Oritain
Lead Statistician / Lead Statistical Data Scientist
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Oritain
Oritain is a global leader in forensic origin verification of products and raw materials. With offices in Auckland, Dunedin, London, Paris, Singapore, and Washington D.C, our vision is to be the source of truth in global supply chains.
Through our proprietary methodology, our mission is to harness cutting edge science, data, and specialized services to create a community of origin verified buyers and suppliers, protecting our people and planet. We empower the world’s leading brands to make positive changes across their supply chain; ensuring product integrity, meeting regulatory demands, and reducing the risk of fraud and unethical sourcing - creating real change in our world.
About the Role
As the Lead Statistical Data Scientist, you'll provide technical leadership for the models, methods, and analytical approaches that power Oritain's origin-verification science. You'll help set the direction of our data science capability while remaining close enough to the work to solve complex problems, guide projects, and support delivery.
This is a role for someone who enjoys building as much as leading.
You'll mentor and develop other data scientists, help shape how we approach technical challenges, and work across science, engineering, product, and commercial teams to ensure our statistical solutions create real-world impact.
You'll be joining a business in an exciting stage of growth. We're beyond the start-up phase, but we're still creating processes, improving ways of working, and building capabilities. That creates a huge opportunity for someone who enjoys ownership, influence, and helping bring clarity to complexity.
The people who thrive at Oritain are motivated by building, improving, and creating. They enjoy helping others succeed and are open to feedback and learning, regardless of experience level. They bring energy, curiosity, and a clear point of view. They can make progress when information is incomplete and know how to balance speed with quality.
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Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across statistical and machine learning projects.
- Mentor and support other data scientists, helping raise capability across the team.
- Lead a high-performing, engaged team that delivers meaningful outcomes and contributes positively to Oritain's culture.
- Partner with stakeholders to understand problems, develop solutions, and assess wider business impact.
- Build statistical models and machine learning approaches that turn data into decisions.
- Develop and deploy predictive models that solve business and operational challenges.
- Work with large and complex datasets from diverse sources.
- Create visualisations, dashboards, and reporting tools that communicate insight clearly.
- Work cross-functionally to embed data science into products, workflows, and decision-making processes.
- Keep up with developments in statistics and data science and bring the useful ones into our analytics.
- Provide trusted expert guidance to internal and external stakeholders.
Skills & Experience
We're looking for someone with deep statistical expertise, strong commercial awareness, and a track record of helping others succeed.
Essential:
- A minimum of 8 years of industry experience applying statistics, mathematics, and machine learning to real-world problems.
- Advanced academic training in Statistics, Mathematics, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related discipline (PhD preferred).
- Deep understanding of probability, statistics, uncertainty, linear algebra, and calculus.
- Extensive experience working with large datasets, data preparation, and machine learning workflows.
- Proven experience applying classification, clustering, dimension reduction, and other machine learning techniques.
- Strong programming capability and experience writing efficient, maintainable code in collaborative environments.
- Advanced Python and R expertise.
- Experience working with modern development tools and practices, including GitHub, VS Code, Conda, and cloud environments.
- An ability to balance technical rigour with practical business outcomes.
- Strong communication skills and confidence working with stakeholders across different functions and levels.
- A passion for mentoring, coaching, and growing technical talent.
- Sound judgement, curiosity, and a willingness to challenge assumptions when better solutions exist.
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Nice to have:
- Experience with Databricks or similar analytics platforms.
- Experience with HTML, JavaScript, or related technologies.
- Previous experience in a scaling technology, analytics, or science-led business.
- Experience leading teams through growth and change.
Company Benefits
- Hybrid working (minimum 3 days per week in our Farringdon office)
- 35 days paid leave, inclusive of public holidays
- Birthday off
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Life insurance
- Healthcare Cash Plan
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Pension
- Monthly Wellbeing Allowance
- Breakfast, snacks, Friday lunch, and barista coffee in the office
- Learning portal with over 100,000 assets for professional development
We believe great teams are built from different perspectives, experiences, and ways of thinking. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage you to bring your whole self to the process. If there’s anything we can do to support you, including any reasonable adjustments at any stage of hiring, please let the team know.
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