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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Data and ai podcast: All Episodes

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)

Data Recruitment & AI Talent Solutions

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Digital Analyst

London

£35000 - £40000

+ Digital Analytics

Permanent
London

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Digital Analyst
London (Hybrid – 2x Days a Week in Office)
£35,000-£40,000

THE COMPANY

This is an opportunity to join a fast-growing data function within a global marketing and media group! Acting as the central data hub across a collective of agencies, the team delivers high-impact analytics and measurement solutions to some of the world’s biggest brands; you’ll be part of a small, highly collaborative team with strong visibility across the business, working closely with senior stakeholders and gaining exposure to a wide range of clients and marketing channels.

THE ROLE

This role is ideal for someone with a background in digital or marketing analytics who wants to deepen their technical skillset while maintaining a strong focus on insight delivery. You’ll sit at the intersection of analytics, tracking, and performance, supporting global clients with high-quality data and actionable insight.

Key responsibilities:

  • Analyse website and campaign performance using GA4
  • Build and optimise dashboards in Looker Studio for client reporting
  • Implement and maintain tracking via Google Tag Manager (events, pixels, troubleshooting)
  • Support analytics audits and ensure data quality best practices
  • Monitor digital and paid media performance to identify trends and opportunities
  • Present insights to internal stakeholders across multiple agency teams

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Hands-on experience with GA4
  • Strong working knowledge of Google Tag Manager (event tracking, implementation)
  • Experience building dashboards in Looker Studio (or similar tools)
  • Background in a digital, media, or performance marketing environment
  • Strong communication skills – confident presenting insights to stakeholders
  • Proactive mindset with a desire to learn and develop

Nice to have:

  • Understanding of paid media metrics (PPC, paid social, display)
  • Exposure to wider MarTech or analytics too

THE BENEFITS

  • £35,000-£40,000

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Adam Osborne at Harnham via the Apply link on this page.

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Senior SEO Executive

£30000 - £33000

+ Digital Analytics

Permanent
Derbyshire

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Senior SEO Executive

£30,000-£33,000

Derbyshire (Hybrid)

THE COMPANY

This role sits within a high-growth retail group, offering the chance to work on one of the UK’s largest eCommerce platforms; SEO is a highly visible and well-respected function, playing a key role in driving traffic and revenue across the business!

THE ROLE

You’ll support the SEO Manager in delivering organic performance, with a focus on day-to-day optimisation and execution. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to step up into a more impactful role within a fast-paced environment.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Supporting SEO strategy execution
  • Making recommendations to improve rankings and performance
  • Conducting keyword research and analysis
  • Carrying out technical SEO audits and resolving issues
  • Optimising site structure, internal linking and on-page content
  • Supporting content creation (category pages, blogs, guides)
  • Assisting with link-building activity
  • Reporting on SEO performance

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Strong understanding of SEO fundamentals
  • Proactive and able to manage multiple priorities
  • Comfortable working at pace

Tools:

  • Screaming Frog (essential)
  • Google Search Console
  • GA4
  • Botify / Pi Datametrics / SEMrush (nice to have)

THE BENEFITS

  • £30,000-£33,000

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Adam Osborne at Harnham via the Apply link on this page.

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SEO Manager

£40000 - £45000

+ Digital Analytics

Permanent
Derbyshire

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SEO Manager

£40,000 – £45,000

Derbyshire (Hybrid)

THE COMPANY

This is an opportunity to join a major UK retail group operating across sports, fashion and lifestyle, with a portfolio of high-profile brands and a rapidly growing eCommerce function! SEO is a business-critical channel here, with strong visibility across the wider organisation, influencing teams across commercial, trading and buying, not just digital marketing; you’ll be joining a fast-paced, high-performance environment with significant investment in digital and access to best-in-class tools and agency support!

THE ROLE

You’ll take ownership of SEO performance for a flagship retail site, driving organic growth across a high-traffic, high-revenue platform. This is a hands-on role where you’ll be expected to hit the ground running, working across technical SEO, content optimisation and strategy delivery.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Owning SEO performance (rankings, traffic, revenue)
  • Delivering and executing SEO strategy across technical and on-site optimisation
  • Identifying growth opportunities through keyword and performance analysis
  • Managing site health (technical SEO, crawlability, indexing)
  • Collaborating with internal stakeholders across multiple business functions
  • Managing agency relationships and output
  • Reporting on performance and KPIs
  • Supporting and developing junior team members

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Strong SEO experience with ownership of a site or key areas
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-autonomy environment
  • Experience across technical and content SEO
  • Strong stakeholder management skills

Tools:

  • Screaming Frog (essential)
  • Google Search Console
  • GA4
  • Botify (nice to have)
  • Pi Datametrics

Background:

  • eCommerce experience preferred
  • Open to strong agency candidates
  • Best suited to someone hands-on and delivery-focused

THE BENEFITS

  • £40,000-£45,000

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Adam Osborne at Harnham via the Apply link on this page.

