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To stay ahead of the competition, companies in Manchester and the North West must continuously look for new and innovative ways to extract insights from the large volumes of data they acquire.
Harnham's Manchester Data & AI Recruitment Team is currently partnering with some of the industry’s most exciting data-driven organisations and is at the forefront of the Data Science recruitment space.
Our aptitude for matching the best talent in the North West with the best companies is second to none. If you’re looking for your next challenge or need to make a hire in the Data & AI industry then get in touch with our recruitment team below.
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HOW WE DO IT
Just like the Data & AI Professionals we place, Harnham use tried and tested models in our recruitment processes.
By gaining valuable market knowledge across a range of industries and regions, Harnham is able to provide a service which is second to none within our marketplace.
We have seen unprecedented growth in our specialist sector and always have a wide range of vacancies at both junior and senior level including AI Jobs, Data Science jobs, Data Analyst jobs, and Big Data jobs, all available throughout the UK, France, United States, and the Netherlands
WHAT SETS US APART FROM OTHER MANCHESTER DATA & AI RECRUITMENT AGENCIES?
Feedback shows it’s our relationship-building and industry knowledge.
Harnham is the best Data & AI Recruitment company in Manchester because our consultants have a deep understanding of the Data & AI industry, with a team of specialist consultants who are highly knowledgeable in their field.
We are a trusted and long-term partner for all our customers in the North West, so if you need to recruit or are looking for your next opportunity, contact us to find out how you can benefit from partnering with the Harnham Manchester data recruitment team.
Our Manchester and Northern UK recruitment team is headed up by experienced Senior Manager Jamie Smith, who was born and raised in the North West region.Â
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Desktop Rollout Engineer
Manchester
£150 - £250
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ContractManchester, Greater Manchester
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Location: On site – Manchester/Livingston/Wolverhampton
Contract Length: 3 months (Initial)
Start Date: 28th August
As a Rollout Engineer, you will play a key role in the successful delivery of a Windows 11 upgrade across a user base of over. You will be responsible for the hands-on rollout, ensuring minimal disruption to users and maintaining high standards of technical support throughout the process.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deploy and configure Windows 11 across desktop and laptop devices.
- Troubleshoot and resolve any issues arising during the rollout.
- Provide on-site support to end users, ensuring a smooth transition.
- Collaborate with internal IT teams to maintain rollout schedules and documentation.
- Maintain accurate records of completed upgrades and outstanding tasks.
Requirements:
- Proven experience in desktop rollout or migration projects.
- Strong knowledge of Windows operating systems, particularly Windows 10 and 11.
- Familiarity with imaging tools, deployment software, and endpoint management.
- Excellent troubleshooting and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Must be able to travel and work on-site 5 days per week.
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IFRS9 Modelling Lead
Manchester
£60000 - £90000
+ Risk Analytics
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
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IFRS9 MODELLING LEAD
£90,000
MANCHESTER/LONDON
THE COMPANY
This company is a unique digital lender who are seeking an experienced IFRS9 Modeller to join their close-knit and supportive team. The business are well known for their innovative and fast-paced culture, with this role offering an exciting opportunity to work in a varied position where you can gain exposure across the business whilst leading a small team.
THE ROLE
- Lead the end-to-end development of IFRS9 models across a range of products
- Assist the wider team with broader model projects including application and behavioural scorecards
- Work closely with the model validation team to enhance model performance
- Manage a small team of analysts to drive the team to success and enhance performance of the business
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Essential to have experience developing IFRS9 models
- Coding experience in Python and SQL is essential
- Prior management experience is desirable but not essential
- Ability to own projects and lead on delivery
SALARY AND BENEFITS
- Up to £80,000 base salary
- Pension contribution scheme
- Private medical care
- Wider benefits package
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Rosie Walsh through the ‘Apply’ link
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Data Scientist (Pricing)
Manchester
£65000 - £70000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
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DATA SCIENTIST (PRICING)
£70,000 + BENEFITS
PRIMARILY REMOTE
If you’re are a highly educated individual (MSc, PhD) looking to work on meaningful data science problems in a remote, research-led environment, this could be a great fit.
THE COMPANY:
I’m working on a fantastic opportunity with a fast-growing SaaS company that’s transforming how the hospitality sector approaches pricing and forecasting. The team is applying advanced ML techniques to solve real commercial problems-everything from demand forecasting to booking behaviour clustering and light NLP use cases.
