Demand is outpacing what the current partnership can absorb. Our client is growing its leadership team deliberately — and only with people who can lead senior client relationships from day one. This is a hands-on, senior role, not a management layer.

— Strategic authority. 15+ years in research consultancy, management consulting or design. Proven at translating customer insight into commercially actionable strategy. Confident at SVP and C-suite level.

— A commercial track record. £1m+ revenue and £0.5m+ PBT, consistently delivered. A client portfolio you’ve grown. Accounts you can bring.

— The right mindset. Entrepreneurial. Direct. Invested in the work and the business, not just your own contribution.

The package

Two routes to Partner equity, including day-one ownership options. Full details on application.

📍 London | Hybrid | Partner / Senior Partner level

Nicholson Glover is a specialist recruitment consultancy founded in 2002. We focus exclusively on four disciplines: Customer Research & Insight, Strategy & Innovation, Data, Analytics & AI, and Product & Technology — placing mid-to-senior professionals with agencies, consultancies, corporate teams, and venture-backed businesses. Speak to us: francis@nicholsonglover.co.uk

Our client is a leading data science and engineering consultancy, specialising in delivering applied AI and data science solutions that create measurable commercial value for some of the world’s largest private equity funds and their portfolio companies. PE-backed and with a global footprint spanning the US, UK, and India, they have built a high-performing team of several hundred experts and a client base that keeps coming back

You’ll own the full lifecycle of data science engagements, from shaping ambiguous problems through to deploying production-grade models that embed into real operational workflows.

This isn’t a research or experimentation role – it’s delivery-focused, commercially grounded, and built for someone who thrives at the intersection of rigorous data science and client impact. You’ll work across organisations at every stage of data maturity, set the technical standard internally, and develop the next generation of data scientists within the team.

Key attributes of a suitable Data Science Manager include:

• Deep Applied Data Science Expertise – you bring 5+ years of hands-on experience delivering end-to-end machine learning and statistical solutions in production environments.
• Commercial Problem Solver – you’re confident translating ambiguous business challenges into hypothesis-driven data science solutions, and equally comfortable presenting findings and influencing decision-making at the senior client level.
• Technical Leader – you set the bar for code quality, reproducibility, and best practice, and take pride in mentoring and developing others. You understand that the measure of success is client outcomes, not model sophistication.
• Awareness of Generative AI – some exposure to LLMs, RAG pipelines, or agentic workflows is a plus, though strong data science fundamentals will always take priority.

This is a hands-on, technically demanding role. The core of the job is a large-scale, pan-European demographic data exercise, run twice a year, tracking gender representation across investment roles at a substantial number of member firms across multiple European markets. You will:

• Own data collection end-to-end, including web scraping of LinkedIn and other publicly available sources using Python (or equivalent)
• Build and maintain reproducible data pipelines that ensure consistency and quality across research cycles
• Merge, clean and manipulate complex, multi-source datasets to produce reliable, longitudinal outputs
• Develop and maintain Excel-based benchmarking tools used directly by member firms
• Project manage research delivery, coordinating with international committees, trade associations, and academic partners
• Produce analysis and contribute to report writing, working with an external agency on final production
• Support the wider team with data requests and presentations across the programme of work
• Identify opportunities to improve research efficiency through automation, standardisation, and AI tools

Essential:

• Proficiency in Python (or equivalent) for web scraping, data cleaning, analysis and automation — professional-grade experience, not just coursework
• A track record of building reproducible, systematic data pipelines — not just ad hoc scripts
• Strong data merging and manipulation skills across large, complex datasets from multiple sources
• Advanced Excel — complex data tables, quality assurance processes, and stakeholder-facing analytical outputs
• A genuine quality-control mindset and rigorous attention to detail with data
• End-to-end project management experience on complex, multi-stakeholder data or research projects
• Confident communicator, able to engage professionally with senior stakeholders, academic partners, and international committees
• Ability to work independently and take ownership without a technical line manager
• Genuine interest in gender diversity, DE&I, or social impact — this matters to my client

Desirable:

