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DIVERSITY GUIDES 2022

An in-depth look into diversity within Data & AI, we have been carrying out primary research for a number of years to create annual diversity guides.

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They are here to highlight where the industry can improve, how it can improve and to help make those improvements.

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Research & Insights Consultant

City of London

£400 - £450

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Contract
City of London, London

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RESEARCH & INSIGHTS CONSULTANT

£400 – £450 PER DAY OUTSIDE IR35

HYBRID (2-3 DAYS PW IN THE OFFICE – LONDON)

1 MONTH CONTRACT

THE COMPANY:

This is an opportunity to join a leading global social-first creative and marketing agency, partnering with some of the world’s best-known consumer and financial services brands. The business specialises in creating and measuring high-impact social media campaigns, helping global organisations understand content performance, audience behaviour and campaign effectiveness through data-driven insights.

THE ROLE:

As a Research & Insights Consultant, you will provide senior-level leadership across the agency’s research and insight function, ensuring high-quality strategic outputs for a portfolio of global clients. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Overseeing the production of monthly reporting and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), ensuring all outputs are accurate, insightful and client-ready.
  • Quality assuring reports and recommendations produced by junior researchers and analysts.
  • Turning complex social media and campaign performance data into clear, actionable commercial recommendations.
  • Presenting insights, findings and strategic recommendations to senior client stakeholders.
  • Providing consultancy on social media performance, audience behaviour and campaign effectiveness.
  • Working with social listening and social intelligence data to identify trends, opportunities and competitor activity.
  • Supporting client services teams by answering research and measurement queries and providing strategic guidance.
  • Developing insight-led business cases, case studies and supporting materials for client proposals.
  • Ensuring reporting is delivered to a consistently high standard while managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced agency environment.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

The successful Research & Insights Consultant will have:

  • Extensive experience delivering research, insight and measurement projects within a social-first, media or agency environment.
  • Strong experience producing and presenting monthly reporting and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) for senior stakeholders.
  • Deep expertise in social listening, social intelligence and social media measurement.
  • Hands-on experience using platforms such as Sprinklr, Talkwalker, Pulsar, Emplifi or similar social analytics tools.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to manipulate large datasets, identify trends and develop actionable recommendations.
  • Experience transforming complex analysis into engaging client-ready presentations and insight-led storytelling.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to present findings and recommendations to senior client audiences.
  • Experience overseeing the quality assurance of reporting and mentoring junior researchers or analysts.
  • Previous experience delivering consumer research, campaign effectiveness or social strategy projects.

HOW TO APPLY:

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

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Research and Insights Consultant (Contract)

London

£400 - £450

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Contract
London

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Research and Insights Consultant (Contract)

Hybrid

London-based

£400-450 per day

Outside IR35

1-Month Contract

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading agency environment on a high-impact short-term project. You will step into a senior oversight role, ensuring the quality and accuracy of social media research and reporting delivered to high-profile clients, while providing strategic guidance to both internal teams and senior stakeholders.

The Company

They are a well-established insights and research organisation that helps brands understand audience engagement, digital performance, and social media effectiveness. Working across a range of sectors, they deliver data-driven recommendations that inform business and marketing decisions. Their teams combine research, analytics, and consulting expertise to support complex client programmes.

The Role and Deliverables

  • Oversee the delivery of monthly social media research and reporting across multiple client accounts.
  • Quality assure data, analysis, and insights produced by junior team members.
  • Review social media performance metrics and identify any issues, inconsistencies, or opportunities within the data.
  • Support the creation of client-ready reports, presentations, and recommendations.
  • Act as a trusted consultant, responding to client questions and providing expert guidance.
  • Present findings and insights to senior stakeholders, ensuring clear and actionable communication.

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong experience in social media research, analytics, or insight generation.
  • Knowledge of major social media platforms and the metrics used to measure performance and engagement.
  • Hands-on experience with social listening and analytics tools such as Sprinklr and Talkwalker.
  • Ability to extract, analyse, and validate data before translating findings into presentations and reports.
  • Experience developing or supporting social media strategies informed by research and performance insights.
  • Confident working directly with senior stakeholders and communicating complex findings clearly.
  • Exposure to financial services or insurance clients would be 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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Lead Data Scientist

New York

$90 - $120

+ Data Science & AI

Contract
New York

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Lead Data Scientist (Contract)

Harnham, the leading recruitment specialist in Data & AI, is currently partnering with a fast-growing financial technology organization focused on helping small businesses access the funding they need to grow and succeed. The business leverages data-driven decision-making to deliver innovative financial products and services.

  • Role: Lead Data Scientist (Contract)
  • Location: New York, NY
  • Pay: $90-120 per hour
  • Length: Extendable 6-month initial contract
  • Utilization: 40 hours/week
  • Benefits: W2 employees are eligible for health, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.

As a Lead Data Scientist, you will join a high-performing Risk & Analytics team, working on customer, borrower, and investor analytics initiatives. You’ll partner with stakeholders across the business to develop analytical frameworks, drive strategic decision-making, and deliver data-driven insights that support business growth.

