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Analytics Manager
£100000 - £120000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentEngland
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Analytics Manager
Remote – UK based
£100,000 to £120,000
This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of customer and insight analytics within a data driven, fast paced business. You will shape how analytics is delivered, influence strategic decisions, and support high impact commercial teams.
The Company
They are a growing digital organisation operating in a complex, data rich environment. With strong investment in analytics and a modern technology approach, they are focused on building scalable processes that strengthen decision making across the business. You will join a collaborative team that partners closely with growth, marketing, and product stakeholders.
The Role
* Own company wide analytics processes and standards.
* Lead customer and insight analytics to support marketing and growth teams.
* Provide hands on technical expertise while offering guidance to others.
* Manage stakeholder expectations and deliver clear, actionable insights.
Your Skills and Experience
* Strong commercial experience in the gambling, gaming, or betting industry.
* Technically strong with SQL.
* Experience with Omni for BI is desirable.
* Proven ability to engage and influence stakeholders.
What They Offer
* £100000 to £120000 salary range.
* Flexible working and strong benefits package.
* Career progression within a scaling data function.
How to Apply
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BI Solutions Lead (Tableau)
London
£480 - £550
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractLondon
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Role: BI Solutions Lead (Tableau)
Location: Remote – (some ad hoc travel to Edinburgh)
Contract: 3 months initially
IR35: Inside
Rate: £480-£550pd
Start: Approx. 2 weeks
Overview
This role will focus on redesigning and standardising global BI systems across multiple European regions.
Each region currently operates with different warehouse and reporting set-ups. The objective is to define and implement a single, standardised solution that can be rolled out across all regions.
The successful contractor will sit within a small team (two direct reports into this role) and report into senior leadership.
Key Responsibilities
* 80% managerial – leading the BI workstream and owning delivery across the programme
* Align CRM, data and technology teams across regions
* Gather and translate business requirements into technical delivery
* Oversee Tableau reporting, analytics and data design
* Provide management oversight for two team members
* Drive stakeholder engagement across technical and non-technical audiences
* As the programme progresses, take a more hands-on role in migration and technical delivery
Success Measures
* Maintain team cohesion and clear direction
* Achieve alignment across regional tech teams
* Deliver a standardised BI and data solution ready for rollout
Required Skills
* Strong Tableau experience
* Advanced SQL
* Experience leading large-scale migration projects
* Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
* Experience in subscription-based or similar recurring revenue business models
Nice to Have
* Snowflake
* DBT
* Python
* Excalibur
* Confluence
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Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js, TypeScript)
London
£400 - £600
+ Data Engineering
ContractLondon
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Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js, TypeScript)
Outside IR35 | Up to £600/day | 6 months
UK/EU Remote | ASAP Start
We’re supporting a recently acquired sports and gaming technology business as they strengthen their senior engineering capability across core backend platforms and data systems.
They’re hiring 2x Senior Backend Engineers to take technical ownership across a complex CMS, data platforms and integration-heavy services. These are hands-on senior roles focused on delivery, architecture, and mentoring within a distributed engineering team.
The work is centred around scaling core backend systems, improving performance and reliability, and building integrations across internal services. One of the roles will also support HubSpot integrations, though this is a nice to have rather than a core requirement.
The Role
You’ll be working across Node.js and TypeScript services that power multiple websites, internal tools and commercial data platforms. This is a technical leadership position without line management, suited to engineers who can drive system design decisions while remaining hands-on.
You’ll contribute across backend development, architecture, and delivery, helping raise engineering standards and reduce reliance on the central architect.
Key Focus Areas
* Backend development across Node.js and TypeScript services
* Building and improving APIs, integrations and data-driven systems
* System design, architecture input and scalability work
* Mentoring engineers and improving technical standards
* Working closely with product, delivery and engineering leadership
* Leading integration work across multiple internal platforms
* Supporting CRM/HubSpot integrations in one of the roles (nice to have)
Tech Environment
Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, APIs, microservices, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), data integrations, distributed systems.
