With over a decade of industry presence, this brand has expanded to more than 250 locations across the UK and proudly supports a community of over 500,000 members. They’ve built a reputation not just for their size and scale, but for a people-first culture and strong core values that are truly embedded across the business.

This is an exciting opportunity for a commercially minded Data Scientist to take ownership of end-to-end modelling and ML pipeline development within a fast-paced, consumer-focused organisation.

You’ll lead impactful work across the full lifecycle — from exploration and predictive modelling to deployment and automation — using modern cloud tooling to shape smarter pricing, retention, and customer insight. Alongside hands-on modelling, you’ll help strengthen MLOps practices and contribute to emerging AI initiatives, working closely with engineering and analytics teams to deliver scalable, high-value solutions.

Key attributes of the suitable Data Scientist include:

• Strong technical foundation in Python, SQL, and cloud-based ML workflows, with experience building and deploying end-to-end predictive models.
• Exposure to MLOps or ML engineering practices, including pipelines, CI/CD, model monitoring, and working with tools like Azure ML or Fabric.
• Commercially minded communicator who can translate data into clear, actionable insight and work collaboratively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Because impact here isn’t theoretical – it’s lived. You’ll design experiments, run studies and translate insights into action that gets rolled out on the ground. This is work with purpose, backed by a team that genuinely values curiosity, rigour and innovation.

The role comes with a generous package too:

✨ £52–62k salary

✨ 40 days’ annual leave

✨ Private medical & dental

✨ 8% employer pension

✨ Learning and wellbeing allowance

✨ Cutting-edge AI tools to elevate your research workflow

✨ Hybrid working in London or Edinburgh (2–3 days in office)

Our client is a non-profit accelerator committed to improving early childhood outcomes. They combine data science, mixed-methods research and entrepreneurial thinking to design, test and scale evidence-based interventions.

They’re not a standard foundation. They roll up their sleeves:

➡️ identifying a challenge

➡️ researching it deeply

➡️ designing and trialling interventions

➡️ implementing solutions in real-world settings

Their mission is simple but bold: give every child the conditions to flourish.

No two weeks look the same, but you will:

• Lead mixed-methods research across quant, qual and secondary analysis.

• Design field experiments, online experiments and surveys.

• Work closely with data scientists to turn complex evidence into actionable programme insights.

• Shape organisational strategy and strengthen intervention design.

• Communicate findings through clear, compelling storytelling.

• Support and mentor junior researchers.

• Represent the organisation at events and conferences.

Your work will directly influence programmes that are tested and deployed across the UK.

You’ll thrive here if you:

• Bring 5+ years of applied research experience and strong mixed-methods confidence.

• Have experience designing trials, experiments or large-scale surveys.

• Can translate evidence into practical, impactful recommendations.

• Care deeply about early childhood, prevention, social policy or related fields.

A growing consultancy at the forefront of behavioural science and human-centred design is expanding its Behavioural Intelligence capability — blending data science, behavioural analytics, experimentation and AI.

We’re looking for a curious, commercially minded Data Scientist who enjoys solving complex problems, finding behavioural patterns in data, and turning insights into simple, powerful stories.

You’ll work alongside behavioural scientists, researchers and consultants to deliver analytical projects for major clients across industries such as finance, retail, energy and utilities.

It’s the ideal next step for someone with solid technical foundations who wants to broaden into consulting, experimentation, behavioural analytics and insight-led storytelling.

Analyse Behavioural & Customer Data

• Work with varied datasets (implicit response data, transactions, qualitative transcripts).

• Build clustering, segmentation, predictive and ML models to explain and forecast behaviour.

• Support experimental design, hypothesis testing and behavioural measurement.

Create Impactful Insights

• Translate analytical findings into clear, behavioural and commercially grounded recommendations.

• Present insights to non-technical stakeholders and support consultants on client programmes.

Improve Tools & Workflows

• Contribute to reproducible code, documentation and internal data practices.

• Support automation, pipeline development and embedding analytics into client solutions.

Work Across Disciplines

• Partner with behavioural scientists, designers and strategists to combine data with human insight.

• Help develop the consultancy’s Behavioural Intelligence toolkit and AI-enabled ways of working.

• Around 2.5–5 years of experience in data science or applied analytics.

• Strong skills in Python and SQL (R a bonus).

• Experience with machine learning techniques (clustering, regression, NLP, ensemble methods).

• Good grounding in statistics (hypothesis testing, regression, experimental design basics).

• Ability to distil complex technical results into simple, engaging narratives.

• Curiosity about human behaviour and decision-making.

• Experience running end-to-end analytics projects.

Nice to have:

• Cloud experience (Azure, AWS or GCP).

• NLP / text analytics.

• Exposure to A/B testing.

• Understanding of behavioural science principles.

• Work at the intersection of data science and behavioural science — a rare and exciting blend.

• Solve meaningful, human-centred problems with real-world impact.

• Grow in a multidisciplinary environment that mixes behavioural research, consulting and AI.

• Join a culture that values curiosity, experimentation, rigour and continuous learning.

