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Director IT Supply Chain
Dallas
$250000 - $280000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentDallas, Texas
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Senior Director, Supply Chain Planning Technology
Location: Dallas, TX
Work Setup: Onsite, 5 days per week
Compensation: $250,000-$280,000 base salary + bonus + equity
A global manufacturing organization is hiring a senior technology leader to drive the transformation of its supply chain planning capabilities. This is a high-impact leadership role focused on modernizing the systems, data, and processes that support demand planning, supply planning, inventory optimization, capacity planning, and factory execution.
This person will sit at the intersection of IT, supply chain planning, and manufacturing operations, owning the technology vision and roadmap for advanced planning platforms while partnering closely with business, operations, manufacturing, and executive stakeholders.
This is not a pure IT delivery role, and it is not a traditional supply chain operations role. The ideal candidate has led large-scale planning systems transformations in complex manufacturing environments and can speak fluently across planning, technology architecture, data, and shop-floor realities.
What You’ll Own
You will lead the strategy, roadmap, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise supply chain planning platforms and capabilities.
Key areas of ownership include:
- Demand forecasting and demand sensing
- Enterprise supply planning
- Capacity planning
- Factory start planning
- Order scheduling
- Inventory optimization
- S&OP / IBP process enablement
- Planning platform modernization
- ERP, MES, and planning system integration
- Master data governance and data quality
- Advanced analytics, AI/ML, and automation opportunities
You will help the organization answer critical planning questions:
- What demand should we trust?
- What can we realistically build?
- Where do we have capacity constraints?
- How much inventory should we hold?
- How do we improve customer availability without overbuilding?
- How do planning systems better support manufacturing execution?
Key Responsibilities
- Define and execute a multi-year technology roadmap for supply chain planning systems.
- Own the architecture, implementation, integration, operations, and ongoing enhancement of planning platforms.
- Lead transformation initiatives across demand planning, supply planning, factory planning, order scheduling, inventory optimization, and capacity planning.
- Partner with manufacturing operations to ensure planning outputs reflect real-world constraints, capacity, materials, changeovers, and production schedules.
- Drive better demand signals, inventory decisions, and supply plans through data, analytics, automation, and modern planning tools.
- Ensure planning systems are tightly integrated with ERP, MES, manufacturing, logistics, finance, and broader supply chain systems.
- Establish strong master data governance and planning data integrity across systems.
- Work closely with supply chain planners, manufacturing leaders, IT teams, vendors, and senior executives.
- Lead change management, training, adoption, and communication for major planning transformation initiatives.
- Build and develop high-performing teams, including managers and technical/functional planning systems talent.
- Define future skillsets needed across planning technology teams and support upskilling and capability development.
What We’re Looking For
- 8+ years of experience delivering advanced supply chain planning solutions in a manufacturing environment.
- Strong background in planning systems such as Kinaxis RapidResponse, Blue Yonder/JDA, SAP IBP, SAP APO, o9, Oracle SCM Planning, Oracle ASCP, or similar platforms.
- Experience leading large-scale planning transformation, platform implementation, roadmap development, system integration, and post-go-live optimization.
- Strong understanding of demand forecasting, supply planning, capacity planning, factory planning, order scheduling, inventory optimization, and S&OP / IBP.
- Practical understanding of manufacturing constraints, capacity, changeovers, materials availability, production scheduling, and shop-floor realities.
- Ability to work across IT, supply chain, operations, manufacturing, finance, and executive leadership.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, enterprise systems, data flows, integrations, master data, and good system design.
- Experience using data, analytics, AI/ML, or automation to improve planning decisions.
- Proven ability to lead leaders, develop teams, manage vendors, and drive transformation across a complex organization.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Science, or a related field. Master’s degree preferred.
Ideal Background
The strongest candidates will likely come from complex manufacturing environments such as:
- Semiconductor
- Electronics manufacturing
- Medical device
- Aerospace and defense
- Automotive
- Industrial manufacturing
- High-volume or highly constrained manufacturing
Experience in semiconductor or electronics manufacturing is highly preferred, especially where planning is closely tied to factory capacity, material constraints, and production execution.
