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 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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Business Analyst

London

£480 - £550

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Contract
London

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Location: London (1 day onsite, then 2 days per cycle)
Contract: 3 months
IR35: Outside
Rate: £480-£550 per day
Start: Up to 1 month notice max

Overview

This role sits within the FP&A function, supporting the build-out of a more robust and scalable reporting approach for strategic investment tracking. Alongside a new Finance Data Warehouse (FDW), the business needs a “bolt-on” solution to classify and report on investment activity, enabling accurate tracking of revenue, costs, and consultant utilisation for senior leadership, Board, and shareholders.

Key Responsibilities

* Gather and document requirements across FP&A, Finance, and Investments stakeholders
* Assess current reporting processes, data sources, and KPI definitions
* Define a tactical classification and data capture approach to support investment reporting
* Produce clear scoping documentation for the Finance Systems team (Phase 1)
* Develop detailed technical specifications covering data models, logic, and reporting outputs (Phase 2)
* Map data lineage, calculations, and dependencies in a clear, build-ready format
* Work closely with the Finance Systems team to support handover into development

Key Skills & Experience

* Strong experience in requirements gathering and stakeholder engagement

* Consultancy or finance-led environments preferred
* Experience working in complex, multi-source reporting environments
* Background in FP&A / finance environments (P&L, KPIs, variance analysis)
* Experience working with complex reporting stacks (Understanding of Alteryx and Power Query)
* Strong understanding of data modelling, data flows, and reporting logic
* Ability to translate business requirements into clear technical specifications
* Comfortable working autonomously in unstructured environments
* Coding experience beneficial but not essential

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Pricing & Promotion Analyst

£45000 - £51000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Staffordshire

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Pricing & Promotion Analyst

£45,000 – £51,000

Hybrid – Staffordshire (2 days per week)

This is a commercially focused analytics role where your work will directly influence how promotional and pricing decisions are made. You will operate at the centre of marketing, finance and analytics, owning performance insight across high impact campaigns.

The Company

They are a well established consumer facing organisation operating at scale within a fast moving, multi site environment. The business is highly data driven, with a strong focus on understanding customer behaviour and commercial performance. Analytics is embedded across the organisation, supporting both strategic and day to day decision making. Collaboration across marketing, finance and insight teams is a core part of how they work.

The Role

You will focus on the design, evaluation and optimisation of promotional and discount activity, ensuring campaigns deliver against both financial and customer KPIs. Key responsibilities include:

  • Designing and building promotional and discount campaigns in partnership with marketing and commercial teams
  • Supporting campaign modelling alongside investment and analytics stakeholders, measuring performance against agreed KPIs
  • Monitoring campaign performance and producing clear, actionable reporting
  • Enhancing existing approaches to promotional analysis and performance measurement
  • Working with large datasets using SQL within Databricks
  • Delivering insight and dashboards through Power BI
  • Engaging with cross functional stakeholders across marketing, insight and analytics teams

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong SQL capability, with experience working in Databricks or similar cloud data platforms
  • Experience building reports and dashboards in Power BI
  • Commercial experience analysing promotions, pricing or discount activity
  • Confidence evaluating performance from both a financial and customer perspective
  • Understanding of price elasticity and promotional effectiveness
  • Background in marketing analytics, revenue growth management or financial analysis
  • Comfortable working with a range of stakeholders and influencing decision making through insight

What They Offer

  • Competitive salary and benefits package
  • High visibility role with clear commercial impact
  • Opportunity to work closely with senior stakeholders across marketing and finance
  • Strong scope for development within a mature analytics environment

How to Apply

Apply now to find out more about this opportunity and how it could support the next step in your analytics career.

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Head of Data Strategy & Governance

London

£130000 - £160000

+ Data Management & Governance

Permanent
London

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Head of Data Strategy & Governance
Central London – 2 days a week in office
Salary: £130,000 – £160,000

This is a senior data leadership role with genuine influence. You will take ownership of how data is governed, trusted and scaled across a fast-growing, technology-led financial services business. With data at the heart of decision-making, this role offers the opportunity to shape strategy, solve complex quality challenges, and build a robust operating model that supports long-term growth.

