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Episode 23: Beyond Compliance: Rethinking Data Protection in an AI-Driven World

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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Fraud and Financial Crime Analyst – FTC

£35000 - £42000

+ Risk Analytics

Permanent
Lancashire

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Fraud and Financial Crime Analyst FTC (12 months)
Lancashire
Up to £42,000

This is an opportunity to join a growing fraud and financial crime function at a pivotal time, covering a fixed term contract with genuine scope to make an immediate impact. You will sit close to decision-making, working with live data to influence strategy while developing your technical and analytical capability.

The Company
They are a regulated financial services business operating within a fast-paced retail environment. The organisation combines the stability of a regulated lender with the agility of a scale-up, allowing teams to move quickly and implement meaningful change. Their core product focuses on flexible payment solutions, supporting significant growth plans and new partnerships. The culture values collaboration, learning, and data-led decision making.

The Role
You will work as part of a specialist fraud and financial crime team, focusing on first-line activity and strategic insight.

  • Analyse fraud and financial crime data to understand trends, risks, and emerging threats
  • Monitor and assess the performance of fraud strategies and controls
  • Produce and optimise reporting to identify inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement
  • Use SQL to interrogate large datasets and deliver actionable insights
  • Support investigations across external and internal fraud, including account takeover, impersonation, first-party fraud, and broader financial crime risks
  • Contribute to ad hoc analytical and coding projects that support wider business objectives

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong working knowledge of SQL, with the ability to explain logic and outputs clearly
  • Experience analysing data within lending, financial services, or a regulated environment
  • Understanding of fraud and financial crime risks relevant to consumer credit
  • Proven ability to turn complex data into clear insights and recommendations
  • A proactive mindset, comfortable taking ownership and driving work forward

What They Offer

  • Salary up to £42,000
  • Fixed term contract within a growing and visible team
  • Hybrid working with three days per week in the office and flexibility on days
  • Strong exposure to stakeholders and end-to-end ownership of analytical work
  • A supportive environment with a clear focus on learning and development

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Customer Selections Analyst

Stratford-upon-Avon

£45000 - £50000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire

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I’m hiring a Customer Selections & Analytics Consultant for a long‑established UK insurance business that’s continuing to invest in its customer analytics and marketing capability.

This is a hands‑on SQL role focused on campaign targeting and performance analysis, sitting in a team that directly influences how the business engages and retains its customers.


The company

A well‑known UK insurer with a long history, now serving a wide range of customers across business, home, motor and pet insurance.

Data is central to how they grow and retain customers, with a strong focus on improving customer value and engagement through smarter targeting and insight.


The role

You’ll sit within a team of SQL‑driven analysts responsible for:

  • Building the audiences for marketing campaigns
  • Ensuring the right customers are targeted at the right time
  • Analysing campaign performance and driving improvements

This is a true end‑to‑end CRM analytics role – from selection through to insight.


What you’ll be doing

  • Build customer selections using SQL, based on campaign briefs
  • Segment audiences to support targeted marketing activity (e.g. cross‑sell and retention campaigns)
  • Work with stakeholders across the business to understand campaign requirements
  • Analyse campaign performance and provide clear, actionable insight
  • Present findings back to stakeholders to improve future campaigns
  • Support the development of dashboards and reporting for campaign evaluation
  • Help refine targeting approaches through continuous feedback and optimisation

What you bring

Must‑haves

  • Strong SQL skills
  • Experience in campaign selections / CRM / customer analytics
  • Experience building audiences and segmenting customer data
  • Experience analysing campaign performance and delivering insights
  • Ability to work with stakeholders and explain results clearly
  • Good communication and presentation skills

Nice to have

  • Experience in insurance or regulated environments
  • Experience with Power BI or other visualisation tools
  • Understanding of test‑and‑learn / campaign optimisation approaches

Why this role

  • Own end‑to‑end campaign analytics – not just reporting
  • Work in a team that directly impacts customer strategy and revenue
  • Strong bonus (17.5%) alongside salary
  • Flexible hybrid working (1 day onsite)
  • Fast interview process

Location

  • Based in Stratford‑upon‑Avon
  • 1 day per week onsite
  • Commutable from Birmingham, Coventry, Warwick, Leicester, Nottingham, and surrounding areas

Interview process

  • SQL test (sent upfront)
  • Single competency interview
  • Fast turnaround

If you have experience in CRM or campaign analytics and want a role where you can own both targeting and insight, this is a great opportunity.