Why This Role Is Compelling
This is a rare opportunity to own a critical enterprise planning technology function at scale. The organization is investing heavily in modernizing how it plans demand, supply, inventory, and manufacturing capacity. You will have the visibility, resources, and executive support to shape the planning technology roadmap and drive measurable business impact.
This role is best suited for someone who wants to own the “planning engine” behind a complex manufacturing business – the systems and data that help determine what gets built, when it gets built, how inventory is optimized, and how customers are served.

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Senior Director, Engineering – Licensing
Mountain View
$250000 - $275000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentMountain View, California
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Senior Director, Engineering – Licensing
Location: Mountain View, CA (3 days/week onsite minimum)
Compensation: $250,000-$275,000 base + bonus + RSUs
About the Company
Harnham is partnering with a Fortune 500 leader in cybersecurity and digital trust, combining the scale of a global enterprise with the agility of a startup culture. The company protects hundreds of millions of users worldwide, boasts best-in-class retention, and maintains an unwavering commitment to innovation.
Its platform processes over half a million telemetry events per second, and following a major fintech acquisition in 2025, the organization has significantly expanded its footprint in New York City.
The Role
They are seeking a Senior Director, Licensing & Accounts Engineering to lead the transformation of mission-critical licensing and accounts platforms that power complex global product ecosystems. This is a highly influential leadership role focused on backend modernization, architectural simplification, and scalable platform design across multiple products and interfaces.
This leader will define the long-term technical roadmap for reusable licensing services, reduce system complexity across tightly coupled platforms, and drive modernization efforts across critical Java-based backend systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Own architecture and modernization strategy for licensing and accounts systems
- Lead transformation of 7+ critical Java backend components
- Simplify integrations across products, frontend systems, and legal/commercial constraints
- Design scalable, reusable licensing frameworks supporting multiple products and interfaces
- Set and drive the technical roadmap for licensing and accounts platforms
- Partner closely with Product Management and Architects on strategy and execution
Technical Leadership
- Provide deep backend expertise and architectural oversight
- Guide design decisions to reduce system coupling and improve platform reuse
- Lead integration strategy across multiple product lines
- Ensure systems remain resilient, scalable, and future-ready
Leadership & Influence
- Lead and scale a highly critical engineering organization of 20-25+ engineers
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders
- Drive alignment across shared services and cross-functional teams
- Act as a change agent by challenging legacy systems and engineering practices
Day-to-Day Focus
- ~50% architecture and system design leadership
- ~30% roadmap ownership and cross-functional collaboration
- ~20% people leadership and mentoring
Key Initiatives in the First 6-12 Months
- Define and execute the modernization roadmap for licensing and accounts platforms
- Reduce system complexity and redundant touchpoints
- Establish scalable licensing models across multiple products
- Improve integration patterns and backend service design
- Strengthen collaboration between engineering, product, and architecture teams
- Elevate overall technical maturity and engineering standards
Ideal Candidate Profile
- 10+ years of experience in senior engineering leadership roles
- Expertise in backend shared services platforms and large-scale system architecture
- Experience modernizing legacy backend systems in mid-to-large product organizations
- Strong background in integration-heavy architectures across complex product ecosystems
- BS in Computer Science or related field required; advanced degree a plus
Must-Have Skills
- Deep Java backend systems expertise
- Strong system architecture and platform transformation experience
- Experience defining and driving technical roadmaps
- Proven ability to lead and influence teams of 20-25+ engineers
- Strong integration design experience across multiple systems
- Ability to simplify highly complex technical domains
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Licensing and entitlement platform experience
- Experience building reusable entitlement frameworks
- Cloud modernization experience
- Exposure to regulated or legally constrained systems
Benefits
The compensation package includes a competitive base salary, bonus, RSUs, 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
Software Engineering | Backend Platforms | Licensing | Entitlements | Distributed Systems | Architecture | Platform Modernization | Java | Shared Services | Integration | Product Engineering | Technical Leadership | Scalability | Cloud | Engineering Management | Consumer Platforms | B2C Platforms | Customer Platforms | Systems Design | Roadmap Strategy

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Senior Director Engineering – eCommerce
Mountain View
$250000 - $275000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentMountain View, California
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Senior Director, Engineering – eCommerce
Location: Mountain View, CA (3 days/week on site minimum)
Compensation: $250,000-$275,000 base + bonus + RSUs
About the Company
Harnham is partnering with a Fortune 500 leader in cybersecurity and digital trust, combining the scale of a global enterprise with the agility of a startup culture. The company protects hundreds of millions of users worldwide, boasts best-in-class retention, and maintains an unwavering commitment to innovation.
