Data Analyst – 6‑month contract (£350‑£400/day)

About the role

This high‑impact contract role is for a hands‑on Data Analyst joining a fast‑moving growth initiative that is scaling a local marketplace proposition. You will take over an existing work stream, bringing structure, speed and insight to complex, imperfect data.

Key responsibilities

• Own the end‑to‑end analytical lifecycle for the “Near Me” product, from hypothesis generation and experiment design to insight delivery and commercial recommendations.
• Design and lead experiments measuring the incremental impact of local discovery on member engagement, SME growth and monetisation.
• 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 for data matching, validation, enrichment and automated workflows, ensuring reliable, actionable datasets.
• Partner closely with Product, Commercial, CRM, Partnerships and Business Analysis teams to solve complex business problems and drive data‑driven decision‑making.

Required profile

• 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.
• Solid understanding of experiment design, statistical analysis, holdout testing and measuring incremental impact.
• Experience working with dbt to transform, model and manage data effectively.
• Proven ability to build reporting solutions and dashboards using BI tools (Lightdash, Looker, Tableau).
• Experience integrating APIs and automating data workflows, especially with external data sources.
• Exposure to AI and LLM‑powered tools for data enrichment, entity matching and insight generation.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, translating complex analysis into clear business recommendations.

Required skills

• Amplitude
• SQL
• Python
• R
• dbt
• Lightdash
• Looker
• Tableau
• APIs
• AI / LLM tools