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Senior/Principal Applied AI Engineer

Michigan

$150000 - $205000

+ Data Science & AI

Permanent
Michigan

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Senior/Principal Applied AI Engineer
United States, hybrid or remote. Competitive salary plus benefits.
$150,000 to $205,000 + 15% Bonus

This is an opportunity to take ownership of real, production-grade Generative AI solutions in a highly applied environment. You will work on end-to-end AI delivery, from early prototypes through to scalable deployment, with clear visibility of the impact your work has on customers and internal teams.

The Company
They are a well-established organisation operating in a highly regulated, customer-focused industry. Data and AI are central to their strategy, with significant investment in modern platforms and applied AI capabilities. The business values practical innovation, collaboration, and building technology that delivers measurable outcomes at scale.

The Role
You will be a senior, hands-on contributor within an Applied AI team, responsible for turning GenAI concepts into robust solutions. Key responsibilities include:

  • Designing, building, and deploying Generative AI applications across client-facing and internal platforms.
  • Developing LLM-powered solutions using prompt engineering, vector databases, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines.
  • Building and owning AI chatbots and conversational agents to production standards, including performance, scalability, and compliance.
  • Creating AI agents across digital and voice channels to support real-time interactions.
  • Delivering proof-of-concept solutions for use cases such as document understanding, summarisation, and knowledge assistants.
  • Optimising model usage, prompts, and parameters to balance accuracy, cost, and reliability.
  • Collaborating with product, engineering, data, and external partners to align AI solutions with business priorities.

Your Skills and Experience
You will bring strong, practical experience applying Generative AI in commercial settings, including:

  • Advanced Python development skills with modern GenAI and machine learning libraries.
  • Hands-on experience with large language models, prompt engineering, and LLM evaluation.
  • Proven capability building RAG pipelines and working with vector databases.
  • Strong SQL skills and experience working with cloud data platforms.
  • Experience delivering production-grade conversational AI or chatbot solutions.
  • The ability to communicate complex AI concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Comfort working in fast-paced, cross-functional environments.

What They Offer

  • Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
  • The chance to work on high-impact, enterprise-scale AI products.
  • Exposure to a wide range of GenAI use cases, including conversational AI and intelligent automation.
  • Clear opportunities for technical growth and influence within a growing Data and AI function.
  • A collaborative, supportive culture that values continuous improvement and learning.

How to Apply
If you are an Applied AI Engineer looking to build and deploy meaningful Generative AI solutions, apply now to find out more.

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Data Engineer

London

£450 - £550

+ Data Engineering

Contract
London

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Marketing Data Engineer – Contract

London – 2 days a week

This freelance assignment stands out due to the immediate impact you will have on live marketing data platforms during a critical delivery period. You will focus primarily on data engineering, owning pipelines and transformations that directly power dashboards used by media and analytics teams across the business.

The Company
They are a global digital marketing and analytics organisation with a strong data function supporting paid media, marketplaces and digital measurement. The business operates at scale, using modern cloud infrastructure to deliver trusted, actionable data to internal teams and clients. Data engineering sits at the core of how they optimise marketing performance and reporting. The culture is collaborative, delivery-focused and technically rigorous.

The Role and Deliverables

  • Take ownership of existing data pipelines and engineering projects within a marketing analytics environment.
  • Maintain and enhance GCP-based infrastructure, primarily using BigQuery for data modelling and transformation.
  • Manage and optimise ETL processes using tools such as Fivetran, alongside dbt or Dataform.
  • Support the dashboards layer by ensuring data accuracy, performance and scalability, making targeted updates where required.
  • Work through a ticketing system, collaborating closely with project managers, analytics engineers and media teams to deliver changes.
  • Proactively identify opportunities to improve pipeline efficiency, data quality and dashboard reliability.

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong experience designing, building and maintaining data pipelines on GCP, with deep BigQuery expertise.
  • Advanced capability in SQL and Python for data transformation and optimisation.
  • Hands-on experience with ETL tools such as Fivetran in a production environment.
  • Proven ability to support dashboarding and reporting by delivering clean, well-modelled data for tools like Google Data Studio.
  • Experience working with marketing or digital analytics data, such as paid media, marketplaces or web analytics.
  • Proactive and structured in your approach, able to quickly understand existing infrastructure and take ownership of delivery.

How to Apply
If you are a contractor with strong data engineering experience in marketing or analytics environments and are available to start quickly, please apply to discuss the project further.

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Portfolio Reporting & Project Assurance Manager

London

£400 - £450

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Contract
London

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Portfolio Reporting & Project Assurance Manager

6 Months – Option to go perm

London – 2 Days Per Week

Outside IR35

£400-450 per day

We are supporting a public sector organisation delivering large-scale sustainability and housing programmes across London and are seeking an experienced Portfolio Reporting & Project Assurance Manager to establish and mature a PMO function within a growing delivery environment.