• Experience with data visualisation tools such as Power BI or Tableau
• Exposure to AI or automation tools applied to data or research workflows
• Background in or knowledge of alternative asset management or financial services
• Experience with pan-European data collection or GDPR compliance in a data context

• Real impact — the data you produce informs policy conversations, is used by member firms to benchmark themselves, and directly influences how the industry thinks about gender diversity
• Unique work — my client is one of a very small number of organisations collecting gender representation data at this level of granularity across European markets
• Intellectual variety — beyond the flagship annual report, you will contribute to international research projects and academic collaborations
• Technical autonomy — you will own the technical stack and have the freedom to improve and evolve how the team works
• A high-calibre team and network — collaborating with partners at leading academic institutions and major investment firms across Europe
• Permanent role with strong benefits including generous holiday, Christmas closure, and pension contribution
• Hybrid working from a central London office, with genuine flexibility

Location: Central London — 3 days in office per week, with flexibility

Contract: Permanent, full-time

Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience

Start date: As soon as possible — my client is looking to move quickly

Notice period: My client needs someone available by early August. Please only apply if you are on 4 weeks’ notice or less.

Nicholson Glover is a specialist recruitment consultancy founded in 2002. We focus exclusively on four disciplines: Customer Research & Insight, Strategy & Innovation, Data, Analytics & AI, and Product & Technology — placing mid-to-senior professionals with agencies, consultancies, corporate teams, and venture-backed businesses. Speak to us: francis@nicholsonglover.co.uk

Our client is a small, high-performance insight and strategy agency in London. The kind of place where quant doesn’t sit in a silo. They’re a method-agnostic agency: strategists, researchers, data scientists, ethnographers, and designers all under one roof.

Roughly 80% of what they do is strategic. The other 20% still feeds something bigger. Brand architecture, strategic positioning, concept development. The work is genuinely interesting. The clients are household names. And the team is tight, smart, and moving fast.

You’ll support the Head of Quant and senior team across a portfolio of about three projects at a time.

All ad hoc, all different. That means:

• Running and checking data in Q/SPSS
• Managing supplier relationships and fieldwork quotas
• Supporting analysis, charting, and topline reporting
• Helping coordinate timelines, stakeholders, and client comms
• Contributing to brainstorms and attending client meetings

No two projects are the same. There are no templates.

You’ve got around 2–3 years of quant consumer research experience, ideally from a rigorous agency background. You know your way around fieldwork, data checking, and DP specs. You’re not waiting to be told what to do, but you’re also honest about where you still have room to grow.

You’re comfortable in a fast-paced environment where the expectation is high and the support is real. You want variety over repetition, and you’d rather work on something strategic than process the same tracker every quarter.

You’re not the right fit if you’re looking for a highly structured environment, or if your quant experience is mostly light-touch or not in a commercial sector.

• £32,000–£36,000 base
• Profit-share scheme
• 25 days holiday
• Hybrid working
• Health insurance
• Enhanced parental leave
• Wellbeing support

Most research roles ask you to deliver findings. This one asks you to change outcomes.

My client is a leading international strategic research and advisory consultancy — trusted by corporations, law firms, and governments to provide the research and intelligence that shapes high-stakes campaigns and decisions. Their London research team is small, senior, and embedded directly in the heart of the business. They’re looking for someone to join it.

You’ll own complex, multi-method research projects end to end — from design and fieldwork management through analysis and client delivery. The portfolio spans regulatory and lobbying campaigns, litigation and dispute resolution, corporate and sovereign reputation, defence and security, and energy and infrastructure. No trackers. No repeat briefs. Every project is bespoke, often international, and built around a specific client objective.

You’ll manage senior client relationships independently, contribute to pitches, and help shape how the team uses AI to work smarter — practically, not theoretically.

• 6–8+ years in political, strategic, or market research
• Strong quant instincts: survey design, sampling, regression, max diff — and the ability to tell the story in the data
• Comfortable in qual too: moderation, depths, analysis
• Commercially minded and consultative — you solve client problems, not just answer research questions
• Credible with senior stakeholders and curious about the political and business world your clients operate in

Background is less important than mindset. Polling firm, strategic comms, large agency — my client is open, provided you think like a consultant and not just a researcher.

