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

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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Ecommerce Executive – Contract

London

£200 - £250

+ Digital Analytics

Contract
London

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Ecommerce Executive – Contract
Beauty and Fragrance Brand
£200-£250 per day – Outside IR35
London – 3 days in office

This is a hands-on Ecommerce Executive contract where you will help stabilise and accelerate a busy trading and project roadmap. You will work across multiple markets, supporting key site activity and ensuring products, promotions, and content go live accurately and on time.

The Company

They are a fast-paced beauty and fragrance brand operating across UK and international markets, with a strong focus on digital trading and customer experience. Their ecommerce team is lean and collaborative, partnering closely with development, customer service, and wider stakeholders to deliver high-quality site updates. With several major initiatives landing over the coming months, they need immediate contract support to keep momentum across BAU and project work.

The Role and Deliverables

  • Build, QA, and launch on-site promotions in the ecommerce back office, ensuring correct setup and customer journey flow.
  • Maintain and update site content and product pages, including assets, copy, pricing checks, and categorisation across multiple markets.
  • Support product contribution for new launches and range changes, ensuring SKUs are live with accurate imagery, content, and data.
  • Deliver regular site walks to check accuracy across navigation, merchandising, and checkout journeys, addressing issues quickly.
  • Manage tickets end-to-end with the development team, raising, testing, and resolving site issues efficiently.
  • Act as a point of contact for Customer Service on site performance, stock availability, promotions, and technical queries.

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong ecommerce operations experience contributing products and content within a website back office.
  • Proven ability to build and test promotions, and to QA onsite experiences end-to-end.
  • Confidence managing SKUs, pricing, imagery, and categorisation, with a strong eye for detail.
  • Experience working with ticketing workflows and cross-functional teams, including developers and customer service.
  • Familiarity with SAP Commerce Cloud (Hybris) is a significant advantage, and SmartEdit experience is highly desirable.
  • Working knowledge of tools such as SAP and JIRA is beneficial, and Google Analytics exposure is a plus.
  • Highly organised, able to prioritise effectively, and comfortable delivering at pace across multiple projects.

How to Apply

Apply now with your CV to be considered for this immediate-start Ecommerce Executive contract supporting a global ecommerce team in London.

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CRM Copywriter – Contract

London

£200 - £300

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Contract
London

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CRM Copywriter – Contract
Agency – Non-Combustible Tobacco
London – 1 day per week in office
£200-£300 per day – Outside IR35

This CRM Copywriter contract offers the chance to work on a high-impact, consumer-facing CRM programme within a regulated, fast-evolving category. You will join an agency environment delivering thoughtful, compliant copy for a global end client operating in the non-combustible tobacco space.

The Company

They are a well-established creative agency partnering with global brands on CRM and lifecycle marketing. The business is known for combining strategic thinking with high-quality execution across email, messaging and owned channels. They work closely with clients in highly regulated industries, balancing creativity with precision and compliance.

The Role and Deliverables

  • Writing clear, engaging CRM copy across email and other direct channels.
  • Adapting tone of voice to suit different audiences, journeys and lifecycle stages.
  • Working from briefs and CRM strategies to deliver campaign-ready copy.
  • Collaborating with strategists, designers and account teams within the agency.
  • Ensuring all copy aligns with regulatory and compliance requirements.

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong experience as a CRM copywriter, ideally within a regulated environment.
  • Confidence writing for regulated or sensitive categories.
  • Ability to translate strategic briefs into concise, effective CRM messaging.
  • Excellent attention to detail and comfort working within brand and compliance guidelines.
  • Strong collaboration skills and the ability to manage feedback and revisions efficiently.

How to Apply

If you are a CRM Copywriter looking for a contract role delivering meaningful work within a structured, agency-led environment, apply to learn more.

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Data Engineer (GCP/DBT)

Leeds

£65000 - £70000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Leeds, West Yorkshire

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DATA ENGINEER

Up to £70,000 + BENEFITS
UK (Remote‑first)

This is a great opportunity to join a high‑growth education technology business where you can take ownership of building and scaling a modern data platform that underpins decision‑making across the entire organisation.

THE COMPANY:

The business is scaling rapidly and investing heavily in data to create a single, trusted view of performance across marketing, product and operations.

