The Data And AI Podcast

This podcast will cover a range of topics such as finding data talent, and AI training. We will also discuss more advanced subjects like assessing the value of your data team, identifying biases in AI and addressing pay gaps in Data and AI.

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Dive deep into the world of AI, data, and analytics

Episode 22: Bridging the Data Skills Gap – How to Upskill and Build Analytics Culture

Episode 21: GenAI breakthroughs, roadblocks and what to learn next

Episode 20: How Incrementality and MMM Are Changing Marketing Analytics

Episode 19: How AI Innovation & Hiring Are Evolving Hand in Hand

Exclusive! Harnham to 15,000: The Shift to Personalisation

Episode 18: Beyond the Numbers: Humanising Your Customer Data

Episode 17: Bridging the Consumer Experience Gap: What Brands Get Wrong

Episode 16: The Past, Present, and Future of Experimentation

Episode 15: Utilising Data for Market Fit

Episode 14: Geospatial Analytics – Past, Present and Future

Episode 13: Democratising Data

Episode 12: How to Build and Retain High-Performing Analytics Teams

Episode 11: Leading with a People-First Approach: Navigating Growth in Data and AI

Episode 10: From Payday Lending to AI: Navigating the Credit Risk Landscape

Episode 9: The State and Future of AI

Episode 8: The Next Data Wave: Emerging Trends in Data Management and Governance

Episode 7: Futurecast: Skillsets, Decisions, and the Role of AI

Episode 6: Getting Into the Data Industry Without a STEM Degree

Episode 5: Diversity Equity & Inclusion – How Data Leaders Can Take Action

Episode 4 – Key Findings from Harnham’s 2023 US Data & AI Salary Guide

Episode 3: Key Findings from Harnham’s 2023 UK Data & AI Salary Guide

Episode 2 – Data Literacy (with Waseem Ali & David Reed)

Episode 1 – Quantifying the Benefit of Data (with Waseem Ali & Craig Civil)

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Senior Product Manager

London

£100000 - £105000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Senior Product Manager

£105,000 + benefits + share options
UK – Remote‑first (hybrid flexibility)

About the role

Senior Product Manager role within a Series A life sciences startup building data‑driven products that support faster, more informed drug discovery. The focus of the role is strengthening product foundations, defining a clear roadmap and helping scale the product capability as the business moves towards go‑to‑market.

This role suits an experienced Product Manager who enjoys taking ownership, bringing structure where there’s ambiguity, and mentoring less experienced PMs without needing line management responsibility.

What you’ll be doing

  • Owning product strategy and roadmap, aligned to business goals
  • Improving product foundations, processes and ways of working
  • Translating customer needs into clear, actionable product direction
  • Working closely with engineering, data science and commercial teams
  • Supporting the development of new products and analytical tools
  • Helping take products towards go‑to‑market readiness
  • Acting as a senior product voice within a fast‑growing startup

What we’re looking for

  • Strong experience across the full product lifecycle
  • Proven ability to define and execute product strategy and roadmaps
  • Experience scaling or maturing a product function
  • Comfortable working with complex, data‑heavy technology
  • Go‑to‑market experience is highly valued
  • Life sciences experience is beneficial, but not essential
  • 5-10+ years’ product fexperience

BENEFITS

The successful candidate will receive a salary of £105,000, alongside a competitive benefits package and share options.

This is a high‑autonomy role with real business impact, offering the opportunity to work on complex, meaningful products within a fast‑growing life sciences startup.


HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Felix Igu via the Apply link on this page.

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Senior Data Analyst

London

£80000 - £95000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Senior Data Analyst – Player Analytics

£80,000-£95,000 + c.16% bonus (strong upside)
Watford Junction – Hybrid (3 days a week in the office)
Permanent (open to strong contractors)

About the role

Senior Data Analyst role within a large consumer business, focused on player and customer analytics across digital, commercial and marketing initiatives. This is a highly ad‑hoc role, suited to someone who enjoys ambiguity, variety and working closely with senior stakeholders.