The work is interesting, often sensitive, and genuinely international. You’ll sit alongside campaigns and advisory colleagues on one floor in central London — close to the work, close to the clients, and with real visibility of how research shapes strategic outcomes.

Five days in the office (some practical flexibility of course). Some international travel. Exceptional salary, with genuine flexibility for the right candidate.

Interested? Get in touch or send me your CV. And if this isn’t right for you but you know someone it might suit, I’d welcome an introduction.

Nicholson Glover is a specialist recruitment consultancy founded in 2002. We focus exclusively on four disciplines: Customer Research & Insight, Strategy & Innovation, Data, Analytics & AI, and Product & Technology — placing mid-to-senior professionals with agencies, consultancies, corporate teams, and venture-backed businesses. Speak to us: francis@nicholsonglover.co.uk

• Own and maintain the CRM — pipeline hygiene, opportunity tracking, accurate stage progression, and data quality across all active and target accounts
• Build pipeline forecasting models and produce regular commercial performance reporting for senior leadership
• Track proposal win/loss ratios and help identify patterns that improve pursuit decisions
• Support the BD function with briefing packs, intelligence summaries, pursuit documentation, and proposal inputs
• Build the infrastructure to track how thought leadership, events, and outreach convert into qualified pipeline
• Identify cross-selling and account growth opportunities by analysing existing client data across service lines
• Design and own the process handoff between the commercial function and the delivery team when new work is won
• Manage CRM adoption and discipline across senior stakeholders — including partners and directors who are client-facing and time-pressured

You have worked in a BD operations, commercial operations, or revenue operations capacity — and crucially, you understand the difference between professional services selling and SaaS. You know that in a consulting environment, relationships drive pipeline, partners resist rigid processes, and a won deal is the beginning of the engagement rather than the end of the journey.

You will bring:

• CRM ownership experience — ideally Salesforce or HubSpot — and a track record of improving pipeline discipline in an environment where not everyone wants to use it
• Strong analytical skills — you can build a forecast model, track a win/loss ratio, and turn pipeline data into a useful story for leadership
• Clear written communication — briefing packs, proposal inputs, and executive summaries to a high standard
• An understanding of how professional services firms sell — project lifecycles, fixed fees, partnership structures, and long-cycle relationship-based buying
• The interpersonal skills to influence senior, busy stakeholders without authority

• A genuinely greenfield opportunity — you will build this function, not inherit it
• Direct exposure to the CEO and CGO from day one
• Clear development path as the commercial function scales
• Hybrid working — approximately 3 days per week in London SE1
• Private health, enhanced mental health support, and generous family policies

Nicholson Glover is a specialist recruitment consultancy founded in 2002. We focus exclusively on four disciplines: Customer Research & Insight, Strategy & Innovation, Data, Analytics & AI, and Product & Technology — placing mid-to-senior professionals with agencies, consultancies, corporate teams, and venture-backed businesses.

As a Behavioural Designer, you’ll work directly on client projects — translating behavioural research and BeSci frameworks into designed interventions that actually change what people do. That means working across communications, UX, physical environments and service experiences, applying proprietary neurodesign frameworks and a deep bias bank to produce polished, multi-touchpoint outputs.

You’ll be supported by a team of behavioural scientists and designers who take the quality of their work seriously. You’ll also be expected to bring your own perspective — on the brief, on the behaviour, and on the best way to design for it.

You don’t need to have been doing this for a decade. What matters is that the BeSci and the design craft are both genuinely present — even if you’re earlier in your career. We’re open to candidates with as little as one to two years of relevant experience, provided the fundamentals are there.

