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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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GCP Engineer

London

£500 - £600

+ Data Engineering

Contract
London

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GCP ENGINEER

6-MONTH CONTRACT

LONDON (FULLY REMOTE)

£500-£600 PER DAY

This role as a GCP BigQuery Engineer offers the chance to work with a leading energy company focused on leveraging data to improve efficiency and decision-making. You’ll be working on complex data projects within Google Cloud, optimising pipelines, and ensuring reliable data processing. The role also involves mentoring others and implementing best practices in BigQuery and dbt.

THE COMPANY

This energy company is a leader in sustainable and data-driven energy solutions, leveraging cutting-edge technology to optimise operations, forecast demand, and enhance efficiency. With a strong focus on digital transformation, they are investing in cloud-based data platforms to drive smarter decision-making and improve sustainability efforts. Joining this team will give you the chance to work on high-impact projects that directly influence energy production, distribution, and consumption, while collaborating with industry experts in a rapidly evolving sector.

THE ROLE

As a GCP Engineer, you will play a key role in a large-scale data transformation project, ensuring efficient data processing, optimisation, and integration. You will also be responsible for creating clear documentation to communicate technical processes to non-technical teams.

Your key responsibilities will include:

  • Designing and optimising a BigQuery-based data warehouse, ensuring scalability and efficiency.
  • Building and maintaining ELT pipelines using dbt, enabling seamless data transformation.
  • Developing and implementing performance tuning strategies to optimise query execution and cost efficiency.
  • Working with stakeholders to understand business needs, translating them into effective data models.
  • Creating clear and comprehensive documentation to support knowledge sharing and adoption.

KEY SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS

To succeed in this role, you should have:

  • Strong commercial experience with Google BigQuery and the GCP data ecosystem.
  • Expertise in dbt, including building and optimising data models.
  • Proficiency in SQL for large-scale data transformations.
  • Experience in ELT processes and best practices for cloud-based data warehousing.
  • Knowledge of performance tuning techniques for optimising BigQuery queries and costs.
  • Familiarity with cloud services (GCP, Terraform, Airflow, etc.) and their integration with BigQuery.

HOW TO APPLY

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

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Digital Content Manager – SEO – Contract

London

£250 - £300

+ Digital Analytics

Contract
London

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Digital Content Manager – SEO – Contract
Agency
£250-£300 per day – outside IR35
London – Hybrid

We are on the lookout for a motivated and creative Content Manager with expertise in SEO and digital content strategies to join a dynamic Digital practice. You will oversee the delivery of content projects, enhance search engine performance, and drive innovative approaches to digital marketing. You will have the opportunity to shape a high-performing team, foster client relationships, and contribute to industry-leading digital growth.

Role & Responsibilities

  • Understand client needs and craft well-structured, commercially viable proposals.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with mid-tier clients.
  • Lead business development initiatives, identifying growth opportunities in AI-driven search.
  • Oversee multiple large-scale performance marketing projects, managing cross-functional teams of content strategists, SEOs, designers, and writers.
  • Develop and implement innovative, data-driven content delivery methods.
  • Create measurement and performance frameworks aligned with client KPIs.
  • Monitor project budgets and ensure timely, within-scope delivery.
  • Prioritise resources, delegate tasks effectively, and manage client expectations.

Skills & Experience

  • Proven ability to deliver high-quality, engaging content with a sharp eye for detail.
  • Strong track record of successful client engagement and delivery.
  • Deep understanding of core marketing disciplines-including SEO, AI search, and content marketing.
  • Working knowledge of analytics tools, content management systems, keyword research, and SEO technologies.
  • Ability to identify and develop new business opportunities.
  • Enthusiastic team player with a desire to contribute to a collaborative, innovative culture.

Benefits

£250-£300 per day outside IR35, London based, Hybrid

How to Apply

Register your interest by sending your CV to Lloyd Dunstall via the Apply link on this page

Content / SEO / GEO / Digital Analytics / AI

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Backend Engineer

Sheffield

£60000 - £65000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Sheffield, South Yorkshire

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Backend Engineer (Python/Django)

Hybrid (Sheffield) – £60,000

We are working with a high-growth fintech scale-up who are looking to bring on a Backend Engineer into their growing data team. They are innovating rapidly and looking for top engineering talent to support their next phase of growth.

