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

Operating internationally, the company provides research and insights services that help businesses make better data-driven decisions.

They specialise in market intelligence, competitor analysis, and sector-specific research across industries such as Finance, Asset Management, Private Equity, Tech, Management Consulting & Luxury Retail.

This high-impact role combines strategic client advisory, advanced quantitative research, and team leadership across multiple sectors. If you’re driven by data, insight, and commercial outcomes – and want to shape strategies that matter – this is your chance to step into a pivotal leadership position with global reach

Key attributes of the successful Research Director include:

• Deep expertise in quantitative research methods – Conjoint, Max Diff, Segmentations, Regression, Key-Driver, etc., with a track record of selling this project to clients
• Strong commercial mindset with a history of hitting revenue targets, or a willingness to have revenue targets
• Proven leadership within a market research/analytics setting, with experience working across multiple sectors (ideally Financial Services or Tech)
• Experience of working with B2B Clients, or exposure to working on some B2B projects (nice to have)

The client is a fast-growing strategy strategy studio working with major organisations to solve complex strategic challenges. Over the past few years, they’ve built an exceptional team and strong client relationships. 

Following recent investment, the business is entering a new phase; expanding its team, refining how it operates, and preparing for continued growth. This role will be central to that journey.

• Shape the operating model of a high-growth consultancy
• Work directly with senior leadership and a newly hired CFO
• Join a business with strong market reputation and private equity backing
• Play a pivotal role in scaling the organisation internationally
• Own a role that blends strategy, operations, and delivery optimisation

You’ll work across the business to strengthen how the organisation runs.

Typical responsibilities include:

• Building better operational insight and data visibility
• Developing scalable delivery and resourcing models
• Improving systems, processes, and operational frameworks
• Working closely with leadership to support strategic growth decisions
• Ensuring the business has the operational foundations to scale effectively

You’ll have:

✔ Experience helping a business scale operationally
✔ Strong systems thinking and data-driven decision making
✔ The ability to move between strategic design and hands-on execution
✔ Confidence working with senior leadership teams

If you enjoy building the engine behind a growing business, we’d love to hear from you.

The organisation partners with governments and international institutions on complex global challenges — including democratic resilience, counter-disinformation, and behaviour change in sensitive information environments.

This is a senior leadership role sitting at the centre of the organisation. The CSO will lead and integrate strategy, research, digital and creative capabilities, ensuring the organisation continues to deliver rigorous, high-impact work for public sector partners while driving innovation in how behavioural science, communications and technology are applied.

• Leading multidisciplinary teams across strategy, research, digital and creative functions

• Ensuring quality and rigour across high-profile government programmes and strategic deliverables

• Leading the strategic component of major bids and proposals for public sector clients

• Driving innovation in behavioural change methodologies and campaign strategy

• Helping scale the organisation’s technology-enabled approach to strategy and influence

• Have senior experience in behaviour change, strategic communications, or complex policy environments

• Have worked with government or international institutions

• Are comfortable leading multidisciplinary teams across strategy, research and creative functions

• Have experience contributing to or leading major public sector bids or proposals

• Have a strong interest in international affairs, geopolitics or national security issues

This role would suit someone who enjoys tackling complex, systems-level challenges and wants to apply strategy, research and innovation to real-world global issues.

A leading UK Property-Tech business providing digital valuation, property risk decisioning, and data services to financial institutions and property professionals.

Their platforms support major mortgage lenders as well as property developers and investors, helping organisations make better lending and property decisions through high-quality data, technology, and analytics.

You’ll play a key role within the analytics function, leading complex analytical projects and delivering high-impact insight to support both product development and client decision-making.

Working closely with product, engineering, and commercial teams, you’ll analyse large and complex datasets to identify trends, evaluate performance, and generate insights that support strategic decisions across the business.

You’ll also contribute to the development and improvement of analytical products and methodologies, ensuring outputs are robust, scalable, and aligned with both client needs and business objectives.

Key attributes of the suitable Principal Analyst include:

• Strong technical skills across SQL and Python (Spark or similar tools beneficial), with the ability to conduct complex analysis on large datasets
• Experience performing analytical deep-dives and back-testing risk metrics to support product development and performance monitoring
• Confident in stakeholder engagement and communicating complex analytical findings to both technical and commercial audiences
• Ideally, a background in one of mortgage lending, property analytics, consultancy, or a data provider supporting financial services

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 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.

With over a decade of industry presence, this brand has expanded to more than 150 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 outstanding opportunity for a commercially minded analytics professional to take ownership of the planning and insight function within a fast-paced, consumer-focused business.

As Analytics Lead, you’ll play a pivotal role in driving data-led decision-making across pricing, promotions, CRM, and digital performance. You’ll lead a small team, set analytical standards, and ensure insight directly influences strategy, marketing effectiveness, and overall revenue growth.

Key attributes of the suitable Analytics Lead include:

• Analytical Leadership: Proven experience in commercial, marketing, or digital analytics with strong SQL and statistical expertise (A/B testing, modelling, incrementality).
• Strategic Influence: Ability to connect complex data with commercial outcomes and provide clear, actionable recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Team Development: Track record of leading, coaching, and developing analytics teams within a collaborative, high-performance environment.
• Data Visualisation & Communication: Advanced skills in Power BI (and ideally Looker Studio) with a flair for turning analysis into compelling stories and dashboards.

With over a decade of industry presence, this brand has expanded to more than 150 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 outstanding opportunity for a commercially minded analytics professional to take ownership of the planning and insight function within a fast-paced, consumer-focused business.

As Senior Analytics Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in driving data-led decision-making across pricing, promotions, CRM, and digital performance. You’ll lead a small team, set analytical standards, and ensure insight directly influences strategy, marketing effectiveness, and overall revenue growth.

Key attributes of the suitable Senior Analytics Manager include:

• Analytical Leadership: Proven experience in commercial, marketing, or digital analytics with strong SQL and statistical expertise (A/B testing, modelling, incrementality).
• Strategic Influence: Ability to connect complex data with commercial outcomes and provide clear, actionable recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Team Development: Track record of leading, coaching, and developing analytics teams within a collaborative, high-performance environment.
• Data Visualisation & Communication: Advanced skills in Power BI (and ideally Looker Studio) with a flair for turning analysis into compelling stories and dashboards.