BUISNESS
INTELLIGENCE
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From analysts to developers, Business Intelligence (BI) roles are indispensable, and an integral part of any data-driven team. Responsible for processing and visualising raw data over a variety of software applications, BI professionals help companies process their raw data into insightful solutions to solve complex business problems.
This role, like many other data-driven roles, helps companies process historical data, get insightful reports to the people who need them, and work with business leaders to understand what data they should analyse and what it means to their bottom line.
If you’re looking for recruitment support or jobs specialising in Cognos, Tableau, Qlikview, Looker, Domo, Birst, Microsoft Stack (SSIS, SSRS, SSAS), we have the team to help.
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We work with elite brands who operate across all sectors, from eCommerce to financial services. They know Harnham are the company to provide them with the Business Intelligence talent they need.
We have the knowledge, the network and the required drive to find the best candidates on the market, as well as working with some of the most exciting data businesses around.
If you’re hoping to change careers or are looking for the right talent to fill an opening, Harnham can help.
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Harnham are a specialist Data & AI recruitment business with teams that only focus on niche areas.
BI Analyst (Contract)
City of London
£500 - £550
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractCity of London, London
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Overview:
A fast-growing marketplace is seeking a BI Analyst to take full ownership of their Looker BI environment on a 6-month contract. You will work closely with Insights, Finance, and other cross-functional teams to improve reporting accessibility, optimise BI performance, and establish strong governance and best-practice standards.
This role is fully remote and offers the opportunity to drive BI improvements from concept through to deployment within a small, collaborative team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and maintain Looker dashboards that support business decision-making
- Optimise and scale Looker instances to improve performance
- Partner with Insights and Finance teams to enhance reporting and self-service BI
- Establish governance frameworks, BI standards, and reporting best practices
- Own BI tooling operations to ensure reliable, accurate, and accessible reporting
- Lead end-to-end BI improvement projects independently
Required Skills and Experience:
- Strong hands-on experience with Looker and LookML
- Advanced SQL and comfort working across complex data models
- Proven track record in BI optimisation, scaling, or governance
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams
- Comfortable working autonomously in a fast-paced environment
Desirable Skills:
- Experience using Data-bricks
- Familiarity with Python
- Background in developing self-service BI frameworks
How to Apply:
If you’re excited by the idea of owning a BI estate and shaping how a business uses data, please apply directly or get in touch with Atif Ahmad for more information.
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BI Analyst/Data Analyst
London
£550 - £650
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractLondon
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Contract BI Analyst (Looker) – 6 Months – Outside IR35 – £550-£650/day
Location: Remote
Duration: 6 months
IR35: Outside IR35
Day Rate: £550-£650/day
Start: ASAP
The Opportunity
A leading marketplace platform is seeking an experienced BI Analyst with strong Looker & LookML expertise to support a major overhaul of their analytics environment. You will work across engineering and insights functions to improve reporting, rebuild Looker models, and introduce governance standards that enable self-serve analytics.
The organisation has recently moved responsibility for ~80 Looker models into the engineering team. Data quality is currently poor, and they need a contractor capable of operating at scale-not someone who has only worked on one or two models. This role will suit someone who has owned or re-architected large Looker ecosystems.
What You’ll Be Doing
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Partner with engineering, insights, finance and wider stakeholders to understand reporting needs.
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Rebuild, optimise and standardise Looker models and dashboards.
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Improve overall performance, remove ambiguity, and develop self-serve analytics.
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Establish reporting governance: define what good looks like and drive consistency across teams.
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Act as a collaborative, hands-on specialist embedded across both insights and engineering.