This is a key role focused on developing governance frameworks, portfolio reporting, project assurance processes and project management standards across a complex portfolio of programmes. The successful candidate will work closely with senior stakeholders, delivery teams and technical partners to improve visibility, accountability and decision-making across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

  • Establish and develop PMO governance, assurance and reporting frameworks.
  • Design and implement project and portfolio management standards, processes and controls.
  • Develop portfolio-level reporting, dashboards, KPIs and management information for senior leadership.
  • Create and maintain governance forums, stage gate processes, RAID management and change control procedures.
  • Lead project and programme assurance activities, identifying delivery risks and recommending corrective actions.
  • Develop business cases, options appraisals and recommendations to support investment decisions.
  • Support the selection, procurement and implementation of project portfolio management tooling.
  • Embed a culture of project management best practice across delivery teams.
  • Provide portfolio oversight across multiple programmes, ensuring alignment to strategic objectives.
  • Work with technical teams to translate business requirements into reporting, governance and delivery improvements.
  • Support resource planning, prioritisation and portfolio decision-making activities.

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Graduate Business Analyst

Bournemouth

£25000 - £28000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Bournemouth, Dorset

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Graduate Business Analyst
Bournemouth – 2 days onsite per week
£28,000

This is an excellent entry route into data and analytics with a clear path for growth. You will sit at the intersection of business and data, learning how to translate real world problems into data driven solutions while gaining hands on experience across the full delivery lifecycle.

The Company
They are a well established UK organisation with a strong focus on leveraging data to improve decision making and operational performance. Their data function is growing, with a collaborative analytics community and a clear focus on developing early career talent. You will be supported by experienced data professionals and exposed to a variety of business areas. They promote continuous learning and encourage curiosity and innovation.

The Role
You will support the design and delivery of data solutions while developing core analysis and stakeholder skills.

  • Work with stakeholders to understand business challenges and translate them into clear data requirements
  • Support requirements gathering through workshops, interviews, and documentation
  • Assist with assessing changes to data assets and ensuring consistency across outputs
  • Collaborate with data engineers to ensure requirements are correctly implemented
  • Contribute to projects from discovery through to delivery, maintaining clear communication
  • Support business case development and define scope for data requests
  • Perform data validation and testing to ensure outputs meet business expectations
  • Help maintain automated reporting and monitor data flows for accuracy
  • Provide first line support for data queries and issue investigation
  • Build an understanding of data structures, systems, and business processes

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong interest in data, analytics, and technology
  • Foundational SQL skills for querying and validating data
  • Understanding of how data is structured and flows through systems
  • Awareness of data visualisation tools such as Power BI
  • Analytical and logical problem solving capability
  • Strong communication skills and ability to work with stakeholders
  • Proficiency with Excel including pivots, formulas, and reporting
  • Comfortable using PowerPoint and Word for documentation
  • Curiosity and willingness to learn new tools and techniques

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Senior Engagement Manager – Analytics Consulting

London

£90000 - £120000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Senior Engagement Manager – Analytics Consulting

Up to 120k plus benefits

Hybrid – London

A growing analytics and advisory business is looking to hire a Senior Engagement Manager to support the expansion of its client consulting capability across financial services and adjacent sectors.

This is an opportunity to join a business investing heavily in data, analytics and strategic advisory services, helping clients solve complex commercial and customer challenges using insight-led solutions.

The role offers significant exposure to senior stakeholders, high-impact project work and strong long-term progression opportunities.

The Role

You will lead client engagements focused on delivering commercially driven analytics and consulting solutions across a range of strategic business areas.

Responsibilities include:

  • Managing end-to-end delivery of analytics and consulting projects

  • Building trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders

  • Translating data and analytical insight into clear business recommendations

  • Supporting business development activities including proposals and presentations

  • Working closely with technical and analytical teams to deliver scalable solutions

  • Contributing to the growth and development of a growing consulting function

Projects may cover areas such as customer strategy, risk, growth, optimisation, segmentation and operational performance.

About You

We are looking for candidates with experience in analytics consulting within financial services or other highly regulated, data-rich industries.

You should bring:

  • Financial services consulting experience is essential

  • Experience leading client-facing projects and managing senior stakeholders

  • Strong commercial and strategic thinking skills

  • The ability to communicate complex ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences

  • Exposure to analytics, insight or data-led decision making

  • Familiarity with analytical tools, data environments or visualisation platforms

  • Experience working in consulting, professional services or advisory environments

What’s on Offer

  • Opportunity to join a growing and evolving consulting practice

  • High-profile client exposure

  • Clear progression and leadership potential

  • Hybrid working environment

  • Competitive compensation package

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E-Commerce Analyst

Banbury

£45000 - £55000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Banbury, Oxfordshire

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Ecommerce Analyst
Banbury (hybrid) £45,000 to £60,000 plus benefits

This is a newly created Ecommerce Analyst role offering the chance to take real ownership of insight in a fast-growing, product-led ecommerce business. You will play a key role in shaping how data is used to drive trading, acquisition and customer decisions, with visibility across senior stakeholders and the freedom to influence how analytics is done.

The Company
They are a direct-to-consumer ecommerce business with a strong digital footprint and an expanding product range. Ecommerce sits at the heart of their commercial strategy, supported by significant investment in paid media and digital channels. The business is highly data-aware and is now looking to strengthen insight by appointing a dedicated ecommerce analytics specialist.