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Ecommerce Analyst

Banbury

£45000 - £55000

+ Digital Analytics

Permanent
Banbury, Oxfordshire

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Ecommerce Analyst
Banbury, Oxfordshire – 4x a week in office

Up to £55,000

This is a newly created Ecommerce Analyst role offering the opportunity to take real ownership of ecommerce insight within a growing, product-led direct-to-consumer business. You will play a key role in shaping how data is used to drive commercial decisions, with a strong balance between hands-on analysis and influencing stakeholders across the business.

The Company
They are a well-established direct-to-consumer organisation with an ecommerce-first operating model and a strong investment in digital marketing. Products are designed and manufactured in-house, with a growing online customer base and an expanding product portfolio. Data plays a central role in how the business operates, and they are now strengthening their ecommerce analytics capability to support continued growth.

The Role
You will act as the central owner of ecommerce reporting and insight, helping the business better understand performance across trading, acquisition, and customer behaviour. Responsibilities include:

  • Owning and centralising ecommerce data into a clear single source of truth.
  • Building and maintaining scalable reporting used across commercial teams.
  • Analysing trading performance, traffic trends, conversion rates, and customer journeys.
  • Evaluating paid media performance across major digital advertising platforms.
  • Delivering proactive, actionable insights to support commercial and marketing decisions.
  • Working closely with ecommerce, marketing, finance, and technology stakeholders.

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial experience within ecommerce or digital analytics.
  • Confidence working with tools such as GA4, SQL, and modern BI platforms.
  • Experience analysing acquisition performance, conversion, and customer behaviour.
  • Ability to translate complex data into clear, practical insight.
  • Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
  • A curious, proactive mindset with a desire to make a visible impact.

What They Offer

  • The chance to shape a brand-new role with real ownership and influence.
  • Exposure to senior stakeholders and clear opportunities for progression.
  • A collaborative, people-focused working environment.

How to Apply
If you are an Ecommerce Analyst looking to take ownership of insight in a growing business, apply now to learn more about this opportunity.

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Lead Analyst – Pricing and Promotions

London

£50000 - £60000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Lead Analyst, Pricing and Promotions
London – hybrid 2x a week

Up to £60,000

This is a high impact role within a newly formed pricing and promotions analytics team, created to meet growing demand for smarter, data led commercial decision making. You will sit at the centre of pricing strategy, combining hands on analytics with senior stakeholder influence and leadership responsibility.

The Company
They are a large, complex UK consumer business operating at significant scale, with millions of customers and high volumes of transactional data. The organisation is investing heavily in pricing capability, advanced analytics and AI driven commercial insight. This team has strong visibility across the business and works closely with senior commercial leaders on high profile initiatives.

The Role
You will play a key role in shaping pricing and promotions decisions across the business, balancing long term strategic projects with fast paced commercial requests.

  • Lead pricing and promotions analysis to support business wide commercial decisions
  • Analyse competitor pricing and recommend data led responses
  • Deliver clear, impactful pricing performance insight to senior stakeholders
  • Support pricing resets, optimisation initiatives and test and learn activity
  • Apply advanced analytics including regression modelling and incrementality analysis
  • Translate commercial questions into robust analytical approaches and recommendations
  • Contribute to the development of AI enabled pricing analytics capability
  • Work closely with pricing leadership and SLT facing teams
  • Use SQL and Python to interrogate data and generate commercial insight
  • Line manage and develop a junior analyst

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial and pricing analytics experience within fast paced environments
  • Deep expertise in SQL and solid working knowledge of Python
  • Experience with pricing analytics, pricing elasticity or promotional optimisation
  • Confident working with senior stakeholders and influencing decision making
  • Comfortable operating in visible teams where priorities can shift quickly

What They Offer

  • Salary up to £60,000
  • Hybrid working with one day per week in London
  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Clear opportunity to shape a growing pricing analytics function and progress your career

How to Apply
Apply now to learn more about this opportunity and discuss how your experience could make an impact.