THE ROLE:

You will take ownership of a modern data platform. Key responsibilities include:

  • Owning and developing the end‑to‑end data platform
  • Building and maintaining robust data ingestion pipelines into BigQuery
  • Designing and maintaining analytics‑ready dbt models
  • Partnering closely with the BI Analyst to support company‑wide reporting and self‑serve analytics

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

You will bring strong capability in:

  • Google BigQuery/GCP (3+ years’ hands‑on experience)
  • Data ingestion tools such as Fivetran
  • dbt Cloud and analytics‑ready data modelling

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary of up to £70,000 depending on experience, along with a comprehensive benefits package.

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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Senior Marketing Analyst

London

£60000 - £70000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Senior Marketing Analyst

London – 4 days a week

Up to 70k

This is an exciting opportunity to join a data‑driven team where you can shape how clients measure and improve their marketing performance, using rich customer and media data to deliver clear and actionable insights.

Who we are
We are a specialist digital and customer analytics business supporting major brands with data‑led marketing solutions. We use extensive datasets, technology, and measurement expertise to help clients understand their audiences and improve campaign performance. Our work blends analytics, strategy, and hands‑on data exploration to drive meaningful commercial outcomes. We partner closely with teams across the wider group to deliver integrated, insight‑driven thinking.

The Role

This role focuses on delivering hands‑on marketing and customer analytics while guiding clients on measurement approaches, including how to interpret and challenge marketing mix modelling. It combines technical analysis with client‑facing communication to help brands understand campaign performance, customer behaviour, and opportunities for optimisation.

  • Manage analytics delivery across multiple accounts, providing clear insights on campaign performance and customer behaviour.
  • Lead conversations on marketing measurement, including marketing mix modelling, helping clients understand approaches, limitations, and best practice.
  • Analyse large datasets to understand audience performance, transactional behaviour, customer value, and marketing impact.
  • Translate analytical outputs into compelling narratives for senior stakeholders.
  • Work cross‑functionally with internal teams to shape data‑driven marketing strategies.
  • Carry out hands‑on data manipulation and custom analysis to guide client decision making.
  • Support internal development by helping colleagues interpret and communicate analytical findings.

Your Skills and Experience

  • Solid understanding of customer and marketing analytics such as lifetime value, churn, targeting, and post‑campaign evaluation.
  • Strong commercial experience in marketing, media, or customer analytics.
  • Confident discussing marketing mix modelling principles or econometrics with clients.
  • Strong statistical literacy, including concepts such as randomised experiments and model uncertainty.
  • Proficient in SQL and at least one business intelligence tool.
  • Skilled at presenting insights clearly and simplifying technical topics.

What We Offer

  • Salary up to 70,000 depending on experience, plus bonus.
  • Hybrid working with regular time in the London office.
  • Exposure to leading consumer and retail brands.
  • Opportunities to broaden your measurement and analytics expertise.
  • A supportive, collaborative team environment with strong development pathways.

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Senior Product Manager (Maconomy)

London

£80000 - £100000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER (MACONOMY)
LONDON/HYBRID
UP TO £100,000

This is an exciting opportunity to take full ownership of a newly launched global ERP ecosystem at a pivotal stage in its development. You will shape the roadmap, drive process improvements, and act as the key link between finance, operations, and technology teams across multiple regions.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Senior Product Manager will:
* Own the ERP product roadmap and prioritise enhancements based on business value and technical feasibility.
* Partner closely with Finance and other cross‑functional stakeholders to shape requirements and translate them into actionable solutions.
* Identify process inefficiencies and lead automation and optimisation across workflows.
* Drive the global rollout of the ERP platform into new regions.
* Serve as the subject‑matter expert for Maconomy, including configuration, administration, and integrations.
* Oversee system performance, vendor relationships, and technical escalations.
* Provide second‑line support, ensuring platform stability, compliance, and best‑practice documentation.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:
* Strong commercial experience working with Maconomy in a Product Manager, Product Owner, or Business Analyst capacity.
* Hands‑on expertise in Maconomy configuration and administration, including WSC and layouts.
* Experience supporting ERP implementations or regional rollouts.
* A strong understanding of finance back‑office processes.
* Proven ability to manage backlogs, roadmaps, and product delivery.
* The confidence to work effectively with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

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Senior Marketing Analyst

London

£65000 - £70000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Senior Marketing Analyst
Fully Remote (UK) | Up to £70,000 + equity options + quarterly bonus

This is a great opportunity to join a high-growth, digital-first business where marketing decisions are genuinely data-led. You will shape how performance marketing is measured, reported, and optimised, while working with a modern data stack and a growing central data team.