Rather than routine reporting, the focus is on deep‑dive analysis, commercial problem solving and shaping decisions that have material business impact.

What you’ll be doing

Conducting ad‑hoc player and customer analysis to identify opportunities and risks
Supporting optimisation of digital journeys and experiences
Building commercial models to assess the impact of new products, features and mechanics
Analysing test‑and‑learn activity, measuring uplift and unintended consequences
Acting as a thought partner to senior stakeholders, challenging assumptions with data

What we’re looking for

Strong experience in a data or analytics role
Advanced SQL skills
Comfortable working with ambiguity and shifting priorities
Commercially minded, with the confidence to influence senior stakeholders
Experience in regulated industries is a strong advantage
Python and/or R experience for deeper analysis is beneficial


Benefits

The successful candidate will receive a salary of £80,000-£95,000, alongside a strong bonus and benefits package. This is a high‑autonomy role with real business impact, excellent exposure to senior leadership and the chance to work on varied, commercially meaningful analytics problems in a fast‑paced environment.


How to apply

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Felix Igu via the Apply link on this page

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Engagement Manager – Analytics Consulting Services

London

£100000 - £120000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Engagement Manager – Analytics Consulting (Banking / Fintech )

London / Leeds (Hybrid)

Salary up to £120,000

I’m recruiting for an Engagement Manager to join a growing analytics consulting practice, delivering high-impact, data-driven solutions to leading financial services clients.

This is a senior, client-facing role where you’ll own end-to-end delivery, shape analytical solutions, and act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders across banking, fintech, and payments.

The role:

  • Lead complex, multi-work stream analytics engagements from scoping to delivery
  • Partner with senior stakeholders to solve commercial challenges across risk, pricing, fraud, and customer experience
  • Shape analytical approaches (modelling, experimentation, insight generation) and drive outcomes
  • Support business development through proposals, pitches, and go-to-market strategy
  • Mentor teams and help build a high-performing consulting practice

What we’re looking for:

  • 10+ years’ experience in analytics consulting (financial services focus)
  • Strong track record delivering data-driven outcomes in banking/fintech/payments
  • Commercial mindset with experience in client growth and engagement delivery
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills (C-suite exposure)
  • Knowledge of modern data tools (SQL/Python/BI) a plus

BENEFITS

The successful candidate will receive a competitive salary and bonus, alongside a comprehensive benefits package. This includes 26 days annual leave + bank holidays, private medical cover, a strong pension scheme, wellness days, and access to an employee share plan. You’ll also benefit from flexible/hybrid working, ongoing learning and development opportunities, and the chance to shape a growing consulting function within a global organisation.

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Keji Adebari via the Apply link on this page.


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Director of Data

London

£120000 - £140000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Director of Data
Central London (Office-led, flexible)
£120,000-£140,000

We’re hiring a Director of Data to join a global, PE-backed marketing and rewards business working with major brands including Vodafone, Santander, and McDonald’s.

This is a unique opportunity to take ownership of an established data function and drive the next phase of growth. The foundations are already in place-modern data infrastructure, a central data platform, and a suite of data-led products. Now, the focus is on maximising value through analytics, insight, and predictive capabilities.

The role:

  • Lead and evolve the data and analytics function across the business
  • Drive adoption, data literacy, and commercial impact from data products
  • Deliver advanced analytics and predictive insights to support client campaigns
  • Work closely with senior stakeholders to embed data into decision-making
  • Execute an established data strategy and scale analytics capability

What we’re looking for:

  • Senior experience leading data / analytics functions
  • Strong background in analytics, insight, and commercial data use
  • Ability to influence and engage senior stakeholders
  • Technically credible (SQL, Python, modern data platforms)
  • Experience with customer, marketing, or product data is beneficial

BENEFITS

The successful candidate will receive a salary of £120,000-£140,000, alongside a competitive bonus and benefits package. This includes the opportunity to work in a high-impact leadership role within a PE-backed business, strong exposure to senior stakeholders, and the chance to shape and scale a growing data function. You’ll also benefit from flexible working arrangements and a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Keji Adebari via the Apply link on this page.

