and understanding their impact
  • Hold the ability to navigate data sets of varying complexity/ambiguity and conduct analysis to derive clear insights and actionable results
  • Possess strong PowerPoint and presentation/communication skills
  • Possess strong data visualisation skills using tools like Tableau, Spotfire, Power BI etc.
  • Have knowledge of statistical techniques like econometric modelling
  • Hold a university degree in subject with statistical elements, i.e. maths / economics

Additional Information

The interview process 🚉

  1. Recruiter call (30 mins)
  2. 1st stage interview with Head of or Director of Data Science (30 minutes)
  3. 2nd stage loop interviews (x3 30 minutes)
  4. Case study review panel interview (60 minutes)

Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits.

We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one!

Our values represent the things that matter most to us and what we live and breathe every day, in everything we do:

  • 💭 Think Big - We're building the future of rail
  • ✔️ Own It - We focus on every customer, partner and journey
  • 🤝 ​Travel Together - We're one team
  • ♻️ Do Good - We make a positive impact

Interested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? Why not check us out on LinkedIn, Instagram and Glassdoor.

Company benefits

Work from anywhere scheme – work from abroad for up to 28 days a year
2 extra days over the Festive period & 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
Buy or sell annual leave – buy or sell up to 3 days each year
Shared parental leave
Caregiver Leave – primary & secondary
L&D budget – £300 a year
Personal development days – 4 meeting free Learning Days a year
Health insurance – Bupa Health Insurance for you and your family
Enhanced sick pay – 8 weeks full pay, 18 weeks 75% pay per 12 month period
Free meals – free breakfast & soft drinks every day, monthly lunches and evening socials
Share options
Dental coverage – Bupa Dental Insurance for you and your family
Health assessment – Free annual health check for all employees
Life assurance
Accrued annual leave – carry over 5 days of annual leave each year
Income protection – 75% of your salary
Private GP service – with Bupa
Complimentary Medical Services – Flu vaccinations
Employee assistance programme
Adoption leave – 52 weeks
Fertility treatment leave
Pregnancy loss leave – 2 weeks
Compassionate leave
Mental health platform access
Eye Care Support – vouchers
Annual pay rises – Based on bi-annual performance reviews
Salary sacrifice
Volunteer days – 1 day a year to volunteer with a charity of your choice
Charity donation scheme – Charity matching & Give as you earn
Perkbox subscription
Professional subscriptions
Hackathons
Gym membership – GymFlex scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Faith rooms
Buddy scheme
Optional unpaid leave
Open to compressed hours
Open to job sharing
Open to part time work for some roles
Flexible working week
Travel loan
Enhanced pension match/contribution

We asked employees of Trainline what it's like to work there, and this is what they told us.

Location flexibility
73%
Employees are largely happy with their working location freedom
Hours flexibility
79%
Employees are largely happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
70%
Employees are largely happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
70%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
69%
Employees feel that most people work flexibly
Autonomy
79%
Employees feel that they can mostly manage how they get their own work done

Additional employee ratings
(these do not contribute to the FlexScore®)

Diversity
72%
Employees feel that the diversity is good and there are continued efforts to improve it
Inclusion
71%
Employees feel that the culture supports equity and inclusivity well
Culture
77%
Employees enjoy the working environment
Mission
79%
Employees feel quite excited about the company mission
Salary
64%
Employees feel that their salary is good and matches the value they bring

Working at Trainline

Company employees

1000+

Gender diversity (male:female)

60:40

Office locations

Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Edinburgh, London, Madrid, Milan, Paris

Hiring Countries

United Kingdom

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