The Company
They are a fast-scaling, subscription-based consumer marketplace with a strong international presence. Their model is built around a two-sided membership community, and they are investing heavily in data to drive smarter growth decisions. Over the past six months, they have been building a modern data platform from the ground up, introducing tools such as dbt and Databricks. Data is central to their strategy, and marketing analytics is a key area of focus for future growth.

The Role
As a Senior Marketing Analyst, you will sit within the Marketing Analytics function and act as a strategic partner to growth and marketing leaders. You will:

  • Work with marketing stakeholders to understand growth questions and translate them into clear analytical projects.
  • Analyse channel and campaign performance to inform budget allocation and investment decisions across paid and owned channels.
  • Deep dive into the end-to-end customer journey, from initial visit to registration, membership, and purchase.
  • Identify behavioural indicators and patterns that predict conversion and retention.
  • Develop and refine customer segments to improve targeting across paid media and CRM.
  • Support the development of marketing mix modelling (MMM) capabilities.
  • Build and maintain dashboards and self-serve tools that bring performance and insights to life for non-technical stakeholders.
  • Help improve data foundations and data models that power marketing analytics and reporting.

Your Skills & Experience
You will be a strong fit for this Senior Marketing Analyst position if you have:

  • Strong commercial experience using SQL to query and manipulate large datasets.
  • Proven experience in marketing analytics, ideally with a focus on paid performance marketing.
  • Hands-on experience with data visualisation tools such as Tableau or Looker (or similar BI tools).
  • A background working in a marketplace, start-up, or scale-up environment where you have influenced growth or acquisition strategy.
  • Experience working across channels such as paid social, paid search, CRM, and/or influencer marketing.
  • Confidence working directly with senior stakeholders, communicating complex analysis in a clear, actionable way.
  • A proactive, problem-solving mindset and a genuine interest in understanding customer behaviour and the full customer journey.

What They Offer

  • Salary in the range of £70,000 – £80,000, depending on experience.
  • Equity options plus a quarterly performance bonus structure.
  • Fully remote working within the UK, with flexibility and trust.
  • The chance to join at a pivotal stage as the data platform and marketing analytics function are being built out.
  • Significant scope to influence marketing strategy, measurement frameworks, and advanced analytics capabilities.
  • Opportunities to grow your career as they expand their data, analytics, and marketing teams and move further into predictive modelling and advanced analytics.

How to Apply
If you are a Senior Marketing Analyst looking to have a real impact on growth strategy in a modern, data-driven business, please apply with your CV to be considered.

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Martech Exec – Digital Marketing Data & Feeds

London

£45000 - £50000

+ Digital Analytics

Permanent
London

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Marketing Technology Executive – Digital Marketing Data & Feeds

Location: London (Hybrid – approx. 1 day per week on-site)
Salary: £45,000-£50,000 + benefits
Start: ASAP (urgent hire)

About the Role

We’re looking for a hands-on Marketing Technology Executive to help deliver and evolve the technical digital marketing capabilities across inbound and outbound channels. This role sits within a growing digital marketing function and focuses on building, managing, and optimising the product and stock data pipelines that power marketing activity across multiple platforms.

You’ll work closely with Marketing, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure product data is accurate, reliable, and effectively integrated into the MarTech ecosystem. If you enjoy solving data flow challenges, improving feed quality, and enabling smarter marketing activation, this is a great fit.

What You’ll Do

  • Develop, maintain, and optimise product and stock data feeds using tools like Athos Commerce and technologies such as Kafka and Snowflake.
  • Manage real-time feed integrations with platforms including Meta, TikTok, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, and others.
  • Support ETL processes to ensure accurate and compliant data sharing across marketing tools and dashboards.
  • Validate and monitor product/stock data to ensure accuracy, completeness, and performance.
  • Run and report on feed tests, identifying opportunities to improve marketing efficiency.
  • Work collaboratively with internal teams to ensure smooth delivery of data-driven projects.

