This role combines sector strategy, commercial accountability and research leadership. It’s an opportunity for an experienced FS research leader ready to step into broader vertical ownership — with real influence over growth, positioning and team direction.

The Opportunity

Financial Services is a priority sector with strong existing foundations across brand tracking, ad hoc research and tech-enabled solutions. The business is evolving towards a more tech-first, insight-driven model, creating genuine scope to redefine and scale the FS proposition.

You will:

• Shape and execute the UK FS growth strategy (with EMEA ambition)

• Take ownership of a significant revenue target

• Lead and develop senior Research Directors and team members

• Drive growth across tracking, ad hoc and product-led solutions

• Build and deepen C-suite relationships across banking, insurance and wealth

• Collaborate internationally to strengthen the global FS offer

• Play a visible role in thought leadership and sector profile

• Senior-level experience in Financial Services research

• Strong quant background (tracking + ad hoc) ideally B2B

• Commercially minded, with experience contributing to or owning revenue

• Comfortable leading senior clients and high-performing teams

• Interested in shaping sector strategy, not just delivering projects

• Open to innovation and tech-enabled insight approaches

This is not purely a delivery role. It’s designed for someone ready to take a more strategic, commercially accountable leadership position within Financial Services research.

If you’d like to explore confidentially, please message me directly.

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This isn’t a tracker-management role.

It’s a strategic diagnosis role.

If you’re an Insight Manager who connects brand perception, pricing, competitor behaviour and commercial performance — and turns that into decisions — this will be of interest.

You’ll sit within a Strategy & Innovation environment, partnering across Marketing, Commercial Finance and Operations.

The remit includes:

• Diagnosing performance issues — not just reporting them
• Connecting brand tracking, market share and pricing data into a clear narrative
• Leading ad hoc qual & quant research end-to-end
• Building compelling outputs that influence action
• Challenging thinking when the data tells a different story

You’ll contribute to major planning cycles and help raise the bar for how insight drives growth across the business.

I’m looking for:

• 5+ years in insight, analytics or market strategy within a consumer-facing environment
• Strong experience with brand health tracking (e.g. YouGov, Savanta or similar)
• Comfort working across market, pricing and competitor data (e.g. Circana or equivalent)
• Proven experience influencing cross-functional stakeholders
• A commercial mindset — you understand how perception links to performance

This role will suit someone who wants to operate as a true commercial partner — not just an insight provider.

This organisation supports thousands of UK SMEs and advisors with expert-led tax, legal, and regulatory guidance.

Subscription-led and digitally evolving, they combine deep domain expertise with modern data and product innovation to help businesses navigate complexity with confidence.

An opportunity for an experienced Data & BI Manager to take ownership of the company’s data strategy and BI capability.

You’ll lead governance, CRM integrity, and executive reporting, working cross-functionally to drive smarter commercial decision-making across sales, marketing, editorial, and product.

This is a strategic, hands-on role shaping how data fuels growth, performance, and digital innovation within a subscription-led business.

Key attributes of the suitable Data & BI Manager include:

• Proven experience owning and delivering data strategy within a commercial environment, with strong expertise in data governance, quality management, and UK GDPR compliance.
• Advanced technical capability across Salesforce CRM and Power BI, with experience integrating CRM, marketing, ecommerce, and analytics platforms to deliver accurate, automated and commercially meaningful reporting. (SQL is also desirable)
• Commercially astute and stakeholder-focused, able to translate complex data into clear, actionable insight that influences senior decision-making – ideally within a subscription, publishing, or information-led business.

A leading UK Property Tech business connecting consumers and industry professionals through innovative digital platforms. Backed by strong investment, they are shaping a more connected and transparent property market.

You’ll play a key leadership role within Analytics, supporting the Head of Analytics while overseeing the delivery of high-impact insight and analytics solutions across financial services and property data.

Working closely with key customers, commercial teams, and product stakeholders, you’ll translate complex challenges into actionable insights, help drive innovation, and identify new opportunities to deliver value through data.

