The Data And AI Podcast

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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Dive deep into the world of AI, data, and analytics

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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Power BI Analyst

London

£400 - £480

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Contract
London

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POWER BI ANALYST

£400 – £480 PER DAY OUTSIDE IR35

HYBRID (3 DAYS PER WEEK – LONDON)

3 MONTH CONTRACT

THE COMPANY:

Join an advertising company as a Power BI Analyst.

THE ROLE:

As a Power BI Analyst, your responsibilities will include:

  • Develop production-ready Power BI dashboards aligned to business requirements
  • Build scalable, future-proofed data models that support evolving datasets
  • Use strong DAX, SQL, and Power Query skills to transform and model data effectively
  • Create dashboards that follow visualisation best practice and deliver clear insights
  • Connect to and integrate data from multiple
  • Manage Power BI Service tasks including publishing, refresh scheduling, and permissions
  • Work from clear stakeholder briefs and participate in regular check-ins and feedback cycles
  • Collaborate closely with a senior team member providing strategic and QA oversight

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

The successful Power BI Analyst, will have:

  • Advanced experience with Power BI
  • Strong DAX and SQL expertise
  • Skilled in Power Query and ETL processes
  • Strong understanding of dashboard design and visual best practices
  • Experience integrating data from multiple systems (Snowflake preferred)
  • Solid experience with Power BI Service (publishing, refreshes, permissions)
  • Strong analytical mindset and ability to produce clean, well-documented work

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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Product Data Scientist/Analyst

London

£60000 - £80000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Job Title: Product Data Scientist – Hybrid – Up to £80,000

Location: London (Hybrid, 2 days p/w in office)

Salary: Up to £80,000 + benefits

Contract: Permanent

The Company

A well-established and fast-growing organisation going through an exciting period of digital transformation. With a strong customer focus, they use data and technology to deliver meaningful products and services to a wide audience. The business is scaling its data capabilities and is investing heavily in analytics to drive smarter decisions and long-term growth.

The Role

As a Product Data Scientist, you’ll work closely with teams across the business to unlock insight, guide product strategy, and influence decision-making. You’ll use advanced analytics, experimentation, and data storytelling to identify opportunities, improve customer experiences, and drive measurable impact.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Analyse user behaviour to uncover insights, identify pain points, and influence product direction.

  • Design experiments and support a culture of testing, learning, and iteration.

  • Define and align key business metrics, ensuring consistency and accuracy across teams.

  • Build and maintain dashboards and tools to empower stakeholders with self-serve insights.

  • Conduct deep-dive analyses to support strategic initiatives and provide clear recommendations.

  • Collaborate across functions to close data gaps and drive analytics best practice.

  • Stay current on industry trends and champion innovative approaches to product data science.

The Candidate

  • Proven experience in analytical roles, ideally within a digital-first or tech-led business.

  • Skilled in SQL, Python or R, plus familiarity with BI tools (e.g. Looker, Tableau, Lightdash).

  • Ability to translate business challenges into clear analytical projects and recommendations.

  • Strong data storytelling and presentation skills, with confidence engaging senior stakeholders.

  • Curious, proactive, and detail-oriented problem solver.

  • Team player with strong collaboration skills.

What’s on Offer

  • Salary up to £80,000 + bonus

  • Hybrid working (2 days per week in London office)

  • Competitive annual leave package

  • Pension scheme and healthcare support

  • Employee discounts and perks

  • Regular team socials and recognition initiatives

  • Strong learning and development opportunities

Apply Now
If you’re an experienced Product Data Scientist/Analyst looking to shape the future of data insight in a growing, forward-thinking organisation, apply today.

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Data Analyst – Digital and Marketing Focus

London

£40000 - £50000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Data Analyst (Digital & Marketing Focus)

London – Hybrid (2 days in office, Tues & Thurs – Elephant & Castle)
Up to £50,000 + Benefits

The Company

Our client is a specialist digital and marketing analytics consultancy, established in 2016 and now recognised as a trusted partner for major asset managers and digital-first businesses. They help clients transform complex data into actionable insights that improve sales performance and optimise marketing ROI.

With a close-knit team of around 10, they combine cutting-edge analytics with strategic expertise. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing consultancy where your work will have real visibility and impact.

The Role

They are seeking a mid-level Data Analyst with strong technical skills and commercial awareness. This is a client-facing position where you’ll be responsible not just for the numbers, but for turning data into clear, strategic recommendations.