What We’re Looking For

Essential:

  • Experience managing product and stock feeds for digital commerce (Athos, Mulesoft, Boomi, etc.).
  • Integration of feeds into digital marketing platforms.
  • Knowledge of ETL processes and data governance best practices.
  • Understanding of how digital channels use feed data for targeting, optimisation, and reporting.
  • Ability to translate technical requirements into marketing deliverables.

Desirable:

  • Experience with APIs (Postman, Datadog, Splunk, Boomi).
  • Working knowledge of GCP, data pipeline tools (Funnel, Datorama) or Snowflake.
  • Experience in enterprise retail, ecommerce, or marketplace environments.
  • Familiarity with real-time data architecture (e.g., Kafka).

What You’ll Bring

  • Problem-solving mindset and ownership of tasks from start to finish.
  • Ability to simplify complex problems and communicate clearly with stakeholders.
  • Curiosity, adaptability, and willingness to try new approaches.
  • Strong relationship-building skills across technical and non-technical teams.
  • A proactive approach to improving processes and marketing effectiveness.

Working Model

Hybrid, with flexibility-typically one day per week in the London office, but open to once every two weeks depending on needs.

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Director of Performance Marketing

London

£150000 - £200000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Director of Performance Marketing

London, hybrid working. Base salary £150,000 – £200,000 plus equity and benefits.

This is a rare opportunity to build the growth engine of a fast-scaling consumer fintech. You will take a strong performance marketing foundation and turn it into a differentiated advantage, shaping how millions of customers discover, join, and grow with a leading digital product.

The Company
They are a high-growth, app-led consumer financial services business on a mission to redefine how people engage with their money. With a multi-product ecosystem and a rapidly expanding customer base, data, AI, and experimentation sit at the heart of their strategy. Marketing is seen as a strategic growth driver, with meaningful investment in brand, performance, customer analytics, and MarTech. You will join a modern, collaborative leadership team that is focused on sustainable, profitable growth.

The Role
As Director of Performance Marketing, you will:

  • Own the long-term performance marketing strategy for profitable new customer growth.
  • Lead channel investment strategy, planning, and budgeting across paid social, search, and app acquisition.
  • Build and refine measurement frameworks, from attribution and incrementality to media mix and unit economics.
  • Partner closely with Product, Data, Customer Analytics, and CRM to optimise the full funnel, from impression to in-app activation and value.
  • Lead and develop the performance marketing function, including a high-performing team and agency partners.
  • Embed a rigorous test-and-learn culture across channels, audiences, creative, and propositions.
  • Champion the use of AI and advanced analytics to drive workflow efficiency, insight, and optimisation.
  • Act as a senior thought partner to the executive team on growth opportunities, risk trade-offs, and performance forecasts.

Your Skills And Experience
You will be a strong fit if you have:

  • Proven success in scaling acquisition for a consumer-focused digital business, such as fintech, subscription, marketplace, or app-led services.
  • Deep hands-on understanding of performance channels, especially Meta, Google, and app store acquisition.
  • Strong commercial mindset with experience managing large budgets and performance-driven investment decisions.
  • Advanced analytical capability, comfortable with data, experimentation, and incrementality measurement.
  • Experience working with or alongside customer analytics, product, and MarTech teams to drive holistic growth.
  • Confidence leading agencies and internal teams, with a collaborative, low-ego leadership style.
  • Curiosity about AI and how it can enhance marketing effectiveness and decision-making.

What They Offer

  • Base salary in the range of £150,000 – £200,000, depending on experience.
  • Meaningful equity, plus a comprehensive benefits package.
  • Senior visibility and influence across the executive and product leadership teams.
  • The chance to shape the growth model of a high-potential consumer fintech at a pivotal stage.
  • A culture that values data, experimentation, and continuous learning.

How To Apply
If you are a commercially minded Director of Performance Marketing who wants to build and own a high-impact growth engine in London, please apply with your CV to find out more.

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