Data & AI Video Hub
Explore Harnham’s collection of videos covering data, AI, analytics, and talent. Hear from industry experts, hiring leaders, and data professionals as they discuss building high-performing teams, hiring strategies, AI trends, and the future of data-driven organisations.
Latest Videos
What Success Looks Like in Data & AI
For today’s data leaders, success means confidence, simplicity, and long-term impact. With Harnham and Rockborne as one partner across the full spectrum of data and AI talent, businesses can reduce the complexity of juggling multiple suppliers and focus instead on building capability that lasts.
Lessons from 19,000+ placements and a partnership shaping the future of data talent
From Talent Provider to Data & AI Partner: Rockborne’s Evolution
As the market shifted and data leaders faced increasing pressure to deliver outcomes faster, with tighter budgets and higher visibility, business needs evolved. Instead of hiring talent, organisations now require complete, outcome-driven solutions.
Why Embedded Recruitment Wins for Data & AI Hiring | Harnham
When hiring is business-critical, traditional recruitment models often fall short. In this video, we explain why embedded recruitment is the most effective approach for scaling high-performing data and AI teams.
How to Build Data & AI Capability | Harnham x Rockborne’s Attract–Train–Deploy Mode
Every business faces unique challenges in building data and AI capability. That’s why Harnham and Rockborne start with one simple step: a conversation. From there, we shape the right approach together, guided by our proven Attract–Train–Deploy model.
Talent Transformation: Building Data Careers and Stronger Teams
Some of our proudest moments come from seeing Rockborne consultants, many from non-traditional backgrounds, grow into permanent roles, earn promotions, and even lead teams of their own. Their journeys prove how opportunity can transform both lives and industries. This impact extends to our client partnerships. In one organisation, Rockborne consultants, Harnham contractors, and permanent employees now collaborate side by side
Joining Forces for a Bigger Vision in Data & AI
Businesses needed a true partner who understood their challenges and could deliver lasting solutions. That vision sparked the creation of Rockborne: a consultancy that grew into a full-service partner, training, upskilling, and deploying diverse data specialists to close skills gaps and open data careers for people from all backgrounds.
Building Data & AI Talent: How Harnham and Rockborne Drive Transformation
From launching Rockborne as a training and development partner, to transforming how businesses think about data skills, Dave and Waseem share the vision, the impact, and the opportunities for organisations looking to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving market.
15,000 Placements Later: What We’ve Learned About the Global Data & AI Talent Market
Join Harnham co-founders Dave Farmer (Co-founder & CEO) and Simon (Co-founder & Chairman) for a candid and inspiring conversation celebrating 15,000 placements and nearly two decades in the data recruitment industry.
15,000 Placements Later: Co-Founders Dave and Simon
In this video, co -founders Dave Farmer (Co-founder & CEO) and Simon Clarke (Co-founder & Chairman) discuss a significant milestone in Harnham’s journey - 15,000 placements and nearly two decades of growth in the data and AI recruitment space.
15,000 Placements Later: Hear from Abby, the 15,000th placement
In this video, we speak to Abby Parker, the 15,000th person placed through Harnham Group - a data professional who entered the industry via our sister company, Rockborne.
What Makes a Great AI Recruiter?
In this video, we break down what separates great AI and data recruiters from the rest, and how companies can choose the right partner.
Short insights from Harnham experts answering the biggest questions in data and AI hiring
Data Leader Hiring Guide Insights
In this video, we break down the key insights from our Data Leader Hiring Guide, exploring what organisations should be looking for, how the role of data leadership is evolving, and what separates good from truly transformational hires.
Spotting High Potential Candidates
In this video, we explore what truly defines “high potential” — and why it goes far beyond experience, job titles, or technical ability. Hiring for potential rather than just proven performance can be a powerful competitive advantage.
The Skills Gap
In this video, we explore the growing conversation around the “skills gap” and what it really means for businesses trying to hire in a competitive market.