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Senior Engagement Analytics Consultant

London

£100000 - £120000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Senior Engagement Analytics Consultant
Hybrid in London 2x a week
Up to £120,000 + bonus

This is a high impact opportunity to join a growing analytics consulting practice at a pivotal stage of its development. You will take a lead role in shaping client engagements, influencing senior stakeholders and helping build a modern, commercially focused analytics advisory capability. The role offers strong visibility, meaningful client ownership and a clear path into practice leadership as the team scales.

The Company
They are a global data and analytics organisation operating at the intersection of financial services, technology and insight. The business works with banks, fintechs and payments organisations to help them make better decisions across risk, growth and customer strategy. Alongside established data products, they are investing heavily in an end-to-end analytics consulting offering focused on delivering tangible commercial outcomes. This consulting practice operates as a true advisory partner, translating complex data into action.

The Role

  • Lead end to end delivery of analytics driven consulting engagements from problem definition through to insight and implementation.
  • Act as the primary client contact, building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across financial services.
  • Translate complex analytical outputs into clear, compelling commercial recommendations.
  • Shape project scope, approach and delivery in collaboration with analytics and data science teams.
  • Drive commercial activity including pitches, proposals and contribution to practice growth.
  • Work across a range of use cases including credit risk, fraud, customer acquisition, pricing, segmentation, marketing and collections.

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial experience in analytics or data led consulting within financial services, fintech or payments. You must have strong and direct experience working in the financial services space.
  • Proven client facing delivery with senior stakeholder management and project leadership responsibility.
  • Ability to turn analytical insight into strategic and commercial outcomes.
  • Experience across credit risk, fraud, customer lifecycle or customer value analytics.
  • Confident communicator, able to engage both technical and non technical audiences.
  • Hands on experience working with data or analytical tools such as SQL, Python, modelling or visualisation.
  • Background in a high calibre consulting or advisory environment.

What They Offer

  • High visibility role with genuine progression into senior leadership as the consulting practice grows.
  • Opportunity to work on complex, high value engagements with leading financial services organisations.
  • Supportive, inclusive culture with strong investment in learning and development.

How to Apply
Apply now to learn more about this Senior Engagement Manager opportunity and how it could shape the next stage of your analytics consulting career.

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Senior Marketing Analyst

London

£75000 - £85000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Senior Marketing Analyst
London – hybrid 3x a week
Up to £85,000 + equity

This is a high impact Senior Marketing Analyst role sitting at the centre of growth and commercial decision making within a fast paced, product led fintech. You will take ownership of marketing analytics across a complex, multi-product environment, with a particular focus on attribution, experimentation, and driving efficient growth in a key international market.

The Company
They are a highly data driven fintech operating a consumer app across lending and financial products. Known for strong analytical standards and commercial focus, they have been profitable for several years and continue to scale at pace, including significant expansion into the US. Data is deeply embedded across product and growth teams, with analytics playing a critical role in shaping strategy.

The Role

  • Partner closely with growth and marketing teams to support performance analysis and commercial decision making
  • Analyse marketing spend across digital channels including paid social and search, assessing efficiency and ROI
  • Own attribution analysis to understand where customer applications originate, including multi touch attribution models
  • Optimise end to end customer funnels, identifying drop offs and conversion opportunities
  • Analyse complex customer journeys across financial products and recommend alternative pathways for rejected users
  • Build models to answer commercial questions such as incrementality, uplift and new channel effectiveness
  • Apply statistical techniques to support experimentation, testing and investment decisions
  • Work closely with senior stakeholders including the Head of Growth and CMO to translate insight into action

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial marketing analytics experience within consumer technology or digital products
  • Advanced SQL and Python skills, with Python central to analytical work
  • Proven experience with attribution modelling and complex channel analysis
  • Hands on experience with experimentation, AB testing and statistical analysis
  • Ability to structure ambiguous problems and deliver clear, actionable insight
  • Confident communicator with experience influencing non technical stakeholders

What They Offer

  • Salary up to £85,000
  • Equity participation
  • Hybrid working with three fixed days per week in the London office
  • High visibility role with clear ownership and impact
  • Opportunity to work on international growth within a mature, data led organisation

How to Apply
To apply, please send your CV to Izzi, including your contact details and salary expectations.

