Senior Analytics Manager

Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment in London is seeking a Senior Analytics Manager (BI) to lead the analytics evolution. You will shape the future of BI, drive platform changes, build scalable analytics foundations, and enable self-service analytics across the organisation.

This role offers hybrid London work, close collaboration with product, data and business teams, and the chance to influence strategy while delivering hands-on technical leadership.

Qualifications

• Strong BI, analytics, or data leadership experience.
• Expertise in semantic layers, data modelling, and metrics.
• Experience shaping analytics strategy in data-driven organisations.
• Ability to identify and resolve data and reporting issues at source.
• Proven ability to influence analytics best practices.
• Excellent stakeholder management and clear communication.
• Experience developing long-term analytics roadmaps and delivery plans.
• Passion for improving data-driven decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-impact BI and analytics initiatives across the organisation.
• Help define and deliver the future-state vision for analytics and reporting.
• Drive the development of scalable semantic layers, data models and metrics.
• Establish governance, data quality, and analytics standards.
• Partner with Product Analytics to ensure trusted insight delivery.
• Influence technical direction during platform transformation projects.
• Support adoption of self-service analytics and conversational analytics.
• Act as a senior individual contributor with hands-on technical leadership.

Skills

BI leadership

Semantic layers

Data modelling

Metric definition

Analytics governance

Analytics strategy

Roadmapping

Stakeholder management

Communication

Self-service analytics

Job description

Senior Analytics Manager (BI)

London/Hybrid

Up to £100K

The Overview

This is an opportunity to join a business at a pivotal stage in its analytics evolution. As a Senior Analytics Manager (BI), you will play a key role in shaping the future of business intelligence, helping to drive major platform changes, build scalable analytics foundations, and enable more effective self-service analytics across the organisation.

The Company

They are a fast-paced, technology-led organisation with a well-established data and analytics function. Analytics sits at the heart of decision-making, with close collaboration across product, data, and business teams. The organisation is investing heavily in its analytics capabilities, including platform modernisation, semantic layer development, and AI-enabled analytics experiences. This role offers the chance to influence strategy while remaining hands-on with technical delivery.

The Role

• Lead high-impact business intelligence and analytics initiatives across the organisation.
• Help define and deliver the future-state vision for analytics and reporting capabilities.
• Drive the development of scalable semantic layers, data models, and metric frameworks.
• Establish best practices for governance, data quality, and analytics standards.
• Partner with Product Analytics teams to ensure consistent and trusted insight delivery.
• Influence technical direction and prioritisation during ongoing platform transformation projects.
• Support the adoption of self-service analytics and conversational analytics solutions.
• Act as a senior individual contributor, combining strategic thinking with hands-on technical leadership.

Your Skills & Experience

• Strong commercial experience in business intelligence, analytics, or data leadership roles.
• Proven expertise in semantic layers, data modelling, metric definition, and analytics governance.
• Experience shaping analytics strategy within mature, data-driven or technology-focused organisations.
• Ability to identify and resolve data and reporting challenges at their source.
• Demonstrated technical judgement and a track record of influencing analytics best practices.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly.
• Experience developing long-term analytics roadmaps and translating them into practical delivery plans.
• A passion for improving how organisations use data to make decisions.