You’ll work directly with senior stakeholders, gain exposure to high-profile clients, and take on varied projects across digital and marketing analytics.

Responsibilities

  • Extract, join, and transform datasets from multiple platforms (SQL, GA, marketing tools).

  • Build and maintain dashboards and reports (Looker Studio, Tableau or equivalent).

  • Apply statistical methods across attribution, MMM, LTV, churn, propensity and clustering models.

  • Present insights and recommendations confidently to clients via Zoom and face-to-face.

  • Support client strategy by identifying opportunities to optimise spend and improve ROI.

Candidate Profile

  • 2-4 years’ experience in analytics (digital, marketing or consultancy background desirable).

  • Strong SQL and Python skills, with a good grounding in statistics.

  • Experience with Google Analytics or Adobe Analytics.

  • Hands-on dashboarding experience (Looker Studio, Tableau or similar).

  • Comfortable working directly with clients and explaining insights to non-technical stakeholders.

  • 2:1 degree or above in a STEM or Social Sciences subject (or equivalent experience).

Package & Benefits

  • Salary up to £50,000 (depending on experience).

  • Hybrid working – 2 days in the office (Tues & Thurs, Elephant & Castle).

  • 25 days holiday, state pension, profit share scheme.

  • Direct exposure to senior leadership, with clear progression opportunities.

Interview Process

  1. Introductory interview with senior team members.

  2. Technical assessment (SQL + GA data integration & dashboard creation).

  3. Final stage with leadership and chance to meet the wider team.

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Senior Insights Analyst

London

£45000 - £55000

+ Digital Analytics

Permanent
London

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Senior Insight Analyst – £55,000 + Benefits

Remote (UK-Based)
Modern BI Stack | Data Transformation | Commercial Insight

Are you a commercially minded analyst who loves turning complex data into actionable business insight?
Our client – a leading UK distributor and supplier of industrial products – is undergoing a major data transformation and is seeking a Senior Insight Analyst to help drive smarter, data-led decisions across the business.

This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in shaping how data supports pricing, profitability, and operational performance within a dynamic, product-heavy environment.

The Role

As Senior Insight Analyst, you’ll sit within a forward-thinking transformation team, working closely with senior stakeholders across sales, marketing, finance, and supply chain.

You’ll analyse performance across thousands of SKUs and customers, deliver pricing and margin insights, and help build the foundations of a modern, connected BI environment under Microsoft Fabric.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys blending commercial thinking with technical analytics – not just reporting numbers, but understanding the why behind them.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Lead analytical work across pricing, rebates, and margin performance, helping identify where value is gained or lost.

  • Deliver actionable insights across sales, marketing, finance, and supply chain.

  • Partner with ecommerce teams to improve visibility of digital performance and customer behaviour.

  • Support key data integration and transformation projects within the Microsoft Fabric environment.

  • Translate large datasets into clear, commercial recommendations for senior stakeholders.

  • Contribute to key strategic initiatives, including price, volume, and mix analysis and margin optimisation.

Tech Environment

Core Skills: SQL (essential), Power BI (advantageous)
Platform: Microsoft Fabric (mid-implementation)
Languages: Python (pandas/numpy – desirable, not essential)
Other: Salesforce & Google Analytics exposure beneficial

About You

  • Proven experience as an Insight Analyst, ideally in wholesale, distribution, or another product-heavy industry.

  • Strong knowledge of pricing, rebates, and margin analysis.

  • Excellent SQL skills and analytical problem-solving capability.

  • Commercially aware – able to tell stories with data and influence decisions.

  • Confident communicator who can engage across multiple business areas.

  • Naturally curious, proactive, and adaptable in a fast-changing environment.

Why Apply?

  • Join a business at the heart of a major BI and data transformation.

  • Blend commercial strategy with technical analytics.

  • Work within a supportive team driving real change and visibility.

  • Exposure to Microsoft’s modern Fabric BI stack.

  • Flexible, fully remote working with occasional collaboration days in the Midlands.

If you’re passionate about using data to drive profitability and operational excellence – and want to make a real impact within a modern, evolving BI landscape – apply in confidence today.

