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 Intelligence Developer

Birmingham

£45000 - £50000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Birmingham, West Midlands

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Power BI Developer

Up to£50,000

Hybrid – Birmingham (1x day per week)

This role stands out for its balance of hands on delivery and real business impact. You will play a key role in shaping trusted analytics products, influencing decision making across the organisation, and helping to build a scalable modern BI environment centred on Power BI and Microsoft Fabric.

The Company

They are a growing organisation investing heavily in their data and analytics capability. With a clear commitment to improving insight, governance and self service analytics, they are building a modern cloud based data platform to support better operational and strategic decisions. Data sits at the heart of how they work, with strong sponsorship from senior stakeholders. The culture is collaborative, pragmatic and focused on continuous improvement.

The Role

  • Design, build and maintain Power BI dashboards, reports and semantic models used across the business
  • Develop trusted KPIs and DAX measures aligned to consistent business definitions
  • Own elements of the BI lifecycle from data preparation through to adoption
  • Design and maintain scalable data models to support self service analytics
  • Monitor and optimise model and dataset performance
  • Implement secure reporting solutions including role based access
  • Work closely with stakeholders to translate business needs into analytics solutions
  • Analyse data to identify trends and communicate insights clearly
  • Collaborate with data and engineering teams to align with platform and governance standards

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial experience delivering production ready Power BI reports and dashboards
  • Advanced DAX and strong data visualisation capability
  • Strong SQL skills for data preparation and analysis
  • Experience with data modelling and ETL or ELT processes
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric, Azure or modern cloud data platforms
  • Ability to explain technical concepts clearly to non technical stakeholders
  • A proactive approach to improving standards, documentation and ways of working

What They Offer

  • Competitive salary and benefits package
  • Hybrid working with one day per week on site in Lichfield
  • The opportunity to shape and influence a growing BI function
  • Exposure to modern Microsoft data technologies including Fabric
  • Clear scope for career development as the data team scales

How to Apply

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Senior Data & Insights Analyst

Manchester

£40000 - £47000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Manchester, Greater Manchester

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Senior Data & Insights Analyst

£40,000 – £47,000

Manchester | Hybrid (2 days per week)

This role offers the chance to sit at the centre of commercial decision-making, using data to influence real-time performance and senior stakeholder thinking. You will have clear ownership, strong visibility, and the opportunity to shape how insight is used across a fast-paced, operational environment.

The Company

They are a large, consumer-focused organisation where data plays a critical role in driving performance and improving outcomes. Analytics is well embedded in the business, with strong senior buy-in and a clear appetite for insight-led decision-making. The culture is collaborative, commercially minded, and supportive of flexible working and development.

The Role

  • Lead day-to-day performance reporting and insight, delivering clear recommendations that influence operational and strategic decisions.
  • Partner closely with senior stakeholders across sales, digital, and operational teams to understand priorities and shape analytics outputs.
  • Build, own, and evolve dashboards that track performance and highlight opportunities for optimisation.
  • Translate complex data into concise, impactful stories that drive action.
  • Act as a trusted analytics partner, supporting leadership teams with timely, relevant insight.

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong SQL skills with the ability to work confidently with large, complex datasets.
  • Proven experience building dashboards in Power BI or Tableau, with strong data visualisation capability.
  • Solid understanding of DAX to create robust, scalable metrics and measures.
  • Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence, challenge, and communicate insight clearly to non-technical audiences.
  • Commercial mindset and experience delivering insight that drives performance.

What They Offer

  • Competitive salary with performance-related bonus.
  • Hybrid working model with flexibility around working patterns.
  • Strong benefits package including pension and wellbeing support.
  • Clear progression opportunities and exposure to senior decision-makers within the business.

Apply

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Power BI Developer

Walsall

£45000 - £50000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Walsall, West Midlands

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A large, purpose‑driven organisation operating within the social care and healthcare landscape is hiring a Power BI Developer to support the continued growth of its Business Intelligence capability.

The organisation delivers long‑term, community‑based services to individuals with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, mental health needs, and complex behavioural or clinical requirements, working closely with local authorities and healthcare providers. Services are delivered at scale through residential settings, supported living and specialist support programmes.

BI is a relatively new function within the organisation, creating a strong opportunity for someone who enjoys ownership, autonomy, and shaping how BI is delivered across a complex business.


The role

This is an end‑to‑end BI Developer role, responsible for delivering Business Intelligence solutions across multiple business areas, including Operations, Finance, Marketing and Sales.