What we wish every hiring manager knew
In this video, we share the honest insights and recurring themes that can make or break a hiring process. From unclear briefs to unrealistic expectations, small misalignments can have a big impact on attracting and securing the right talent. We explore what hiring managers often underestimate, and how small shifts in approach can dramatically improve hiring outcomes
Why the US is losing out on top data talent
Is the US losing its grip on top data talent? In this video, we explore why some of the world’s best data professionals are increasingly looking beyond the US and what that means for businesses competing for elite talent.
What's changing in the US
In this video, we explore the key shifts shaping the US recruitment landscape, particularly across data, technology and leadership roles. From evolving candidate expectations to structural changes in how businesses hire and scale, the market is moving fast. Understanding these changes is critical for companies that want to stay competitive and attract the best talent.
Why We Don't Just Sent Any Candidate
In a competitive hiring market, volume is easy. Precision is harder. In this video, we explain why our approach isn’t about flooding inboxes with CVs — it’s about delivering carefully selected, high-impact candidates who truly fit the brief.
The Biggest AI Trends Right Now: LLMs, Agents & Trust
In this video, Tim Jonas (Business Manager at Harnham) shares the key trends shaping AI hiring and adoption today.
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Staff AI Engineer
$200000 - $600000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentNew York
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Staff AI Engineer
(Hands‑on, LLM Platforms, Technical Lead)
Location: New York
Working model: On‑site
Package: $250,000 + Equity + Bonus
The Opportunity
An established, technology‑driven organisation is building a central AI engineering capability to support complex, data‑intensive decision‑making across the business.
This is a high‑impact individual contributor role for a Senior AI Engineer who enjoys operating close to the commercial core. You’ll take ownership of critical AI systems from architecture through to deployment, working within a small, trusted technical group with direct access to senior stakeholders.
The environment suits someone who thrives in low‑bureaucracy, high‑autonomy settings, where AI is expected to deliver real, measurable value, not experiments for experimentation’s sake.
The Role
You will act as the technical lead for advanced AI tooling, owning system design and delivery across a range of internal use cases.
Responsibilities include:
- Designing and building LLM‑based applications, including retrieval‑augmented generation and agent‑style workflows
- Owning end‑to‑end system architecture, performance, and scalability
- Developing AI tools to support research, monitoring, knowledge discovery, and decision support
- Establishing evaluation and quality frameworks to ensure AI outputs meet high reliability standards
- Reviewing code, setting engineering standards, and supporting the development of other engineers
- Partnering closely with non‑technical users to translate complex workflows into intuitive AI products
- Assessing third‑party tooling and platforms where appropriate
This is a deeply hands‑on role with real ownership.
What We’re Looking For
Core requirements:
- Strong software engineering background (Python preferred)
- Proven experience building production AI systems, particularly modern LLM applications
- Solid understanding of:
- Prompt design and iteration
- Embedding pipelines and vector databases
- RAG architectures and tool‑use patterns
- Model evaluation and monitoring
- Experience deploying AI products used by non‑technical stakeholders
- Comfortable setting technical direction while remaining a builder
Nice to have:
- Exposure to complex analytical or commercial domains
- Experience working in small, senior engineering teams
- Background in cloud‑native environments
Why Join?
- Ownership of mission‑critical AI systems
- Direct visibility of impact, your work will be used day‑to‑day
- Modern AI stack with freedom to make technical decisions
- Long‑term scope to shape and grow the AI engineering function
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Research & Insights Consultant
City of London
£400 - £450
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractCity of London, London
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RESEARCH & INSIGHTS CONSULTANT
£400 – £450 PER DAY OUTSIDE IR35
HYBRID (2-3 DAYS PW IN THE OFFICE – LONDON)
1 MONTH CONTRACT
THE COMPANY:
This is an opportunity to join a leading global social-first creative and marketing agency, partnering with some of the world’s best-known consumer and financial services brands. The business specialises in creating and measuring high-impact social media campaigns, helping global organisations understand content performance, audience behaviour and campaign effectiveness through data-driven insights.
