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This podcast will cover a range of topics such as finding data talent, and AI training. We will also discuss more advanced subjects like assessing the value of your data team, identifying biases in AI and addressing pay gaps in Data and AI.

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Episode 22: Bridging the Data Skills Gap – How to Upskill and Build Analytics Culture

Episode 21: GenAI breakthroughs, roadblocks and what to learn next

Episode 20: How Incrementality and MMM Are Changing Marketing Analytics

Episode 19: How AI Innovation & Hiring Are Evolving Hand in Hand

Exclusive! Harnham to 15,000: The Shift to Personalisation

Episode 18: Beyond the Numbers: Humanising Your Customer Data

Episode 17: Bridging the Consumer Experience Gap: What Brands Get Wrong

Episode 16: The Past, Present, and Future of Experimentation

Episode 15: Utilising Data for Market Fit

Episode 14: Geospatial Analytics – Past, Present and Future

Episode 13: Democratising Data

Episode 12: How to Build and Retain High-Performing Analytics Teams

Episode 11: Leading with a People-First Approach: Navigating Growth in Data and AI

Episode 10: From Payday Lending to AI: Navigating the Credit Risk Landscape

Episode 9: The State and Future of AI

Episode 8: The Next Data Wave: Emerging Trends in Data Management and Governance

Episode 7: Futurecast: Skillsets, Decisions, and the Role of AI

Episode 6: Getting Into the Data Industry Without a STEM Degree

Episode 5: Diversity Equity & Inclusion – How Data Leaders Can Take Action

Episode 4 – Key Findings from Harnham’s 2023 US Data & AI Salary Guide

Episode 3: Key Findings from Harnham’s 2023 UK Data & AI Salary Guide

Episode 2 – Data Literacy (with Waseem Ali & David Reed)

Episode 1 – Quantifying the Benefit of Data (with Waseem Ali & Craig Civil)

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Data Manager / Data Projects Lead

City of London

£400 - £550

+ Data Management & Governance

Contract
City of London, London

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DATA MANAGER / DATA PROJECTS LEAD

£400 – £550 PER DAY INSIDE IR35

2-3 DAYS PER WEEK IN THE OFFICE (LONDON)

6 MONTH CONTRACT

THE COMPANY:

A large, well-established organisation with a strong strategic focus on data and AI. While the business is sizeable, the data function itself is relatively lean, offering the successful Data Manager / Data Projects Lead the opportunity to have real ownership, visibility, and impact across multiple workstreams.

THE ROLE:

As a Data Manager / Data Projects Lead, your responsibilities will include:

  • Lead and coordinate four key organisation-wide data projects
  • Spend 50% of the time on data literacy initiatives and 50% on wider data projects
  • Own and drive the organisation’s data literacy agenda, improving data confidence and capability
  • Assess project demand and understand current vs. target-state delivery
  • Audit priorities across existing data infrastructure and strategy
  • Support prioritisation and alignment across multiple data workstreams
  • Work closely with senior stakeholders
  • Act as a coordinating lead for data activities (without direct line management)
  • Gather requirements and ensure alignment with the data team
  • Roll up sleeves to create materials, presentations, and supporting content
  • Translate data problems into clear, engaging outputs (including AI-supported presentations where relevant)

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

  • Proven experience leading or coordinating data literacy, data enablement, or data change initiatives
  • Strong grounding in data governance, analytics, visualisation, and storytelling
  • Experience working in large organisations with small data teams (or consultancy backgrounds)
  • Ability to assess project demand, define priorities, and align teams to delivery plans
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, particularly with HR, data, and senior business leaders
  • Experience working with tools such as Excel and Power BI
  • Confident operating in a supervisory / coordinating role across multiple workstreams
  • Comfortable creating content and materials, not just directing others
  • A pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset

HOW TO APPLY:

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Mojola Coker via the apply link on this page.

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Senior Collections Analytics Manager

London

£110000 - £130000

+ Risk Analytics

Permanent
London

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SENIOR COLLECTIONS STRATEGY MANAGER

£110-135,000

LONDON

THE COMPANY

This role is with a leading FinTech brand in the UK. This role offers the unique opportunity to take an individual contributor role at a senior level in the business, driving collections strategies and recoveries processes whilst working with junior analysts when required. This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to take a step-up in a fast-paced, successful business.