Key Responsibilities

  • Learn and understand business needs, developing analytical frameworks to solve complex business problems.
  • Recommend optimal business strategies using historical performance analysis, predictive analytics, and scenario modelling.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement analytical recommendations and business initiatives.
  • Partner with marketing teams to support ongoing customer management strategies across multiple channels.
  • Create and maintain automated management information reporting to track business performance and support external stakeholders.
  • Design and develop predictive models and testing frameworks while driving analytics best practices across the organization.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative, finance-related, or similar field, or equivalent relevant experience.
  • Experience in analytics, ideally within financial services, business finance, credit products, or e-commerce environments.
  • Strong coding skills in SQL, Python, and/or R.
  • Proven ability to solve complex problems using analytical and statistical methods.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex analytical findings into clear, actionable business recommendations.
  • Collaborative mindset with the ability to work effectively across teams.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Data Scientist to join a fast-paced, data-driven organization and influence key business decisions through advanced analytics and modelling. You’ll work alongside talented cross-functional teams, solve high-impact business challenges, and help shape strategic outcomes at scale.

Interested? Apply today through Harnham.

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Business Analyst

London

£60000 - £80000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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BUSINESS ANALYST
London/Bristol/ Hybrid
UP TO £80,000

This is an opportunity to join a newly created Business Analyst position at the centre of a major transformation programme. Sitting within a growing business transformation function, you will play a key role in shaping future ways of working, driving operational improvement, and helping the organisation become increasingly AI-enabled.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Business Analyst will:

  • Elicit, analyse and document business requirements across strategic change programmes
  • Facilitate workshops, stakeholder interviews and discovery sessions
  • Review and redesign business processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness
  • Conduct root cause analysis and problem definition for new business initiatives
  • Assess and shape ideas progressing through an innovation governance framework
  • Identify opportunities for workflow optimisation, process automation and AI adoption
  • Produce high-quality business analysis artefacts including process maps, business cases and requirements documentation
  • Support solution design, implementation planning and business readiness activities
  • Work closely with senior stakeholders, project managers and subject matter experts to drive successful outcomes
  • Help move ideas from concept through to approved investment and delivery

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

  • Strong commercial experience as a Business Analyst within transformation, change, or business improvement programmes
  • Excellent requirements gathering and stakeholder management capabilities
  • Experience facilitating workshops and influencing a range of stakeholders
  • Strong process mapping, business process improvement and analysis skills
  • Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous and fast-changing environments
  • Experience introducing or working within governance frameworks
  • Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving ability
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical audiences
  • Experience producing clear documentation, recommendations and business cases
  • Interest in innovation, operational excellence and emerging AI technologies
  • Professional services experience would be advantageous
  • Banking sector experience is not a requirement

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Growth & Product Analytics Lead

London

£160000 - £180000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Growth & Product Analytics Lead
London (5 days a week in office) | Salary up to £180,000

This is a rare opportunity to own growth outcomes at a fast-scaling technology business where product adoption and usage sit at the heart of commercial success. Working closely with senior leadership, you will combine analytics, experimentation, and execution to drive measurable impact across the customer journey.

The Company
They are an innovative technology business experiencing strong growth and high levels of customer engagement. With a product already demonstrating significant market traction, their focus is on scaling adoption, increasing usage, and unlocking further expansion opportunities across their client base.
The business offers a highly collaborative environment where data-driven decision-making is central to success. You will work alongside experienced leaders and cross-functional teams to influence strategy and deliver meaningful business outcomes.

The Role
As the Growth & Product Analytics Lead, you will take ownership of key growth metrics and identify opportunities to increase product adoption, engagement, and expansion.
Responsibilities include:

  • Driving activation and onboarding to improve product adoption rates.
  • Identifying opportunities for account expansion through data analysis and user behaviour insights.
  • Increasing engagement across product features, platforms, and customer touchpoints.
  • Analysing usage trends and delivering recommendations to support revenue growth.
  • Defining product instrumentation and telemetry requirements to improve decision-making.
  • Building, testing, and implementing solutions rather than relying solely on recommendations.
  • Designing and evaluating experiments to measure the impact of growth initiatives.
  • Partnering with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver measurable outcomes.

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong commercial experience driving growth metrics within a B2B or enterprise environment.
  • Advanced SQL skills and the ability to work confidently with modern data warehouses.
  • Experience using analytics, reporting, and data transformation tools.
  • Strong understanding of experimentation, measurement, and product analytics.
  • Ability to translate complex data into clear business recommendations.
  • Experience building automated solutions, workflows, or analytical products.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.

How to Apply
If you are passionate about growth analytics, product analytics, and driving measurable business impact, apply today to learn more about this exciting opportunity.

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Growth and Product Analytics Lead

London

£100000 - £180000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Growth and Product Analytics Lead

London (Office-based – 5 days per week)

Salary: Up to £180,000 + Excellent Benefits

A high-growth technology business is looking for a Growth Analytics Lead to join, working directly with the CEO and senior leadership team to drive strategic, data-led decision making.

