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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 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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Senior Credit Strategy Analyst

City of London

£68000 - £80000

+ Risk Analytics

Permanent
City of London, London

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Senior Credit Strategy Analyst

Up to £80,000

Hybrid

London

The Company

I am hiring a Senior Credit Strategy Analyst leading dynamic FinTech based in London. Within this role you will be bringing your credit risk strategy experience to focus on driving business growth and profitability using tools like SQL and Python alongside your credit commercial background

The Role

As a Senior Credit Strategy Analyst, you will be:

  • Developing new insights to drive optimisation of credit risk strategies.
  • Detecting new trends on customer data to develop wider business strategies
  • Developing credit risk strategies for Acquisitions and Existing Customers.
  • Working with senior leadership to implement/improve strategy.
  • Using SQL and Python daily for strategy development

Your skills and experience

To be successful as a Senior Credit Strategy Analyst, you will need:

  • Experience as a credit risk strategy analyst
  • Experience working in a fast-paced environment
  • Experience developing credit risk strategies for Acquisitions and/or Existing Customer
  • Experience working with SQL and Python
  • STEM Degree from a top university

Benefits

Up to £80,000 + Benefits

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Product Analyst

London

£40000 - £60000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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PRODUCT ANALYST

SALARY UP TO £60,000

LOCATION – LONDON – HYBRID – 2 days a week in office

THE COMPANY

A global media organisation which owns and operates multiple high-traffic digital brands across sport and entertainment, attracting millions of users!

THE ROLE

This is an Analyst role focused on audience analytics, engagement, and monetisation across large-scale publishing platforms. You’ll work closely with product, editorial, commercial, and tech teams to understand user behaviour and help shape how audiences are acquired, retained, and monetised.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Analysing the effectiveness of registration walls and audience capture strategies, including how interest data is collected and used
  • Assessing whether premium content, paywalls, or subscription models can drive incremental revenue
  • Designing and analysing A/B tests to improve engagement, relevance, and retention
  • Working across multiple areas of the business as priorities evolve
  • Audience forecasting and traffic modelling
  • Evaluating the impact of AI-driven initiatives (e.g. content summarisation)
  • Partnering with stakeholders to translate insights into practical changes, while managing expectations and pushing back where needed

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Strong SQL capability, with experience querying large-scale datasets
  • Experience working with high-volume user or audience data
  • Background in media, publishing, agency, or similarly fast-paced digital environments preferred
  • Confident working with web analytics tools (GA experience beneficial)
  • Comfortable holding your own with stakeholders, managing direct communication styles, and challenging assumptions
  • Ability to balance technical depth with commercial and product-focused thinking

NICE TO HAVE

  • Experience with cloud data warehouses (e.g. GCP)
  • Python experience or interest
  • Exposure to experimentation frameworks or forecasting models

BENEFITS

  • Salary around £60,000
  • Hybrid working: two days per week in a Central London office
  • Core collaboration hours with flexibility around start and finish times
  • Opportunity to work on globally recognised platforms with significant scale and data complexity
  • Join a growing analytics function with exposure to product, media, and commercial strategy

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DevOps Engineer

Leeds

£40000 - £45000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Leeds, West Yorkshire

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DevOps ENGINEER

£45,000 + BENEFITS

LEEDS (Hybrid)

Looking to sharpen your skills in Azure, work with emerging AI tools, and build cloud infrastructure that scales across modern data platforms?

THE COMPANY:

I’m working with a central data function in financial services that’s building a high-performing platform team at the core of their data strategy. With a strong push towards modern cloud architecture, they’re expanding their infrastructure capabilities and are looking for a DevOps Engineer to help scale and support new tools and systems.

THE ROLE:

You’ll work across infrastructure build, automation, and deployment, while collaborating closely with data and platform teams to support scalable, cloud-native solutions. You’ll also get exposure to cloud-based AI tools as they’re integrated into the environment.

  • Support infrastructure build and deployment pipelines
  • Automate infrastructure using Terraform (IaC)
  • Collaborate with Data & Platform teams to scale cloud infrastructure
  • Help integrate AI tooling from Microsoft/Azure into the platform

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

A successful DevOps Engineer will have the following skills and experience:

  • Experience/exposure with Azure
  • Hands-on Terraform experience (IaC mindset is essential)
  • Experience with CI/CD tools

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary, dependent on experience. Salary is up to £45,000 On top of the salary there are some fantastic extra benefits.

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Molly Bird via the apply link on this page.

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Digital Analyst (Web)

City of London

£40000 - £50000

+ Digital Analytics

Permanent
City of London, London

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DIGITAL ANALYST (WEB)

UP TO £50,000 + BENEFITS

LONDON

This is an exciting opportunity to work within a leading food & beverage brand! You will be working to optimise their marketing and web analytics.

THE COMPANY

As a Digital Analyst in this leading beauty brand you will have an exciting opportunity to work in a wider data team, delivering high-impact projects. This company are a household brand name and would be well-recognised in the beauty market.

THE ROLE

As a Digital Analyst, you can be expected to be involved in the following:

  • UX analysis – Looking at how customers interact with the site/app and identifying areas for improvement.
  • Competitor data – There’s currently little in place, so this person could take ownership of bringing in competitor insights.
  • Website improvements – The new site launched a few years ago-how can it be optimised further?
  • Peak trading analysis – Deep dives into peak periods to understand performance and opportunities.Brand reporting – Going beyond just onsite data to look at market share, stock availability, and other key brand metrics.
  • Market share tracking – Rather than just pulling and manipulating data, this role will be involved in plugging insights into dashboards.
  • Customer analysis – A big focus on getting under the skin of customer behaviour.
  • Collaboration – Working closely with teams across the business, building strong relationships and keeping communication clear.
  • Working with the GTM / Tag Management team
  • Reporting & Power BI – There’s a separate Power BI team who build dashboards, but they don’t currently integrate with GA data-this needs joining up.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

The successful Digital Analyst will have the following skills and experience:

  • Google Analytics (GA) – Strong understanding of GA to drive insights and integrate with reporting.
  • BigQuery & SQL – Experience exporting GA data into BigQuery to support dashboard creation and deeper analysis.
  • Power BI – Preferred, but open to experience with other reporting tools.
  • Google Tag Manager (GTM) – An understanding of tagging is ideal but not essential
  • Digital & Ecommerce Data Expertise – Experience working with web and app data, ideally within a digital or ecommerce setting.

