Senior data hands,
one to three days a week.
A fractional day is a standing day: the same day each week, a named scope, and a senior pair of hands on your reporting estate. Direction plus execution, without a senior hire.
Choose your days
Move the slider. The rate, the monthly shape and what fits in the week all move with it.
What fits in 1 day
I take the senior data decisions off your desk: priorities, the review queue, definition sign-offs.
The week's model and dashboard review queue, cleared.
The health table and the drift watch stay current.
Your team has a named escalation point, one day a week.
A good shape: a capable team with no senior data leadership.
The slider shows the shape, not a promise. Every estate is different; the audit fixes the scope.
The rules that keep it honest
Fractional work burns both sides if the edges are soft, so the edges are written down before the first day.
The day is fixed in the agreement and the work queues for it. Nothing interrupts your team, or my other clients, between the named days.
Fractional work on an estate with no owners and no baseline is weekly firefighting. The fixed-fee diagnosis, or an estate I have already validated, comes first.
Restoring a signed state is inside the day, at any effort. Anything that adds capability is a build, scoped and quoted before I touch it.
One quarter minimum. Renewal is a decision on both sides, not a default, so the arrangement stays honest.
Related reading: Head of Data: full-time vs fractional is the wrong question
A good fit
You need senior data judgement every week, but not a full-time hire.
Your team is capable but unsupervised, and the review queue keeps growing.
You are mid-rebuild and want the rebuild to actually land, not just ship.
Not a fit, yet
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You need four or five days a week: that is a contract, priced and papered differently.
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Your estate has no owners and no baseline: the audit comes first.
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You want hands without direction: fractional leads as well as builds.
From £700 to £800 per day
One day a week is £800 per day, two days a week is £750 per day, three days a week is £700 per day; billed monthly, quarterly minimum.
I keep fractional days limited, so embedded work never dilutes project work. If you need four or five days a week, that is a contract, and it is priced and papered differently.