This is a rare opportunity for a commercially minded analytics leader to own the insights behind growth, product and go-to-market strategy. Rather than producing reports or dashboards, you’ll identify opportunities, build solutions, influence business decisions and measure their impact.

What you’ll be doing

  • Own analytics across product, commercial and growth initiatives

  • Identify opportunities to improve customer activation, adoption and retention

  • Deliver insights on pricing, monetisation and expansion opportunities

  • Design and analyse product experiments

  • Build robust analytics using SQL, dbt and modern data platforms

  • Translate complex data into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders

  • Partner closely with leadership to shape company strategy

What we’re looking for

  • Strong experience in Growth, Product or Commercial Analytics

  • Hands-on technical skills with SQL and modern analytics tools

  • Proven ability to influence commercial outcomes through data

  • Experience within a high-growth SaaS or technology environment

  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

  • Comfortable working autonomously in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment

What’s on offer

  • Salary up to £180,000

  • Comprehensive benefits package

  • Direct exposure to the CEO and executive leadership

  • Significant ownership and autonomy

  • Opportunity to shape the growth strategy of a rapidly scaling technology business

If you’re a commercially focused analytics professional who enjoys solving complex business problems and wants to make a measurable impact in a high-growth environment, we’d love to hear from you.

Find out more and apply via the link below!

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Business Analyst

London

£60000 - £80000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Business Analyst

London (Hybrid – 3 days in the office)

Up to £80,000 + bonuses

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Business Analyst to join a leading international professional services organisation undergoing significant business transformation.

You’ll work across a varied portfolio of strategic initiatives, partnering with senior stakeholders to improve business processes, assess new ideas, and help shape the future operating model. This role combines traditional business analysis with innovation, automation, and emerging AI-driven opportunities.

What you’ll be doing

  • Lead business analysis across transformation projects

  • Facilitate workshops and gather business requirements

  • Conduct process mapping and identify improvement opportunities

  • Perform root cause analysis and develop solution options

  • Support governance and business case development

  • Work closely with stakeholders to drive change and influence decision-making

  • Explore opportunities for process automation and AI-enabled efficiencies

What we’re looking for

  • Proven experience as a Business Analyst

  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

  • Experience working in complex, evolving environments

  • Knowledge of governance frameworks and business change

  • Ability to translate business problems into practical solutions

  • Experience within professional services or similar environments is beneficial

What’s on offer

  • Hybrid working (3 days in the office)

  • Clear career progression into a Senior Business Analyst position

  • Competitive salary and 8% bonus

  • Opportunity to work on high-profile transformation and innovation initiatives

  • Collaborative, forward-thinking environment focused on operational excellence

If you’re an established Business Analyst looking to make a real impact within a business focused on innovation and transformation, we’d love to hear from you.

Find out more and apply via the link below!

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Senior Credit Risk Analyst

hertfordshire

£50000 - £60000

+ Risk Analytics

Permanent
Hertfordshire

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Senior Credit Risk Analyst
Hertfordshire (2 days)
£50,000 – £60,000

This is an excellent opportunity for a Senior Credit Risk Analyst to join a growing credit risk function where you can make a genuine impact across customer acquisition, credit strategy, portfolio performance, and risk optimisation. The role offers broad exposure, significant ownership, and the chance to help shape the future direction of a developing team.

The Company
They are a well-established financial services organisation operating within a regulated lending environment. Combining the stability of a larger group with the agility of a specialist team, they offer a collaborative and supportive culture where employees can make a visible impact. Following recent growth within their Credit Risk function, they are continuing to invest in data-driven decision making and risk strategy. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to key business decisions while developing your expertise across multiple areas of credit risk.

The Role

  • Optimise customer acquisition and onboarding strategies using bureau data and credit risk insights
  • Enhance and refine credit decisioning and affordability assessments
  • Implement and improve scorecard-driven credit strategies
  • Monitor portfolio performance and identify opportunities to improve risk outcomes
  • Support IFRS9 and broader credit risk activities
  • Produce management information, reporting, and analytical recommendations for senior stakeholders
  • Collaborate with teams across credit, operations, compliance, and risk
  • Lead analytical projects designed to improve customer outcomes and portfolio performance

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong commercial experience within Credit Risk Analytics or Credit Strategy
  • Experience working on acquisition, onboarding, or customer decisioning strategies
  • Hands-on experience using credit bureau data to support lending decisions
  • Exposure to credit scorecards and strategy implementation
  • Strong SQL skills
  • Experience analysing large datasets and translating findings into business recommendations
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Desirable:

  • SAS, Python, or Power BI experience
  • Exposure to IFRS9, affordability, or portfolio analytics

What They Offer

  • Salary of £50,000 – £60,000
  • Hybrid working with 2 days per week in the office
  • Broad exposure across multiple areas of credit risk
  • Opportunity to develop a specialist area of expertise while maintaining varied responsibilities
  • Clear career progression within a growing credit risk function
  • Supportive and collaborative team environment

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