Its platform processes over half a million telemetry events per second, and following a major fintech acquisition in 2025, the organization has significantly expanded its footprint in New York City.
The Role
They are looking for a Senior Director, Engineering to oversee a growing global engineering team of 20+ professionals. This is a highly visible, reporting directly to the executive team and partnering with the C-suite.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead architecture and technical direction for global eCommerce platforms, modernizing legacy Java systems into AI-enabled solutions
- Oversee checkout, billing, subscriptions, payments, and third-party payment integrations at global scale
- Drive cloud and database modernization strategies, including Azure/AWS and OracleDB migration planning
- Provide hands-on architectural guidance, influence AI adoption, and elevate engineering capabilities across teams
- Partner with senior engineers, architects, and cross-functional leaders to improve scalability, reliability, and engineering practices while challenging legacy approaches
Ideal Candidate Profile
- 12+ years of experience preferred, with expertise in large-scale eCommerce, payments, platform modernization, and AI-assisted system design
- Background in high-scale consumer platforms and leading legacy-to-modern transformation initiatives
- BS in Computer Science or related field required; MS preferred
- Strong Java backend, system architecture, and cloud experience (Azure required, AWS a plus)
- Experience with commerce platforms, React, code/architecture reviews, and leading global engineering teams
- Proven ability to influence technical direction and challenge legacy approaches with credibility
- Preferred experience in payments, subscription billing, AI-driven modernization, OracleDB migrations, and cybersecurity/fintech domains
BENEFITS
The compensation package contains a base salary, bonus, RSUs 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
Software Engineering | Leadership | eCommerce | Engineering | Fintech | Customer | Customer-Facing | Direct-to-Consumer | B2C | Product | Production | Real Time | Director | Regulation | Payments | Compliance | Regulatory | Startup Environment | Executive | Scale | Scaling | Artificial Intelligence | Java | Billing | Real-Time

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E-Commerce Analyst
Banbury
£45000 - £55000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentBanbury, Oxfordshire
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Ecommerce Analyst
Banbury (hybrid) £45,000 to £60,000 plus benefits
This is a newly created Ecommerce Analyst role offering the chance to take real ownership of insight in a fast-growing, product-led ecommerce business. You will play a key role in shaping how data is used to drive trading, acquisition and customer decisions, with visibility across senior stakeholders and the freedom to influence how analytics is done.
The Company
They are a direct-to-consumer ecommerce business with a strong digital footprint and an expanding product range. Ecommerce sits at the heart of their commercial strategy, supported by significant investment in paid media and digital channels. The business is highly data-aware and is now looking to strengthen insight by appointing a dedicated ecommerce analytics specialist.