Required Skills
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Expertise in Looker & LookML (large-scale environments essential)
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Strong SQL
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Proven experience improving data models and dashboard performance
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Ability to work independently while collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Nice to Have
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Python
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Databricks
Soft Skills
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Highly collaborative
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Self-sufficient and proactive
Interview Process
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Introductory virtual meeting with Engineering Manager
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Technical session with the data team
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Final interview with the Insights function
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Data Analyst
London
£300 - £400
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractLondon
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Job Title: Data Analyst
Location: Remote
Contract: 3 months
IR35: Outside
Rate: £300-£400 per day
Overview:
You’ll support a major customer loyalty and rewards programme, you’ll help strengthen the data foundation behind their local offers, retailer partnerships, and “offers near me” app features.
Responsibilities:
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Carry out a full audit of existing offer and partner data, assessing quality, accuracy, completeness, and performance.
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Cleanse and enrich data using multiple sources (APIs, Companies House, Google Places, Yelp).
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Improve the accuracy and reliability of partner information and associated deals.
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Engage with internal and external stakeholders to fill gaps and validate missing data.
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Produce recommendations and a clear proposal for how partner data should be managed going forward, presenting this back to the business.
Required Skills & Experience:
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SQL skills.
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Comfortable cleansing data and using external sources to enrich and validate it.
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Understanding of the UK retail landscape.
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Experience working with diverse datasets in start-ups, scale-ups, or audience-based products.
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Exposure to local business data, housing or demographic datasets.
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Background in FMCG or public-sector environments is beneficial.
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Able to translate findings into strategic recommendations.
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Confidently engaging with external stakeholders.
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Experience working in an Agile environment.
Nice to Have:
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Lightdash
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Looker
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dbt
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VP of Data
New York
$250000 - $275000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentNew York
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VP of Data
Fintech
Hybrid in NYC area
$250,000 – $275,000 base + equity + benefits
THE COMPANY
Harnham is working with an innovative fintech that creates real economies in virtual worlds to help studios and creators embed frictionless payments and digital currencies.
They are looking for a VP of Data who will lead data strategy, owning everything from infrastructure to insights. The mission: turn raw data into a powerful engine for smarter decisions, faster operations, and bold product innovation-while keeping compliance rock solid.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Own data strategy, roadmap and vision
- Instill data governance practices, driving governance standards for relevant financial regulations
- Lead data architecture – modernizing data ecosystem, warehouse, data lakes, ETL pipelines
- Lead the company’s data and machine learning strategy
- Partner with cross-functional departments and C-suite stakeholders (engineering, product, marketing, advertising)
- Manage data products – build & scale applications to automate processes
- Oversee business intelligence function – driving insights, dashboards and reports
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- 10+ years in data roles, including 3+ years in leadership (VP/Director).
- Proven success in FinTech, payments, or regulated financial services.
- Expertise in data governance, quality, and risk management.
- Cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift).
- ETL/ELT, orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt), CI/CD for pipelines.
- BI tools (Looker, Tableau, Metabase), SQL & Python.
- AWS data stack (Redshift, Glue, S3) and Terraform.
Bonus
- Experience in crypto or gaming industries.
- Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or related field.
BENEFITS
The compensation package contains a base salary, equity and a comprehensive benefits package.
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV via the Apply link on this page.
KEY TERMS
Data Science | Business Intelligence | BI | Engineering | Fintech | Production | Real Time | Gaming | Regulation | Python | Compliance | Regulatory | Startup | Executive | Data Governance | Data Architecture | Artificial Intelligence
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Director of Analytics & Data Engineering
San Francisco
$250000 - $280000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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Director of Analytics and Data Engineering
Location: Remote, US based
Salary: $250-280k Base Salary
We are partnering with a fast growing company at the intersection of fintech, gaming, and digital commerce to hire a Director of Analytics and Data Engineering. This leader will own the company wide data strategy, data ecosystem, and data organization.
If you have built modern data platforms in regulated financial environments and want to shape the future of real time digital economies, this role offers company level impact.
The Opportunity
You will turn data into a strategic, revenue enabling asset by architecting and running a modern data stack that powers real time analytics, forecasting, ML insights, and regulatory reporting. This includes building semantic layers, unified source of truth datasets, experimentation frameworks, and high-quality telemetry.