Benefits include: season ticket loan, cycle-to-work scheme, discounted gym membership, health screening & dental cover, EAP, free annual eye test, a well-stocked office kitchen and regular team socials.

If you want to grow into a more consultative, behavioural and experimental Data Scientist — this is the role.

Apply now.

• Lead the behavioural strategy for large, complex client programmes

• Translate business challenges into robust behavioural problem definitions

• Oversee behavioural design, architecture and experimental work

• Manage, mentor and develop a team of behavioural scientists

• Support senior client stakeholders and help build internal behavioural capability

• Ensure projects deliver measurable impact across customer and employee journeys

• Contribute to thought leadership and the development of new behavioural propositions

• Support commercial growth through farming and pitch support

• 5–8 years’ experience applying behavioural science in consultancy or in-house

• Strong understanding of behavioural frameworks, psychology and decision-making

• Experience leading behavioural teams or cross-functional delivery teams

• Strong consulting skills: structured problem solving, narrative development, stakeholder influence

• Experience architecting behavioural programmes with measurable outcomes

• Confident communicating behavioural insights to senior leaders

• Leadership responsibility within a high-performing behavioural science consultancy

• Opportunity to shape behavioural strategy and team capability

• Clear progression path into senior consulting leadership

• Competitive salary, performance bonus and benefits

• A collaborative, ambitious and intellectually curious environment

If you’re passionate about applying behavioural science at scale and leading meaningful change, we’d love to hear from you.

Our client is an independent brand strategy consultancy helping ambitious consumer brands unlock growth through clarity, creativity, and commercial thinking.

From reimagining beer for the next generation to defining the future of snacking, they partner with some of the world’s most loved brands across food, drink, and consumer goods.

They’re a small, energetic team who love what they do. No layers, no politics, and no egos. Just smart, curious people who get stuck in and make a difference.

They’re looking for a Strategist or Senior Strategist to join their growing team and help deliver exceptional brand strategy work for leading global clients.

You’ll work across a mix of brand positioning, innovation, and portfolio strategy projects, supporting senior partners while also taking ownership of your own workstreams.

Key Responsibilities

• Support and lead elements of strategic projects across CPG, food, and drink.
• Turn insight into ideas : building clear, commercial stories that inspire creative action.
• Partner with senior clients and internal teams to deliver outstanding work.
• Collaborate closely with design, creative, and insight specialists.
• Contribute to pitches, proposals, and the broader growth of the business.
• Bring energy, ownership, and initiative to every project.

• A proven brand strategist with 3-6 years experience in a creative, innovation, or strategy consultancy.
• Background in CPG, food, or drink is a big plus.
• Sharp thinker, articulate communicator, and confident presenter.
• Equally comfortable with insight, analysis, and creative ideation.
• Collaborative, proactive, and positive: you make work better for the people around you.
• Thrive in a small, fast-paced environment with autonomy and accountability.
• Genuinely hardworking, grounded, and full of initiative.

• Work with big brands and ambitious briefs that stretch your thinking.
• Join a tight-knit, low-ego team where your impact is visible.
• Learn directly from senior strategists and founders.
• Shape your role as the business continues to grow.

Ever wondered what it’s like to see your research truly shape decisions?

This role gives you that. You’ll work on projects where your insights influence real-world outcomes – from campaigns that shift public perception to strategies that guide global brands and governments.

Our client is a global strategic advisory consultancy that blends research, communications, and intelligence to deliver results for some of the world’s most influential organisations. With offices across major international hubs, their work spans corporate, political, and social campaigns – all built on rigorous evidence and creative strategy. They’re known for bringing a campaign mindset to every brief, with research being the engine that drives every decision.

No two days look the same – one day you might be running focus groups on political attitudes; the next, analysing survey data that shapes a client’s engagement strategy.

You’ll:

• Lead multi-method research projects from design to delivery.

• Conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis that informs client strategies.

• Present findings to senior stakeholders with clarity and confidence.

• Collaborate with colleagues across research, communications, and strategy.

• Guide and mentor junior consultants, ensuring high-quality outputs.

• Contribute to new business proposals and be part of client pitch teams.

The ideal candidate will have:

• 3–5+ years’ experience in political, market, or policy research.

• Strong qual and quant skills — focus groups, survey design, analysis, storytelling.

• The ability to turn complex data into clear, actionable recommendations.

Our client is one of the world’s most iconic lifestyle brands, known for shaping culture through style and storytelling. They’re looking for a Senior Digital Insights Manager to join their Consumer & Market Insights team in London. This is a unique opportunity to sit at the intersection of data, culture, and creativity, helping a global brand stay relevant, resonant, and ahead of the curve.

• Track and analyse global social conversations across key markets in the US, Europe, Asia.
• Deliver real-time insights on emerging cultural trends and consumer shifts.
• Provide strategic recommendations that inform social strategy, creative direction, and campaign optimisation.
• Manage relationships with global social listening agencies and regional insights teams.
• Blend qualitative and quantitative data into powerful, actionable insights to drive growth, engagement, and brand relevance.