The Role
You will act as the central owner of ecommerce reporting and analysis, moving the business from fragmented data to clear, actionable insight. Key responsibilities include:
- Owning ecommerce performance reporting and building scalable dashboards used across the business
- Analysing trading performance, traffic, conversion and customer journeys
- Evaluating paid media performance across key digital channels and supporting attribution understanding
- Identifying opportunities to improve acquisition efficiency and commercial outcomes
- Translating complex analysis into clear recommendations for ecommerce, marketing and finance stakeholders
- Proactively surfacing insights rather than responding to ad hoc requests
Your Skills and Experience
- Strong commercial experience in ecommerce or digital analytics
- Confident working with tools such as GA4, SQL, BigQuery or Looker
- Experience analysing acquisition performance, conversion and customer behaviour
- Ability to work independently and take ownership in a fast-paced environment
- Clear communication skills with the confidence to influence non-technical stakeholders
What They Offer
- Salary between £45,000 and £60,000 depending on experience
- Hybrid working with a strong preference for regular on-site collaboration
- High-impact role with visibility across senior leadership
- Opportunity to shape ecommerce analytics in a growing business
- Supportive, collaborative office environment with clear scope for progression
How to Apply
Apply now to learn more about this Ecommerce Analyst opportunity through Harnham, specialists in Data and Analytics recruitment.

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Senior Full Stack Engineer
Eindhoven
€80000 - €80000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentEindhoven, North Brabant
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Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)
Hybrid: Eindhoven – with 2 days per week onsite.
Salary: 80k inclusive
This is a rare opportunity to join a newly formed engineering team at the point where innovation meets real world delivery. You will play a key role in taking proof of concept products and turning them into scalable, production ready platforms that are used by planners and decision makers every day.
The Company
They are part of a large, well established global media and technology group, building a brand new engineering capability focused on productionising innovative data products. Operating with the backing of a major organisation, the team has the freedom to work in a greenfield environment, shaping technical standards, ways of working and culture from the ground up. Collaboration, openness and practical delivery are central to how they work.
The Role
You will sit at the heart of a multidisciplinary team, working closely with innovation, data science, design and DevOps colleagues.
- Build and scale full stack applications with a strong focus on high quality frontend experiences.
- Take proof of concept tools and turn them into robust, production ready systems.
- Design and implement cloud ready, scalable solutions aligned to agreed architecture standards.
- Contribute to product decisions, technical direction and engineering best practice.
- Communicate clearly about your approach to work and collaborate in an informal, open environment.
Your Skills and Experience
- Strong commercial experience as a full stack engineer, with deep expertise in React and TypeScript.
- Backend development experience, ideally in Python, within production environments.
- Hands on experience deploying and running applications in the cloud, using AWS or GCP.
- Proven ability to scale prototypes or PoCs into reliable, maintainable production systems.
- Comfortable working collaboratively and articulating your technical decisions and working style.
What They Offer
- The chance to help build a team and influence engineering culture from day one.
- Greenfield development combined with ownership of real, impactful products.
- Hybrid working with flexibility around onsite collaboration in Eindhoven.
- Strong long term career progression within a globally backed organisation.
- A modern technology stack and exposure to cutting edge data driven products.
How to Apply
- If you are excited by building production grade software from innovative ideas, apply now to find out more about this opportunity.

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E-commerce Analyst
London
£50000 - £55000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Ecommerce Analyst
Oxfordshire, Hybrid
Salary up to £55,000
This is a newly created Ecommerce Analyst role offering the chance to shape how ecommerce performance is measured and understood across a growing direct to consumer business. You will have real ownership, working closely with senior stakeholders to turn data into clear, commercial insight that directly influences decision making.
The Company
They are a fast growing, digitally led consumer business with a strong focus on ecommerce and data driven decision making. Operating a direct to consumer model alongside major online marketplaces, they continue to invest heavily in digital marketing, analytics, and technology. The culture is collaborative, commercially minded, and focused on using insight to drive performance.