THE ROLE:
You’d join a high-calibre team in a full-stack data science role. This role will be deeply analytical and mathematical, with an emphasis on exploratory modelling and research-driven development. You will set and optimise prices, using statistical techniques and bespoke modelling solutions. A Data Scientist (Pricing) will need to:
- Build prototypes and conduct in-depth experimentation using Python and Pandas
- Research and develop new pricing models
- Apply statistical and machine learning techniques
- Explore and test data-driven approaches to price sensitivity and elasticity
- Collaborate with a highly technical team
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
A successful Data Scientist will have the following skills and experience:
- MSc or PhD level of education
- Strong Python skills and experience with Pandas
- A solid foundation in Statistics and ML.
- Experience with pricing
THE BENEFITS:
You will receive a salary, dependent on experience. Salary is up to £70,000 On top of the salary there are some fantastic extra benefits.
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Molly Bird via the apply link on this page.
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AI Engineer
Manchester
£65000 - £70000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
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AI ENGINEER
£70,000 + BENEFITS
PRIMARILY REMOTE
Make a real-world impact in an industry that needs smarter, more sustainable solutions. Join a fast-growing SaaS company on the cutting edge of Generative AI and document intelligence.
THE COMPANY:
I’m working with tech company that’s making a real impact in ESG, supply chain risk, and sustainability. This client is looking for a hands-on AI Engineer with AI/ML tooling experience to help build and prototype LLM-powered workflows.
THE ROLE:
This client are hiring an AI Engineer to:
- Prototype and build GenAI tools for LLM-driven document reasoning
- Develop microservices and APIs (FastAPI, Kubernetes) with solid CI/CD practices
- Work on multimodal datasets: documents, images, structured content
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product and data teams
- Influence the direction of emerging AI tools
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
A successful AI Engineer will have the following skills and experience:
- Strong Python with AI/ML exposure
- Experience with LLMs, RAG pipelines, document extraction
- Prior work with multimodal data (NLP, CV, tabular)
THE BENEFITS:
You will receive a salary, dependent on experience. Salary is up to £70,000 On top of the salary there are some fantastic extra benefits.
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Molly Bird via the apply link on this page.
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Data Scientist (forecasting)
Manchester
£65000 - £70000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
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DATA SCIENTIST (FORECASTING)
£70,000 + BENEFITS
PRIMARILY REMOTE
If you’re are a highly educated individual (MSc, PhD) looking to work on meaningful data science problems in a remote, research-led environment, this could be a great fit.
THE COMPANY:
I’m working on a fantastic opportunity with a fast-growing SaaS company that’s transforming how the hospitality sector approaches pricing and forecasting. The team is applying advanced ML techniques to solve real commercial problems-everything from demand forecasting to booking behaviour clustering and light NLP use cases.
THE ROLE:
You’d join a high-calibre team in a full-stack data science role where you’ll build and deploy models end-to-end, owning projects from experimentation to production. A Data Scientist (forecasting) will need to:
- Building and deploying ML models (Python, Pandas, GCP)
- Forecasting revenue
- Exploring clustering techniques
- Applying NLP to classify ancillary bookings
- Collaborating with a small, high-calibre team of PhD-level Data Scientists, Engineers, and wider product team
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
A successful Data Scientist will have the following skills and experience:
- MSc or PhD level of education
- Strong Python skills and experience with Pandas
- Cloud experience e.g. GCP
- A solid foundation in Statistics and ML.
- Experience with forecasting
THE BENEFITS:
You will receive a salary, dependent on experience. Salary is up to £70,000 On top of the salary there are some fantastic extra benefits.
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Molly Bird via the apply link on this page.
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Lead Credit Strategy Analyst
Manchester
£40000 - £55000
+ Risk Analytics
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
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LEAD CREDIT RISK STRATEGY ANALYST
£55,000
MANCHESTER
THE COMPANY
This growing UK Bank are seeking an experienced candidate to lead credit strategy and wider analytics across their lending book. This role offers an excellent opportunity to drive insight in a hands-on analytical role, whilst owning projects and profitability for the business.
THE ROLE
- Developing end-to-end lending strategies across the lending portfolios
- Broader portfolio analysis and driving insight into customer trends and behaviours
- Close work with internal and external stakeholders to drive business performance
- Co-ordination with wider teams to deploy strategies and working closely with senior stakeholders to implement change
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Prior consumer lending experience is essential, in lending strategy work
- Prior experience in portfolio analytics, customer analytics and wider reporting in a credit risk environment is essential
- Experience using SAS, SQL or Python
SALARY AND BENEFITS
- Up to £55,000 starting salary
- Discretionary bonus
- Pension contribution scheme
- 26 days holiday
- Private medical scheme
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Rosie Walsh through the ‘Apply’ link
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Lead Credit Risk Analyst
Manchester
£60000 - £65000
+ Risk Analytics
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
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LEAD CREDIT RISK ANALYST
UP TO £65,000
MANCHESTER
This role does not offer sponsorship.
