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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 23: Beyond Compliance: Rethinking Data Protection in an AI-Driven World

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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Qualitative Research and Insights Specialist

London

£300 - £350

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Contract
London

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Qualitative Research and Insights Specialist (Contract)

£300-350 per day (Outside IR35)

1-month Contract

UK-based

Fully Remote

This is a highly engaging contract opportunity to shape audience understanding within the live entertainment sector. You will support a busy insights team delivering multiple audience profiling projects that directly inform marketing strategy for major productions and venues. With surveys already in field, this role focuses on analysis and storytelling, providing immediate impact.

The Company

They are a specialist marketing and insights agency operating across the UK, with a strong focus on live entertainment. Their work supports theatre productions, large venues, and cultural organisations through data-led audience understanding. Sitting within a dedicated data and insights function, they deliver research that drives campaign performance and audience growth. Due to increased project demand, they are looking for additional support on a contract basis.

The Role and Deliverables

You will work across a portfolio of audience profiling studies, translating research and behavioural data into clear insights.

  • Analyse first and third party survey data to build detailed audience profiles
  • Work across multiple concurrent projects focused on live entertainment audiences
  • Integrate data sources including panel data, website insights, and ticket sales data
  • Use platforms such as GWI, or similar tools, to enrich audience understanding
  • Produce structured insights outputs using existing templates and frameworks
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders to deliver clear, actionable insights decks

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong experience in audience or consumer profiling within a marketing or insights environment
  • Proven ability to analyse survey data and interpret third party panel datasets
  • Experience using GWI or similar audience insight tools
  • Comfortable working with multiple data sources including digital and sales data
  • Ability to translate analysis into clear, compelling insight narratives
  • Experience in live entertainment, media, or cultural sectors is beneficial

How to Apply

Register your interest by sending your CV to Ananya Gupta via the Apply Link on this page.

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Commercial Analyst

Birmingham

£30000 - £35000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Birmingham, West Midlands

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Commercial Analyst

£30,000 – £35,000

Hybrid – Birmingham (2-3 days per week)

This is an opportunity to join a data-driven organisation where commercial insight plays a central role in shaping strategy and growth. You will work across multiple business functions, translating complex data into clear, actionable recommendations that directly influence decision-making at both a UK and global level.

The Company

They are a well-established organisation operating across international markets, with a strong focus on data-led decision-making and continuous improvement. The business brings together teams across sales, marketing, finance, and operations to deliver commercial success. They invest in their people, systems, and tools, creating an environment where analytical talent can have a measurable impact. Collaboration and innovation are central to how they operate.

The Role

  • Deliver regular commercial reporting across sales, products, customers, and costs to provide clear performance visibility
  • Analyse trends against targets, budgets, and forecasts, identifying key drivers and opportunities for growth
  • Produce ad hoc analysis and reporting to support decision-making across business functions
  • Interpret customer, product, and market data to highlight risks and opportunities
  • Support forecasting, business planning, and target setting through robust data analysis
  • Partner with stakeholders across sales, marketing, finance, and operations to provide insights and recommendations
  • Contribute to product development and launch analysis, including performance tracking and optimisation
  • Support data automation and process improvement initiatives to enhance reporting efficiency
  • Conduct market and commercial research to inform strategic direction

Your Skills and Experience

  • A degree in Data, STEM, or a highly numerate subject such as Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, or similar
  • Strong commercial experience in data analysis within a business environment
  • Advanced Excel skills with experience in data manipulation and reporting
  • Experience with data visualisation tools such as Power BI or Tableau, or the ability to develop these skills
  • Familiarity with SQL or Python for data analysis is advantageous
  • Ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders
  • Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
  • High attention to detail with a focus on accuracy and data integrity
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver to deadlines

What They Offer

  • Competitive salary and benefits package
  • Opportunities for career progression within a growing, data-led organisation
  • Exposure to cross-functional teams and international markets
  • A collaborative environment where your insights directly influence business performance
  • Ongoing development opportunities, including tools and technical skills

How to Apply

Apply now if you are interested in using data to drive commercial performance and make a meaningful impact within a collaborative organisation. Please note we cannot offer sponsorship for this position.