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Senior CRM Manager

London

£55000 - £65000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Senior CRM Manager
London – hybrid 3x a week in office
Salary up to £65,000

This is a rare opportunity to step into a senior, client-facing CRM role where strategy, insight, and delivery carry equal weight. You will play a central role in shaping CRM programmes for well-known brands, acting as a trusted advisor while still staying close to execution and impact.

The Company
They are a fast-growing digital growth agency based in central London, known for combining data-driven insight with creative CRM thinking. The business partners with a wide range of established, high-profile organisations across media, publishing, and consumer sectors. With a strong reputation for quality and a collaborative culture, they offer an environment where CRM specialists can genuinely influence client outcomes.

The Role
As Senior CRM Manager, you will lead CRM projects end to end across a portfolio of clients, balancing strategic direction with hands-on delivery. You will work closely with senior client stakeholders while guiding and supporting more junior team members on projects.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Developing multi-channel CRM and contact strategies aligned to commercial objectives
  • Managing email, push, and SMS activity, including segmentation, automated journeys, and dynamic content
  • Reviewing existing CRM activity to identify opportunities to improve performance and efficiency
  • Advising clients on how to maximise value from their CRM and marketing technology
  • Supporting CRM platform implementation and migrations where required
  • Shaping data strategies to enable better customer understanding and insight
  • Analysing campaign performance and turning insight into clear, actionable recommendations
  • Building strong client relationships and contributing to account growth

Your Skills and Experience
You will bring strong commercial experience in CRM, ideally within an agency or multi-client environment. You are comfortable defining CRM strategy as well as delivering against it, and confident presenting recommendations to senior stakeholders. An analytical mindset, experience using data to guide decisions, and exposure to marketing automation platforms are all essential. You enjoy leading projects and collaborating with others, even without formal line management responsibility.

What They Offer

  • Exposure to varied, high-impact CRM projects across multiple industries
  • Clear opportunities for development and progression within a growing team
  • A supportive, collaborative culture with a strong focus on wellbeing

How to Apply
If you are looking for a senior CRM role that combines strategy, client influence, and hands-on impact, apply now to learn more.

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Head of Analytics

London

£100000 - £160000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
London

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Head of Analytics
London – hybrid 2-3x a week
Up to £160,000 + bonus

This is a senior leadership opportunity to shape a modern, AI-enabling analytics function at a critical point of transformation. Sitting at the centre of the business, this role blends strategic leadership with hands on delivery, giving you real influence over how data, analytics and decisioning drive commercial outcomes.

The Company
They are a well-established, consumer-focused organisation operating in a highly data rich and regulated environment. With a strong focus on responsible decision making and customer outcomes, the business is investing heavily in analytics, automation and AI to support its next phase of growth. Analytics operates as a shared service, partnering closely with senior stakeholders across the organisation.

The Role
You will lead a centralised Analytics and MI function that supports multiple business areas, operating as an internal consultancy.
Key responsibilities include:

  • Leading and developing a high performing analytics team, including managers and analysts, with a strong focus on commercial impact.
  • Driving the shift from descriptive reporting to actionable, insight led analytics that influences senior decision making.
  • Embedding AI and advanced analytics tools into day to day workflows to improve speed, quality and scalability of insight.
  • Overseeing scalable data and reporting infrastructure, including automated reporting and governed gold layer datasets.
  • Line managing a Decision Engine Manager and overseeing the migration to a new decisioning platform.
  • Managing and prioritising a shared analytics workstack across finance, marketing and executive stakeholders.

Your Skills and Experience
To be successful, you will bring:

  • Strong leadership experience within analytics or MI in a complex commercial environment.
  • A proven ability to translate data into clear, actionable business recommendations for senior stakeholders.
  • Hands on technical capability using SQL, with Python experience preferred.
  • Experience working with modern data stacks such as Snowflake and Power BI or similar tools.
  • Practical experience applying AI tools within analytics, with a clear understanding of benefits, limitations and governance.
  • Confidence operating in fast moving environments where structure is evolving.

What They Offer

  • High visibility role with direct exposure to executive leadership and clear scope for long term impact and progression.

How to Apply
If you are looking for a senior analytics leadership role with real influence across data, AI and decisioning, apply now to find out more.

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