The Role
You will take ownership of ecommerce reporting and analysis, building robust foundations while delivering ongoing insight. Key responsibilities include:
- Centralising ecommerce data to create a single source of truth for performance reporting
- Building and maintaining dashboards and reporting frameworks for trading performance
- Analysing traffic, conversion, and customer journeys across ecommerce channels
- Evaluating paid media performance across platforms such as Google and Meta
- Delivering clear, proactive insights to ecommerce, marketing, and commercial stakeholders
- Supporting optimisation of customer acquisition and trading performance
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong commercial experience in ecommerce or digital analytics
- Hands on capability with tools such as GA4, SQL, BigQuery, and BI platforms
- Experience analysing trading performance, conversion, and customer behaviour
- Confidence working with paid media and acquisition performance data
- Ability to communicate insight clearly to non technical stakeholders
- A proactive, independent approach with a focus on impact
How to Apply
If you are an Ecommerce Analyst looking to step into a role with real ownership and commercial impact, apply now to learn more.

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Lead Pricing and Promotions Analyst
London
£50000 - £60000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Lead Pricing Analyst
London, Hybrid
Salary up to £60,000
This is a senior analytics role with real commercial influence, sitting at the heart of pricing and promotions for a large, data rich consumer business. You will lead high impact analysis that shapes how customers experience pricing, while developing the next generation of pricing and promotion capabilities at scale.
The Company
They are a complex, multi channel consumer organisation operating at significant scale, with millions of customer interactions and transactions each year. Data and analytics sit at the core of their decision making, with strong investment in modern platforms, tooling and talent. The culture is collaborative, inclusive and delivery focused, with a clear emphasis on using data to create tangible customer and commercial value.
The Role
- Act as an analytics lead within pricing and promotions, shaping insight that directly informs commercial decisions.
- Lead and mentor analysts, supporting development and maintaining high standards of analytical output.
- Partner closely with commercial stakeholders to define problems, prioritise work and deliver impactful insight.
- Drive the development of pricing and promotion analytics, from exploratory analysis through to scalable solutions.
- Work alongside engineering and data science teams to build and improve data pipelines, models and analytical tools.
- Translate complex analysis into clear, compelling stories that influence decision making at senior levels.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong commercial experience in analytics, ideally linked to pricing, promotions or revenue optimisation.
- Advanced SQL and Python capability, with confidence working across large, complex datasets.
- Experience leading, coaching or mentoring analysts in a high performance environment.
- A proven ability to deliver actionable insight that drives measurable business outcomes.
- Confident stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and challenge constructively.
- A curious mindset and comfort working through ambiguity to create clarity and direction.
How to Apply
Apply now to find out more about this Lead Pricing Analyst opportunity and how it could support your next career move.

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CRM Email Designer – Contract
London
£300 - £350
+ Digital Analytics
ContractLondon
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CRM Email Designer – Contract
Tobacco Client
London – 1 day per week in office
£300-£350 per day – Outside IR35
This freelance opportunity suits a CRM Email Designer who thrives on ownership and autonomy. You will take the lead on designing high-impact CRM emails, working with limited direction and translating briefs into polished, ready-to-deploy creative that elevates the customer journey for a well-established consumer brand.
The Company
They are a global consumer business investing heavily in the uplift of their CRM and digital communications. Design quality and customer engagement sit at the heart of this transformation, with a clear focus on improving email journeys across the lifecycle. The team values contractors who can work independently, bring initiative, and consistently deliver to a high standard.
The Role and Deliverables
- Own the end-to-end design of CRM email templates across automated and campaign-based journeys.
- Create visually engaging designs for welcome, basket abandonment, re-engagement and promotional emails.
- Interpret high-level briefs and deliver creative solutions with minimal supervision.
- Apply brand guidelines while proactively suggesting improvements to enhance engagement and usability.
- Produce light supporting copy where required to complement email layouts.
- Deliver final email assets ready for deployment within the CRM platform.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong experience designing high-quality CRM and email marketing assets.
- Proven ability to work independently, showing initiative and sound creative judgement.
- Confidence using design tools to produce responsive, well-structured email layouts.
- Comfortable translating limited or high-level direction into clear, effective design.
- A portfolio demonstrating CRM email design and customer journey thinking.
- A detail-oriented approach with a strong focus on consistency and brand alignment.
How to Apply
Apply with your latest portfolio and availability to be considered for this contract.