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Lead Digital Analytics Consultant

£70000 - £90000

+ Digital Analytics

Permanent
England

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Lead Digital Analytics Consultant

Fully Remote in The UK

£70,000-£90,000 + Bonus

The Company

A leading digital analytics consultancy with a full-service offering across insight, implementation, and CRO is seeking a Lead Digital Analytics Consultant for their Adobe practice! The company partners with major brands to deliver measurable value through advanced analytics strategies, implementations, and optimisation programmes. They are expanding into product/app analytics (e.g. Amplitude) and Customer Data Platforms (CDPs), and are continuing to grow and scale at pace!

Team & Structure

  • Role sits in the Strategy & Delivery team.
  • Works closely with technical specialists and other client-facing consultants
  • Role reports directly to the COO

The Role

The role incorporates strong Adobe Analytics experience with client management

Key Responsibilities:

  • Act as the Adobe Analytics subject matter expert; you’ll need the ability to lead on end-to-end implementations
  • Ability to translate business requirements into technical architecture and delivery roadmaps
  • Lead client-facing engagements: presentations, issue resolution, and insight delivery
  • Drive internal process improvement and delivery standards

Your Skills & Experience

  • Adobe Analytics SME (+ wider Adobe stack expertise)
  • Strong client communication and stakeholder management skills
  • High energy, curiosity, and a proactive, solutions-focused mindset

The Benefits

  • £70,000-£90,000 (DOE)
  • Remote-first role – 1x day a month to London (expensed)
  • Bonus

How To Apply

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Adam Osborne at Harnham via the Apply link on this page

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Adobe Analytics Implementation Specialist

City of London

£450 - £500

+ Digital Analytics

Contract
City of London, London

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Adobe Analytics Implementation Specialist (QA Focused)
£450-500/day, Hybrid (1-2 days in office), London, Inside IR35

This freelance project stands out for an Adobe Analytics implementation specialist who wants to apply their technical expertise in a quality assurance and governance capacity. Rather than building implementations directly, you will use your deep implementation knowledge to review, validate, and improve work delivered by others within a mature analytics function.

The Company
They are a large, well-established organisation with a strong digital presence and a clear commitment to high-quality analytics. Analytics is embedded across their digital products, supported by an experienced in-house team. The environment is collaborative, with an emphasis on best practice, consistency, and reliable data. This role adds a layer of assurance to an already capable Adobe Analytics team.

The Role and Deliverables

  • Act as an Adobe Analytics implementation specialist, providing QA oversight across implementations
  • Review tracking specifications, tagging approaches, and data layers designed by other specialists
  • Validate Adobe Analytics implementations against agreed requirements and best practice
  • Identify implementation issues, edge cases, and data quality risks, and document clear feedback
  • Work closely with implementation specialists to support remediation and improvement
  • Contribute to the ongoing refinement of analytics implementation standards and QA processes

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong experience as an Adobe Analytics implementation specialist in complex digital environments
  • Deep understanding of tagging, data layers, and implementation frameworks
  • Proven ability to QA and review analytics implementations, rather than purely testing outcomes
  • Confidence in assessing other specialists’ work and providing clear, constructive guidance
  • Comfortable working in a hybrid London-based setup with regular collaboration on site

How to Apply
Apply now to learn more about this Adobe Analytics contract focused on implementation QA and data quality excellence.

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Senior Analytics Engineer (12 month FTC)

Edinburgh

£67000 - £67000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Edinburgh

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Senior Analytics Engineer – 12 month fixed term contract

UK Remote

£78,000 plus benefits

This Senior Analytics Engineer role stands out as a chance to play a key part in a large scale Lakehouse programme, sitting at the intersection of engineering, analytics and the wider business. You will take real ownership of curated data models, shape how data is structured and served across the organisation, and influence best practice as the analytics engineering capability continues to grow.

The Company

They are a large, well established UK organisation with a strong reputation for combining technical excellence with a people first culture. Data and analytics are a strategic priority, with ongoing investment into a modern cloud based data platform. Engineering teams are expanding as part of a broader transformation, creating genuine opportunities to have impact and influence.