This company is going through growth and looking to take on a new Lead Credit Analyst. You will set the risk appetite for the company while maintaining and monitoring performance of portfolios. You will be able to shape and drive credit strategy for unsecured lending products.
THE COMPANY
This is an exciting opportunity to work for a global banking and financial services institution. With over 150 years of history this company is well established and known for its services globally.
THE ROLE
You will be doing the following daily:
- Develop, enhance, and optimise credit risk and collections strategies, leveraging data-driven insights to make high-quality decisions for our customers.
- Conduct analyses to evaluate credit portfolios against agreed-upon performance indicators, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
- Drive business growth by contributing to Workforce Planning and Benefits (WPB) initiatives, providing analytics for the design and implementation of new lending products, improving existing features, and managing customer exposure.
- Take the lead on complex analytical projects, seeing them through to completion with minimal guidance.
- Formulate and clearly communicate conclusions and proposals, considering risk, reward, and customer impact, and collaborate with teams to facilitate decision-making.
- Identify solutions to emerging risk issues, changing priorities, project completion challenges, and areas of conflict.
- Challenge established policies and procedures when appropriate, proposing improvements to enhance efficiency.
- Ensure portfolio strategies and processes adhere to relevant regulations and regulatory guidance.
- Foster strong interpersonal relationships, engaging with the broader organization to offer insights and support changes that improve customer outcomes.
- Cultivate relationships with and contribute to the development of junior team members and offshore analysts, enhancing their knowledge, understanding, and experience.
- Provide progress reports on initiatives to Senior Management.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Previous experience working within the Credit Risk space on secured or unsecured products.
- Strong analytical capability, using SAS, SQL or Python
- Knowledge of FCA regulations
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong numerical degree for a Russel Group University
- Strong numerical degree from a Russel Group Universities.
THE BENEFITS
- Up to £65,000 salary.
- Tailored professional development opportunities.
- Private healthcare.
- Contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.
- Bonus scheme.
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Gaby Adamis via the Apply link on this page.
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Senior BI Analyst
Manchester
£50000 - £60000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
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BI Analyst
Up to £60,000
Fully remote
THE CLIENT
This is an exciting opportunity to join an industry-leading organisation in the finance sector.
THE ROLE
This role is part of a centralized team that supports the data requirements across the entire organization. You will manage the full data lifecycle, including data extraction, transformation, and loading.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
SQL
Cloud Service – Azure, AWS or GCP
Financial services or similar industry experience
NICE TO HAVE
Python
Snowflake
APPLY
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Senior Credit Portfolio Analyst
Manchester
£55000 - £70000
+ Risk Analytics
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
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Senior Credit Portfolio Analyst
Up to £70,000
Manchester
Hybrid
The Company
An excellent opportunity a reputable challenger bank who are focused on delivering both savings, mortgages, business banking, and motor finance to their customers. This role will be sitting in the 2nd line delivering portfolio insights, developing scorecard models, overseeing model implementation, and developing lending strategies.
The Role
As a Senior Credit Portfolio Analyst, you will be:
- Developing and implementing credit risk strategies across different portfolios with the focus on mortgages.
- Developing scorecards for originations/acquisitions
- Implementation of scorecard models for the business
- Overseeing the model development and implementation across the banks portfolios
- Analysis of portfolio trends for actional insights for senior stakeholders
- Using SAS and Python daily in this role.
Your skills and experience
For you to be successful as a Senior Credit Portfolio Analyst, you will need:
- Strong experience working as a credit risk analyst for another bank/fintech
- Experience developing credit risk strategies for lending products.
- Experience using SAS and ideally python
- Experience developing or working on scorecard models
- Strong communication and teamwork skills.
- Mathematical degree
Benefits
Up to £70,000 + competitive benefits package
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Claims Insight Manager
Manchester
£61000 - £80000
+ Risk Analytics
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
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CLAIMS INSIGHT MANAGER
£60,000
FULLY REMOTE
This role does not offer sponsorship.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a market-leading insurance business, utilising smart data and technology. They have been undergoing rapid growth and currently have 1.4 million customers.
