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Associate Director of Qualitative Research
Manchester
£60000 - £65000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
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Associate Director, Qualitative Research
Up to £65,000 + 11.5% Annual Bonus (Paid Quarterly)
London (Southwark) – 2 days per month if outside M25
I’m hiring an Associate Director, Qualitative Research for a global healthcare research business with an outstanding reputation across pharmaceuticals, healthcare, biotech, and life sciences.
This is a brilliant opportunity for an experienced research operations leader who enjoys managing people, delivering high-quality client work, and helping research teams perform at their best. The role sits within a large, established qualitative research function and combines leadership, client management, and operational delivery.
The company
Part of a globally recognised healthcare group, this business supports many of the world’s leading pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, and life sciences organisations with research, recruitment, data collection, and engagement services.
They combine the feel of a specialist healthcare research consultancy with the backing, reach, and stability of a global organisation operating across more than 200 markets worldwide.
The role
This is a senior leadership role within the Qualitative Research division.
You’ll report into the Head of Qualitative Research and lead a team of Project Management professionals responsible for delivering complex healthcare research programmes.
Importantly, this is not a research design or insights role.
Instead, the focus is on:
- Team leadership
- Project delivery
- Operational performance
- Client relationship management
- Commercial delivery
- Process improvement
You’ll act as the senior escalation point for both clients and project teams, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to a consistently high standard.
What you’ll be doing
Team Leadership
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 4-5 Project Managers.
- Manage resource allocation, utilisation, and team performance.
- Support career development, coaching, and succession planning.
- Help build a high-performing, collaborative culture.
Client & Commercial Management
- Build and maintain strong relationships with healthcare research clients.
- Act as a senior escalation point on complex projects.
- Ensure client expectations are met and exceeded.
- Support profitability, project performance, and account growth.
Operational Delivery
- Oversee qualitative healthcare research projects from an operational perspective.
- Ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
- Monitor team KPIs and operational performance.
- Improve delivery processes and ways of working.
Strategic Contribution
- Partner with senior leadership on operational improvements.
- Help shape the future growth of the qualitative function.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across the wider business.
What they’re looking for
Essential
- 5+ years’ experience within the market research industry.
- Strong project management and operational delivery experience.
- Previous people management experience.
- Experience managing client relationships and stakeholders.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to manage workloads, KPIs, budgets, and delivery.
- Experience operating in fast-paced, project-led environments.
Strongly Preferred
- Healthcare market research experience.
- Experience leading project management or operations teams.
- Exposure to pharmaceutical, healthcare, biotech, life sciences, or patient research projects.
Typical backgrounds
- Associate Director
- Project Director
- Senior Project Director
- Client Services Manager
- Research Operations Manager
- Operations Director (Research)
- Healthcare Research Programme Manager
Why this role?
- Lead an established team within a highly respected healthcare research business.
- Manage and develop a team of experienced project professionals.
- Work with some of the world’s leading healthcare and pharmaceutical organisations.
- Strong balance of leadership, operational delivery, and client engagement.
- Backed by a global organisation with excellent stability and growth.
- Flexible working approach for candidates outside London.
Location & Flexibility
London (Southwark)
- Standard expectation: 2 days per week in the office if inside the M25
- For candidates based in the Midlands or North, the business can offer a more flexible arrangement of approximately 2 days per month in London.
Package
- Up to £65k
- 11.5% annual bonus (paid quarterly)
- Hybrid/flexible working
- Strong career progression
- Healthcare and wellbeing benefits
- Global business with excellent long-term opportunities
Interview Process
Stage 1: Teams interview with senior leadership
Focus on:
- Leadership experience
- Team management
- Client ownership
- Operational delivery
- Career motivations
Final Stage: In-person presentation exercise assessing:
- Communication skills
- Stakeholder management
- Commercial thinking
- Executive presence
- Client-facing capability
This role would suit someone who enjoys leading people, improving operations, and building strong client relationships while remaining close to project delivery in a healthcare research environment.
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Ecommerce GEO & AI Search Optimisation Consultant
London
£275 - £300
+ Digital Analytics
ContractLondon
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Ecommerce GEO & AI Search Optimisation Consultant
Agency – FMCG Client
£275-£300 per day – Outside IR35
London – 2 days per week in office
This is an opportunity to join a high-profile ecommerce transformation project focused on the rapidly growing area of AI search visibility. Working with a major consumer brand portfolio, you will help shape how products are discovered and recommended across AI-powered search experiences, delivering measurable impact within digital commerce.