THE BENEFITS

The successful Digital Analyst will be looking to earn up to £50,000 with a comprehensive benefits package.

HOW TO APPLY:

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Dylan Butcher via the Apply link on this page.

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Email Marketing Manager

London

£48000 - £50000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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EMAIL MARKETING MANAGER

LOCATION – LONDON – 3 days a week in the office

UP TO £50,000

THE COMPANY

A major UK real estate group with over 80 different brands is extending its email marketing and content team, and this is a critical hire!

THE ROLE

Lead email strategy and delivery across a large portfolio of consumer property brands, managing high-volume lifecycle communications and a small team.

You will be involved in:

  • Planning, executing, and optimising email activity across 90% of group brands
  • Managing a team of 5 (mix of senior and junior execs)
  • Maintaining & improving lifecycle and triggered journeys (across multiple platforms)
  • Segmentation, personalisation and BAU communications
  • Ensuring compliance for regulated communications (mortgage/legal services)
  • Owning performance reporting and continuous improvement
  • Working closely with CRM leadership to shape best practice and process

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Hands-on email experience in fast-paced B2C environments
  • HTML experience is a plus
  • Proven campaign delivery and lifecycle experience
  • High attention to detail and quality control
  • Strong stakeholder communication and performance reporting
  • Experience managing or mentoring email specialists
  • Familiarity with analytics/reporting tools (Power BI ideal)
  • GDPR/regulated-industry experience highly advantageous

BENEFITS

  • Salary up to £50,000
  • Hybrid working
  • Great opportunity for ownership and progression

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Product Analyst

London

£55000 - £65000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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PRODUCT ANALYST

HYBRID – LONDON – 1 day a week in the office

SALARYUP TO £65,000

ABOUT THE COMPANY

A well known online marketplace with over 40 million users has been growing since it was founded in 2011, and is continuing on this path in 2026!

THE ROLE

As a Product Analyst you will:

  • Use insight to understand user behaviour, friction and value drivers
  • Partner closely with product teams to solve problems and shape strategy
  • Define core product metrics and ensure accuracy and adoption across teams
  • Lead experimentation design and uplift analysis to drive continuous improvement
  • Build dashboards and self-serve tools for faster decision-making
  • Deliver clear, commercially aligned recommendations to senior stakeholders
  • Maintain a structured knowledge base of product insights and learnings
  • Deliver experimentation roadmaps and hypothesis-driven product improvements

YOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

  • Strong SQL with hands-on experience analysing product data
  • Exposure to dbt and version-controlled analytics workflows
  • Python for deeper analysis and exploration
  • Experience with modern BI tools (Lightdash / Looker or similar)
  • Strong communication and data storytelling
  • Background in product analytics in consumer-facing digital businesses

BENEFITS & SELLING POINTS

  • Salary up to £65,000
  • Hybrid Working
  • Great opportunity to join a growing team and business

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Credit Risk Analytics Manager

London

£70000 - £120000

+ Risk Analytics

Permanent
London

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CREDIT RISK ANALYTICS MANAGER

LONDON- HYBRID

UP TO £120,000

Harnham are working with a fast-growing SME lending fintech that’s at a really exciting stage of its journey. They’ve got strong backing, a proven product in market, and now they’re looking to bring in a Credit Risk Manager to take real ownership of credit strategy and scorecard model development.

THE ROLE

You’ll sit at the heart of the business, owning credit performance end-to-end across SME lending products. The focus is on developing and optimising scorecards, translating data into commercial credit strategy, and partnering closely with Product, Data Science, and Leadership.

  • Owning and evolving credit risk strategy across the SME portfolio
  • Designing, developing, and improving application and behavioural scorecards
  • Using internal and external data to drive smarter lending decisions
  • Balancing growth, risk, and profitability in a fast-moving fintech environment

REQUIREMENTS

  • Solid understanding of credit strategy, policy, and decisioning frameworks
  • Experience working with SQL and Python

HOW TO APPLY

Please start application below:

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Data Analyst- Credit

London

£30000 - £45000

+ Risk Analytics

Permanent
London

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DATA ANALYST- CREDIT RISK

LONDON – HYBRID

UP TO £45,000

We’re working with an exciting early-stage start-up that’s transforming the way FinTechs connect with investors. They integrate directly with FinTech platforms, extracting and standardising credit and customer data to help investors assess pipeline potential and growth opportunities. It’s a unique space where data meets investment decision-making, giving you visibility across multiple portfolios and real-world impact.

THE ROLE

  • Ingesting and validating credit and customer data from multiple FinTechs.
  • Mapping, cleaning, and standardising data to create robust datasets for internal and client use.
  • Feeding this data into visualisation tools to generate insights for investors and FinTech partners.
  • Monitoring portfolios and assisting in reporting and analysis, supporting decision-making for both clients and investors.

REQUIREMENTS

  • Strong academics -STEM degree
  • Industry experience – at least 1 year in financial services, insurance, or banking.
  • SQL experience

HOW TO APPLY

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