You’re not just an analyst. You’re a cultural decoder. You have a sharp eye for trends, a strategic mindset, and the ability to connect the dots between data and opportunity. You’re digitally curious, always exploring new tools and platforms, and you thrive in fast-changing environments. You know how to balance rigor with creativity, and you’re excited by the idea of helping a world-leading brand make smarter, bolder moves on social.

Their Clients

My client partners with a diverse mix of forward-thinking organisations, including:

• Global beverage brands seeking to understand youth culture and lifestyle trends.
• Leading telecoms companies aiming to connect more meaningfully with customers in a fast-changing market.
• Social movements and equality campaigns driving cultural change and inspiring collective action.
• Climate and sustainability initiatives working to engage audiences and spark positive impact.

Their projects span commercial, cultural, and social impact spaces, but always with one common thread: they only work on projects that excite them and where they can deliver meaningful impact.

The Role

My client is seeking an ambitious and experienced qualitative researcher (3–8 years’ experience) to join the team as Associate Director. This is a leadership role with scope to shape projects, guide clients, mentor researchers, and contribute to the agency’s reputation for delivering best-in-class insight.

Key Responsibilities

Research Leadership

• Design and lead qualitative research projects across methods such as ethnography, semiotics, cultural analysis, digital ethnography, and depth interviews.
• Shape project frameworks, from scoping to synthesis, ensuring clarity, originality, and impact.
• Elevate the team’s thinking with new approaches and ideas.

Client Engagement

• Build and maintain strong client relationships.
• Translate complex cultural and human insight into compelling stories that influence strategy and decision-making.
• Contribute to new business proposals and pitches, ensuring alignment with the consultancy’s selective, quality-first ethos.

Team Mentorship & Development

• Guide and mentor junior and mid-level researchers, fostering curiosity, rigour, and creativity.
• Encourage high standards across the team, while creating a supportive and collaborative environment.

Thought Leadership

• Contribute to the consultancy’s profile through articles, trend pieces, talks, or workshops.
• Share perspectives on cultural and human behaviour to spark conversation and inspire clients.

What You Bring

• Experience: 3–8 years in qualitative research, cultural insight, brand strategy, or adjacent fields.
• Expertise: Strong methodological toolkit (ethnography, semiotics, immersive studies, cultural analysis).
• Storytelling ability: Can turn data and observation into meaningful, strategic narratives.
• Client-facing skills: Confident communicator who builds trust and brings clarity to complex questions.
• Curiosity & standards: Inquisitive about culture, selective about what matters, and committed to excellence.
• Leadership: Experience mentoring or guiding colleagues, with a collaborative and empowering style.

• Experience: 3–8 years in qualitative research, cultural insight, brand strategy, or adjacent fields.
• Expertise: Strong methodological toolkit (ethnography, semiotics, immersive studies, cultural analysis).
• Storytelling ability: Can turn data and observation into meaningful, strategic narratives.
• Client-facing skills: Confident communicator who builds trust and brings clarity to complex questions.
• Curiosity & standards: Inquisitive about culture, selective about what matters, and committed to excellence.
• Leadership: Experience mentoring or guiding colleagues, with a collaborative and empowering style.

• Opportunity to join a tight-knit, dynamic team where your contribution will have real impact.
• Work on projects that matter—they only take on briefs that spark curiosity and passion.
• Be part of a culture that values intellectual rigour, creativity, and high standards.
• Develop your expertise in an environment where quality always comes before quantity.

Our client is a new consultancy founded by senior leaders from some of the world’s most respected brand, innovation and design agencies. They work at the intersection of strategy, insight, and execution — helping investors, founders and brand owners to invent, acquire, or reinvent brands for long-term growth.

Their clients include major consumer brands, private equity firms, and early-stage challengers. They’re sector-agnostic and creatively curious — think: brand repositioning, architecture design, innovation pipelines, and post-acquisition rollouts.

As a Senior Strategist, you’ll:

• Lead strategy projects from proposition development to creative activation

• Build positioning and brand architecture that leads to real-world design systems

• Create compelling narratives and guidelines across multiple brand touchpoints

• Run workshops, contribute to IP, and mentor junior strategists

• Bring fresh energy and ideas to a fast-moving founding team

• 5+ years in brand strategy, ideally in a top-tier consultancy or brand-led agency

• Strong in proposition development, architecture, identity and narrative building

• Confident working across consumer sectors (FMCG, travel, leisure, etc.)

• Experienced in turning insight into strategy — and strategy into activation

• Natural storyteller, commercially sharp, creatively curious

• Up for building something new (not just joining a team — helping build the team)

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 team to match their momentum

You’ll lead strategic workstreams across go-to-market, channel, product, and customer strategy. Using SQL, Python, and Tableau, you’ll turn CRM, web, and sales data into actionable insights – then present recommendations that drive results.

Working with clients and project leads, you’ll shape strategy, enhance proprietary tools, and help build lasting business growth.

Key attributes of the suitable Senior Analytics Consultant include:

• 2–4 years’ experience in strategy consulting, commercial analytics, or PE-related roles
• Proficient in SQL and/or Python, with strong skills in data visualisation (Tableau ideal)
• Background in segmentation, marketing analytics, or go-to-market planning
• Thrive in ambiguity and complexity, with a knack for finding the “so what”