The Company
They are a technology-driven financial services organisation operating at the intersection of finance and data. Their platform brings together complex financial information to provide clients with a clear, holistic view of their finances and support better long-term decisions. The business has grown rapidly and continues to invest heavily in its data and technology capabilities. The culture is collaborative, delivery-focused, and values ownership and clarity.

The Role
As Head of Data Strategy and Governance, you will define and embed how data is owned, managed, and trusted across the organisation. You will work closely with technology, product, and senior stakeholders to ensure data quality underpins every insight and client outcome.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Defining and delivering the data strategy, operating model, and governance framework across the business
  • Establishing clear data ownership, standards, and accountability in a federated environment
  • Leading data quality initiatives to address real-world issues across multiple data sources
  • Building and maintaining a single source of truth, including data dictionaries and master data approaches
  • Overseeing the data platform within an AWS and Databricks environment, ensuring scalability and reliability
  • Providing strategic oversight of BI and analytics, partnering with teams to enable trusted reporting
  • Managing and developing a multi-disciplinary data team spanning operations, governance, and BI


Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial experience in data strategy, data governance, and operating model design
  • Deep understanding of data quality management, controls, and frameworks
  • Experience working with modern cloud data platforms, including AWS and Databricks
  • Ability to translate complex data and governance concepts for technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • A pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset with the confidence to lead change in a scaling organisation
  • Background in regulated or data-intensive environments is beneficial


What They Offer

  • Competitive salary with flexibility depending on experience
  • Hybrid working with two days a week in a central London office
  • Private medical insurance with a comprehensive wellbeing and fitness programme
  • 25 days annual leave with the option to carry over additional days
  • Pension via salary sacrifice, plus access to multiple salary sacrifice schemes
  • Enhanced parental leave, mental health support, and a dog-friendly office
  • Study support, time for learning, and home working equipment on request
  • Clear scope for progression and influence, with potential equity reviewed after probation


How to Apply
If you are looking to lead data strategy and governance in a growing, data-led organisation, apply now to find out more.

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Sr. Fullstack Software Engineer

New York

$170000 - $190000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
New York

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Sr. Fullstack Engineer

Hybrid (NYC)

$170k – $190k Base + bonus & equity

Overview

A global, high‑growth technology company operating at the intersection of financial technology, consumer platforms, and digital security is expanding its engineering leadership team. The organisation builds large‑scale, consumer‑facing platforms used by hundreds of millions of users worldwide, with a strong focus on quality, long‑term maintainability, and responsible AI‑assisted development.
This role sits within a financial products marketplace that partners with major financial institutions to deliver personalised consumer experiences. The position is ideal for a senior‑level engineer who values engineering judgement, thoughtful architecture, and technical leadership over speed alone.

Responsibilities

  • Own and uphold a high engineering quality bar across design reviews, code reviews, testing strategy, and production readiness
  • Collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering partners to shape solutions and evaluate technical trade‑offs
  • Architect and build frontend‑leaning, full‑stack systems that are modular, composable, and resilient to change
  • Champion performance, reliability, and maintainability in AI‑assisted development environments
  • Apply functional programming principles and immutability to reduce side effects and improve system clarity
  • Lead the effective use of AI agents for prototyping, refactoring, and exploration while ensuring production‑grade outcomes
  • Drive a robust automated testing strategy across unit, integration, UI/component, and end‑to‑end layers
  • Provide technical leadership through mentorship, delegation, and high‑quality code reviews

Must‑Have Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
  • 8+ years of experience building production web applications, including senior‑level ownership
  • Prior experience operating at principal, lead, or staff engineer level
  • Expert proficiency with TypeScript and React, including server‑side rendered frameworks such as Next.js
  • Strong understanding of functional programming concepts and immutability in modern frontend systems
  • Advanced knowledge of automated testing strategies and CI‑driven feedback loops

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Data Analyst – Customer/Marketing

London

£45000 - £55000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Data Analyst
London (hybrid, 2 days per week) | Up to £55,000

This is a great opportunity to join a growing data and analytics consultancy where you will work on varied, client-facing projects that have real commercial impact. You will sit between data, insight, and decision-making, helping organisations better understand their customers through thoughtful, high-quality analysis.