Key attributes of the suitable Analytics Manager include:

• Some experience in management consulting and/or financial services analytics or decision science
• Strong technical skills across Excel and SQL (Python ideal), with proven analytical problem-solving
• Confident in client engagement, data storytelling, and presenting insights clearly
• Demonstrated team leadership experience, managing and developing analysts
• Ideally, exposure to property, mortgages, or housing market data (preferably)

Our client is a globally recognised premium fashion retailer with a powerful international footprint across stores, concessions and omnichannel.

They are embarking on a major Next Generation Transformation programme, implementing SAP across global markets to modernise and standardise retail operations.

This role sits within the DTC workstream, representing retail stores at the centre of that change.

You’ll act as the functional product owner for retail within SAP.

That means:

• Designing and standardising global store processes
• Translating retail operations into system logic
• Partnering with Finance, Logistics, Wholesale and IT
• Leading cross-regional collaboration (NA, EMEA, APAC)
• Driving UAT, readiness and adoption across markets

You’ll balance strategic process thinking with hands-on problem solving.

You’ll have:

• 7+ years in strategic retail operations
• Experience in international DTC fashion or premium retail
• Been part of an ERP implementation (SAP preferred)
• Deep understanding of omnichannel store processes
• Strong stakeholder influence skills

You’re structured, analytical, commercially aware… and you care about how stores really work.

You’ll be trusted to build relationships your way, shape your pipeline, and see the direct impact of your work on the company’s growth. You’ll be helping brands and creative teams make smarter decisions, faster, using a product that delivers genuinely actionable insight. You’ll join at a pivotal moment: the business has grown fast, demand is high, and this hire unlocks the next phase of growth. There’s momentum, ambition, and plenty of room to make your mark.

Our client is a fast-growing tech business helping brands and creative agencies test creative work – from TV ads to rebrands and product launches – with real people in hours, not weeks. They combine qualitative and quantitative feedback with AI to turn raw consumer responses into clear recommendations that creatives can act on immediately. Clients include globally recognised brands and top-tier design agencies.

The team has scaled rapidly while staying intentionally lean. It’s a self-driven, high-trust environment where smart people are encouraged to think beyond their job title.

• Driving new business (around 60% of your time) through cold outreach, LinkedIn, email and networking

• Running discovery calls, demos and pilots end to end

• Growing existing accounts through thoughtful upsell and expansion (40%)

• Working closely with Customer Success on account strategy

• Owning your pipeline, targets and approach – outcomes matter more than rigid process

You’ll be based in London, with hybrid working (2–3 days in the office).

This role is likely to excite you if you:

• Have 3+ years’ experience in sales, business development or account growth

• Understand agency, insight or research environments

• Enjoy autonomy and problem-solving in a start-up setting

• Are confident opening doors and closing deals

• Care about selling something meaningful, not just hitting numbers

This pioneering organisation has built an advanced enterprise AI platform delivering predictive analytics and AI-powered decision intelligence.

Their digital AI agents provide always-on, intelligent insights — supporting leading clients across financial services, retail, FMCG, pharma, and beyond to enhance performance and efficiency.

As Lead Data Scientist, you’ll lead the delivery of Agentic AI solutions post-sale, owning client projects from design through to deployment. This is a hands-on role combining strong technical depth with delivery leadership and stakeholder management.

You’ll implement AI and agentic systems across enterprise clients, designing scalable architectures using LLMs, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows, while working closely with engineering and product teams to ensure successful outcomes.

Key attributes of the suitable Lead Data Scientist include:

• Technical Data Science Expertise – Strong background delivering production-grade solutions, ideally within consulting or product-led environments
• Agentic AI & Modern AI Systems Experience – Hands-on exposure to LLMs, RAG pipelines, and agentic frameworks
• Delivery Leadership & Client Ownership – Comfortable leading teams while remaining technically involved and managing client relationships post-sale

With over a decade of industry presence, this brand has grown to hundreds of locations across the UK and supports a community of close to one million members. They’ve built a strong reputation for combining commercial ambition with a genuinely people-first culture, with CRM playing a central role in how members are engaged and retained.