The Role
You will act as the central owner of ecommerce reporting and analysis, moving the business from fragmented data to clear, actionable insight. Key responsibilities include:

  • Owning ecommerce performance reporting and building scalable dashboards used across the business
  • Analysing trading performance, traffic, conversion and customer journeys
  • Evaluating paid media performance across key digital channels and supporting attribution understanding
  • Identifying opportunities to improve acquisition efficiency and commercial outcomes
  • Translating complex analysis into clear recommendations for ecommerce, marketing and finance stakeholders
  • Proactively surfacing insights rather than responding to ad hoc requests

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial experience in ecommerce or digital analytics
  • Confident working with tools such as GA4, SQL, BigQuery or Looker
  • Experience analysing acquisition performance, conversion and customer behaviour
  • Ability to work independently and take ownership in a fast-paced environment
  • Clear communication skills with the confidence to influence non-technical stakeholders

What They Offer

  • Salary between £45,000 and £60,000 depending on experience
  • Hybrid working with a strong preference for regular on-site collaboration
  • High-impact role with visibility across senior leadership
  • Opportunity to shape ecommerce analytics in a growing business
  • Supportive, collaborative office environment with clear scope for progression

How to Apply
Apply now to learn more about this Ecommerce Analyst opportunity through Harnham, specialists in Data and Analytics recruitment.

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Paid Social and Programmatic Exec

Hemel Hempstead

£27000 - £35000

+ Digital Analytics

Permanent
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

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Paid Social & Programmatic Executive

Hybrid (Hemel Hampstead)
Up to £35,000

We’re hiring a Paid Social & Programmatic Executive to support the delivery, optimisation, and reporting of digital marketing campaigns across Paid Social and Programmatic channels for a major consumer brand.

The Role

You’ll be responsible for creating and optimising campaigns across Paid Social, Display, Video, and Programmatic channels, helping drive high-quality traffic and performance to a leading consumer website.

You’ll work closely with brand, performance marketing, and creative teams to ensure campaigns are well-executed, insight-led, and continuously improved.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build, manage, and optimise Paid Social and Programmatic campaigns
  • Monitor daily performance and deliver clear reporting and insights
  • Recommend improvements to improve campaign performance and efficiency
  • Work with internal and external teams to ensure high-quality creative delivery
  • Support performance tracking against KPI and budget targets
  • Present campaign performance when required

What We’re Looking For

  • 2+ years’ experience in digital marketing / performance marketing
  • Hands-on experience with Paid Social campaigns
  • Understanding of Programmatic Display and Video
  • Strong Excel and data interpretation skills
  • Highly organised with strong attention to detail
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment

Nice to Have

  • Experience in hospitality or consumer-facing brands
  • Degree educated
  • Exposure to broader digital marketing channels

Why Apply

  • Work across high-visibility paid media campaigns
  • Join a collaborative performance marketing team
  • Gain exposure across Paid Social and Programmatic channels
  • Strong development opportunity within a major consumer brand

Find out more and apply via the link below.

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Senior Marketing Analyst

London

£70000 - £85000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Senior Marketing Analyst
London | Up to £85,000 plus equity

This is a high-impact analytics role sitting at the heart of growth and marketing decision-making within a fast-paced, product-led environment. You will work on complex attribution and customer journey challenges, with real influence over how marketing investment is measured and optimised, particularly across a key international growth market.

The Company
They are a highly data-driven digital business operating in consumer financial products. The organisation is well established, commercially successful, and known for its strong analytics culture. Teams are lean, collaborative, and focused on using data to drive measurable outcomes. The business is continuing to scale internationally, with analytics playing a central role in that growth.

The Role

  • Partner closely with growth and marketing teams to support performance analysis and strategic decision-making.
  • Analyse marketing spend across digital channels to assess effectiveness and return on investment.
  • Track and evaluate customer acquisition sources to understand channel contribution and efficiency.
  • Develop and improve attribution approaches, including multi-touch attribution, while accounting for privacy and tracking limitations.
  • Optimise marketing and application funnels by identifying drop-offs and conversion opportunities.
  • Analyse end-to-end customer journeys across multiple financial products and recommend alternative pathways where appropriate.
  • Build models to answer complex commercial questions, such as the incremental impact of new channels or campaigns.
  • Apply statistical and experimental techniques to support testing, measurement, and business decisions.

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong commercial marketing analytics experience within a consumer-facing digital environment.
  • Advanced capability in SQL and Python, with Python used for modelling and analysis.
  • Hands-on experience with attribution modelling and evaluating marketing effectiveness.
  • Experience analysing complex customer journeys and funnel performance.
  • Comfortable working with experimentation, uplift measurement, and statistical techniques.
  • Confident communicator, able to translate analysis into clear, actionable insight for senior stakeholders.

What They Offer

  • Salary up to £85,000.
  • Equity as part of the overall package.
  • A role with genuine ownership and exposure to senior growth and marketing leadership.
  • A high-performing, data-led environment with strong standards and clear impact.
  • Hybrid working, with Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday based in a London office.

How to Apply
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply to learn more about the role and the wider analytics team.

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