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Engagement Manager

London

£115000 - £120000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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SENIOR ENGAGEMENT MANAGER
LONDON/LEEDS/HYBRID
UP TO £120,000

This is a senior, high impact role for an analytics consulting leader who wants to shape a growing advisory capability rather than step into a fixed, plug and play position. You will sit at the centre of complex client engagements, combining strategic problem solving, senior stakeholder leadership, and hands on delivery to drive measurable commercial outcomes.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Senior Engagement Manager will:

  • Lead complex, analytics driven consulting engagements from problem definition through to value realisation.
  • Act as the primary senior client contact, building trusted relationships and guiding executive decision making.
  • Shape analytical approaches across modelling, experimentation, business analytics, and insight activation.
  • Oversee multi workstream delivery teams, setting quality standards, governance, and delivery cadence.
  • Drive commercial growth through opportunity identification, proposal development, and account expansion.
  • Contribute to practice building through reusable assets, delivery frameworks, and thought leadership.
  • Mentor and develop consultants and analysts, supporting capability growth across the practice.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

  • Strong commercial experience leading analytics or data consulting engagements within financial services.
  • Proven ability to translate complex analysis into clear, actionable business outcomes.
  • Deep understanding of areas such as credit risk, portfolio management, fraud, pricing, or customer analytics.
  • Confidence operating with senior stakeholders, including executive and board level audiences.
  • Commercial acumen across scoping, pricing, and managing profitable consulting engagements.
  • Familiarity with modern data environments, analytical tools, and visualisation platforms.

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Customer Insight Analyst

£50000 - £55000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Lancashire

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Customer Insights Analyst

£50,000 – £55,000

Hybrid – Lancashire (3x days per week)

This is an opportunity to step into a high impact customer insight role where your analysis directly shapes marketing strategy, customer experience, and commercial performance. You will work with rich customer and patient data to influence how a large, service led organisation engages, retains, and grows its customer base.

The Company

They are a well established, customer focused organisation operating at scale within a regulated, service led environment. Data and insight sit at the heart of their decision making, with strong collaboration across marketing, operations, and product teams. The business values thoughtful analysis, ethical data use, and turning insight into meaningful action.

The Role

You will focus on unlocking actionable insight across the full customer lifecycle, supporting CRM performance, retention, and personalisation. Key responsibilities include:

  • Analysing CRM, POS, digital, and survey data to identify behavioural trends and growth opportunities
  • Supporting campaign targeting and optimisation through segmentation, cohort analysis, and predictive insight
  • Developing dashboards that connect customer behaviour to commercial KPIs such as conversion, retention, and lifetime value
  • Leading analysis of satisfaction and advocacy data using sentiment and key driver approaches
  • Delivering clear, executive ready insights to non technical stakeholders
  • Partnering with marketing, operations, and product teams to improve lifecycle communications and service delivery
  • Ensuring GDPR and data governance standards are met in all analysis and reporting

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial experience in customer insight, CRM analytics, or lifecycle analysis
  • Confident using SQL and Python for data analysis
  • Experience with BI and visualisation tools such as Power BI or Tableau
  • Solid understanding of segmentation, retention, and campaign performance metrics
  • Comfortable working with multi channel CRM data including email, SMS, and direct marketing
  • Ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable recommendations

What They Offer

  • Competitive salary and benefits package
  • Hybrid working model
  • Exposure to large scale, high value customer data
  • Clear opportunity to influence strategy and see the impact of your work
  • Supportive, collaborative culture with strong values around integrity and improvement

How to Apply

If you are excited by turning customer data into meaningful commercial insight, apply now to find out more.

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Lead Customer Insights Analyst

Manchester

£70000 - £90000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Manchester, Greater Manchester

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Lead Customer Insights Analyst

£70,000 – £90,000 + bonus

Hybrid – Manchester (2 days per week)

This is a senior leadership role for someone who wants to shape how customer insight is embedded across an organisation. You will sit at the centre of strategy, analytics and transformation, building the frameworks, data foundations and ways of working that enable high impact, decision ready insight at scale.