The Company
They are a UK-based data and analytics consultancy that combines large-scale proprietary data with advanced analytics and insight delivery. Working as a solutions partner, they support clients across sectors such as utilities, energy, telecommunications, financial services, charities, and consumer brands. Their focus is on helping organisations unlock value from complex data through practical, outcome-driven analytics.

The Role
As a Data Analyst, you will work closely with clients to translate business problems into clear analytical solutions. You will be involved across the full project lifecycle, from early discovery through to delivery.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Gathering requirements and running data discovery and stakeholder sessions
  • Exploring, cleaning, and analysing complex, often ambiguous datasets
  • Combining multiple data sources into a single analytical view
  • Producing insight through analysis, reports, and dashboards
  • Presenting findings and translating technical outputs into clear commercial insight
  • Working alongside data scientists, project managers, and subject matter experts on client projects

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong commercial experience in a data or analytics role
  • Excellent SQL skills for data extraction, transformation, and analysis
  • Experience using Python for analysis is highly desirable
  • Confidence working directly with clients and presenting insight to stakeholders
  • Experience building dashboards in Power BI or similar BI tools such as Tableau or Qlik
  • A curious, analytical mindset with the ability to work independently and ask the right questions

What They Offer

  • Salary up to £50,000, with flexibility to £55,000 for an exceptional candidate
  • Hybrid working with two days per week in a London office
  • Exposure to a wide variety of clients, sectors, and analytical challenges
  • Clear opportunities to develop technical capability and consulting skills
  • Supportive team environment with access to specialist data, engineering, and science functions

How to Apply
If you are a Data Analyst looking to deepen your client-facing experience and work on meaningful analytics projects, apply now to find out more.

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Customer Insights Strategy Lead

London

£60000 - £90000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Customer Insights and Strategy Transformation Lead
London, hybrid working with 2 days per week in the office. £60,000 to £90,000 plus 16 percent bonus.

This is a high visibility role for someone who wants to shape how customer insight influences strategy, change and commercial decision making. You will sit at the centre of analytics, BI and insight, with the remit and autonomy to build a customer insight capability that delivers real outcomes, not just reports.

The Company
They are a large, established organisation investing heavily in becoming more customer led and insight driven. Data, analytics and insight are seen as critical enablers of strategic transformation. Teams work collaboratively across analytics, marketing, product and technology, with strong senior sponsorship for insight-led decision making.

The Role

  • Act as the strategic link between customer insight, central analytics, BI and self service reporting.
  • Define the customer insight vision, operating model and prioritisation frameworks.
  • Champion a customer first mindset and ensure insight informs strategy, change initiatives and day to day decisions.
  • Work closely with marketing, product and data science teams to embed insight into delivery.
  • Balance strategic direction with hands on delivery, including analysis, tooling and insight communication.
  • Improve confidence in customer data as a strategic asset and uplift ways of working across insight teams.

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial experience in customer analytics or customer insight leadership.
  • Advanced SQL skills and strong experience with Power BI or equivalent BI tools.
  • Python capability is highly desirable, particularly for advanced or predictive insight.
  • Proven ability to translate data into clear, actionable business insight.
  • Experience building or supporting predictive models or analytical frameworks.
  • Strong stakeholder ownership, with a focus on delivery and impact over theory.

What They Offer

  • Salary banding of £60,000 to £90,000, with a sweet spot in the mid to high £70,000s.
  • 16 percent bonus.
  • Hybrid working with two days per week in the London office.
  • A highly visible role with genuine influence over how insight, data and analytics work together.
  • The opportunity to build capability and shape something that lasts.

How to Apply
Apply now to find out more about this opportunity and how you could shape the future of customer insight in a business where your work will have real impact.

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Senior Product Manager

London

£90000 - £105000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Senior Product Manager
Remote-first (UK based) | £105,000 + benefits

This is a rare opportunity to step into a senior, high-impact product role at a scaling, science-led technology business. You will shape the future of a complex AI-driven product used in pharmaceutical research, moving it from strong foundations to a more mature, commercially aligned product offering with a clear go-to-market strategy.

The Company
They are a venture-backed, Series A technology business operating at the intersection of life sciences, data science and artificial intelligence. Their platform applies AI and natural language processing to unlock insights from vast volumes of scientific data, supporting more efficient and informed drug discovery. The organisation is founder-led, mission-driven and entering an exciting phase of growth, with a highly experienced leadership team and a collaborative, ego-free culture.