THE COMPANY
This business is a UK-based insurer offering a range of home and motor insurance. They have been nominate Employer of the Year and have amazing Glassdoor reviews!
THE ROLE
You can expect to be involved in the following day-to-day:
- Produce regular reports for senior stakeholders, providing insight into current and projected claims indemnity performance to support monthly and quarterly executive updates.
- Analyse trends, anomalies, and opportunities in claims performance aligned with executive priorities.
- Develop and maintain robust data models (primarily using SAS), leveraging multiple data sources to deliver actionable insights across key performance metrics.
- Partner with operational teams to identify and implement initiatives that improve indemnity outcomes, ensuring follow-through to execution.
- Mentor and support junior analysts, with a focus on enhancing their technical capabilities, particularly in SAS.
- Work closely with Finance to monitor and demonstrate realised benefits across cost, income, and indemnity performance.
- Liaise with external benchmarking providers to supply accurate, detailed data for ongoing comparison against market standards and to inform internal performance indicators.
- Assist with modelling and forecasting the impact of internal and external factors on claims inflation.
- Represent the Claims Insight Manager in key meetings with stakeholders.
- Contribute to wider Performance team initiatives, applying skills flexibly to meet evolving business requirements.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Previous experience with data analysis using SAS or SQL.
- Previous experience using data and insights to understand claims performance.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Degree in a STEM subject.
THE BENEFITS
- Discretionary bonus.
- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays).
- Life insurance.
- Private Medical insurance.
- Pension contribution.
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Gaby Adamis via the Apply link on this page.
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BI Analyst
Manchester
£40000 - £50000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
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BI Analyst
Up to £50,000
Hybrid – Manchester (2x days per week)
THE COMPANY
We are working with a financial service provider.
THE ROLE
In this role, you will deliver impactful reporting and provide strategic insights to support key Property teams, including Product and Sales. You will analyze data across a range of areas-such as customer behavior, broker performance, commercial outcomes, and credit risk-to generate actionable recommendations that enable informed decision-making and drive business performance.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
SQL
Power BI or Tableau (experience with both is advantageous)
Strong Insight generation skills and experience
Experience in a regulated sector, such as insurance, banking, or financial services, is advantageous.
APPLY
Send an email to register your interest or apply below. Please note that my client cannot offer sponsorship.
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BI Analyst
Manchester
£40000 - £50000
+ Risk Analytics
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
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Business Intelligence Analyst (Portfolio Analyst)
Location: Hybrid (2x per week in Manchester)
Salary: Up to £50,000
The Company
We’re working with a well-established challenger bank that’s scaling its business intelligence and portfolio analytics team. The organisation operates across savings, mortgages, business banking, and motor finance, with a strong emphasis on tech-driven decision-making. With a leaner structure than traditional high-street banks, this company offers individuals the chance to own projects end-to-end and contribute meaningfully to strategic decisions.
The Role
This is a commercially-focused analytics role sitting within the property team, reporting into the Head of Portfolio Analytics. It’s ideal for a BI Analyst who thrives on working cross-functionally with sales, product, and operations to derive actionable insights and shape strategy. The work directly supports investment and growth initiatives across customer and broker performance, commercial trends, and credit risk.
Key Responsibilities
– Deliver BI reporting and insight across core lending portfolios.
– Partner with product, sales, and risk teams to explore strategic data questions.
– Analyse broker, customer, and product-level performance to surface trends and opportunities.
– Support forward flow investment projects and new lending initiatives.
– Deliver reports in Tableau or Power BI and drive best practice in data visualisation.
Skills & Experience
Essential:
– Strong SQL skills for deep analytical querying and insight generation.
– Data visualisation experience using Power BI or Tableau.
– Previous experience working in financial services or risk-focused environments.
– Ability to turn data into actionable recommendations.
Desirable:
– Experience in credit risk, lending analytics, or broker performance reporting.
– Familiarity with Return on Equity (ROE) and portfolio strategy metrics.
– Background in challenger banking or fast-paced FS environments.
Benefits
– £50,000 base salary
– Flexible hybrid working model (2 days in-office)
– High ownership role within a growing data function
– Be part of an ambitious team shaping BI strategy at group level
How to Apply
Interested? Send your CV to Mohammed Buhariwala at Harnham via the Apply link on this page.
Keywords
Business Intelligence Analyst, BI Analyst, Credit Risk, Lending Analytics, SQL, Power BI, Tableau, Portfolio Analytics, Financial Services, Banking Analytics, Challenger Bank, Strategic Insight
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