You will oversee the full data lifecycle so product, commercial, risk, and compliance teams have timely, trusted data that drives GTM strategy, financial planning, customer analytics, churn modeling, fraud detection, and product optimization.
What You Will Lead
- Enterprise data strategy, roadmaps, data product vision, and multi year investment planning
- Data governance including cataloging, lineage, metadata, SLAs, access controls, and auditability, plus standardized KPIs and metric definitions
- Modern data architecture including real time pipelines, event streaming, warehousing, lakes, modeling, orchestration, and CI/CD for analytics and ML
- Analytics leadership across BI, self service, dashboarding, reporting, product analytics, forecasting, experimentation, and cohort analysis
- Data science enablement for predictive models, risk scoring, automated decisioning, and personalization, with infrastructure to deploy models
- Team leadership across data engineering, BI, analytics, and applied science including hiring, mentorship, operational rigor, and quality standards
- Cross functional partnership with Product, Engineering, FP&A, Compliance, and GTM to support product innovation, financial modeling, AML and KYC workflows, and market expansion
- Data activation through dashboards, workflow automation, internal data apps, and decision support tools
What You Bring
- 10+years in data with at least 3 in senior leadership
- Experience in high growth fintech, payments, or regulated financial services
- Proven ability to build and scale enterprise data ecosystems
- Expertise in data governance, quality, and regulatory compliance including AML and KYC
- Strong leadership and communication skills
- Technical depth in cloud warehouses, modeling, ETL and ELT, orchestration, and BI
- Strong SQL and familiarity with Python
- Experience with AWS data services and infrastructure as code
- Bonus: crypto, gaming, or internal tooling experience
Why This Role
Join a company shaping next generation digital commerce and build the data function for a global, highly regulated business. You will have full ownership, executive visibility, and the mandate to design a data organization that enables innovation at scale.
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Head of Data Management
Nottingham
£85000 - £100000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentNottingham, Nottinghamshire
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Head of Data Management
£85,000 to £100,000 + Package
Hybrid – Nottingham (3 days a week)
Are you an experienced data leader looking to define and shape how an organisation manages and governs data? This is a newly created role within a major enterprise going through a large-scale transformation, offering the autonomy to redesign data practices from the ground up.
Sitting one level below Director, you will lead a team of 12 (including four Managers) and take full ownership of data management strategy, data governance, and the end-to-end data lifecycle. This is a fast-paced, high-impact environment where you’ll influence senior stakeholders, work closely with Risk, Technology and the Chief Data Office, and drive enterprise-wide improvements across data quality, privacy, and governance.
The Role
In this strategic yet hands-on position, you will
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Own the organisation’s Data Management Strategy and drive business-wide change
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Lead data stewardship across analytical, operational and policy domains
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Shape and improve data governance, quality frameworks, and risk policies
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Oversee the full data lifecycle, ensuring data is discoverable, high quality, and well governed
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Partner with senior leaders, Risk, the DPO and Technology to meet regulatory and privacy requirements
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Guide the organisation through a major data management transformation
Technical Focus
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Strong understanding of ETL, APIs and modern cloud data ecosystems
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SQL and Python expertise (automation experience strongly valued)
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Knowledge of data quality tooling (e.g. Informatica)
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Understanding of data architecture, governance frameworks and lifecycle management
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Experience working within regulatory or data-risk environments is highly advantageous
What They’re Looking For
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An established people leader comfortable managing high-performing teams
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Experience delivering data management transformations
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Strong regulatory understanding (GDPR experience beneficial)
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Ability to influence senior stakeholders and communicate complex data topics with clarity
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Backgrounds may include: Data Management, Data Quality, Governance, Architecture or senior technical roles that have pivoted into leadership
Why Apply?
This is a rare opportunity to step into a high-impact leadership role with the freedom to redefine how data is governed within a major organisation. You’ll shape the roadmap, influence enterprise standards and set the vision for how data is managed in the future.
