Head of Data & Analytics - Strategy & Delivery

Harnham; Washington; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Harnham is seeking a Senior Manager, Data & Analytics to lead a small, multidisciplinary team spanning Analytics, BI, and Data Engineering. You’ll partner with senior leaders to drive strategic priorities and own the Data & Analytics roadmap for the business unit.

The role is a player-coach, about two-thirds leadership and one-third hands-on, translating business questions into analytical solutions and securing high-impact decisions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience across Data Analytics, BI, Data Science, or a related discipline.
• Proven people leadership experience, ideally managing a team spanning multiple Data disciplines.
• Experience owning a broad Data & Analytics remit, rather than a narrowly focused reporting or analytics function.
• Strong commercial acumen and experience partnering directly with senior business leaders.
• Ability to manage demanding stakeholders, challenge assumptions, and prioritize when capacity is limited.
• Strong analytical problem solving from question to recommendation.
• Advanced SQL and experience with modern BI platforms such as Looker, Omni, or similar.
• Understanding of data modelling, transformation, reporting, and data quality.
• Experience using emerging AI tools within Analytics and validation of outputs

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a small multidisciplinary team across Analytics, BI, Data Engineering, reporting, and data quality.
• Act as the primary Data & Analytics partner to senior leadership across commercial, customer, financial, and operational priorities.
• Own the team’s roadmap and prioritize based on business impact.
• Translate ambiguous business questions into clear analytical problems, insights, and actionable recommendations.
• Improve reporting, KPI frameworks, data quality, and recurring analytical processes.
• Partner with centralized Data Engineering teams to build scalable solutions using shared platforms and standards.
• Support adoption of AI capabilities across predictive analytics, MLOps, and AI-enabled analytics.
• Improve data fluency across the business and enable evidence-based decisions.
• Remain hands on where appropriate to interrogate data and support the team.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

SQL

Looker/BI platforms

Data modelling

Analytical problem solving

Communication

Project management

AI tools

Tools

Looker

Omni

Snowflake

dbt

Python

AI tools

Job description

Harnham is seeking a Senior Manager, Data & Analytics to lead a small, multidisciplinary team spanning Analytics, BI, and Data Engineering. You’ll partner with senior leaders to drive strategic priorities and own the Data & Analytics roadmap for the business unit.

The role is a player-coach, about two-thirds leadership and one-third hands-on, translating business questions into analytical solutions and securing high-impact decisions.