THE ROLE

  • Ownership of the entire collections and recoveries part of the business
  • Developing collections strategies to enhance business performance and improve customer outcomes
  • Leading policies for affordability, arrears management and wider debt provisioning
  • Leading debt sale processes and working closely with stakeholders and senior members of the business
  • Wider ad hoc project work as required

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Essential to have had experience in the collections space within consumer lending
  • Essential to have experience developing collection strategies
  • Essential to have had prior experience in debt sale processes and wider debt provisioning
  • A background in SQL/SAS/Python coding – not essential to currently use these
  • Strong communication skills

SALARY AND BENEFITS

  • Up to £135,000 base salary
  • Competitive bonus scheme
  • Contributory pension scheme
  • Flexible holiday scheme
  • Hybrid work model

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Rosie Walsh through the ‘Apply’ link

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Technical Data Analyst (Python, SQL, Databricks)

Leicester

£40000 - £50000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Leicester, Leicestershire

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TTECHNICAL DATA ANALYST

Up to £50,000 + BENEFITS

HYBRID – Leicestershire

I am looking for a Technical Data Analyst to join a finance-focused data team. You’ll be at the heart of turning data into insights across four business-critical finance areas, helping shape decision-making and drive self-service analytics.

THE COMPANY:

This business is moving toward a modern Gold Standard Medallion Architecture, with a focus on empowering teams through self-service analytics and scalable reporting. The data team is central to how finance operates, and your dashboards will have real visibility and impact across the business.

THE ROLE:

A Technical Data Analyst will need to:

  • Data exploration, validation, and transformation
  • Analysis, automation, data profiling, and automation
  • Build Power BI dashboards where required
  • Drive the adoption of self-service analytics and reduce reliance on ad hoc queries

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

A successful Technical Data Analyst will have the following:

  • SQL experience (end-to-end dashboard development)
  • Python experience
  • Data Bricks
  • Excellent communication skills for stakeholder engagement and requirements gathering

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary of up to £50,000, depending on experience. On top of this, there are excellent benefits and the chance to be part of a transformational data journey.

HOW TO APPLY:

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Molly Bird via the apply link on this page.

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Data Manager (Governance)

London

£400 - £550

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Contract
London

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Data Manager (Governance)

Location: Coventry / Slough / London (London preferred) – 3 days per week onsite
Contract: 6 months | IR35: Inside
Rate: £400-£550pd
Start: ASAP (max 2 weeks’ notice)

Overview

Senior, hands-on data leadership role focused on delivery, prioritisation, and execution across a small data function. The remit spans data literacy and data integrity, ensuring data is fit for purpose and the business is equipped to use it effectively.

Role Focus

  • 50% Data Literacy – owning and delivering organisation-wide data literacy programmes.

  • 50% of projects such as Data Integrity – supporting asset data and data quality initiatives, driving practical business value.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and prioritise multiple data workstreams.

  • Own delivery approach and execution against an existing data plan.

  • Manage and support a small data team (including Power BI / Excel reporting).

  • Design and deliver data literacy content, training, and materials.

  • Coordinate data integrity initiatives and manage delivery partners.

  • Act as a strong communicator and storyteller with senior stakeholders.

  • Use AI tools where helpful (no prior experience required).

Requirements

  • Experience leading data literacy / enablement programmes.

  • Strong understanding of data governance, reporting, and analytics.

  • Proven delivery of data quality or data integrity initiatives.

  • Confident leader with strong stakeholder and communication skills.

  • Comfortable operating hands-on in a small, agile team.

  • Industry background open.

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Analytics Engineering Manager

London

£90000 - £100000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Analytics Engineering Manager:

Location: United Kingdom (Remote/Hybrid) Permanent Role

The Role

We’re looking for an Analytics Engineering Manager to lead our clients analytics engineering function and shape how data is modelled, governed, and used across the business. This role combines technical leadership, people management, and hands-on delivery, working closely with product, engineering, and commercial teams in a digital advertising environment.

You’ll own the analytics engineering roadmap, ensure high-quality data delivery, and build scalable, trusted data foundations that support reporting, performance measurement, and decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop the Analytics Engineering team, owning delivery and prioritisation
  • Design and evolve ELT pipelines, data models, and warehouse architecture
  • Ensure reliability and consistency of advertising performance data (impressions, clicks, engagement, delivery)
  • Partner cross-functionally to translate business needs into technical solutions
  • Define and enforce data quality, testing, documentation, and governance standards
  • Drive automation, observability, and continuous improvement
  • Remain hands-on with critical data modelling and pipeline work

What We’re Looking For

  • 6+ years’ experience in analytics or data engineering, including team leadership
  • Expert SQL and strong Python skills
  • Experience with dbt (or similar) and cloud data warehouses (e.g. BigQuery)
  • Strong understanding of digital advertising data and measurement
  • Proven ability to own roadmaps, deliver at pace, and communicate with senior stakeholders

The client is looking to move quickly, if you are interested in the role please apply. To follow up please email or message me on LinkedIn.

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Senior Manager- Collections and Recoveries

London

£90000 - £135000

+ Risk Analytics

Permanent
London

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SENIOR MANAGER- COLLECTIONS AND RECOVERIES

LONDON- HYBRID

UP TO £135,000

This is a senior role with significant strategic and regulatory exposure, focused on building and evolving collections and recoveries frameworks for a regulated UK financial services business.