The Company

They are a large, complex organisation with a strong focus on customer experience and data driven decision making. Customer insight sits at the heart of their transformation agenda, supporting senior leaders to act with confidence. The environment is collaborative, fast moving and focused on long term value creation through analytics and AI.

The Role

  • Lead the strategic enablement of a central insights capability, focusing on scalable, self service analytics
  • Design and maintain a holistic 360 degree customer view across internal and external data sources
  • Build and embed frameworks, standards and reusable assets for analytics and insight generation
  • Drive the development of data infrastructure, governance and quality to support trusted insight
  • Champion innovation in advanced analytics, machine learning and AI, evaluating and adopting new approaches
  • Translate complex analysis into clear, actionable recommendations for senior stakeholders
  • Coach and mentor analytics professionals, raising analytical maturity across the organisation
  • Lead and contribute to enterprise wide initiatives that link insight to measurable business outcomes

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial experience in customer insight, analytics strategy and transformation
  • Deep capability in data architecture, integration and connectivity across multiple data sources
  • Advanced knowledge of machine learning, predictive modelling and modern analytics frameworks
  • Proven ability to design integrated customer data assets that support decision making
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, with confidence influencing senior leaders
  • Ability to synthesise complex data signals into clear, impactful insight
  • Experience working in highly regulated or complex environments is beneficial

What They Offer

  • Competitive salary and performance related bonus
  • Opportunity to shape an enterprise level customer insight strategy
  • Clear scope for career progression within a growing analytics leadership function
  • Supportive culture with a strong focus on learning, innovation and impact

How to Apply

If you are looking to lead customer insight strategy and drive meaningful transformation through data, apply now.

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Campaign Selection Analyst

£45000 - £50000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
West Midlands

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Campaign Selection Analyst

£45,000 – £50,000 + bonus + strong pension

Hybrid – West Midlands (1x day per week)

This is an opportunity to join a growing customer analytics function at a pivotal time, where data plays a central role in shaping customer communications and commercial decision-making. You will work at the heart of campaign delivery, combining technical expertise with real business impact across multiple product areas.

The Company

They are a well-established UK financial services organisation with a strong customer-first culture and a reputation for high-quality service. Data and analytics are a strategic priority, with ongoing investment in modern platforms, tools, and ways of working. The environment is collaborative, stable, and focused on long-term value rather than short-term wins.

The Role

As a Customer Selections and Analytics Consultant, you will be responsible for delivering accurate and timely customer selections that support a wide range of campaigns. You will work closely with analytics and marketing stakeholders to turn campaign briefs into robust, data-driven outputs.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Translating campaign briefs into clear, structured technical requirements
  • Building, running, and optimising campaign selections using SQL
  • Joining and manipulating data from multiple sources including CRM, transactional, and engagement data
  • Using APIs to push selections into a CRM platform, supporting email and direct mail campaigns
  • Partnering with analytics specialists on testing, measurement, and performance analysis
  • Planning selections ahead of delivery schedules to support smooth campaign execution
  • Contributing to wider data platform migrations and process improvements

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong SQL capability, with confidence building and optimising complex queries
  • Experience in campaign selections, customer analytics, CRM data, or a related data role
  • Ability to translate business requirements into practical data solutions
  • Comfortable working with multiple data sources and large customer datasets
  • Experience supporting marketing or customer communications campaigns
  • Industry background is open, with transferable analytical experience valued

What They Offer

  • Competitive salary and benefits package
  • Hybrid working with flexibility built into the culture
  • Exposure to large-scale data platform and CRM transformation projects
  • Clear opportunities to develop technical capability and progress within analytics
  • A supportive, collaborative team environment with strong knowledge sharing

How to Apply

Apply now to learn more about this Customer Selections and Analytics Consultant role and how it could fit into your next career move.

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