What They’re Looking For
* 6-10+ years backend engineering experience
* Strong Node.js and TypeScript background in production environments
* Experience working on large, complex backend systems
* System design and architecture capability
* Experience mentoring or acting as a technical lead
* Strong integration experience across APIs and services
Nice to Have
* Experience integrating HubSpot or similar CRM platforms
* DevOps/SRE awareness
* Experience in gaming, sports, fintech or high-scale consumer platforms
* Marketplace or booking-style platform experience
Package
* Outside IR35
* Up to £600/day
* 6 month initial contract (strong extension potential)
* UK/EU remote with optional London presence
* 2 stage interview process
* ASAP start preferred
This is a high-impact role for senior backend engineers who want to take ownership of core systems, lead technical delivery and help shape the next phase of platform growth.
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Senior Strategy Manager – Collections
London
£90000 - £120000
+ Risk Analytics
PermanentLondon
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SENIOR STRATEGY MANAGER – COLLECTIONS
£90-120K
London (Hybrid – 3 days per week in office)
Harnham are working with a fintech company to bring in a new Senior Collections Strategy Manager to build out collection and recovery strategies.
THE COMPANY
A fast-growing fintech with a unique product that is looking to expand globally. The business is backed by strong institutional funding and now profitable, with a clear growth trajectory. An excellent time to join a high-quality team and participate in long-term value creation.
THE ROLE
This role sits within the strategy and approvals function, with end‑to‑end ownership of collections and recoveries strategy. You will manage one direct report and work closely with operations, strategy, product and analytics to optimise customer outcomes and portfolio performance.
Specifically, you can expect to be involved in the following:
- Designing and developing collections and recoveries strategy.
- Leading deep dive analysis on performance, trends and customer behaviour.
- Partnering with operations to deliver effective end‑to‑end collections journeys.
- Managing and developing a direct report.
- Supporting broader credit and risk strategy initiatives as the business scales.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Prior experience in senior risk, analytic or strategy roles, ideally within lending or credit risk
- Technically proficient in SQL
- Able to communicate technical outcomes into stakeholder understanding.
- (2:1) Stem related Degree from a Russell group university
- Experience managing people or leading analytical work streams.
THE BENEFITS
- Salary between £90,000-£120,000
- Hybrid working environment with the flexibility to work from home up to 3 days per week.
- High impact strategic ownership.
THE PROCESS
- 45-minute chat with hiring manager
- 90-minute SQL test, 7 days to complete
- Case study and cultural interview
- Final interview
- Offer!
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest via the apply link on this page, or send your CV
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Senior Product Analyst
London
£400 - £401
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractLondon
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Senior Product Analyst – Contract
£400 Per Day
6 Months
This is an opportunity to join a high-performing product team at a pivotal moment, supporting them through a period of high demand and increasing complexity. You will focus on experiment evaluation and product decision support, not just reporting, so your analysis will have a direct and visible impact on what gets built and shipped. This part-time, 6 month contract starting in February 2026 is well suited to an experienced product analyst who enjoys owning analysis end to end and working with autonomy.
The Company
They are a digital product-led organisation that relies heavily on data to inform strategy, prioritisation and delivery. The teams you will support run frequent experiments and make data-informed decisions about new features and customer journeys. They work in a fast-moving, collaborative environment where clear, actionable insights are valued over lengthy reports. As a specialist contractor, you will be brought in to ease pressure on the permanent team and bring additional analytical rigor to experimentation.
The Role and Deliverables
- Own end to end analytical work for product experiments and initiatives, from defining the analytical approach through to final recommendations.
- Design and support experimentation analysis, including A/B tests, covering metric definition, validation and results interpretation.
- Query, validate and interpret complex data using SQL and Python, ensuring outputs are robust enough to inform key product decisions.
- Communicate analytical insights clearly to product, engineering and stakeholder teams, focusing on “good enough to decide” rather than perfection.
- Partner with cross functional teams to clarify questions, decision needs and ensure analytical and statistical rigor in methods used.