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Practice Innovation Project Manager

New York

$150000 - $160000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
New York

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Practice Innovation Project Manager

Location: Boston, MA preferred (open to NYC)
Compensation: Up to $160,000 base + discretionary bonus
Work Model: Hybrid (2 days onsite weekly)
Visa: U.S. Citizens / Green Card Holders only

About the Opportunity

We are partnering with a highly respected, industry-leading professional services organization undergoing a major AI-driven transformation. This organization is investing heavily in enterprise AI systems and seeking an early member of a newly built innovation team focused on redesigning core operational workflows through generative AI and automation.

This is a highly visible role working directly with senior leadership to help shape long-term AI strategy while driving adoption of cutting-edge technologies across the business.

The Role

This position sits within a newly expanding Practice Innovation team focused on identifying opportunities to improve operational efficiency through AI-enabled workflows, automation, and process redesign.

You will work directly with internal stakeholders to evaluate how existing workflows can be optimized while maintaining strict quality, security, and compliance standards.

Key Responsibilities

  • Analyze existing operational workflows and redesign them using AI-powered automation
  • Build repeatable AI workflows using prompt engineering, templates, and structured processes
  • Evaluate and pilot emerging generative AI tools for enterprise adoption
  • Develop internal AI playbooks, prompt libraries, and best practice documentation
  • Train internal stakeholders on effective and responsible AI usage
  • Troubleshoot AI tool issues and continuously improve adoption workflows
  • Ensure AI usage aligns with security, confidentiality, and compliance requirements
  • Partner cross-functionally with leadership, IT, infrastructure, and operations teams

Ideal Background

  • 5+ years of experience in project management, operations, or workflow optimization
  • Strong experience within legal services, legal operations, litigation support, eDiscovery, or paralegal environments
  • Exposure to legal technology platforms and enterprise software systems
  • Hands-on experience with Generative AI, prompt engineering, or workflow automation tools
  • Experience driving process improvement and stakeholder management initiatives
  • Comfortable training users and leading organizational change initiatives

Strong Preference For Candidates With

  • Legal industry background (required)
  • Experience implementing AI solutions into operational workflows
  • Exposure to API integrations, SQL querying, enterprise applications, or cloud-based systems
  • Strong communication skills and ability to work with senior stakeholders

Why This Role

  • Join a highly respected organization making significant AI investments
  • Be an early member of an internal AI transformation initiative
  • Help define how AI is adopted organization-wide
  • High visibility role with direct exposure to executive leadership
  • Opportunity to influence long-term enterprise AI strategy

Interview Process

  • Introductory HR Screen
  • Hiring Manager Interview
  • AI-Focused Take-Home Assessment
  • Final Executive Interview

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Senior Account Director

London

£55000 - £65000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Senior Account Director
London/Bristol (Hybrid) – 1x every 2 weeks

Up to £65,000

This is an opportunity to step into a senior leadership role within a well-established CRM and data-led agency entering an exciting growth phase. With new global backing and an expanding client portfolio, you will play a key role in shaping strategic CRM programmes for high-profile consumer brands while leading a high-performing client services team.

The Company
They are a specialist CRM agency with a long-standing reputation for delivering data-driven marketing solutions for global consumer brands. Operating for several decades, they combine strategic thinking with hands-on campaign delivery across digital channels. Recent investment has accelerated their growth, bringing new international opportunities while maintaining a collaborative and close-knit culture. The team environment is fast-paced, supportive, and focused on delivering measurable impact for clients.

The Role
You will take ownership of key client accounts, acting as the strategic lead while ensuring seamless campaign delivery and commercial success.