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Customer Data Analyst

London

£40000 - £50000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Customer Data Analyst – up to £50,000 | Hybrid (2 days per week in London)

High-growth consumer services company | Expanding data team | Customer behaviour & retention focus

I’m supporting a rapidly expanding consumer services organisation that has seen significant growth and investment in digital, data, and customer analytics over the past few years. As part of their continued transformation, they are looking for a Customer Data Analyst to join their insights function and help shape customer strategy across the business.

This is an opportunity to join a modern, insight-driven environment, working with senior stakeholders and influencing decisions around customer value, retention, product innovation, and commercial performance.

The Role

You will join a collaborative analytics team and work with stakeholders across Commercial, Marketing, Finance, and Technology. Your focus will be understanding customer behaviour, identifying value opportunities, and delivering insights that directly inform business strategy.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Develop and enhance customer segmentation to identify behavioural and value-based groups.

  • Analyse churn, retention, loyalty, and customer lifetime value to support business planning.

  • Explore diverse datasets – including customer interactions, service usage, device/behavioural data, and geographic insights – to uncover new opportunities.

  • Conduct deep-dive evaluations of customer-focused product ideas and potential investments, providing clear, actionable recommendations.

  • Partner with senior stakeholders to communicate insights in a simple, commercial, and impactful way.

  • Support A/B testing, funnel analysis, and journey optimisation initiatives.

  • Build dashboards and automate reporting to improve operational efficiency and insight accessibility.

What They’re Looking For

  • Strong SQL and Python experience with solid analytical and storytelling skills.

  • Background in customer or commercial analytics (telco, subscription, retail, e-commerce, utilities, FS, etc. all relevant).

  • Ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insight.

  • Confident working with senior stakeholders and owning analysis end-to-end.

  • Experience with segmentation, churn/retention analysis, or CLTV modelling is a strong advantage.

  • Someone proactive who enjoys solving real business problems with simple, effective solutions.

Why This Role Is Unique

  • Join a fast-growing organisation investing heavily in analytics and insight.

  • Work on high-impact customer insight projects with strong visibility across the business.

  • Lots of opportunity for greenfield analysis-many datasets remain underutilised.

  • Collaborative team environment with strong leadership and clear direction.

  • Ideal for someone who enjoys mixing hands-on analytics with strategic business influence.

Salary & Working Model

  • Up to £50,000 base salary plus benefits

  • Hybrid: 2 days per week in theLondon office

  • Excellent exposure, learning opportunities, and ownership of key customer insight projects

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Lead Marketing Analyst

London

£60000 - £80000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Lead Marketing Analyst

Location: Fully remote (UK-based)
Salary: Up to £80k + 10% bonus

About the Business

A long-established, consumer-focused digital business backed by private equity. The company is undergoing a significant transformation under new leadership, with a clear three-pillar growth strategy centred around:

  1. Expanding and strengthening its core digital products.

  2. Enhancing customer experience to drive engagement and loyalty.

  3. Building stronger community connections and marketing reach.

The business is in the process of modernising its approach to data and analytics, with major work underway on evolving its subscription model and diversifying revenue streams.

The Role

This is a newly created position within the central Analytics, Data, and Engineering function, designed to add an extra layer of leadership within the marketing analytics space.

You’ll take full ownership of the marketing analytics function, line-managing one Senior Analyst, and act as the go-to expert for marketing insight and reporting. You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders across marketing, commercial, and product to ensure data-driven decision-making, presenting confidently at executive and board level.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Leading a small analytics team delivering insights to guide marketing targeting, spend, and impact.

  • Owning full-funnel, cross-platform customer analysis (web analytics, attribution partners, CDPs).

  • Improving campaign decision-making through attribution, incrementality, and media mix modelling.

  • Partnering with Data Science to build predictive models (LTV, churn).

  • Owning and refining marketing forecast models for budget and performance planning.

  • Using statistical analysis to optimise testing methodologies and outcomes.

  • Developing best practice, transparent reporting, and actionable insights.

  • Managing stakeholders across the business to improve marketing decisions.

  • Building strong cross-functional relationships to promote a data-driven culture.

  • Working with Data Engineering to manage data requirements and ensure quality deliverables.

Candidate Profile

Background

  • Ideally from gaming, but open to e-commerce, ad-tech, or subscription/dating apps.

  • Must have a strong B2C focus.

Experience

  • Proven track record in marketing analytics.

  • Comfortable leading and mentoring others.

  • Strong stakeholder management and presentation skills.