You’ll sit within a small but growing BI team and report into the BI leadership function, working closely with stakeholders to define KPIs, model data and create scalable, self‑service reporting solutions.

The role is roughly 60% technical / 40% stakeholder‑focused, combining hands‑on Power BI development with strong business engagement.


What you’ll be doing

Power BI & reporting delivery

  • Build, enhance and maintain Power BI dashboards, reports and semantic models
  • Apply best practice across layout, accessibility, UX and data storytelling
  • Develop robust DAX measures and business‑aligned KPIs

Data modelling & semantic layer

  • Design and maintain scalable, reliable data models that support self‑service analytics
  • Ensure consistent definitions and trusted reporting across business areas

Data preparation & data quality

  • Support ETL / ELT processes to ensure timely, accurate and well‑structured data
  • Contribute to ongoing data quality improvement and optimisation

Stakeholder engagement & insight

  • Gather requirements from stakeholders and translate them into BI solutions
  • Define and track KPIs across multiple domains
  • Analyse datasets, identify trends and communicate insights clearly
  • Promote data literacy and support a more insight‑driven culture

What you bring

Essential

  • 2+ years’ experience in a BI Developer or similar role
  • Strong experience with Power BI
  • Strong SQL
  • Strong DAX capability
  • Experience with data transformations
  • STEM degree background

Nice to have

  • Python
  • Experience with the Microsoft Fabric / Azure ecosystem
  • Exposure to ETL pipelines or modern data platforms

Tech stack

  • Power BI
  • SQL
  • DAX
  • Microsoft Fabric

Why this role

  • Work within a high‑impact, purpose‑led organisation
  • Join a small BI team with real ownership and influence
  • Opportunity to build end‑to‑end BI solutions rather than maintaining legacy reporting
  • Meaningful work where insights directly support better outcomes for people

Up to £50,000
Hybrid – 1 day per week onsite in the West Midlands (flexibility for an exceptional candidate)

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Lead Product Manager – Consumer Tech

London

£90000 - £110000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Lead Product Manager
London, Hybrid (2 days per week)
Up to 110,000 plus bonus

This is an opportunity to shape the next generation of intelligent, personalised consumer experiences at scale. You will lead product strategy for cross‑journey systems that help millions of users make better financial decisions, working at the intersection of product, data, and decisioning.

The Company

They are a fast‑growing consumer fintech with a mission to help people build long‑term wealth through simple, intuitive digital products. Their platform supports over a million users and is expanding rapidly across savings, investing, and future‑planning offerings. As they evolve toward more intelligent and personalised experiences, they are building new systems that integrate guidance, decisioning, and behavioural insight across the entire customer journey.

The Role

* Define how personalisation and intelligence are applied across product journeys and systems.
* Lead cross‑journey and cross‑product strategy, focusing on end‑to‑end customer experience rather than isolated features.
* Identify where intelligence adds genuine customer value and guide teams away from unnecessary or hype‑driven solutions.
* Partner closely with Decisioning, Data, Engineering, and other Product Leads to shape platform‑wide systems.
* Bring structure and clarity to complex, ambiguous problem spaces.
* Influence stakeholders across functions as a senior individual contributor.

Your Skills and Experience

* Strong experience delivering consumer product experiences at scale.
* Proven capability in personalisation, recommendation systems, or behavioural guidance.
* Ability to think in systems and journeys rather than standalone features.
* Comfortable working with data, decisioning, and ML‑adjacent teams without being a technical specialist.
* Pragmatic understanding of where AI and intelligence can and cannot add value.
* Confident operating in a cross‑functional environment with multiple stakeholders.

What They Offer

* Salary up to 110,000 plus a 15 percent bonus.
* Hybrid working with two days per week in a central London office.
* High influence role shaping greenfield systems and future product direction.
* Impact-led culture focused on helping customers achieve long‑term financial goals.
* Strong career progression within an experienced, product‑led organisation.

How to Apply

If you are excited by the opportunity to shape intelligent consumer experiences at scale, please apply with your CV.

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Marketing Analyst

London

£40000 - £50000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Marketing Analyst

London (4 days onsite) | £45-50k + bonus

Data-driven marketing business working with large retail and consumer brands to improve customer targeting, campaign performance, and commercial outcomes through data, analytics, and technology.

The Role

You’ll join a small analytics team supporting multiple client accounts, focusing on turning customer, campaign, and behavioural data into actionable insights.