THE ROLE:
As a Research & Insights Consultant, you will provide senior-level leadership across the agency’s research and insight function, ensuring high-quality strategic outputs for a portfolio of global clients. Your responsibilities will include:
- Overseeing the production of monthly reporting and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), ensuring all outputs are accurate, insightful and client-ready.
- Quality assuring reports and recommendations produced by junior researchers and analysts.
- Turning complex social media and campaign performance data into clear, actionable commercial recommendations.
- Presenting insights, findings and strategic recommendations to senior client stakeholders.
- Providing consultancy on social media performance, audience behaviour and campaign effectiveness.
- Working with social listening and social intelligence data to identify trends, opportunities and competitor activity.
- Supporting client services teams by answering research and measurement queries and providing strategic guidance.
- Developing insight-led business cases, case studies and supporting materials for client proposals.
- Ensuring reporting is delivered to a consistently high standard while managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced agency environment.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
The successful Research & Insights Consultant will have:
- Extensive experience delivering research, insight and measurement projects within a social-first, media or agency environment.
- Strong experience producing and presenting monthly reporting and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) for senior stakeholders.
- Deep expertise in social listening, social intelligence and social media measurement.
- Hands-on experience using platforms such as Sprinklr, Talkwalker, Pulsar, Emplifi or similar social analytics tools.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to manipulate large datasets, identify trends and develop actionable recommendations.
- Experience transforming complex analysis into engaging client-ready presentations and insight-led storytelling.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to present findings and recommendations to senior client audiences.
- Experience overseeing the quality assurance of reporting and mentoring junior researchers or analysts.
- Previous experience delivering consumer research, campaign effectiveness or social strategy projects.
HOW TO APPLY:
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Mojola Coker via the apply link on this page.
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Research and Insights Consultant (Contract)
London
£400 - £450
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractLondon
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Research and Insights Consultant (Contract)
Hybrid
London-based
£400-450 per day
Outside IR35
1-Month Contract
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading agency environment on a high-impact short-term project. You will step into a senior oversight role, ensuring the quality and accuracy of social media research and reporting delivered to high-profile clients, while providing strategic guidance to both internal teams and senior stakeholders.
The Company
They are a well-established insights and research organisation that helps brands understand audience engagement, digital performance, and social media effectiveness. Working across a range of sectors, they deliver data-driven recommendations that inform business and marketing decisions. Their teams combine research, analytics, and consulting expertise to support complex client programmes.
The Role and Deliverables
- Oversee the delivery of monthly social media research and reporting across multiple client accounts.
- Quality assure data, analysis, and insights produced by junior team members.
- Review social media performance metrics and identify any issues, inconsistencies, or opportunities within the data.
- Support the creation of client-ready reports, presentations, and recommendations.
- Act as a trusted consultant, responding to client questions and providing expert guidance.
- Present findings and insights to senior stakeholders, ensuring clear and actionable communication.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong experience in social media research, analytics, or insight generation.
- Knowledge of major social media platforms and the metrics used to measure performance and engagement.
- Hands-on experience with social listening and analytics tools such as Sprinklr and Talkwalker.
- Ability to extract, analyse, and validate data before translating findings into presentations and reports.
- Experience developing or supporting social media strategies informed by research and performance insights.
- Confident working directly with senior stakeholders and communicating complex findings clearly.
- Exposure to financial services or insurance clients would be beneficial.
How to Apply
Register your interest by sending your CV to Ananya Gupta via the Apply Link on this page.
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Lead Data Scientist
New York
$90 - $120
+ Data Science & AI
ContractNew York
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Lead Data Scientist (Contract)
Harnham, the leading recruitment specialist in Data & AI, is currently partnering with a fast-growing financial technology organization focused on helping small businesses access the funding they need to grow and succeed. The business leverages data-driven decision-making to deliver innovative financial products and services.