As a Backend Engineer, you’ll play a key role in building and scaling the company’s core payment infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs
  • Write production-quality Python and Django code with a focus on performance and maintainability
  • Work with the Django ORM at a deep level to ensure efficient data operations
  • Collaborate in agile sprints with product and engineering teams
  • Debug, diagnose, and resolve issues across the platform
  • Contribute to backend infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and monitoring/logging
  • Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices

Tech Stack

Essential:

  • Python
  • Django (ORM)
  • Broader backend experience
  • SQL expertise
  • Familiarity with CI/CD and scalable systems

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BI Lead

Barnoldswick

£60000 - £70000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Barnoldswick, Lancashire

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BI Lead – Consumer Goods

Location: Lancashire (2 days per week in office, commutable from Burnley/Preston area)

Salary: Up to £70,000

The Company

We’re partnered with a leading UK consumer goods brand, known nationwide for their products in the home & lifestyle space. With ongoing growth and digital transformation, they are investing heavily in data capabilities to improve business decision-making, customer insight, and operational efficiency. The organisation has already built out a small but capable data team, and they’re now looking to appoint a BI Lead to accelerate their reporting, analytics, and automation strategy.

This is a high-impact role where you’ll shape how data is delivered across the group, working with stakeholders across Finance, Operations, Marketing, and Commercial to enable smarter, faster decisions.

The Role

This newly created BI Lead role sits within a growing data function, reporting into the Head of Data. The successful candidate will take ownership of group-wide reporting and build out a self-service analytics platform to support stakeholders at all levels. You’ll combine hands-on development with leadership, guiding the team on best practices while driving adoption of modern BI tools.

You’ll play a key role in shaping the data strategy, leading projects to unify reporting across multiple business units, improve pipelines, and embed automation to reduce manual reporting.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead BI development and delivery across the organisation, driving consistency and scalability.
  • Design and implement a unified reporting platform, empowering stakeholders to self-serve insights.
  • Build and optimise pipelines within the Azure ecosystem (Databricks, Data Factory, Synapse).
  • Develop, maintain, and enhance dashboards and reports using Power BI (part of Microsoft stack).
  • Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather requirements, translate them into solutions, and ensure insights drive impact.
  • Mentor and support junior team members, fostering best practice in data modelling, governance, and reporting.
  • Partner with engineering colleagues on in-house platform migration projects, ensuring data is structured and accessible for analysis.
  • Drive automation of reporting processes, reducing manual effort and increasing accuracy.
  • Work closely with the Head of Data on data strategy, roadmap, and stakeholder engagement.

Skills & Experience

  • 5+ years’ experience in Business Intelligence, with proven delivery of group-wide reporting projects.
  • Strong SQL skills – confident in writing, optimising, and troubleshooting queries.
  • Experience with the Microsoft stack, particularly Power BI (development and publishing).
  • Hands-on experience in the Azure ecosystem (Databricks, Data Factory, Synapse).
  • Understanding of data pipelines; ability to design and manage end-to-end data flows (not necessarily hardcore engineering).
  • Exposure to Python for data manipulation/automation is desirable but not essential.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with experience translating technical outputs into business value.
  • Previous leadership or mentoring experience is desirable, as this role may grow into a formal management position.
  • Commercially savvy, able to prioritise projects that deliver tangible value to the business.

Benefits

  • Salary up to £70,000 depending on experience.
  • Hybrid working: 2 days per week in the Lancashire office (commutable from Burnley, Preston, Blackburn, and surrounding areas).
  • Opportunity to lead BI strategy in a high-profile role with direct business impact.
  • Work on varied projects, from platform migration to group reporting and automation.
  • Collaborative culture with a growing data team and supportive leadership.

How to Apply

If you’re a BI professional looking for a step up into a leadership role-or already operating as a BI Lead and seeking a high-impact environment-please send your CV to Mohammed Buhariwala at Harnham via the Apply link on this page.

Keywords

BI Lead, Business Intelligence Lead, BI Developer, BI Specialist, Data Engineer, Power BI, Azure, Databricks, SQL, Pipelines, Data Visualisation, Self-Service Analytics, Reporting Platform, Consumer Goods, Lancashire, Preston, Burnley, North West, UK Jobs

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CRM Marketing Executive

Solihull

£30000 - £38000

+ Digital Analytics

Permanent
Solihull, West Midlands

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CRM Marketing Executive – Financial Services
Location: Midlands (2 days per week in office, Solihull area)
Salary: £38,000 (perm)

The Company
We’re partnered with a well-established UK financial services organisation undergoing a modernisation of its marketing and customer engagement capability. Following a recent restructure creating channel specialisms, the team is building out a new CRM function to accelerate personalised, data-driven communications across multiple brands-including a recently launched savings app. You’ll join a small, agile team with the mandate to scale campaigns, automate journeys and drive measurable uplift in retention and product adoption.

The Role
This is a hands-on execution role working alongside an experienced CRM Manager. You’ll build and optimise customer journeys, launch and iterate campaigns, and help the team get more value from its marketing automation platform (Adobe Journey Optimizer or similar). If you enjoy owning the details-lists, segments, workflows, QA, reporting-while seeing tangible impact on customer outcomes, this is for you.

