Data Analyst

DATA ANALYST (CONTRACT)

6 MONTHS

OUTSIDE IR35

£350 TO £400 P/D

This is a high-impact contract opportunity for a hands-on Data Analyst to join a fast-moving growth initiative focused on scaling a local marketplace proposition. You will step into an existing work stream, ensuring continuity while bringing structure, pace, and insight to complex and imperfect data.

The Company
They are a well-established UK digital platform with millions of engaged members, known for delivering meaningful value through partnerships and offers. The organisation is now expanding beyond purely online propositions into local, in-person experiences. Data plays a central role in enabling this next phase of growth, particularly in supporting SME and local partner ecosystems.

The Role and Deliverables

• Own the end-to-end analytical lifecycle for Near Me, from hypothesis generation and experiment design through to insight delivery and commercial recommendations.
• Design and lead experiments that measure the incremental impact of local discovery on member engagement, SME growth, and monetisation opportunities.
• Build and maintain self-serve dashboards and reporting frameworks covering experiment results, data quality, remediation progress, and campaign performance.
• Identify, assess, and integrate external data sources, including partner and location-based datasets, to improve data quality, coverage, and usability.
• Apply analytical and AI-enabled techniques to data matching, validation, enrichment, and automated workflows, ensuring reliable and actionable datasets.
• Partner closely with Product, Commercial, CRM, Partnerships, and Business Analysis teams to solve complex business problems and deliver data-driven decision making.

Your Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on experience with Amplitude or a similar product analytics platform.
• Advanced analytical capability with SQL and at least one scripting language such as Python or R.
• Strong understanding of experiment design, statistical analysis, holdout testing, and measuring incremental impact.
• Experience working with dbt to transform, model, and manage data effectively.
• Proven experience building reporting solutions and dashboards using BI tools, with experience in Lightdash, Looker, or Tableau beneficial.
• Strong experience working with APIs, data integration, and automated data workflows, ideally involving external data sources.
• Exposure to AI and LLM-powered tools for data enrichment, entity matching, validation, and insight generation.
• Experience working with data quality frameworks, enrichment processes, and structured validation approaches.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex analysis into clear business recommendations.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, delivery-focused environment, managing multiple priorities while maintaining analytical rigour.
• Understanding of CRM systems, partner ecosystems, or retail-focused data environments would be advantageous.
• Strong commercial curiosity, with a passion for understanding customer and partner behaviour and using data to drive better outcomes.

Please email or apply to this job ad if you are a contract Data Analyst who enjoys bringing order to messy data and delivering tangible business impact.