- Role: Lead Data Scientist (Contract)
- Location: New York, NY
- Pay: $90-120 per hour
- Length: Extendable 6-month initial contract
- Utilization: 40 hours/week
- Benefits: W2 employees are eligible for health, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
As a Lead Data Scientist, you will join a high-performing Risk & Analytics team, working on customer, borrower, and investor analytics initiatives. You’ll partner with stakeholders across the business to develop analytical frameworks, drive strategic decision-making, and deliver data-driven insights that support business growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Learn and understand business needs, developing analytical frameworks to solve complex business problems.
- Recommend optimal business strategies using historical performance analysis, predictive analytics, and scenario modelling.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement analytical recommendations and business initiatives.
- Partner with marketing teams to support ongoing customer management strategies across multiple channels.
- Create and maintain automated management information reporting to track business performance and support external stakeholders.
- Design and develop predictive models and testing frameworks while driving analytics best practices across the organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative, finance-related, or similar field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Experience in analytics, ideally within financial services, business finance, credit products, or e-commerce environments.
- Strong coding skills in SQL, Python, and/or R.
- Proven ability to solve complex problems using analytical and statistical methods.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex analytical findings into clear, actionable business recommendations.
- Collaborative mindset with the ability to work effectively across teams.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Data Scientist to join a fast-paced, data-driven organization and influence key business decisions through advanced analytics and modelling. You’ll work alongside talented cross-functional teams, solve high-impact business challenges, and help shape strategic outcomes at scale.
Interested? Apply today through Harnham.
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Business Analyst
London
£60000 - £80000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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BUSINESS ANALYST
London/Bristol/ Hybrid
UP TO £80,000
This is an opportunity to join a newly created Business Analyst position at the centre of a major transformation programme. Sitting within a growing business transformation function, you will play a key role in shaping future ways of working, driving operational improvement, and helping the organisation become increasingly AI-enabled.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Business Analyst will:
- Elicit, analyse and document business requirements across strategic change programmes
- Facilitate workshops, stakeholder interviews and discovery sessions
- Review and redesign business processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness
- Conduct root cause analysis and problem definition for new business initiatives
- Assess and shape ideas progressing through an innovation governance framework
- Identify opportunities for workflow optimisation, process automation and AI adoption
- Produce high-quality business analysis artefacts including process maps, business cases and requirements documentation
- Support solution design, implementation planning and business readiness activities
- Work closely with senior stakeholders, project managers and subject matter experts to drive successful outcomes
- Help move ideas from concept through to approved investment and delivery
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:
- Strong commercial experience as a Business Analyst within transformation, change, or business improvement programmes
- Excellent requirements gathering and stakeholder management capabilities
- Experience facilitating workshops and influencing a range of stakeholders
- Strong process mapping, business process improvement and analysis skills
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous and fast-changing environments
- Experience introducing or working within governance frameworks
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving ability
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience producing clear documentation, recommendations and business cases
- Interest in innovation, operational excellence and emerging AI technologies
- Professional services experience would be advantageous
- Banking sector experience is not a requirement
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Growth & Product Analytics Lead
London
£160000 - £180000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Growth & Product Analytics Lead
London (5 days a week in office) | Salary up to £180,000
This is a rare opportunity to own growth outcomes at a fast-scaling technology business where product adoption and usage sit at the heart of commercial success. Working closely with senior leadership, you will combine analytics, experimentation, and execution to drive measurable impact across the customer journey.
The Company
They are an innovative technology business experiencing strong growth and high levels of customer engagement. With a product already demonstrating significant market traction, their focus is on scaling adoption, increasing usage, and unlocking further expansion opportunities across their client base.
The business offers a highly collaborative environment where data-driven decision-making is central to success. You will work alongside experienced leaders and cross-functional teams to influence strategy and deliver meaningful business outcomes.
The Role
As the Growth & Product Analytics Lead, you will take ownership of key growth metrics and identify opportunities to increase product adoption, engagement, and expansion.
Responsibilities include:
- Driving activation and onboarding to improve product adoption rates.