The Role

You will join a growing analytics engineering team and play a critical role in the Lakehouse environment. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Leading the design and delivery of curated, analytics ready data models within the Lakehouse
  • Owning the transformation from enriched to curated datasets, enabling trusted reporting and insight
  • Developing and maintaining robust SQL and PySpark transformation pipelines in Databricks
  • Embedding data quality, testing, reliability and performance into the curated layer
  • Working closely with data engineers, BI teams and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements
  • Providing technical leadership, mentoring and setting modelling and engineering standards
  • Contributing to CI/CD processes and wider engineering best practice across the data platform

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial experience as an Analytics Engineer within a modern data platform
  • Excellent data modelling capability, including dimensional and semantic modelling
  • Advanced SQL skills and strong hands on experience with PySpark
  • Experience working with Databricks and Lakehouse architectures
  • A solid grounding in engineering best practices, testing and data quality
  • Confidence mentoring others and taking ownership of technical decisions
  • An engineering mindset applied to analytics, rather than an analyst focused role

What They Offer

  • Flexible by choice working, supporting different schedules and work life balance
  • A 35 hour working week within a supportive, inclusive engineering culture
  • The opportunity to shape a critical data programme with real visibility across the business

How to Apply

If you are a Senior Analytics Engineer looking to make an impact in a growing Lakehouse environment, apply now to find out more.

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Product Director

London

£90000 - £110000

+ Data Science & AI

Permanent
London

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Product Director, Molecule Design Products
London, hybrid working | Competitive salary and benefits

If you are a product leader who thrives at the intersection of science, data, and AI, this role offers the chance to shape how modern drug discovery tools are built and scaled. You will lead a strategically critical product area, build a new UK based team, and influence how AI is embedded into real scientific workflows.

The Company
They are a global, research led organisation making significant investment in data and AI to transform how scientific research is conducted. Their enterprise scale platform brings together complex scientific data, advanced analytics, and AI to support discovery across R and D. The environment is highly collaborative, product driven, and focused on long term scientific impact rather than short term delivery.

The Role

  • You will define and own the product vision and roadmap for AI enabled molecule design products
  • You will build, hire, and lead a UK based product management team, creating the foundations for future growth
  • You will partner closely with scientists, engineers, and data teams to deliver products that improve drug design and optimisation
  • You will drive adoption of AI and data driven approaches across scientific decision making
  • You will operate as a senior product leader, influencing strategy during a period of organisational growth and change

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong product management experience across technical or platform products
  • Exposure to AI, machine learning, or data intensive products in production environments
  • Experience working in scientific domains such as pharma, biotech, or drug discovery
  • Leadership capability through people management or senior individual contributor roles
  • Ability to translate complex scientific and technical challenges into clear product direction

What They Offer

  • Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package
  • The opportunity to build and lead a new product function with immediate scope to hire
  • High visibility role with influence over both platform strategy and scientific outcomes
  • Clear progression within a data and AI organisation that is central to future R and D strategy

How to Apply
If you are looking to combine scientific impact with senior product leadership, apply to explore this opportunity further.

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BI Developer (Power BI)

London

£450 - £500

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Contract
London

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BI Developer
London, Hybrid (2 days)
Outside IR35
£450-£500pd

This contract offers the opportunity to play a key role in shaping analytics for a fast-growing technology business at an important stage of its data journey. You will work closely with multiple teams to turn data into meaningful insight, with clear visibility and impact across the organisation.

The Company
They are a high-growth SaaS business operating in the technology space, with a well-established product and strong commercial momentum.

The Role and Deliverables

  • Partner with product, finance operations, customer success and sales teams to understand reporting and analytics requirements.
  • Build and maintain analytics models using dbt to support a robust gold-layer dataset.
  • Develop clear, well-structured Power BI dashboards focused on performance and operational metrics.
  • Contribute to data pipeline development to ensure reliable and scalable data delivery.
  • Deliver high-quality SQL-based data models that can be reused across teams.
  • Collaborate closely with a junior engineer and senior stakeholders to prioritise and deliver analytics outputs.

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong experience in analytics engineering within a SaaS or startup environment.
  • Proven capability in SQL modelling and transforming data for analytics use cases.
  • Hands-on experience using dbt to build and manage data models.
  • Experience creating dashboards and reports in Power BI for non-technical stakeholders.
  • Understanding of data pipelines and modern cloud data platforms.
  • Confident working cross-functionally and translating business needs into analytical solutions.

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