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Customer Analytics Manager

London

£70000 - £70000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Customer Analytics Manager to join a growing analytics function at a well-established consumer-focused business. This role sits within a high-profile transformation programme, giving you the opportunity to shape how customer insight is used across the organisation. You will combine strategic thinking with hands-on analytics to influence key commercial decisions and help drive customer-centric growth.

The Company
They are a retail business with a significant multi-channel presence and millions of active customers. Analytics plays a central role in decision-making, with investment across customer analytics, data science, marketing analytics, digital analytics, and data platforms. As part of an expanding team, you will help develop a centralised customer insight capability that supports commercial strategy across the organisation. This is an environment that values collaboration, innovation, and evidence-based decision-making.

The Role

  • Own the customer analytics agenda across a strategic business platform, delivering insights into customer behaviour, loyalty, retention, profitability, and lifetime value.
  • Lead customer reporting and deep-dive analysis, turning complex datasets into clear and actionable recommendations for senior stakeholders.
  • Apply advanced analytical techniques including segmentation, clustering, predictive modelling, regression analysis, and campaign measurement.
  • Develop customer profiles and behavioural segments to identify growth opportunities, risks, and emerging trends.
  • Partner with stakeholders across multiple business functions to influence strategy and support data-driven decision-making.
  • Translate analytical findings into compelling customer stories that connect insight to revenue, retention, customer experience, and commercial performance.
  • Support the continued development of analytics capabilities within a growing and ambitious team.

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong commercial experience in customer analytics, customer insight, or CRM analytics.
  • Advanced SQL skills and experience working with large, complex datasets.
  • Strong data visualisation experience using tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar platforms.
  • Experience applying advanced analytics techniques including segmentation, clustering, predictive modelling, regression analysis, and campaign measurement.
  • Ability to communicate complex analytical findings to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience influencing senior stakeholders and driving business impact through analytics.
  • Python or PySpark experience would be beneficial.
  • Previous mentoring or leadership experience is advantageous.

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Software Engineer, Backend

Tempe

$120000 - $140000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Tempe, Arizona

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Software Engineer (Backend) | Tempe, AZ

Confidential Opportunity | 100% Onsite | Up to $140,000 Base + 10% Bonus

A rapidly growing technology-driven organization is seeking a Software Engineer (Backend) to join their engineering team in Tempe, AZ. This is an exciting opportunity to work on large-scale, customer-facing applications while helping drive the design and development of modern cloud-native platforms.

This role offers a fast-moving environment, strong technical ownership, and the chance to contribute to the architecture and delivery of highly scalable backend systems supporting a nationwide business.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Design, develop, and deploy highly scalable cloud-native microservices
  • Build and enhance REST APIs and distributed backend services
  • Develop solutions using AWS cloud technologies, serverless architectures, and containerized environments
  • Partner with architects and engineering leaders on system design, platform modernization, and technical strategy
  • Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automation, and DevOps best practices
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and participate in proof-of-concept initiatives
  • Collaborate across engineering teams to develop reusable components and drive technical excellence

What We’re Looking For

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience building scalable web applications and APIs
  • Strong backend development experience with Node.js and TypeScript
  • Expertise designing and building microservices architectures
  • Experience with AWS, including cloud-native and serverless technologies
  • Strong experience with MongoDB, SQL, and NoSQL databases
  • Experience with CI/CD tools, containers, Docker, and modern development practices
  • Strong understanding of Agile software development methodologies

Nice to Have

  • React or React Native experience
  • GraphQL experience
  • Salesforce platform exposure
  • Kubernetes experience

Compensation & Benefits

  • Base salary up to $140,000
  • 10% annual bonus
  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Strong career growth opportunities
  • Fast interview process with an immediate hiring timeline

Location & Work Authorization

100% Onsite in Tempe, Arizona (remote/hybrid not available)

Open to:

  • U.S. Citizens
  • Green Card Holders (Permanent Residents)
  • F-1 Students with valid work authorization

No sponsorship available now or in the future. Other visa types cannot be considered.

If you’re looking for a role where you can make a significant impact within a growing engineering organization and work with modern cloud technologies, I’d love to connect.