Key Responsibilities
* Build, launch and QA CRM campaigns across email/in-app/push within the journey tool.
* Create and optimise multi-step customer journeys (onboarding, nurture, cross-sell, win-back).
* Support segmentation and audience builds; maintain lists, suppressions and data hygiene.
* Partner with the CRM Manager on briefs, calendars, test plans and channel best practice.
* Run A/B and multivariate tests (subject, content, timing, cadence); document learnings.
* Track performance in platform dashboards; report on KPIs (opens, CTR, CVR, churn, ROI) and next actions.
* Contribute to a growing library of templates, components and re-usable automations.
* Collaborate with Design, Product, Data and Compliance to ship campaigns safely and on time.
* Help scale from ~a handful of existing automations to a robust journey portfolio.

What You’ll Bring
* 1-2+ years’ hands-on CRM/Email/Lifecycle experience (campaigns & journeys) in any sector.
* Practical knowledge of a major platform: Adobe Journey Optimizer/Adobe Campaign, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, HubSpot, Braze, Iterable, Klaviyo or similar.
* Comfortable building workflows, audiences and triggers; strong attention to detail and QA.
* Basic grasp of segmentation and performance metrics; confident turning data into next steps.
* Working knowledge of Power BI/Looker/Tableau or platform analytics is a plus (not essential).
* Nice to have: push/in-app experience, basic HTML for email, and/or familiarity with SQL.
* Mindset: proactive, organised, and happy operating in a lean two-person team.

Why Apply
* Impact: immediate ownership in a small, specialist team where your work is visible.
* Growth: scale a new function, expand a campaign suite and shape ways of working.
* Variety: mix of BAU comms and greenfield journeys for a new consumer app.
* Support: clear feedback SLAs and a manager focused on strategy who’ll unblock delivery.
* Flexibility: hybrid model with 2 office days per week in the Solihull area.

Working Pattern
Full-time, Monday-Friday. Hybrid: minimum two days per week in the Solihull office (fixed team days).

How to Apply
Interested? Send your CV to Mohammed Buhariwala (Harnham) via the Apply link on this page and include a brief note on your recent CRM platform experience and the most complex journey you’ve built.

Keywords
CRM Marketing Executive, CRM Specialist, Email Marketing, Lifecycle Marketing, Retention, Marketing Automation, Customer Journeys, Workflows, Segmentation, Adobe Journey Optimizer, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, HubSpot, Braze, Power BI, SQL, Midlands, Solihull, UK Jobs

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Growth Analyst

London

£60000 - £70000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Growth Analyst – 12-month FTC

Up to £70,000
London – Hybrid (2 days/week in office)

*Please note, the company is unable to offer sponsorship and you must be a UK resident to apply*

Company

This company is a global leader in interactive audio for children, with millions of audio devices and figurines sold worldwide. Their award-winning, screen-free system is transforming how kids play and learn independently. Available in over 100 countries and multiple languages, their expanding range of products continues to inspire imagination and support meaningful, tech-enabled play.

The Role

They are looking for an ambitious and motivated Marketing & Growth Data Analyst to join the UK team and help build out their analytic capabilities. You’ll also be part of the global Data & Analytics unit, giving you the opportunity to work on scalable data products, collaborate with international colleagues, and expand your expertise.

This is a hands-on analysis role where you’ll move seamlessly from pulling and manipulating data to producing clear, actionable insights for the UK Growth and Marketing teams. You’ll help monitor performance, understand customer behaviour, evaluate campaigns, and contribute to both tactical and strategic decision-making.

You’ll split your time roughly 60% on UK-focused work and 40% on global collaboration, creating local insights while helping to shape global dashboards and reporting tools.

Key Responsibilities

  • Analysis & Insight – Conduct deep-dive analysis into marketing performance, customer acquisition, retention, and lifetime value. Go beyond “what happened” to explain “why” and recommend “what next.”
  • Campaign Impact Assessment – Evaluate promotions and experiments to determine both immediate and long-term effects on customer spend and retention.
  • SQL Data Extraction & Manipulation – Pull, join, and transform data from Snowflake and other sources, working with data marts and dbt models.
  • Data Visualisation – Create clear, compelling Tableau dashboards and reports for stakeholders at all levels.
  • Marketing KPI Tracking – Support the marketing team in measuring key performance metrics (e.g., acquisition cost, retention rates, channel ROI).
  • Proactive Opportunity Spotting – Identify trends, anomalies, or risks in the data and bring them to the attention of the business without waiting for a request.
  • Stakeholder Collaboration – Work closely with marketing, sales, and growth teams in the UK, while engaging with global analytics peers to align on best practices and standards.
  • Enablement & Self-Service – Support colleagues in becoming more self-sufficient in accessing and interpreting data.