The Role
As Senior Product Manager, you will take ownership of product strategy and roadmap definition, elevating product maturity and ensuring delivery of meaningful, real-world value for customers in pharmaceutical R and D. You will act as a senior voice within product, mentoring existing product managers while working closely with engineering, commercial and customer-facing teams.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Owning and evolving the product strategy and roadmap, aligned to business and commercial objectives
  • Refining product foundations, processes, tools and operating principles
  • Translating complex customer needs into clear, prioritised product opportunities
  • Partnering with engineering to connect product vision to technical delivery
  • Bringing a strong go-to-market mindset to product development
  • Tracking and optimising product performance against commercial KPIs
  • Supporting the development of future product iterations and new market opportunities

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong end-to-end product management experience across the full product lifecycle
  • Proven ability to define and execute product strategy in a complex technology environment
  • Experience working with data, AI or advanced analytics products
  • Commercially minded, with exposure to go-to-market planning and execution
  • Comfortable operating in fast-paced, scaling environments
  • Able to mentor and uplift other product managers without formal line management
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams
  • Exposure to life sciences, pharma, biotech or adjacent sectors is beneficial but not essential

What They Offer

  • Salary of £105,000 plus benefits
  • Share options and company performance bonus
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity leave, plus strong sick leave provision
  • Remote-first working across the UK
  • Clear progression for someone aspiring to step into a Head of Product role
  • The chance to work on genuinely meaningful technology alongside world-class scientists and engineers

How to Apply
If you are a Senior Product Manager looking to take ownership of strategy, influence company direction and work on cutting-edge AI products in life sciences, please apply.

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CRM Manager – 12-month FTC

London

£51000 - £57500

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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CRM Manager
Surrey, Hybrid| £51,500 to £57,500 | 12 month FTC

This is a high-impact CRM Manager role within a fast-growing direct to consumer subscription business where lifecycle marketing is central to commercial performance. You will take ownership of CRM execution at scale, shaping how customers are onboarded, retained and re-engaged across a large and loyal subscriber base. With strong growth momentum and clear investment in CRM, this role offers genuine visibility and influence.

The Company
They are a science-led, direct to consumer health and wellness business operating a strong subscription and repeat purchase model. The organisation is experiencing rapid year-on-year growth and has built a sizeable, engaged customer base. CRM is viewed as a core growth engine, with a clear focus on long-term customer value, retention and loyalty. The culture is collaborative, data-informed and highly commercial.

The Role

  • Own lifecycle marketing execution across CRM channels, with email as the primary focus.
  • Translate CRM strategy into high-performing campaign plans and automated customer journeys.
  • Drive repeat revenue, retention, subscription performance and customer lifetime value.
  • Manage a high-frequency CRM calendar alongside an evolving automation roadmap.
  • Lead key lifecycle journeys including welcome, onboarding, replenishment, upsell and re-purchase.
  • Build and optimise segmentation, testing frameworks and predictive CRM initiatives.
  • Use performance data and customer insight to shape recommendations and future activity.
  • Line manage and develop a CRM Executive, with scope to grow the team further.
  • Partner closely with Growth, Product, Brand, Web, Data and external technology partners.

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial experience in CRM or lifecycle marketing within a DTC, ecommerce or subscription-led environment.
  • Hands-on expertise with Klaviyo and confidence owning complex CRM programmes end to end.
  • Proven experience managing and developing junior team members.
  • Advanced segmentation, experimentation and test-and-learn capability.
  • Strong analytical mindset, with the ability to interpret CRM performance across engagement, retention and revenue.
  • Experience working closely with Brand or Creative teams on campaign delivery.
  • Exposure to platforms such as Shopify, subscription tools, analytics or BI tools is beneficial.
  • Interest in predictive modelling or AI-driven CRM insights is advantageous.

What They Offer

  • Salary of £51,500 to £57,500 on a 12 month fixed-term contract.
  • Hybrid, remote-first working with minimal office requirement.
  • A highly visible role within a fast-scaling business where CRM is a key growth lever.
  • Opportunity to make a measurable commercial impact and help shape the future CRM function.
  • Collaborative, supportive team environment with clear plans for growth and development.

How to Apply
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