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Head of Content and Creative

Nottingham

£55000 - £65000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

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Head of Content & Creative
Hybrid – Nottingham (1x day per week)
Up to £65,000

This is a unique opportunity for a creative and strategic marketing leader to shape how a global organisation connects with its audiences. You’ll take ownership of content, creative, and organic engagement strategies, building compelling campaigns that drive brand awareness, engagement, and commercial outcomes across multiple markets.

The Company
They are a well-established organisation with an international presence and ambitious growth plans. Operating across several global markets, they are investing in their marketing function to strengthen brand visibility, improve audience engagement, and deliver impactful storytelling at scale. This is a newly created leadership role with significant influence across marketing, fundraising, and communications activities.

The Role
You will:

  • Develop and deliver the overarching content and creative strategy across multiple international markets.
  • Create compelling storytelling frameworks that transform complex topics into engaging content.
  • Lead content production across websites, social media, email, SMS, video, print, and other marketing channels.
  • Manage and develop a team of creatives, including designers, copywriters, videographers, and content specialists.
  • Drive organic social media strategy and audience growth across key platforms.
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders to deliver integrated campaigns that support brand and commercial objectives.
  • Lead influencer and creator partnerships, ensuring content quality, brand consistency, and strong performance.
  • Act as the guardian of brand identity, ensuring all communications are aligned and impactful.
  • Manage content planning, creative workflows, budgets, and delivery timelines.

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong experience developing and leading content marketing, creative, or brand strategies.
  • Exceptional storytelling skills with the ability to create engaging content across multiple formats and audiences.
  • Experience managing creative teams and overseeing content production from concept through to execution.
  • Strong understanding of digital marketing channels, organic social media, content performance, and audience engagement.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects, stakeholders, and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong attention to detail with a keen eye for branding, design, and content quality.
  • Experience working with external agencies, creators, influencers, or production partners.
  • Commercial awareness and the ability to use data and insight to optimise content performance.

What They Offer

  • Salary up to £65,000.
  • Hybrid working with flexibility around office attendance in Nottingham.
  • Opportunity to shape and build a newly created leadership function.
  • Significant ownership and strategic influence.
  • Career progression within a growing marketing team.
  • Supportive and collaborative culture with international reach.

How to Apply
To find out more about this Head of Content & Creative opportunity, please apply with your CV for a confidential discussion.

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Retention Manager (Donor Engagement)

Nottingham

£55000 - £65000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

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Retention Manager (Donor engagement)

Up to £50,000

Hybrid – Nottingham (1x day per week)

This is a rare opportunity to build and shape a donor engagement and retention function from the ground up. Joining at an exciting stage of growth, you will have the autonomy to develop strategy, improve supporter experiences, and drive long-term donor value through data-led engagement programmes.

The Company

They are a purpose-driven organisation with an established supporter base and ambitious plans for future growth. With a strong focus on delivering meaningful impact, they are investing in their fundraising and engagement capabilities to create deeper, longer-lasting relationships with donors. This newly created role offers the chance to influence strategy and make a measurable contribution across the organisation.

The Role

You will:

  • Develop and implement a donor retention strategy across key audience segments, including one-off donors, regular givers, major donors, and lapsed supporters.
  • Design and optimise multi-channel donor journeys spanning email, SMS, web, social media, messaging platforms, and other engagement channels.
  • Lead donor onboarding, stewardship, re-engagement, and feedback initiatives to improve retention and lifetime value.
  • Analyse donor behaviour, campaign performance, and retention metrics to identify opportunities for growth.
  • Manage retention budgets and ensure activity delivers measurable return on investment.
  • Work closely with internal stakeholders to deliver seamless supporter experiences across all touchpoints.
  • Produce reporting and insights for senior leadership, using data to inform strategic decisions.
  • Champion a donor-first approach across communications, engagement activity, and service delivery.

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong experience within donor engagement, supporter retention, CRM marketing, lifecycle marketing, or fundraising.
  • Proven ability to develop and deliver retention strategies that improve engagement and donor value.
  • Experience creating customer or supporter journeys across multiple channels.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and translate insights into action.
  • Knowledge of CRM systems, donor databases, and campaign reporting.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
  • A strategic mindset combined with a hands-on approach to delivery.
  • Experience operating within a regulated fundraising or membership environment is advantageous.

