Lead Consultant

Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 81,000 - 99,000; Full time

Job summary

Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment is seeking a Lead Consultant to join a highly commercial analytics consulting team where data drives strategic decisions and product value.

You'll work directly with senior stakeholders, own end-to-end analytics delivery from scope to deployment, and help shape frameworks and best practices that scale as the function grows. The role blends analytics, data visualization, and product delivery in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering analytics products from concept to adoption.
• Advanced Python skills for building analytical apps.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience creating reusable components and scalable analytics solutions.
• Consulting mindset with problem-solving focus using data.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to define complex commercial problems and translate into analytics solutions.
• Own delivery of analytics products from scoping to deployment and adoption.
• Develop reusable frameworks and best practices to improve efficiency and scalability.
• Build maintainable, well-documented solutions adopted by others.
• Work across analytics, data visualisation and product delivery to inform decisions.
• Contribute to technical leadership through code reviews and mentoring.
• Operate in an agile, evolving environment with changing priorities.

Skills

Analytics product delivery

Advanced Python

Communication with stakeholders

Distributed remote team

Ambiguity handling

Tools

Git

Azure DevOps

Docker

Shiny

Streamlit

Dash

Job description

Lead Consultant

Up to £90,000 + 25% bonus

Remote - London (1x day per month)

This is an opportunity to join a highly commercial analytics consulting team where data is used to influence strategic business decisions and create products that deliver measurable value. You'll work directly with senior stakeholders, own end-to-end delivery of analytical solutions, and help shape the frameworks and best practices that underpin a growing analytics function. Based on the role brief in

The Company

They are a growing organisation that places data and analytics at the heart of decision-making. Their analytics team operates as a business-facing consultancy, partnering closely with commercial leaders to solve complex challenges and build scalable analytical products. Rather than functioning as a traditional technology team, they focus on delivering practical solutions that drive business outcomes. The environment is collaborative, fast-moving, and offers significant scope to influence both strategy and delivery.

The Role

• Partner with senior business leaders to define complex commercial problems and translate them into actionable analytical solutions.
• Own the delivery of analytics products from initial scoping through to deployment and adoption.
• Develop reusable frameworks, templates, libraries and best practices to improve team efficiency and product scalability.
• Build maintainable and well-documented solutions that can be adopted and developed by others.
• Work across analytics, data visualisation and product delivery to support better business decisions.
• Contribute to technical leadership through code reviews, mentoring and knowledge sharing.
• Operate within an agile and evolving environment where priorities can change quickly.

Your Skills & Experience

• Strong commercial experience delivering analytics products from concept through to business adoption.
• Advanced Python skills and experience building analytical applications or decision-support tools.
• Experience with technologies such as Python, Shiny, Streamlit, Dash, Quarto, Git, Azure DevOps, Docker or comparable tools.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience creating reusable components, frameworks or analytics solutions that scale across a business.
• Consulting mindset with a passion for solving varied business problems through data and analytics.
• Comfortable working autonomously within a distributed and remote-first team environment.
• Experience working with ambiguity and translating broad business questions into practical solutions.

What They Offer

• £90,000 base salary.
• 25% annual bonus.
• Remote-first working with just one day per month in London.
• Exposure to senior stakeholders and strategic business initiatives.
• Significant ownership and autonomy over analytical product development.
• Clear opportunities to influence technical direction, ways of working, and team growth.
• Collaborative culture with a strong focus on continuous learning and development.