- Identifying opportunities for account expansion through data analysis and user behaviour insights.
- Increasing engagement across product features, platforms, and customer touchpoints.
- Analysing usage trends and delivering recommendations to support revenue growth.
- Defining product instrumentation and telemetry requirements to improve decision-making.
- Building, testing, and implementing solutions rather than relying solely on recommendations.
- Designing and evaluating experiments to measure the impact of growth initiatives.
- Partnering with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver measurable outcomes.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong commercial experience driving growth metrics within a B2B or enterprise environment.
- Advanced SQL skills and the ability to work confidently with modern data warehouses.
- Experience using analytics, reporting, and data transformation tools.
- Strong understanding of experimentation, measurement, and product analytics.
- Ability to translate complex data into clear business recommendations.
- Experience building automated solutions, workflows, or analytical products.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
How to Apply
If you are passionate about growth analytics, product analytics, and driving measurable business impact, apply today to learn more about this exciting opportunity.
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Growth and Product Analytics Lead
London
£100000 - £180000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Growth and Product Analytics Lead
London (Office-based – 5 days per week)
Salary: Up to £180,000 + Excellent Benefits
A high-growth technology business is looking for a Growth Analytics Lead to join, working directly with the CEO and senior leadership team to drive strategic, data-led decision making.
This is a rare opportunity for a commercially minded analytics leader to own the insights behind growth, product and go-to-market strategy. Rather than producing reports or dashboards, you’ll identify opportunities, build solutions, influence business decisions and measure their impact.
What you’ll be doing
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Own analytics across product, commercial and growth initiatives
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Identify opportunities to improve customer activation, adoption and retention
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Deliver insights on pricing, monetisation and expansion opportunities
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Design and analyse product experiments
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Build robust analytics using SQL, dbt and modern data platforms
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Translate complex data into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders
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Partner closely with leadership to shape company strategy
What we’re looking for
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Strong experience in Growth, Product or Commercial Analytics
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Hands-on technical skills with SQL and modern analytics tools
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Proven ability to influence commercial outcomes through data
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Experience within a high-growth SaaS or technology environment
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Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
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Comfortable working autonomously in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment
What’s on offer
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Salary up to £180,000
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Comprehensive benefits package
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Direct exposure to the CEO and executive leadership
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Significant ownership and autonomy
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Opportunity to shape the growth strategy of a rapidly scaling technology business
If you’re a commercially focused analytics professional who enjoys solving complex business problems and wants to make a measurable impact in a high-growth environment, we’d love to hear from you.
Find out more and apply via the link below!
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Business Analyst
London
£60000 - £80000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Business Analyst
London (Hybrid – 3 days in the office)
Up to £80,000 + bonuses
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Business Analyst to join a leading international professional services organisation undergoing significant business transformation.
You’ll work across a varied portfolio of strategic initiatives, partnering with senior stakeholders to improve business processes, assess new ideas, and help shape the future operating model. This role combines traditional business analysis with innovation, automation, and emerging AI-driven opportunities.
What you’ll be doing
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Lead business analysis across transformation projects
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Facilitate workshops and gather business requirements
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Conduct process mapping and identify improvement opportunities
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Perform root cause analysis and develop solution options
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Support governance and business case development
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Work closely with stakeholders to drive change and influence decision-making
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Explore opportunities for process automation and AI-enabled efficiencies
What we’re looking for
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Proven experience as a Business Analyst
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Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
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Experience working in complex, evolving environments
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Knowledge of governance frameworks and business change
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Ability to translate business problems into practical solutions
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Experience within professional services or similar environments is beneficial
What’s on offer
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Hybrid working (3 days in the office)
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Clear career progression into a Senior Business Analyst position
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Competitive salary and 8% bonus
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Opportunity to work on high-profile transformation and innovation initiatives
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Collaborative, forward-thinking environment focused on operational excellence
If you’re an established Business Analyst looking to make a real impact within a business focused on innovation and transformation, we’d love to hear from you.
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