At Staycity Group, we bring together two leading aparthotel brands — Staycity Aparthotels and Wilde Aparthotels — united by a shared commitment to modern, flexible hospitality. Across our properties and support teams, our goal is simple: to deliver exceptional experiences for our guests and create an environment where our people can do their best work.
Whether you’re joining our operations or head office teams, you’ll be part of a fast-growing European hospitality group built on our values of curiosity, drive, collaboration, kindness, and respect. We’re a diverse and inclusive team that encourages you to bring your unique self to work — because we believe great hospitality starts with people who feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

The role

We are looking for a Data Scientist like you to join our rapidly growing Data team and work closely with the management team to provide critical business insights. This role and you will be key in defining how the team grows and is integrated within the team and the wider company. This role will be utilising and experimenting with leading edge technologies such as Generative AI, and will use tools including Python, Azure Machine Learning and OpenAI.

You will have impact far beyond the data alone: you’ll shape how data drives decisions across Staycity Group, unlocking opportunities in pricing, forecasting, guest experience and operational efficiency, and ultimately contributing to the performance and future growth of our aparthotels across Europe.

Benefits:

• Paid family leave (>1 year of service)
• Flexible working patterns
• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched pension contributions
• Health and Dental Insurance
• Bonus scheme that rewards high performers; based on our core values and tied to individual property goals
• Discounted rates for overnight stays for you, your family and friends
• Refer and earn scheme if you successfully refer a friend to work with us
• Cycle to work scheme- to support a healthy lifestyle and our planet
• Education Support to help you foster new skills
• Volunteer days: 2 paid volunteer days per year
• Support for you and your family when you need it with our Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

We would love you to have:

• 5+ years Data Science experience
• Strong data architecture knowledge (data lakes/warehouse/marts, dimensional modelling, star schemas, SCDs)

• ETL & data pipelines experience such as Integration Services or Azure Data Factory
• AI/ML + GenAI capability and experience us tools like Python, Azure Machine Learning and OpenAI

• Stakeholder influence & communication (data-led decisions, senior leader engagement)
• Comfortable working in ambiguity with kindness, clarity, and a proactive, solutions-first mindset in a fast-paced environment

• Excellent communicator and coach—able to create and deliver high-quality training, share knowledge widely, and continuously learn and evolve your thinking

What you can do for us:

• Build, deploy, monitor, and iterate ML models and analytics solutions (Python, Azure ML, OpenAI where relevant)
• Explore and experiment with GenAI to drive automation, forecasting, and enhanced reporting
• Partner with teams to deliver revenue and commercial optimisation initiatives (pricing, demand, conversion)
• Improve targeted marketing and customer insights through segmentation, propensity, and attribution approaches
• Apply data science to process optimisation (e.g., vendor onboarding workflows, labour forecasting)
• Translate business needs into clear data products with documentation and knowledge-sharing/training

If you thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment where ambiguity is met with enthusiasm and determination, and if you lead with kindness, clarity, and curiosity, we’d love to hear from you.

Start your Staycity Group journey — apply now!