  • Line management experience (desirable but not essential).

Technical Skills

  • SQL (essential).

  • Power BI / Looker.

  • Data visualisation expertise (Snowflake desirable).

  • Knowledge of attribution, forecasting, incrementality testing, MMM, LTV/churn modelling (advantageous).

Package & Benefits

  • ~£80k base salary + 10% bonus.

  • Private healthcare (including dental).

  • 6% pension contribution.

  • Life insurance + employee assistance programme.

  • Enhanced family leave.

  • 25 days holiday + bank holidays (buy/sell option).

  • Flexible working hours.

Interview Process

  1. 1st stage: Zoom interview with senior marketing leadership.

  2. 2nd stage: Take-home task + panel presentation.

  3. 3rd stage: Final interview with executive team.

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Senior Analyst

London

£70000 - £85000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Senior Analyst
Location: London – 3 days per week
Salary: Up to £85,000

A private equity-backed company in the green tech space is looking for a Data Scientist / Analytics professional to join a growing team. This is a hands-on role with real ownership, helping the business turn large volumes of data into actionable commercial insights.

What You’ll Do:

  • Work closely with the Head of Analytics to deliver actionable insights across the network of charging points

  • Analyse customer behaviour, usage patterns, and operational data to inform strategy and growth

  • Build statistical models for segmentation, regression, predictive modelling, and forecasting

  • Support pricing and revenue optimisation initiatives, including dynamic pricing strategies

  • Query and process large datasets coming from multiple real-time sources

  • Translate complex analysis into clear recommendations for non-technical stakeholders

What You’ll Need:

  • Strong SQL and Python skills; experience in AWS environments is a plus

  • Solid statistical analysis background (segmentation, regression, forecasting)

  • Hands-on, adaptable, and comfortable in a smaller, fast-moving team environment

  • Excellent communication skills and ability to take ownership of projects

  • Experience delivering actionable insights rather than exploratory or purely machine learning work

Interview Process:

  1. Remote competency interview and CV review

  2. Face-to-face interview with testing component (details to be confirmed)

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Head of Digital

London

£65000 - £80000

+ Digital Analytics

Permanent
London

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Head of Digital

Hybrid – 4 days in Central London
Up to £80,000 + Bonus
Urgent Hire | High-Impact Role | Performance-Driven Team

THE COMPANY

This is a global organisation scaling fast, backed by significant investment and operating in a marketing-led, data-first model.

They’re restructuring digital from the ground up-bringing in top-tier talent, overhauling platforms, and investing in AI, CRM, CRO, and SEO to build out a world-class digital experience across their web infrastructure.

If you’re used to high performance, fast decisions, and real commercial ownership-this is your arena.

THE ROLE

As Head of Digital, you’ll own the strategy, performance, and roadmap of a newly centralised web platform (Drupal CMS), serving as the digital heartbeat of a multi-brand global business.

This isn’t just about keeping the lights on-this is your product. You’ll connect content, CRM, CRO, SEO, and AI innovation into one high-performing, scalable digital ecosystem.

Think:
End-to-end product leadership
AI experimentation with real budget
CRM + CRO integration
UX and conversion at the core
Global scale, local delivery

This is not a delivery or project role-it’s a strategic digital product position in a business that genuinely values performance, conversion, and measurable outcomes.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

  • Drive the product roadmap for a global digital platform (Drupal)
  • Lead performance-focused UX, SEO, and CRO initiatives
  • Connect CRM campaigns, enrolment journeys, and retention efforts into one seamless experience
  • Experiment with and scale AI-powered tools across web and marketing ops
  • Own uptime, security, scalability, and GDPR compliance
  • Manage agency relationships and ensure ROI-driven output
  • Work closely with data, performance, and content teams to continually optimise

YOUR EXPERIENCE

  • Proven experience in digital product leadership (web/product/CRM/CRO/SEO)
  • Can lead cross-functional teams without needing to be hands-on
  • Commercial mindset-focused on performance, not just delivery
  • You think like a product owner and act like a performance marketer
  • Passionate about AI innovation (no need to be a technical expert)
  • Bonus if you’ve worked in fast-growth, multi-brand, or PE-backed environments

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

✅ A product role with real strategic ownership
✅ Exposure to AI adoption and platform innovation
✅ Leadership visibility in a performance-led, marketing-first business
✅ Opportunity to make global impact from day one

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