THE ROLE

  • Developing and owning collections and recoveries strategies, including policy implementation and controls
  • Managing relationships with debt collection agencies, including debt sale strategy, pricing, and contractual changes
  • Leading on customer forbearance approaches and monitoring default trends
  • Ensuring fair customer treatment in line with FCA expectations and UK regulations
  • Acting as a key contact for regulatory communication, including engagement with the FCA
  • Supporting the business’s transition from BNPL into broader cash management product
  • This is a Certified role, requiring confidence operating in a regulated environment.

REQUIREMENTS

  • Extensvie experience in collections and recoveries strategy
  • Strong experience working with debt collection agencies and debt sale processes
  • Backgorund in SQL
  • In-depth knowledge of UK regulations, including experience engaging with the FCA
  • Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management capability

HOW TO APPLY

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Research Manager – Analytics

London

£45000 - £60000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Research Manager, Analytics (4 days in office, Fridays WFH)
Up to £60,000, London
Series A-B B2B Research Tech Startup (~50 people)

We’re partnered with a fast-growing research technology startup using AI to transform how organisations understand people. The business combines advanced analytics with modern research methods to deliver deeper insights, faster and at significantly lower cost than traditional research approaches.

As the company launches a new AI-driven product, they’re hiring a Research Manager to take ownership of analytics and modelling across client research projects.

The Role

This is a hands-on role focused on pushing the boundaries of quantitative analytics within research. You’ll lead complex modelling work, set best practice for analytics, and independently deliver end-to-end research projects.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own analytics workstreams across major research projects

  • Deliver advanced analysis including segmentation, factor reduction and regression modelling

  • Set standards and best practice for analytics and segmentation

  • Automate repeat analytical tasks for trackers and long-running projects

  • Run end-to-end research projects (primarily quant; some qual/mixed methods)

  • Contribute to proposals and RFPs

About You

Essential

  • 3+ years’ experience in analytics and/or research using survey data

  • Hands-on experience with regression, factor analysis and segmentation techniques

  • Strong data wrangling, cleaning and weighting skills

  • Proficiency in R or Python for analysis and visualisation

  • Curious, exploratory approach to finding insight in data

Nice to have

  • Experience with Bayesian as well as frequentist methods

  • Understanding of the full market research project lifecycle

Interview Process

  • Screening questions

  • Talent interview

  • Hiring Manager interview

  • In-person task (with opportunity to meet Founder & C-suite)

Find out more and apply via the link below.

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Senior Account Manager

Bristol

£32000 - £42000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Bristol

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Senior Account Manager (x2)

CRM / Data-Led Marketing Agency
Bristol (Hybrid – 3 days in office)
£34,000 – £42,000

We’re partnering with a well-established CRM and data-led marketing agency with around 30 years’ experience delivering work for major UK consumer and financial services brands. Following a recent international acquisition, the agency is continuing to grow and is now hiring two Senior Account Managers to support key client accounts from its Bristol office.

Both roles sit within the same client services team, reporting into Senior Account Directors. The core responsibilities are consistent across both positions, with variation depending on the client portfolio.

The Role

As a Senior Account Manager, you’ll be a day-to-day client contact, working closely with Account Directors to deliver against briefs, manage stakeholders, and keep work moving at pace.

You’ll sit at the heart of delivery – coordinating teams across strategy, creative, and development – while also contributing strategic thinking and identifying opportunities to grow the account.

There are two openings:

Role 1 – Large Consumer Brand (New Account Win)

  • Supporting a Senior Account Director on a recently won, high-profile account

  • Strong delivery focus due to limited project management support

  • Managing a broad range of client stakeholders

  • Exposure to creative, development and strategic work (less campaign-heavy)

  • Opportunity to grow with the account as it scales

Role 2 – Financial Services Brand

  • Supporting an Account Director across a well-established FS account

  • More strategy-led, with a strong focus on CRM execution across email and DM

  • Acting as the consistent day-to-day presence for the client

  • Working closely with internal execution teams to ensure high-quality delivery

Key Responsibilities

  • Act as a main point of contact for clients on day-to-day activity

  • Support Account Directors in delivering CRM and data-led programmes

  • Manage briefs, timelines and internal stakeholders

  • Contribute to CRM and customer strategy discussions

  • Ensure work is delivered to a high standard and on time

  • Build strong, trusted client relationships

  • Identify opportunities to add value within existing accounts

About You

  • Currently a Senior Account Manager, or a strong Account Manager ready to step up

  • Experience in digital, CRM, or data-led marketing (pure CRM experience not essential)

  • Exposure to working with large, well-known brands

  • Comfortable in a fast-paced agency environment

  • Organised, proactive and confident with clients

  • Personable and collaborative – someone clients and teams enjoy working with

Location & Package

  • Bristol (office is a 5-minute walk from Temple Meads)

  • Hybrid working – 3 days per week in the office

  • Salary range: £34,000 – £42,000

Interview Process

  1. Culture-focused screening interview

  2. Competency-based interview with senior leadership

  3. Task presentation to panel

Find out more and apply via the link below

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