What They Offer

  • Salary of £65,000.
  • Hybrid working model with flexibility around office attendance.
  • Opportunity to build and shape a newly created function.
  • High levels of ownership and strategic influence.
  • Collaborative and supportive working environment.
  • Clear opportunities for professional development and career progression.

How to Apply

To find out more about this Retention Manager (Donor Engagement) opportunity, please apply with your CV for a confidential discussion.

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Head of Marketing

Nottingham

£55000 - £65000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

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Head of Marketing

Up to £65,000

Hybrid – Nottingham (1x day per week)

This is an exciting opportunity for a commercially focused Head of Marketing to shape and scale a high-impact marketing function. You will play a pivotal role in driving brand growth, customer engagement, and revenue generation through a multi-channel marketing strategy, while leading a talented team and influencing marketing performance across multiple markets.

The Company

They are a well-established organisation with ambitious growth plans and a strong commitment to expanding their reach and impact. Operating across multiple international markets, they are investing heavily in marketing transformation and innovation. The business is looking for a strategic marketing leader who can combine commercial thinking with a data-driven approach to deliver measurable results. This is a newly created leadership role with significant visibility and influence across the organisation.

The Role

You will:

  • Develop and deliver a performance marketing strategy across channels including PPC, paid social, display, SEO, offline media, and brand campaigns.
  • Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary marketing team, creating a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
  • Manage substantial marketing budgets, ensuring efficient allocation and strong return on investment.
  • Use data, analytics, and customer insights to optimise campaign performance and inform strategic decision-making.
  • Collaborate with senior stakeholders and external agency partners to deliver integrated marketing initiatives.
  • Drive a test-and-learn approach, identifying new opportunities to improve acquisition, engagement, and brand awareness.
  • Ensure consistency of brand messaging while adapting campaigns to meet local market requirements.
  • Present performance insights and strategic recommendations to senior leadership.

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong commercial experience leading performance marketing and digital marketing strategies.
  • Expertise across channels including PPC, paid social, SEO, display advertising, and broader integrated marketing campaigns.
  • Proven ability to manage and develop high-performing marketing teams.
  • Strong analytical skills with experience using data and performance metrics to drive decision-making.
  • Experience managing significant marketing budgets and delivering measurable business outcomes.
  • Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills.
  • A strategic mindset combined with a hands-on approach to execution.
  • Experience working with agencies and cross-functional teams.

What They Offer

  • Salary of £65,000.
  • Hybrid working model with 1 day per week in Nottingham.
  • Opportunity to shape the future direction of a growing marketing function.
  • High levels of autonomy and strategic influence.
  • Leadership and career development opportunities.
  • Collaborative and supportive working environment.

How to Apply

To find out more about this Head of Marketing opportunity, please apply with your CV for a confidential discussion.

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Head of Content & Creative

Nottingham

£60000 - £65000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

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Head of Content & Creative

Location: Hybrid (Nottingham with flexible remote working)

Salary: Up to £65,000

This is an opportunity to shape the content and creative direction of an international organisation delivering meaningful impact across multiple markets. As a newly created leadership role, you will bring strategic focus to an established in-house team, helping transform complex topics into compelling stories that drive engagement, build trust and support fundraising growth.

The Company

They are a well-established international organisation operating across a range of global programmes and initiatives. Following a period of transformation, they are investing in a more coordinated approach to audience engagement, fundraising and brand communication. With an established creative function already in place, they are now seeking a senior content leader to define strategy, elevate storytelling and create greater impact through content.

The Role

  • Develop and own the global content and creative strategy across multiple markets and audiences.
  • Lead the creation of compelling, audience-focused storytelling that supports engagement, awareness and fundraising objectives.
  • Set the strategic direction for content across digital and offline channels.
  • Guide messaging across social media, email, SMS, WhatsApp and wider campaign activity.
  • Collaborate with senior marketing and fundraising stakeholders to align content with organisational priorities.
  • Use audience insight and performance data to inform content planning and creative decisions.
  • Lead, mentor and develop an established content and creative team.
  • Ensure brand consistency while adapting communications for different audiences and regional needs.