Skills and Experience

  • Experience in data analytics roles, ideally in marketing, growth, or e-commerce environments.
  • Advanced SQL skills for data extraction and manipulation.
  • Experience with Snowflake, dbt, and Tableau (or similar visualisation tools).
  • A strong statistical foundation and ability to apply the right analytical methods.
  • Understanding of marketing metrics such as CAC, LTV, retention, and channel ROI.
  • The ability to work independently, structure your own analysis, and deliver actionable insights.
  • Strong communication skills to explain complex findings clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
  • A collaborative mindset and a proactive, curious approach to solving problems.

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CRO Digital Experience Lead

Theale

£42000 - £50000

+ Digital Analytics

Permanent
Theale, Berkshire

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CRO DIGITAL EXPERIENCE LEAD
THEALE – 3X A WEEK

Please note, this company is unable to sponsor, and you must be a UK resident to apply

THE COMPANY

A well-established British retailer and distributor within the direct-to-consumer space is growing its digital performance function. Known for its strong brand presence and customer-focused approach, the business offers a curated product range across several well-known platforms, including web and mobile.

As part of a wider digital transformation, the business is investing in building out its customer experience and optimisation capabilities across multiple brands.

THE ROLE

This is a newly created role with full ownership of Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) strategy across digital platforms. You’ll work closely with stakeholders to analyse user behaviour, identify pain points, and develop data-driven strategies to enhance customer journeys.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys getting into the data using tools like Fullstory or Hotjar, spotting opportunities, solving problems, and executing meaningful improvements. You won’t be building tests yourself but should be comfortable with experimentation principles and able to troubleshoot where needed.

Over time, the goal is to bring more capability in-house, reducing dependency on agencies and making CRO a central function within the business.

SKILLS + EXPERIENCE

  • Proven experience in CRO – any industry background welcome
  • Strong understanding of customer journeys, UX principles, and digital performance
  • Experience with behavioural analytics tools such as Fullstory, Hotjar, GA4
  • Strategic thinker who’s hands-on and passionate about optimisation
  • Confident in presenting ideas, insights, and results to senior stakeholders
  • Strong interest in user experience and digital problem-solving
  • Ideally some mentoring or leadership exposure, though not essential

HOW TO APPLY

If you’re excited about owning CRO strategy and making a tangible impact, apply now by sending your CV via the link below. The business is looking for someone to start by September, so candidates with shorter notice periods will be prioritised.

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Analytics Manager

London

£55000 - £65000

+ Digital Analytics

Permanent
London

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ANALYTICS MANAGER
£65,000 + 10% BONUS
HYBRID – LONDON (3 DAYS A WEEK)

Please note: this company is unable to offer sponsorship for this role. You must be based in the UK and have the right to work.


THE COMPANY

This global live entertainment business operates nearly 50 iconic venues across the UK, US, and Europe – from historic West End theatres to Broadway and Berlin. With a huge customer base and millions of ticket sales annually, they’re building out a high-impact analytics function to drive smarter marketing, better customer experiences, and stronger business outcomes.

The culture is grown-up, fast-moving, and collaborative. You’ll be joining a team that’s expanding rapidly to meet global demand, with direct exposure to decision-makers and meaningful scope to shape the analytics strategy in the UK.


THE ROLE

This is a key leadership role in the UK analytics function, managing three direct reports across data science, BI and analysis. While you won’t be deep in the code every day, you’ll be deeply embedded in both the business and the data – prioritising workstreams, guiding delivery, and supporting the team as they scale.

You’ll partner closely with marketing, CRM and performance teams, translating business needs into clear data projects and helping shape how marketing impact is measured globally. You’ll also collaborate with the US analytics team and newly appointed Head of Analytics to align strategy across regions; with your focus squarely on the UK.

Projects will centre around email and app marketing, with a big focus on MMM, recommender systems, and customer modelling. MMM will be the priority for the next 12 months.


DAY TO DAY

  • Lead UK analytics team (BI Developer, Data Analyst, Data Scientist)

  • Oversee team priorities, coaching, and delivery standards

  • Translate business questions into technical project scopes

  • Champion analytics best practices across teams

  • Support marketing teams with data-driven decision-making

  • Collaborate with global analytics leads on shared initiatives

  • Oversee and contribute to marketing measurement projects

  • Focus areas: MMM, recommender systems, lift testing, propensity modelling

  • Rough split: ~75% leadership / 25% strategic hands-on guidance


SKILLS + EXPERIENCE

Must haves:

  • Strong background in marketing or performance analytics

  • Experience leading or managing analytics teams

  • Stakeholder management and communication skills

  • Familiarity with MMM, customer modelling, and related techniques

  • SQL, Python or R proficiency

Nice to have:

  • Experience in live entertainment, ticketing, or consumer-focused businesses

  • Familiarity with CDPs or marketing automation platforms

  • Passion for theatre, live events, or the arts

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