  • Lead and grow complex CRM accounts, ensuring delivery against client objectives
  • Shape CRM strategy across lifecycle marketing, campaigns, and customer engagement
  • Manage senior client relationships and act as a trusted partner to stakeholders
  • Oversee campaign delivery across multiple channels, ensuring quality, timeliness, and budget adherence
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including strategy, data, creative, and technology
  • Drive commercial performance including revenue growth and profitability
  • Mentor and develop account team members, fostering a high-performing culture

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong experience operating within an agency environment, ideally within CRM or data-led marketing
  • Proven capability leading large, complex client accounts with high levels of stakeholder engagement
  • Deep understanding of CRM strategy and campaign delivery across channels such as email, web, app, and push
  • Commercial awareness with experience managing budgets and identifying growth opportunities
  • Confidence balancing strategic thinking with hands-on delivery
  • Experience leading and developing teams
  • Familiarity with marketing technology platforms; exposure to tools such as Braze is beneficial but not essential

What They Offer

  • Opportunity to lead a flagship account within a growing agency
  • Exposure to globally recognised brands and complex CRM programmes
  • A collaborative environment with clear progression opportunities
  • Backing from a global network while retaining an independent agency feel

How to Apply
If this role sounds like the right next step in your career, apply now to learn more.

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Senior Data Analyst

London

£60000 - £75000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Senior Data Analyst
Hybrid – London – 3x a week in office

Salary £60,000 – £75,000 (DOE)

This is an opportunity to join a highly regarded analytics and marketing science function within a collaborative agency environment. You will work across a diverse portfolio of clients, gaining exposure to both campaign and customer analytics while developing a well-rounded skillset in a fast-paced setting.

The Company
They are a customer focused marketing and analytics agency that partners with well-known brands to improve how they understand and engage their audiences. Operating as part of a global network, they collaborate closely with media and marketing teams to deliver integrated, data driven solutions. Their marketing science function brings together analytics, data science and wider data capability to deliver measurable business impact. They place strong emphasis on internal mobility and long-term career development.

The Role

  • Analyse campaign performance, including engagement, conversion and lead metrics
  • Support customer journey analysis to understand end to end behaviour
  • Build reports and dashboards to communicate insights clearly
  • Work with tools such as GA4 to answer client questions and generate insight
  • Collaborate with technical and strategy teams on data capture, tagging and tracking
  • Contribute to ad hoc analytics requests in a project based environment
  • Support senior stakeholders in delivering insight led recommendations

Your Skills and Experience

  • Must have a degree in a quantitative subject, e.g. statistics, Economics etc
  • Commercial experience in marketing analytics or customer analytics in an agency setting
  • Proficiency in SQL or Python for data analysis
  • Experience using digital analytics tools such as GA4 or similar
  • Understanding of campaign performance measurement and reporting
  • Exposure to data visualisation and dashboarding tools
  • Ability to translate data into clear, actionable insights
  • Comfortable working in a fast paced, client focused environment

What They Offer

  • Strong learning and development framework with opportunities to rotate across accounts
  • Exposure to a wide range of clients and analytics challenges
  • Clear progression pathway within a growing analytics function

How to Apply
Please submit your CV to learn more about this Data Analyst opportunity in Southwark.

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Data Analyst

London

£45000 - £60000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Data Analyst
Hybrid – London – 3x a week in office

Salary £45,000 – £60,000 (DOE)

This is an opportunity to join a highly regarded analytics and marketing science function within a collaborative agency environment. You will work across a diverse portfolio of clients, gaining exposure to both campaign and customer analytics while developing a well-rounded skillset in a fast-paced setting.

The Company
They are a customer focused marketing and analytics agency that partners with well-known brands to improve how they understand and engage their audiences. Operating as part of a global network, they collaborate closely with media and marketing teams to deliver integrated, data driven solutions. Their marketing science function brings together analytics, data science and wider data capability to deliver measurable business impact. They place strong emphasis on internal mobility and long-term career development.

