Insights and Analytics Business Partner

Harnham; Watford; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career progression

High-visibility role

Broad exposure to senior leadership

Job summary

Harnham is seeking an Insight & Analytics Business Partner to sit at the heart of a major consumer-focused organisation. You will act as the senior analytics representative for marketing, product and commercial areas, shaping priorities and ensuring analytics investment delivers measurable value.

You will translate strategic priorities into an analytics roadmap, coordinate cross-functional teams, and influence senior leaders through evidence-based recommendations that drive growth.

Qualifications

• Strong analytics partnering with senior stakeholders across marketing, product and commercial.
• Proven ability to translate analytics into strategic business decisions.
• Commercially minded with focus on value and investment priorities.
• Understanding of attribution, experimentation and marketing effectiveness.
• Experience coordinating multiple workstreams and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior stakeholders across marketing, product and commercial teams.
• Translate strategic priorities into an analytics and insights roadmap.
• Prioritise analytical initiatives based on commercial impact and value.
• Coordinate work across analytics, customer insight, market research and data teams.
• Lead discussions on pricing, forecasting, scenario modelling and opportunities.
• Provide evidence-based recommendations to influence decisions.
• Track business impact of analytics initiatives.

Skills

Analytics partnering

Stakeholder influence

Cross-functional work

Marketing analytics

Commercial analytics

Data-driven decision-making

Job description

Are you looking to move beyond delivering analytics into shaping commercial strategy? This Insight & Analytics Business Partner role offers the opportunity to sit at the heart of a major consumer-focused organisation, influencing senior leaders across marketing, product and commercial functions. You will help set priorities, drive business decisions, and ensure analytics investment delivers measurable value.

The Company

They are a well-established consumer business undergoing a significant transformation in how data, analytics and insights support decision-making. With continued investment in data capabilities, customer understanding and commercial performance, analytics is becoming a central driver of business growth.

Their Insight & Analytics function is evolving into a modern, business-focused model that brings together analytics, data science, research and business intelligence expertise. This role will play a key part in connecting those capabilities with commercial priorities.

The Role

As an Insight & Analytics Business Partner, you will act as the senior analytics representative for key business areas, ensuring analytical resources are focused on the highest-value opportunities.

Responsibilities include:

• Partnering with senior stakeholders across marketing, product and commercial teams
• Translating strategic business priorities into a clear analytics and insights roadmap
• Prioritising analytical initiatives based on commercial impact and business value
• Coordinating work across analytics, customer insight, market research and data teams
• Bringing together customer, campaign, brand, digital, retail and commercial insights into a single narrative
• Supporting marketing effectiveness programmes, including attribution, experimentation, brand measurement and Marketing Mix Modelling
• Providing insight into product portfolio performance, customer behaviour and growth opportunities
• Leading discussions around pricing, forecasting, scenario modelling and commercial opportunity assessment
• Influencing decision-making through evidence-based recommendations
• Partnering with data leaders to shape future analytics and data capabilities
• Tracking and evaluating the business impact of insight and analytics initiatives

Your Skills & Experience

• Strong experience in analytics business partnering, commercial analytics, customer insight or marketing analytics
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and build trusted relationships
• Experience translating analytical outputs into strategic business decisions
• Commercially minded with the ability to evaluate opportunities, risks and investment priorities
• Understanding of marketing effectiveness, measurement, attribution and experimentation frameworks
• Experience managing multiple workstreams and balancing competing priorities
• Ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and specialist analytical resources
• Comfortable working across analytics, research, commercial and customer data disciplines
• Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify complex findings for non-technical audiences
• Experience within consumer-focused, retail, digital or product-led environments would be beneficial

What They Offer

• High-profile role with significant visibility across senior leadership teams
• Opportunity to shape analytics strategy rather than focus solely on delivery
• Broad exposure across marketing, commercial strategy, product performance and customer insight
• Career progression within a growing and evolving analytics function
• Opportunity to influence future investment in analytics and data capabilities