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Lead Data Engineer
Manchester
£75000 - £90000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
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Lead Data Engineer
UK Remote | £75,000 to £90,000
This is a rare opportunity to step into a Lead Data Engineer role within a growing, boutique consulting environment where greenfield delivery and real ownership are central to the work. You will combine hands on technical contribution with people leadership, shaping modern data platforms and processes for mid market organisations undergoing genuine digital transformation.
The Company
They are a specialist consulting firm focused on digital transformation across data, analytics and technology. Operating as a hands on delivery partner, they embed consultants directly into client squads to modernise data platforms and ways of working from the ground up. Their work spans end to end delivery, selling professional services rather than software products, with a strong emphasis on quality, autonomy and work life balance.
The Role
- Lead the design and delivery of greenfield data platforms and analytics solutions across the full data lifecycle
- Balance hands on technical work with leadership responsibilities, spending time both building and guiding
- Manage and support a team of data engineers, providing direction, feedback and development support
- Own projects end to end, from initial requirements through to production delivery
- Work closely with stakeholders and clients, confidently challenging requirements and shaping best practice
- Design data models and business processes that support scalable analytics and reporting
Your Skills and Experience
- Strong commercial experience as a Data Engineer with solid foundations in SQL and dimensional modelling
- Experience working with Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery
- Good Python capability, including orchestration tools such as Airflow
- Proven experience building and managing data ingestion pipelines
- Cloud experience within AWS or GCP environments
- Exposure to infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform
- Confidence leading people and projects, with clear communication and stakeholder management skills
- Comfortable operating in greenfield environments with a high degree of autonomy
What They Offer
- A modern, evolving tech stack with increasing use of AI driven features
- Clear scope to influence technical direction and ways of working
- Strong emphasis on work life balance and sustainable delivery
- The opportunity to grow alongside the business in a senior leadership capacity
How to Apply
If you are a Lead Data Engineer looking for a role that blends technical impact with people leadership in a genuinely greenfield setting, apply now to learn more.

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Lead Data Scientist
City of London
£80000 - £125000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentCity of London, London
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Lead / Principal Data Scientist
TRAVEL ACROSS THE UK REQUIRED
This is a great opportunity to join a growing consultancy and lead digital, AI, and analytics solutions that deliver real operational impact across the UK.
The Company
They are a specialist consulting organisation that helps complex public and private sector clients improve performance through data, AI, and digital tools. Their culture is collaborative, outcome focused, and built around delivering practical solutions that stick. With digital capability expanding rapidly, you will help shape how they deliver technology driven change.
The Role
* Identify opportunities to apply AI, analytics, and digital tooling.
* Lead technical workstreams from design through to implementation.
* Work closely with client teams on site across the UK.
* Translate technical concepts for non‑technical audiences.
* Support the development of colleagues and digital practices.
Your Skills and Experience
* Strong commercial experience delivering digital or AI solutions end to end.
* Expertise in at least one of AI, data science, analytics, or digital engineering.
* Confident leading multi‑disciplinary teams.
* Clear communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
* Flexible to travel to client sites across the UK.

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Lead Credit Risk Analyst
£55000 - £65000
+ Risk Analytics
PermanentWest Midlands
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Lead Credit Risk Analyst
West Midlands 1 to 2 days in the office
£55,000 – £65,000
This role offers the chance to take real ownership of credit risk strategy within a fast-evolving consumer lending environment. You will sit at a pivotal point between senior leadership and developing analysts, combining strategic influence with hands-on analytical delivery across high-impact projects.
The Company
They are a consumer-focused organisation with a large lending portfolio and a strong commitment to data-led decision making. Credit risk plays a central role in shaping sustainable growth, with close collaboration across analytics, technology and commercial teams. The environment is supportive and ambitious, with a clear focus on learning, development and progression.
The Role
- Lead and evolve existing customer management and credit limit strategies across the lending book.
- Support the redesign of credit limit management and implementation of new behavioural scorecards.
- Deliver analysis to inform policy changes, decision system enhancements and customer limit adjustments.
- Design, analyse and interpret tests and experiments to balance risk, growth and customer outcomes.
- Produce portfolio analysis, MI and insight into wider customer trends.
- Work closely with stakeholders across credit and analytics, with flexibility to move into acquisition-focused projects if of interest.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong commercial experience in consumer credit risk within lending products such as cards, loans or mortgages.
- Demonstrated capability in acquisitions or existing customer management strategy, including limit or policy work.
- Experience contributing to or leading credit limit management initiatives.
- Strong analytical capability with SQL or a comparable analytical language.
- Clear communication skills with the ability to translate analysis into actionable insight.
What They Offer
- Salary up to £65,000 depending on experience.
- Hybrid working with 1 to 2 days per week in the West Midlands office and regular team collaboration days.
- Exposure to wide-ranging, business-critical projects with clear strategic impact.
- Strong opportunities for development, progression and movement across credit risk teams.
- A collaborative culture that actively supports learning and professional growth.