The Company
They are a specialist marketing and digital agency partnering with a globally recognised consumer brand portfolio. With a strong focus on innovation, they are investing in emerging ecommerce channels and AI-driven product discovery. This contract role has been created to support a business-critical programme focused on AI search optimisation and ecommerce performance.
The Role and Deliverables
- Use insights from Azoma and related AI search visibility platforms to analyse product performance across AI-powered discovery channels.
- Interpret ecommerce, search and visibility data to identify opportunities for product listing and content optimisation.
- Develop clear, evidence-based recommendations to improve Product Listing Pages (PLPs) and Product Detail Pages (PDPs).
- Monitor AI search performance across platforms, including AI assistants and ecommerce-native AI recommendation engines.
- Translate data findings into actionable content and technical optimisation recommendations for internal stakeholders.
- Support ongoing testing, measurement and performance reporting to evaluate the impact of optimisation activities.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong experience using Azoma or similar AI search visibility, GEO, SEO or digital commerce optimisation platforms.
- Ability to analyse performance data, identify trends and turn insights into practical recommendations.
- Understanding of Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) and the evolving role of AI within ecommerce product discovery.
- Experience optimising PLPs, PDPs or ecommerce content to improve visibility and conversion performance.
- Comfortable working with stakeholders to explain findings and influence optimisation decisions.
- Knowledge of how AI-driven search and recommendation technologies impact product ranking and discoverability.
- A blend of analytical thinking and commercial awareness, with the ability to prioritise recommendations based on business impact.
How to Apply
If you have experience with Azoma, ecommerce optimisation, GEO or AI-driven search visibility and would like to be part of a pioneering ecommerce project, please apply with your latest CV.
Azoma / Ecommerce Analytics / GEO / Generative Engine Optimisation / AI Search Optimisation / Product Detail Pages (PDP) / Product Listing Pages (PLP) / Ecommerce SEO / Digital Commerce / AI Product Discovery
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PHP Developer
Birmingham
£45000 - £50000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentBirmingham, West Midlands
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PHP Developer
Birmingham (Hybrid, 2 days per week) | Up to £50,000
Looking to work on a major platform transformation using modern PHP technologies? This is an opportunity to join a growing development team building and enhancing business-critical internal applications within a collaborative engineering environment.
The Company
An established financial services business investing heavily in its technology estate. They are replacing third-party software with scalable in-house platforms and are growing their engineering capabilities across development, data and QA.
The Role
You will:
- Develop and enhance applications using PHP and Laravel
- Contribute to a greenfield internal platform
- Build and integrate APIs
- Work closely with SQL Developers and QA Engineers
- Write clean, secure and maintainable code
- Participate in testing, code reviews and releases
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong commercial PHP and Laravel experience
- JavaScript knowledge
- API integration experience
- Experience with relational databases
- Understanding of testing and software quality practices
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills
Nice to have:
- Vue.js or Inertia.js
- CI/CD or DevOps exposure
- Docker experience
What They Offer
- Up to £55,000 salary
- Hybrid working, 2 days in Birmingham
- Greenfield development projects
- Modern technology stack
- Strong collaboration and learning opportunities
How to Apply
Apply now to find out more about this PHP Developer opportunity.
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Data Scientist
London
£500 - £560
+ Data Science & AI
ContractLondon
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Contract Data Scientist
London | Outside IR35 £500-560 per day| 2-months
This is an opportunity to join a specialist analytics consultancy on a high-impact insurance analytics project. You’ll play a key role in developing predictive models and customer segmentation frameworks that directly support commercial decision-making, working with rich first-party customer and transactional data from day one.
The Company
They are a specialist analytics consultancy that delivers advanced data science and predictive modelling solutions for enterprise clients. Their technology is deployed within client environments, helping organisations understand customer behaviour, forecast future outcomes, and identify opportunities for growth. They combine data science, analytics, and commercial insight to solve complex business challenges across customer-focused industries.
The Role and Deliverables
- Build customer segmentation and clustering models to identify meaningful customer groups.
- Develop propensity models and predictive analytics solutions to support business decision-making.
- Forecast customer behaviour and future customer value using advanced modelling techniques.
- Analyse motor and home insurance customer journeys, quote behaviour, and conversion patterns.
- Design a core segmentation framework with multiple supporting sub-segmentations.