- Contribute to reusable analysis assets such as documentation, templates and frameworks that make experimentation evaluation more efficient.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong SQL and Python skills, including complex joins, aggregations and data validation on large or messy datasets.
- Solid understanding of experimentation and statistics, with hands-on experience evaluating A/B tests and product experiments.
- Background working in fast-moving product teams where analysis directly supports product roadmaps and feature decisions.
- Confidence working with incomplete or imperfect data and still providing clear, pragmatic recommendations.
- Ability to explain analytical approaches and findings to non-technical stakeholders in a concise and accessible way.
- Proven track record of operating independently as a contractor, quickly integrating into existing teams and taking ownership of analyses.
How to Apply
If you are an experienced Senior Product Analyst who enjoys experimentation, product decision support and autonomous contract work, please apply with your CV and a short summary of your most relevant experimentation projects.
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Product Marketing Manager
Sheffield
£50000 - £59000
+ Digital Analytics
PermanentSheffield, South Yorkshire
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SENIOR PRODUCT MARKETING MANAGER – EDTECH SAFEGUARDING Sheffield (Hybrid – 3 days/week) | Up to £59K | Permanent
THE ROLE
Leading global EdTech company seeks Senior Product Marketing Manager to lead marketing for their safeguarding portfolio and shape GTM strategy for their integrated whole child solution-an ecosystem combining safeguarding, behaviour, attendance, parent engagement, and learning plans.
Drive compelling positioning, robust marketing plans, and adoption across UK/international school markets. Collaborate closely with Product, Sales, Operations, and Marketing teams.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategic Planning – Lead end-to-end GTM strategies for safeguarding products across UK/international markets. Shape GTM for integrated whole child solution. Develop multi-channel campaigns (digital, paid, content, events, direct). Ensure commercial alignment with measurable outcomes.
Messaging & Positioning – Define differentiated positioning for DSLs, headteachers, trust executives. Develop messaging frameworks for integrated solutions. Ensure consistency across all touchpoints.
Content & Thought Leadership – Collaborate on guides, whitepapers, blogs, webinars, case studies. Establish company as trusted voice in safeguarding. Help schools meet compliance and improve outcomes.
Market Intelligence – Maintain deep understanding of safeguarding regulations and policy landscapes. Track competitors and market trends. Provide actionable intelligence to stakeholders.
Sales Enablement – Develop battlecards, pitch decks, ROI calculators. Partner with Sales, Product, Operations on execution. Support partnerships extending product reach.
Performance & Analytics – Track/optimize performance via Looker, Google Analytics, Salesforce. Regular reporting on effectiveness and ROI. Drive data-driven, outcome-focused plans.
REQUIREMENTS
Experience – 5+ years product marketing (EdTech/SaaS/compliance preferred). Proven success launching B2B education products. Multi-channel campaign delivery track record. Cross-functional team management. Fast-paced, complex environment expertise.
Knowledge – Strong safeguarding compliance understanding. School operations knowledge (behaviour, attendance, engagement, learning plans). GTM planning for integrated tech solutions. Brand marketing, lifecycle marketing, ROI measurement. Salesforce, Looker, Google Analytics, automation platforms.
Skills – Exceptional storytelling and messaging development. Strategic planning and campaign management. Data-driven, commercially minded, test-and-learn approach. Excellent influencing and relationship-building. Simplify complex compliance concepts for diverse audiences.
Qualifications – Degree in Marketing, Communications, Education, or equivalent. Product marketing/digital marketing/safeguarding certifications (desirable).
BENEFITS 25-30 days annual leave. 5% pension. Modern offices. Benefits platform. Eye care, Life Assurance. Cycle to Work, EAP. Company socials. Extensive L&D.
THE COMPANY
Global EdTech leader empowering schools and educators worldwide. 13M+ educators, 25K+ schools across 100+ countries, 100+ years of impact. Their ecosystem streamlines tasks, enhances learning, alleviates administrative burdens. Close partnerships with schools deliver resources, guidance, and innovative technology for education excellence.