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Commercial Manager
City of London
£45000 - £55000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentCity of London, London
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COMMERCIAL MANAGER – PRICING
UP TO £55,000 + BONUS + BENEFITS
LONDON / HYBRID
THE COMPANY
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing consumer finance business within the credit card space. The company has built out its own lending products, works across co-branded partnerships, and is going through an exciting stage of growth with new card launches coming soon.
THE ROLE
As a Commercial Manager, you will play a key role within the Acquisition team, focusing on pricing, performance and commercial optimisation. More specifically, you will be involved in the following:
- Owning and improving pricing strategy across own-brand and co-branded credit card products
- Looking at pricing levers such as APR and understanding the commercial impact of changes
- Analysing competitor activity, customer behaviour, conversion rates and sales performance
- Using SQL to extract and interrogate data to support commercial decision making
- Working closely with aggregator, product, credit risk and decision systems teams
- Creating new processes and identifying opportunities to improve acquisition performance
- Supporting growth across aggregator channels and new product launches
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
The successful Commercial Manager will have the following skills and experience:
- Strong experience in a commercial, pricing or analytics-focused role
- Experience within consumer lending, credit cards or broader financial services ideal
- Strong SQL experience
- Good understanding of pricing strategy and commercial performance
- Experience working with data to identify opportunities and influence business decisions
- Python experience would be beneficial but is not essential
- Experience in gambling, insurance, telecoms or existing customer management could also be relevant
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to work cross-functionally
BENEFITS
The successful Commercial Manager will receive a competitive salary, bonus potential and benefits package. This is also a great opportunity to join a smaller, growing team where you can shape the role, work across new product launches, and continue developing technically and commercially.
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Dylan Butcher via the Apply link on this page.

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Experimentation Specialist
London
£35000 - £45000
+ Digital Analytics
PermanentLondon
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Experimentation Specialist
London | Up to £45,000 plus benefits | Hybrid working
A great opportunity to join a growing experimentation function within a large, digital-first organisation. This role offers the chance to shape testing strategy, influence roadmaps, and make a measurable impact across multiple brands and digital touchpoints. You will be joining at an exciting stage as they build out a dedicated team.
The Company
They are a well-established, multi-brand retail group with a significant presence in ecommerce and digital product. The organisation is investing heavily in experimentation, data and insights to drive performance and enhance customer experience across their online platforms. With a fast-paced environment and a strong appetite for testing, they offer the chance to embed experimentation culture across a complex digital ecosystem.
The Role
- Support the build of a centralised experimentation function.
- Translate commercial objectives into experimentation roadmaps.
- Prioritise tests based on value, business context and feasibility.
- Lead ideation, design and end-to-end execution of A/B tests.
- Partner with technical teams to ensure robust implementation.
- Analyse test results and communicate insights to stakeholders.
- Distinguish CRM experimentation from website CRO and support both areas.
- Contribute to training and enablement across digital teams.
Your Skills and Experience
- Strong commercial experience running experimentation programmes.
- Hands-on experience setting up and analysing A/B tests.
- Understanding of experimentation principles, digital metrics and measurement.
- Experience with platforms such as GA4, Optimizely or similar tools.
- Ability to create, manage and communicate experimentation roadmaps.
- Comfortable working cross-functionally within product, digital, CRM and tech teams.
- Able to work independently and prioritise effectively.
- Experience with user testing platforms is an advantage.
What They Offer
- Salary up to £45,000 depending on experience.
- Hybrid model with four days in the central London office.
- 20 days holiday plus bank holidays.
- Pension scheme with employer and employee contributions.
- Access to wellbeing, health and financial support services.
- Retail discounts across all brands.
- Discounted gym membership and fitness support.
- Employee recognition and reward schemes.
- Internal learning platform with extensive training content.
- Opportunities to progress as the experimentation function grows.
How to Apply
If you are passionate about experimentation and want to help shape a growing team, apply with your CV today.