This is a senior role that blends strategic ownership with hands-on leadership. You’ll own the end-to-end CRM strategy across lifecycle, retention, service, and commercial communications, while staying close to execution and delivery.

You’ll lead and develop a high-performing CRM team, take ownership of platform capability and governance, and partner closely with Product, Data, Analytics, and Commercial teams to deliver a joined-up, member-first experience that drives long-term commercial value.

Key attributes of the suitable Head of CRM include:

• Strategic owner who stays close to delivery – You’re comfortable setting the long-term CRM vision, but you also enjoy being hands-on when it matters — guiding execution, unblocking issues, and ensuring high standards across day-to-day delivery.
• Commercially minded CRM leader – You understand how CRM drives revenue, retention and lifetime value, and you’re confident partnering with senior stakeholders to turn customer insight into measurable commercial impact.
• People-first leader with strong operational grip – You know how to build, mentor and motivate high-performing teams, while also owning platform stability, governance and best practice in a fast-paced, consumer-focused environment.

✨ You’ll work with exceptionally savvy clients asking genuinely interesting questions

✨ You’ll have real autonomy – no layers of politics or bloated processes

✨ You’ll help grow accounts and win new work, not just “service” projects

✨ You’ll be part of a collaborative, international team that values kindness and capability equally

✨ You’ll see your work used – not parked in decks that gather dust

This role exists because the business is growing fast and needs someone who can step in front of clients with confidence and credibility.

The client is a fast-growing, insights-led consultancy specialising in affluent and high-net-worth consumers. They combine a proprietary data and insights platform with bespoke strategic consulting, helping premium brands understand how wealthy consumers think, behave and make decisions. The culture is entrepreneurial, low-ego and supportive. People stay because they’re trusted, challenged, and given space to do their best work.

📊 Leading senior client relationships end-to-end

🤝 Shaping briefs, pitches and commercial proposals

🧠 Turning complex data into clear, compelling strategic narratives

🎤 Running workshops and presenting to C-suite stakeholders

📈 Growing accounts through upsell and repeat business

You’ll sit at the intersection of insight, strategy and growth.

You’ll likely have:

• 6–10+ years’ experience in consulting, insights or strategy

• Exposure to luxury, premium or financial services clients

• Strong storytelling, deck craft and workshop facilitation skills

• Confidence in commercial conversations and account growth

• A preference for boutique, high-impact environments over big, political agencies

You’ll be trusted to do what many analytics roles promise but rarely deliver: own the thinking, not just the outputs. This is a role for someone who enjoys curiosity over templates, experimentation over black boxes, and collaboration over working in isolation. You’ll work on genuinely bespoke projects, have the freedom to try new approaches (including AI and unstructured data), and see your analysis directly influence real decisions. 

The client is a strategy, innovation and design consultancy where consultancy is the heartbeat of the business. Data and analytics are central to how they help clients navigate complex challenges and make confident choices. With a small, highly capable analytics team embedded into consulting work, this is an environment where technical excellence, clear communication and practical impact matter more than shiny buzzwords. You’ll also work across two closely linked consultancies, giving you variety and exposure without corporate sprawl.

🔍 Translate business and strategy questions into the right analytical approaches

📈 Design and deliver bespoke analytics using R (Python a bonus)

🧠 Work with survey data – segmentation, tracking, driver analysis, choice-based modelling

🤝 Partner closely with consultants and researchers, shaping projects from start to finish

🗣️ Communicate insights clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

🚀 Contribute to internal innovation, tools and ways of working

Roughly 75% of your time will be client delivery, with the rest spent on development, experimentation and IP.

You’ll have 3–5 years’ experience in analytics or research within a consulting-style environment. You enjoy problem-solving from first principles, not delivering off-the-shelf solutions. You’re confident with R, comfortable with data, and genuinely curious about analytics, data science and AI. Most importantly, you like explaining the “so what” and working closely with others to make insights land.