Interested? Get in touch to discuss.
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Lead Back-End Software Developer
London
£500 - £600
+ Data Engineering
ContractLondon
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Lead Backend Software Developer (Contract)
London,
Outside IR35
£500-£600 per day
This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast‑moving engineering function at a pivotal moment of technical uplift. They are investing heavily in strengthening their core platforms and commercial data systems, creating a strong mandate for senior engineers to step in, lead, and make an immediate impact.
The Company
They are a growing digital gaming organisation operating across multiple markets, currently modernising their backend ecosystem. With distributed teams across the UK and Europe, they are building scalable platforms that support a variety of customer‑facing and internal products. Engineering quality, strong technical leadership, and delivery excellence are central to their transformation. Contractors join at a time when technical ownership is expanding in‑house, creating real scope to shape systems and standards.
The Role and Deliverables:
* Lead backend development across a complex CMS and core data systems.
* Own key architectural decisions and unblock teams through strong technical leadership.
* Enhance the NextGen CMS, working on logic driven functionality and system evolution.
* Expand and support the Master Data platform that underpins wider services.
* Mentor engineers and drive engineering best practice across the backend team.
* Accelerate delivery by improving patterns, processes, and overall code quality.
The Role and Deliverables:
* Lead development within the Commercial Data Manager, delivering new functionality and scaling existing services.
* Take full ownership of the HubSpot ecosystem, replacing agency support and bringing it in‑house.
* Implement new fields, features and data flows for commercial stakeholders.
* Maintain and evolve integrations across multiple services and data systems.
* Partner with architecture and engineering leadership on system design and improvements.
* (Nice to have) Drive smooth, reliable operation of CDM and HubSpot through clear technical ownership.
Your Skills and Experience
* Strong capability in Node.js, JavaScript and TypeScript within complex backend environments.
* Confident designing scalable systems and making architectural decisions.
* Effective collaborator with product, delivery and commercial teams.
* Experience working in integration‑heavy or data‑rich environments.
* Proven leadership mindset with the ability to mentor, influence and drive standards.
* Practical cloud experience, ideally AWS, with good awareness of DevOps concepts.
How to Apply
If you are a senior backend contractor ready to take technical ownership and deliver meaningful impact, please apply with your CV.
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Data Scientist
€60000 - €61000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentNetherlands
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Data Scientist
Harnham The Randstad, Netherlands (On-site)
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Job Title: Data Scientist – Model Production
Location: Eindhoven
Type: Full-Time
About the Company:
A leading media and marketing organization are seeking a Data Scientist to join its internal team. The company is focused on leveraging data and AI to drive scalable, business-critical solutions and deliver measurable outcomes across multiple industries.
Role Overview:
The Data Scientist will focus on productionizing machine learning models, transforming prototypes into robust, scalable systems that support key business operations. The role is central to embedding AI and data-driven insights into the company’s processes, working closely with internal teams to maximize impact.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to identify opportunities for machine learning applications.
- Develop, deploy, and maintain machine learning models in production environments.
- Optimize and monitor models to ensure performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Implement best practices in MLOps, version control, and model lifecycle management.
- Integrate models into operational systems alongside engineering and analytics teams.
- Document workflows, code, and methodologies to ensure maintainability and reproducibility.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or a related field.
- Proven experience in deploying machine learning models in production.
- Proficiency in Python or a similar language, and experience with ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn).
- Familiarity with MLOps tools and practices, including Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong understanding of data pipelines, ETL processes, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred:
- Experience working with large-scale media or marketing datasets.
- Knowledge of advanced ML techniques such as recommendation systems, NLP, or predictive analytics.
Why Join:
- Opportunity to work on high-impact projects that directly influence business strategy.
- Exposure to cutting-edge AI and data-driven solutions within a global organization.
- Collaborative, inclusive, and innovative culture that encourages continuous learning.
Application:
Interested candidates are invited to submit a CV and brief cover letter highlighting experience with production ML systems to [email/contact].