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Senior Data Consultant
London
£550 - £800
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractLondon
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Job Title: Senior Data Consultant
Location: London one day per week
Contract: 12 weeks
Rate: TBC
Overview:
A legal client is looking for someone to support one of their clients across data modelling, governance, and legal spend analysis, helping teams make sense of complex datasets, develop conceptual models, and provide actionable recommendations. This is a strategic role with exposure to senior stakeholders, offering the chance to influence how legal and business data is structured and used.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and validate conceptual data models and business glossaries with legal and business teams.
- Co-work with data scientists on legal spend analysis: plan experiments, explore data, and share insights with stakeholders.
- Provide floating/support data governance and architecture expertise across the group legal function.
- Recommend data tagging, classification, and governance best practices to improve data quality and usability.
- Engage with stakeholders to align data initiatives with business objectives and ensure outcomes are actionable.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Proven experience in professional services, strategy consulting, or a Big 4 environment.
- Strong business analysis and data governance skills.
- Comfortable working with legal data or within a legal context.
- Excellent communication skills – able to influence senior stakeholders without heavy technical hand-holding.
- Proactive approach to identifying opportunities and driving workstreams forward.
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Media Solutions Engineer
London
£70000 - £75000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Media Solutions Engineer
£70,000 to £75,000 plus benefits
London – 2 days in the office
A rapidly growing global marketing group are building out a Media Solutions function that sits at the intersection of data, media and engineering. This team builds proprietary tools and automation for internal delivery teams and blue chip clients across sectors including finance, ecommerce and consumer. They are looking for an experienced Media Solutions Engineer to join the team and help scale their technology offering.
This is a strategic and hands on role where you will work closely with internal leaders and client teams to design and deliver innovative solutions that drive performance and operational efficiency. You will be at the centre of new ideas and leading edge technology with full ownership across the development lifecycle.
The Role
You will:
- Build automation tools, apps and platforms that improve media and marketing delivery
- Own end to end development and execution across a broad stack
- Act as a technical partner across the business and lead projects from idea to deployment
- Identify and deliver innovation across media and digital channels
- Develop proof of concept quickly and improve existing engineering practices
- Work across cloud environments working with APIs and structured data sources
- Build and visualise insight through dashboards and applications
Skills and Experience
We are looking for:
- Strong experience working with cloud tech ideally GCP
- BigQuery and SQL experience
- Experience with Python, Typescript or Javascript
- Experience with data visualisation tools ideally Looker
- Experience working in an agency or consulting environment
- Understanding of media, performance or digital marketing environments
- Ability to work independently and lead technical delivery
The Benefits
- £70,000 to £75,000 plus bonus
- Clear progression and exposure to senior leadership
- Work with complex greenfield workstreams and strategic innovation
- Hybrid working from London
If you want to work in a team where your engineering decisions shape major solutions and new technology this is an opportunity to join a high performing and collaborative environment.
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BI Developer (Tableau)
Milton Keynes
£450 - £550
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractMilton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
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Job Title: BI Developer (SQL, Tableau, SSRS)
Location: Milton Keynes (1 day per week)
Contract Length: 6 months
IR35: Outside
Day Rate: £450-£550
Notice period – (2 weeks max)
The Role
This contract has been created to keep a high-volume reporting workstream moving while the wider team focuses on the Databricks migration. You’ll own a mix of Tableau, SQL and SSRS development work, supporting business stakeholders and maintaining existing reporting across the estate.
Day-to-day, you’ll gather requirements directly from stakeholders, build and amend dashboards, develop SQL objects, and keep key reporting processes running smoothly. You’ll also support documentation, participate in code reviews, and contribute to best practice across the BI function.