- Package and document models for deployment and handover to engineering teams.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong experience delivering customer segmentation and clustering projects using unsupervised learning techniques.
- Demonstrated capability in propensity modelling, predictive modelling, and forecasting.
- Strong Python and SQL skills for data preparation, analysis, and model development.
- Experience working within Databricks and/or Microsoft Fabric environments.
- Comfortable developing solutions in notebook-based analytics environments.
- Experience within insurance, customer analytics, pricing analytics, retention, acquisition, churn modelling, customer lifetime value, or quote conversion analysis.
- Ability to work autonomously and quickly contribute within a fast-paced contract engagement.
How to Apply
If you have strong experience in customer analytics, predictive modelling, and insurance data science, apply today to discuss this contract opportunity in more detail.
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Data Engineer – Healthcare & Preference for a Dutch Speaker
Eindhoven
€55000 - €60000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentEindhoven, North Brabant
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Data Engineer
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Salary: 5k a month + holiday
If you’re looking for a role where you can shape an entire data function from the ground up, this is a rare opportunity to make a lasting impact. Joining a fast-growing SaaS business operating in the healthcare space, you’ll be the first dedicated Data Engineer, owning the design, build, and evolution of the company’s data platform in a truly greenfield environment.
The Company
They are a scaling SaaS organisation with a strong product offering and growing international customer base. With data becoming increasingly central to business decision-making and product development, they are investing in building modern data capabilities from scratch. This is an opportunity to influence architecture, technology choices, and best practices from day one. You’ll work closely with stakeholders across the business while helping establish the foundations for a future data team.
The Role
You will take ownership of the company’s data engineering capability, designing and delivering a scalable data platform that supports analytics, reporting, and future data initiatives.
Responsibilities include:
- Designing and building a modern cloud-based data platform from the ground up
- Developing robust ETL and ELT pipelines to ingest, transform, and manage data from multiple SaaS applications and operational systems
- Establishing data modelling standards and scalable data architecture
- Owning data quality, reliability, governance, and monitoring processes
- Partnering with product, engineering, finance, and commercial teams to understand business requirements
- Creating the foundations for self-service analytics and reporting
- Evaluating and selecting appropriate tools, technologies, and frameworks
- Supporting the longer-term growth and maturity of the company’s data function
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong commercial experience as a Data Engineer within a modern cloud environment
- Expertise building data pipelines and data platforms from scratch
- Advanced SQL skills and strong data modelling capabilities
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Hands-on experience with modern data stack technologies, including tools such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, dbt, or equivalent
- Strong Python or similar programming skills
- Experience working with SaaS product data and multiple third-party integrations
- Ability to operate independently and take ownership in a standalone Data Engineering role
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Passion for building scalable, maintainable, and well-documented data solutions
What They Offer
- Salary of €55,000 – 60,000 depending on experience
- Meaningful equity or share incentive opportunity
- Hybrid working model based in Amsterdam
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Significant autonomy and ownership from day one
- Opportunity to define data strategy, architecture, and best practices
- Clear progression path into a future Lead Data Engineer or Head of Data position as the function grows
- Exposure to senior leadership and direct influence on business decisions
How to Apply
If you’re a Senior Data Engineer who enjoys building data platforms from scratch and wants to play a pivotal role in a growing SaaS business, apply today to find out more.
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Salesforce Marketing Cloud Personalisation Consultant
London
£450 - £500
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractLondon
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Salesforce Marketing Cloud Personalization Consultant
London | Outside IR35 | £450-500 Day Rate | Part-time (1x a week for approx. 8 weeks)
This is a highly visible consultancy assignment focused on improving the foundations for scalable personalisation in a regulated environment. You will work alongside senior stakeholders, validating existing technical findings and helping shape the future operating model for customer data, identity, and activation.
The Company
They are an established consultancy supporting a major organisation through the redesign of its web data and personalisation capabilities. The project focuses on strengthening data governance, identity resolution, consent management, and personalisation readiness across digital channels. You will work in a coaching and advisory capacity, helping the client’s team define best practice and technical standards rather than carrying out implementation work directly.
The Role and Deliverables
- Validate findings from a previous technical audit covering data layer design, consent management, and identity resolution.
- Assess how Salesforce Marketing Cloud Personalization and Data Cloud exchange profile and behavioural data.
- Review Tealium web tracking and data collection across anonymous and authenticated user journeys.