Work includes:

  • Campaign and customer data analysis to understand performance drivers
  • Audience and segmentation analysis (including high-value customers)
  • Ad hoc deep dives on large transactional datasets
  • Supporting insight delivery alongside senior team members
  • Contributing to client-facing outputs (with support)

Requirements

  • 1-3 years’ experience in analytics / marketing / data role
  • Strong SQL skills
  • Exposure to CRM, digital, or marketing data desirable
  • BI tool experience (e.g. Tableau) a plus
  • Strong communication and stakeholder skills
  • Curious, commercially minded, and keen to develop

Interview Process

  • 45-min intro interview
  • Task/presentation (in-person)
  • Final interview with senior stakeholder

Find out more and apply via the link below.

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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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Product Analyst

London

£45000 - £55000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Product Analyst – £55,000 (Hybrid – London)

Industry: Consumer Marketplace / Mobile App
Department: Product & Insights

We’re looking for a Product Analyst to join a fast-growing consumer marketplace used by millions globally. You’ll work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to uncover insights, shape user experiences, and drive commercial performance.

What You’ll Do

  • Analyse user behaviour and product performance across key journeys

  • Build dashboards and self-serve insights for cross-functional teams

  • Support A/B testing: design experiments, interpret results, recommend next steps

  • Work with data and platform teams to ensure clean, scalable datasets

  • Present clear, actionable insights that influence product strategy

What We’re Looking For

  • Strong SQL skills and experience working with large datasets

  • Comfortable using Python for product analytics

  • Experience with product experimentation / A-B testing

  • Familiarity with Looker, Tableau, or similar BI tools

  • Confident communicator who can simplify complex data for stakeholders

  • Curious, proactive, and thrives in a fast-paced product environment

Why Apply

  • Work on high-impact product features used by millions

  • Hybrid working, flexible culture, strong learning budget

  • Fast-growing environment with real ownership of analysis and experiments

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Analytics Manager

London

£75000 - £90000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Analytics Manager

London (Hybrid – 2 days in office, Tuesdays required)
Up to £90,000 base salary

An established data and analytics provider within the FS and property sector is looking for an Analytics Manager to lead and deliver high-impact client-facing projects. Sitting at the intersection of data, product, and commercial teams, this role offers the opportunity to influence strategic decision-making across some of the UK’s most prominent banks and mortgage lenders.

You’ll manage a small team of analysts while staying close to delivery – combining technical expertise with business insight to shape how financial institutions use housing market data to drive smarter lending decisions.

Key Responsibilities

  • Team Leadership: Mentor and support 2-3 analysts; oversee workload and ensure high-quality output

  • Client-Facing Analytics: Present insights directly to clients, translating complex data into strategic value

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with product, commercial, and presales teams to develop tailored solutions

  • Strategic Thinking: Stay ahead of market trends and customer challenges to guide analytics direction

  • Project Delivery: Lead the end-to-end delivery of analytics projects across multiple stakeholders and timelines

  • Innovation Support: Help evolve the product set through insight-led thinking across financial services use cases

What We’re Looking For

  • 5-7 years’ experience in analytics, ideally within financial services, credit risk, mortgages, or related sectors

  • Proven experience mentoring or managing analysts (or strong readiness to step into a team lead role)

  • Strong technical toolkit: SQL, Python, and Excel proficiency

  • Skilled communicator – confident presenting to both technical and non-technical audiences

  • Experience working with or alongside banks, lenders, or credit decisioning teams

  • Highly numerate, creative problem solver with strong business acumen

Nice to Have

  • Exposure to property, housing, or mortgage markets

  • Experience in a fast-paced, collaborative environment

  • Interest in combining product thinking with data analytics

  • Ability to manage multiple projects and stakeholders

  • Strong presentation skills and a curious, solutions-driven mindset

Why Apply?

  • Strategic, visible role with direct impact on how financial clients use data

  • Competitive salary up to £90,000

  • Hybrid working – 2 days/week in the London office (Tuesdays required)

  • Work within a high-calibre analytics team under supportive leadership

  • Be part of a mission to simplify and modernise property data in financial decisioning

Interview Process

  1. Initial interview (30-45 mins) – with Analytics Leadership

  2. Task stage – demonstrate analytical thinking and communication

  3. Final round – culture fit and stakeholder interaction
    One stage may take place in person at the London office (London Bridge), where possible

Ready to shape the future of data in property and financial services? Apply now to join a high-performing team that blends deep analytics with real-world impact.

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