Success in this project looks like:
- Stable delivery of BAU reporting
- Smooth migration of legacy reports into Databricks
- High-quality SQL and Tableau deliverables that stakeholders can self-serve from
- Clear documentation of reporting and BI processes
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, amend and maintain Tableau dashboards
- Create, optimise and support SQL Server stored procedures, views, functions and ad hoc queries
- Maintain and develop SSRS reports
- Support the migration of existing reporting into the Databricks environment
- Contribute to documentation, testing and code reviews
- Engage directly with stakeholders to gather requirements and support self-service
- Ensure consistency with internal processes, governance and data protection standards
Tech Stack & Experience:
Must-Have:
- Tableau
- SQL
- SSRS
Nice-to-Have:
- Experience migrating reporting workloads (e.g., SQL → Databricks)
Soft Skills
- Self-starter mindset
- Able to work independently
- Confident engaging with stakeholders
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BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE
From analysts to developers, Business Intelligence (BI) roles are indispensable, and an integral part of any data-driven team. Responsible for processing and visualising raw data over a variety of software applications, BI professionals help companies process their raw data into insightful solutions to solve complex business problems.
If you’re looking for recruitment support or jobs specialising in Cognos, Tableau, Qlikview, Looker, Domo, Birst, Microsoft Stack (SSIS, SSRS, SSAS), we have the team to help.
DATA ENGINEERING
We source the people who enable and optimise the technologies that make data possible.
From the Data Engineers who design and build data platforms, and those that manage data quality and data governance, through to Business Intelligence and Data Visualisation professionals, our Data and Technology team recruits for roles that sit behind effective analytics.
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
We source the people who enable and optimise the technologies that make data possible.
From Data Science start-ups, to global Travel and Financial corporations, we help the best Software Engineering talent find rewarding careers.
As the scale and complexity of data increases, Software Engineers have become essential players in creating information solutions. The need to build end to end systems that turn data into products has seen a sharp increase in demand for these roles.
Developers working in Python, Scala, and Java, as well as Dev Ops professionals, are now amongst some of the most sought-after talent in the industry.
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Client – Data Direction – Broadcast Media
I have worked with Harnham for over 2 years now as our main Analytics Recruiter partner and I am very pleased with the overall service and the people we have hired via Harnham. Harnham’s team is very good at understanding our recruitment needs and always come back with relevant and well scanned CVs, which saves me precious time.
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Client – Director of People Operations
We’ve been collaborating with Harnham to recruit some key positions for our company, and they have been incredible partners. They team has been great and efficient. They understood our needs perfectly and provided us very talented candidates. We'll keep collaborating with them in the future. Thank you for your excellent job!
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Candidate – Senior Data Engineer
I've been a Senior Data Engineer for about 4-5 years and Harnham is one of the best recruitment agencies I worked with. There was a time when my offer fell through and the recruiter I was working with at Harnham jumped in to the rescue and scheduled interviews for me within a couple of days. Really good agency and some great people.
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Client – Director of Customer Data Science – Apparel
The team at Harnham have been outstanding in helping our company build a market-leading data science team. Harnham’s communication is great, and the recruiter’s take a consultative approach that’s really focused on provided value for both their clients and their candidates. They provide strong candidates that help us fill our roles with high achievers who are also a great fit for our culture.
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Director of Customer Data Science – Apparel
Candidate – Chief Data Officer
It was a real treat to work with Harnham. My recruiter consistently went above and beyond to ensure that I navigated through the recruitment process as smooth as possible. I had been in contact with other professional at Harnham in the past and I can attest that the level of professionalism is always top-notch.
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Candidate – Market Research Analyst
Thanks to Harnham, I am now in a role that suits me. My recruiter was able to quickly identify the skills I had to offer and match me up with his client. It was a win-win for everyone. I was given great advice throughout the process, and I also appreciated the follow-ups that I received.
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I’ve had a great experience with Harnham. The recruiter provided great advice and ensured that I understood everything, and even followed up with me after I started my new role to see how I was settling in. I would recommend Harnham as a great recruitment company for anyone looking for a role in data and analytics.
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