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong experience developing and delivering content strategy at a senior level.
  • A background in content, creative, brand or storytelling leadership roles.
  • Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing content or creative teams.
  • Experience turning complex subjects into clear, engaging and impactful narratives.
  • Strong understanding of audience insight and how it can shape content and campaign strategy.
  • Ability to influence and manage multiple stakeholders across different functions and locations.
  • Excellent editorial judgement with a focus on measurable outcomes and performance.
  • Experience operating across multi-channel content environments including social, digital and offline communications.

What They Offer

  • Opportunity to build and shape a newly created leadership function.
  • Exposure to international audiences and campaigns.
  • The chance to influence organisational storytelling at a strategic level.
  • Career development within a growing and evolving team environment.
  • A collaborative culture with strong executive support for the role.

How to Apply

If you are an experienced content and creative leader looking for an opportunity to shape global storytelling strategy, apply today to learn more about this Head of Content & Creative position.

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Machine Learning Engineering Lead

London

£100000 - £125000

+ Data Science & AI

Permanent
London

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MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEERING LEAD
UP TO £125,000
LONDON

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced ML Engineering Manager or technical leader to join a high-growth fintech and take ownership of a growing machine learning engineering function. You’ll combine hands-on technical contribution with people leadership, helping scale production ML systems while shaping the future direction of the team.

THE COMPANY

Our client is a growing fintech with a strong engineering culture and investment in data. Machine learning forms a critical part of their technology strategy, creating an environment where engineering teams have a direct impact on business outcomes. As the company continues to scale, they are investing in maturing their ML platform and expanding their engineering capabilities.

THE ROLE

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

  • Lead and develop a team of ML and MLOps engineers
  • Own delivery, operational performance, and technical execution across the ML Engineering function
  • Drive the evolution of machine learning infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and MLOps capabilities
  • Contribute hands-on to architecture, platform development, and production ML initiatives
  • Help shape the long-term strategy, growth, and maturity of the ML Engineering function

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

  • Previous people management or engineering leadership experience
  • Strong commercial experience in Software Engineering, ML Engineering, or MLOps environments
  • Experience building, deploying, and supporting machine learning solutions at scale
  • Experience working with AWS and ML tooling such as MLflow, Airflow, Metaflow, or Snowflake
  • Ability to balance technical leadership, strategic thinking, and hands-on engineering contribution

SALARY AND BENEFITS

  • Up to £125,000 base salary
  • Contributory pension scheme

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest to Mia Randhawa by sending your CV through the ‘Apply’ link

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BI Developer (12-18 month FTC)

London

£50000 - £60000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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BI DEVELOPER (12-18 MONTH FTC)
LONDON/HYBRID
UP TO £60,000

This is an excellent opportunity for a BI Developer to join a growing consultancy that delivers data and analytics solutions to leading investment and financial services organisations. You’ll work on a variety of complex data projects, gain exposure to different client environments, and contribute to the development of scalable business intelligence solutions that drive decision-making.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The BI Developer will:

  • Build and maintain ETL processes and data pipelines.
  • Develop and optimise SQL Server and T-SQL solutions.
  • Design and enhance semantic, tabular, and dimensional data models.
  • Support SSAS cube development and DAX calculations.
  • Work closely with data and business analysts to translate requirements into technical solutions.
  • Troubleshoot data issues and supporting end users.
  • Contribute to testing, quality assurance, and peer review activities.
  • Collaborate with senior developers on solution design and technical delivery.
  • Work with evolving requirements and diverse client architectures.

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

  • Strong commercial experience with SQL Server and T-SQL development.
  • Proven ETL development and data pipeline experience.
  • Solid understanding of data warehousing principles and best practices.
  • Experience with dimensional modelling, including concepts such as star schema, semantic models, tabular models and Kimball methodologies.
  • Exposure to DAX development.
  • Experience working across complex data environments and multiple stakeholders.
  • Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
  • Consultancy experience is highly desirable, although candidates from fast-paced project environments will also be considered.
  • Exposure to Python would be advantageous.

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