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Senior CRM Manager
London
£50000 - £65000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Senior CRM Manager
Central London (Hybrid – 3 days in office)
Up to £65,000
A fast-growing digital growth agency is looking for a Senior CRM Manager to lead strategy-led CRM programmes for high-profile UK brands.
This is a client-facing role combining insight, planning, and hands-on delivery. You’ll own CRM projects end to end across multiple clients, act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, and guide junior team members along the way.
What you’ll be doing:
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Developing multi-channel CRM strategies (email, push, SMS)
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Owning segmentation, journeys, and performance optimisation
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Turning data into clear, actionable insights
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Advising clients on CRM best practice and martech
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Presenting confidently to senior client stakeholders
What we’re looking for:
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~5 years’ CRM experience (agency experience a bonus)
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Strong strategic mindset (not just execution)
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Confident, credible, client-facing communicator
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Comfortable working across multiple clients and industries
Immediate availability is a plus, but flexibility for the right person.
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Lead Analyst – Pricing and Promotions
London
£45000 - £60000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Lead Analyst – Pricing & Promotions
Up to £60,000 + benefits
Hybrid (1 day per week in London)
We’re working with a large UK retailer who are building out a new centralised analytics capability focused on pricing, promotions, and commercial optimisation. This is a newly created team with strong senior sponsorship and increasing investment in data-led decision making and AI-enabled pricing strategy.
The Opportunity
This is a high-visibility analytics role sitting close to commercial leadership, supporting pricing decisions across a large and complex retail estate. The team is responsible for developing more advanced, data-driven approaches to pricing and promotional effectiveness.
You’ll work across both strategic initiatives and fast-turnaround commercial analysis, helping shape how pricing is set, measured, and optimised.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyse competitor pricing activity and support commercial recommendations
- Deliver insight and performance analysis across pricing and promotional activity
- Support pricing optimisation and test-and-learn initiatives
- Build analytical models (e.g. regression, elasticity, incrementality measurement)
- Translate commercial questions into structured analytical outputs
- Respond to ad hoc requests from senior stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
- Contribute to wider initiatives around AI and advanced pricing capability
- Use SQL (essential) and Python for data analysis and insight generation
- Line management responsibility for a junior/graduate analyst
Focus Areas / Projects
- Development of a more advanced, AI-enabled pricing capability
- Evaluation of promotional mechanics and pricing effectiveness in-store
- Assessment of customer impact and incrementality of key pricing strategies
- Ongoing optimisation of pricing decisions across the business
Candidate Profile
- 3+ years’ experience in a commercial analytics role
- Strong SQL skills (essential)
- Working knowledge of Python for analysis/model development
- Experience in pricing, promotions, elasticity, or commercial optimisation preferred
- Strong stakeholder management experience, including senior stakeholders
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving, reactive environment
- Strong commercial awareness and ability to link data to business outcomes
What to Expect
- Mix of strategic project work and urgent analytical requests
- High stakeholder exposure and expectation of clear, actionable insight
- Technical assessment and case study as part of interview process
Package
- Up to £60,000
- Hybrid working (1 day/week in London)
- Competitive benefits package
Interview Process
Single stage process split into two parts:
- Technical + competency interview
- Live case study (in-person)
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Senior Product Manager
London
£70000 - £90000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Senior Product Manager
Central London (2 to 3 days per week in office) | £80,000 to £100,000 base plus bonus and equity
This is a rare opportunity to take full ownership of a core product at a critical growth stage. You will join a small, ambitious business moving from an MVP into a scalable, client-facing platform, with real autonomy to shape strategy, delivery, and impact from day one.
The Company
They are a founder-led technology business operating at the intersection of data, networks, and decision-making. Their platform connects senior professionals with investment-focused clients, enabling highly curated, high-value introductions. With a growing international footprint and a strong commercial model, they are now investing heavily in product maturity, automation, and AI-driven capabilities.
The Role
- Own the end-to-end product roadmap for a core platform, from discovery through to delivery
- Translate business, client, and user needs into clear product requirements, epics, and priorities
- Lead the shift from internal tooling to a scalable, self-serve, client-facing product
- Reduce reliance on manual and spreadsheet-based workflows through automation and better UX
- Partner closely with Engineering to unblock delivery, manage trade-offs, and address technical debt
- Collaborate with Data teams to align product design with data quality, structure, and AI use cases
- Identify and embed practical AI and LLM-driven functionality into workflows and the product experience
- Act as the day-to-day product contact for commercial teams and senior stakeholders
Your Skills and Experience
- Strong commercial product management experience within a technology or data-led environment
- Proven ability to own and prioritise a product roadmap in a fast-moving, agile setting
- Experience working closely with Engineering and Data teams to deliver complex platforms
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and making pragmatic trade-offs
- Exposure to workflow automation, data products, or AI-enabled features
- Clear communication skills and confidence working directly with senior stakeholders and users
What They Offer
- Competitive salary of £80,000 to £100,000 depending on experience
- Performance-related bonus and equity participation
- High autonomy and visibility within a small, founder-led organisation
- The chance to shape a product with genuine commercial and user impact
- A collaborative environment with close alignment across Product, Engineering, and Data
How to Apply
Apply now to learn more about this Senior Product Manager opportunity and how you could shape the next phase of a high-impact platform.