Specifically, we’re looking for:

• A grounding in behavioural science — whether through a psychology, cognitive science or behavioural economics degree, or through applied experience working with BeSci frameworks
• Hands-on design execution capability — you can produce client-ready outputs in Figma and/or Adobe Creative Suite independently
• Some exposure to client-facing work, or a clear appetite for it — this team presents and defends their work directly with senior stakeholders at major brands
• Curiosity, rigour and a genuine interest in why people behave the way they do

You’ll be working on genuinely complex briefs for household-name clients, within a team that has built one of the most credible BeSci practices in the UK. There is real opportunity to develop your framework knowledge, your design craft, and your commercial skills in parallel — in an environment where all three are taken seriously.

London-based, hybrid working.

We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds.

Nicholson Glover is a specialist recruitment consultancy founded in 2002. We focus exclusively on four disciplines: Customer Research & Insight, Strategy & Innovation, Data, Analytics & AI, and Product & Technology — placing mid-to-senior professionals with agencies, consultancies, corporate teams, and venture-backed businesses.

Our client is a global streaming giant, home to some of the most iconic entertainment brands on the planet. They launched a new product, and it’s growing fast. This role sits at the heart of that growth, supporting the UK Ad Sales team with the data and insight they need to win big.

• Use BARB and TechEdge daily: scorecards, competitor context, nickable charts, regular reporting.
• Translate syndicated data (TGI, GWI, AudienceProject) into audience stories advertisers actually want to hear.
• Work alongside sales teams to build bespoke responses for individual clients and category briefs.
• Support 3rd-party campaign effectiveness studies and primary research programmes.
• Stay close to industry measurement trends, and bring that knowledge into the room.

You’re probably in a media owner, broadcaster, or commercial research environment right now. You know BARB inside out. You use TechEdge regularly. And you understand that your job isn’t just to produce analysis, it’s to help someone sell.

You’ll be a strong fit if you:

• Have hands-on BARB experience and working knowledge of TechEdge (non-negotiable).
• Can cross-tab TGI or GWI and extract a compelling insight, not just a number.
• Are comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders at agencies or advertisers.
• Understand what makes a good ad campaign, and why that matters for this role.
• Have the communication skills to back up your data fluency.

• Own the outbound BD activity across priority sectors
• Run the events and thought leadership calendar end-to-end
• Qualify and develop opportunities alongside senior leadership
• Keep the pipeline tight — CRM, reporting, proposition development

You’ve come through a management consulting environment — Big 4, or a firm like Baringa or PA Consulting — and you’re ready to move to the commercial side. You understand how consultancies win work and how senior buyers in complex organisations make decisions.

You’ll bring at least 4 years in BD or commercial development, strong written communication, and the gravitas to hold your own at C-suite level.

• Direct access to CEO and CGO from day one
• Clear path to Senior Manager and Director
• Private health, enhanced mental health support, generous family policies
• ~50% in-person | London SE1

Nicholson Glover is a specialist recruitment consultancy founded in 2002. We focus exclusively on four disciplines: Customer Research & Insight, Strategy & Innovation, Data, Analytics & AI, and Product & Technology — placing mid-to-senior professionals with agencies, consultancies, corporate teams, and venture-backed businesses.

Our client is a fast-growing boutique growth consultancy with a proprietary tech stack that uncovers the real drivers of portfolio company performance. They partner with leading mid-market PE funds and their portfolio businesses across B2B and B2C, and are building a high-calibre, collaborative team to match their momentum.

You’ll be a key member of project teams, working alongside experienced Project Leaders and senior consultants across a wide range of client engagements. Using data and primary research, you’ll surface trends and opportunities and help shape the recommendations that drive real business growth – with meaningful client exposure from day one.

You don’t need to tick every box – curiosity, drive, and structured thinking matter most here. Key attributes of the suitable Associate (Analytics) include:

• Recent graduate with a strong academic background from a top-tier university
• Naturally analytical, with a genuine enjoyment of working with data to find the “so what.”
• A commercial mindset with a genuine interest in business growth and customer strategy
• Proactive and self-directed — you’ll have real responsibility from day one

This is a rare early-career opportunity to work closely with a senior team in a high-growth environment, with meaningful client exposure and accelerated development from the outset. You’ll be joining at a pivotal moment in the firm’s growth — contributing not just to client projects, but to shaping the culture and direction of the business itself.