- Analyse identity stitching, profile unification, and data ingestion processes, identifying gaps and inconsistencies.
- Define the technical requirements needed to support scalable personalisation, activation, and customer experiences across channels.
- Provide guidance and coaching to client stakeholders and delivery teams, including senior audiences.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong hands-on experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud Personalization, formerly Interaction Studio, and Salesforce Data Cloud.
- Ability to review web tracking implementations and interpret data captured through Tealium.
- Strong understanding of identity resolution, profile stitching, customer data platforms, and personalisation architectures.
- Experience defining technical requirements and target-state approaches for activation and customer engagement.
- Knowledge of real-time behavioural tracking, omnichannel personalisation, experimentation, and next best action capabilities.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience working in regulated environments such as pharmaceuticals, healthcare, financial services, or similar sectors is highly desirable.
- Comfortable operating in an advisory, validation, and coaching capacity.
How to Apply
If you have deep expertise across Salesforce Marketing Cloud Personalization, Data Cloud, identity resolution, and web data strategy, and enjoy guiding organisations through complex personalisation challenges, please apply with your CV and day rate.
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Senior Full Stack Developer
London
£70000 - £85000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentLondon
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SENIOR FULL STACK DEVELOPER
£70,000 – £85,000
LONDON
This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Full Stack Developer to join a growing technology business that is investing heavily in its platform and engineering capabilities. You’ll play a key role in rebuilding and enhancing a modern cloud-based platform, working across the full software development lifecycle while helping to shape technical decisions and mentor other engineers.
THE COMPANY
Our client is an international technology organisation with a large and growing user base, operating across multiple markets globally. Their products combine software, cloud technologies, and connected digital services, creating a highly scalable technology ecosystem serving millions of users. With continued growth and ongoing investment in their platform, they are expanding their engineering team and looking for experienced developers who enjoy solving complex technical challenges while collaborating across multiple business functions.
THE ROLE
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Contribute to the ongoing rebuild and evolution of a modern platform architecture
- Develop scalable full stack applications using Node.js, TypeScript, React/Next.js, and cloud technologies
- Design and build APIs using GraphQL and REST principles
- Work closely with product, mobile, engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions
- Mentor and support other developers, promoting strong engineering standards and best practices
- Influence technical decisions and contribute to architectural discussions across the platform
- Help improve system performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Strong commercial experience building full stack applications in modern engineering environments
- Expertise with Node.js and TypeScript for backend development
- Experience with React and/or Next.js for frontend development
- Strong understanding of GraphQL, REST APIs, and distributed systems
- Experience with Kafka and event-driven architectures
- Knowledge of AWS, Docker, and cloud-native development practices
- Experience working with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, or similar database technologies
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
SALARY AND BENEFITS
- £70,000 – £85,000 base salary
- Contributory pension scheme
- Private Medical
- 25 days holiday
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest to Mia Randhawa by sending your CV through the ‘Apply’ link
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Principal Data Engineer
London
£110000 - £110000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentLondon
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PRINCIPAL DATA ENGINEER
UP TO £110,000
LONDON
This is an opportunity for a Principal Data Engineer to play a key leadership role within a large-scale data environment, working on commercially critical data products that directly influence business performance. Combining hands-on engineering, technical strategy, and people leadership, you will help shape engineering standards while mentoring and growing a talented team of data professionals.
THE COMPANY
Our client is a well-established international organisation undergoing an exciting evolution of its data function. With a complex and mature data estate, they are looking for experienced technical leaders who can drive best practices, influence engineering direction, and contribute to the ongoing development of modern data platforms and products.
THE ROLE
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Provide technical leadership across Data Engineering, Software Engineering, and DevOps practices
- Remain hands-on, investigating complex technical challenges and unblocking delivery teams when required
- Work with AWS, Snowflake, and dbt to support and enhance modern data platforms
- Lead and mentor engineers, helping to develop technical capability across the wider team
- Partner with senior stakeholders across the business to influence technical decisions and priorities
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Strong commercial experience within Data Engineering and Software Engineering
- Proven expertise working with AWS, Snowflake, and dbt in modern cloud-based environments
- Experience driving engineering best practices across data platforms, software development, and DevOps.
- Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers.
- Comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders and influencing decisions across large organisations.
- Experience working with large-scale data environments and complex enterprise ecosystems.
SALARY AND BENEFITS
- Up to £110,000 base salary
- Contributory pension scheme
HOW TO APPLY
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