Lead Data Analyst

We’re supporting a high-growth tech business looking for a Lead Data Analyst to join its mature Data & AI team.

You’ll lead the delivery of commercial and customer analytics, helping senior stakeholders make better decisions across acquisition, retention, growth and customer success. This is a role for someone who can set direction, organise a team’s work and turn complex questions into clear, actionable insights.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Leading and developing analysts, setting priorities and raising standards across the team
• Owning the analytics roadmap and backlog, balancing stakeholder needs with delivery capacity
• Partnering confidently with senior commercial leaders to shape questions and communicate recommendations
• Overseeing analysis of customer behaviour, retention, growth and commercial performance
• Ensuring consistent business and GTM metrics, reliable reporting and strong data governance
• Improving self-service reporting and identifying opportunities for AI-enabled insights

Key skills:

✅ Experience leading an analytics team and organising delivery

✅ Strong roadmap, backlog and prioritisation skills

✅ Excellent senior stakeholder management and communication

✅ Commercial and GTM analytics experience

✅ Ability to turn analysis into recommendations that influence decisions

✅ Working knowledge of SQL, dbt and modern analytics practices

Nice to have:

➕ BigQuery and Looker / LookML

➕ Analytics engineering experience

➕ Experimentation or A/B testing

➕ AI-enabled analytics experience

This is an opportunity for an experienced analytics lead who can bring clarity to competing priorities, support a strong team and make commercial insight count. Hands-on coding expertise is welcome, but leadership, delivery and stakeholder influence matter most.

Day rate £700-900 per day inside IR35