Full job description

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.