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, ..... full job details .....