The Role

  • Analyse campaign performance, including engagement, conversion and lead metrics
  • Support customer journey analysis to understand end to end behaviour
  • Build reports and dashboards to communicate insights clearly
  • Work with tools such as GA4 to answer client questions and generate insight
  • Collaborate with technical and strategy teams on data capture, tagging and tracking
  • Contribute to ad hoc analytics requests in a project based environment
  • Support senior stakeholders in delivering insight led recommendations

Your Skills and Experience

  • Commercial experience in marketing analytics or customer analytics in an agency setting
  • Proficiency in SQL or Python for data analysis
  • Experience using digital analytics tools such as GA4 or similar
  • Understanding of campaign performance measurement and reporting
  • Exposure to data visualisation and dashboarding tools
  • Ability to translate data into clear, actionable insights
  • Comfortable working in a fast paced, client focused environment

What They Offer

  • Strong learning and development framework with opportunities to rotate across accounts
  • Exposure to a wide range of clients and analytics challenges
  • Clear progression pathway within a growing analytics function

How to Apply
Please submit your CV to learn more about this Data Analyst opportunity in Southwark.

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Senior Product Analyst

London

£70000 - £80000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Senior Product Analyst
London – hybrid 1x per week

Up to £80,000

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing analytics function within a purpose-driven technology business. You will play a key role in shaping how product decisions are made through data, with the chance to influence strategy and drive measurable impact across a widely used platform.

The Company
They are a global B2B SaaS organisation focused on helping businesses improve transparency and performance across complex supply chains through data and insights. Operating at scale, their platform supports tens of thousands of organisations worldwide. Their work centres around enabling better environmental, social and governance outcomes through accessible, data led tools. They are continuing to invest heavily in their product and analytics capabilities.

The Role
You will join a Product, Design and Technology function within a dedicated Data and Analytics team, working closely with cross functional stakeholders. This is an individual contributor role with significant ownership and influence.

  • Partner with product and technology teams to deliver actionable data insights
  • Define and track success metrics for product releases and features
  • Lead the implementation and optimisation of product analytics tracking
  • Manage GA4 via Google Tag Manager, ensuring a strong and scalable data layer
  • Work with data engineering to support data pipelines into cloud platforms
  • Deliver insight through experimentation, including A/B testing
  • Build and maintain dashboards to monitor product performance
  • Drive best practices in product analytics across the organisation

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong commercial experience in product analytics within a SaaS environment
  • Hands on expertise implementing GA4 through Google Tag Manager and managing data layers
  • Experience working with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake and GCP
  • Strong SQL skills and ability to work with data pipelines
  • Experience with data visualisation tools such as ThoughtSpot, Tableau or Power BI
  • Confident communicator with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive change
  • A proactive and curious mindset with a focus on delivering business impact

What They Offer

  • Opportunity to shape product analytics in a growing team
  • Exposure to a global platform with meaningful impact
  • Collaborative and inclusive working environment

How to Apply
If you are interested in this Senior Product Analyst role, please apply with your CV or get in touch to learn more.

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Lead Data Scientist

London

£70000 - £90000

+ Data Science & AI

Permanent
London

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Lead Data Scientist

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing data-driven technology business shaping the future of digital advertising. With a strong foundation already in place, you will take ownership of advanced modelling initiatives and play a central role in scaling machine learning solutions into production.

The Role
You will act as the technical lead for data science, partnering closely with engineering to deliver production-ready models that drive measurable impact.

  • Lead the development of optimisation and predictive models for digital advertising campaigns
  • Design and refine bidding algorithms in auction-based environments
  • Build prototypes in Python and support their transition into production systems using Kotlin within AWS
  • Work with large-scale datasets from advertising platforms and external sources such as demographic and behavioural data
  • Collaborate closely with data engineers to productionise machine learning solutions
  • Act as the go-to expert for troubleshooting, improving, and scaling models
  • Contribute to shaping the data science approach and best practices within the business

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial experience in data science with a focus on predictive modelling and optimisation
  • Proven ability to take models from concept through to production environments
  • Advanced Python skills and experience with machine learning frameworks
  • Understanding of working with large and complex datasets
  • Experience or exposure to Kotlin, Java, or Scala, or a willingness to work with these technologies
  • Familiarity with cloud environments and scalable data processing, such as PySpark
  • Background in advertising technology, marketing analytics, or auction-based modelling is highly beneficial
  • Interest in bridging data science with production and data engineering environments

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