Analytics Manager London, England
Job description
Job Description
Your team: The GOP (Group Operations and Platforms) department is made up of a combination of different functions that provide shared services and expert support to all the News UK brands. From delivering newsprint operations, providing shared data and analytics services, accelerating innovation or supporting strategic negotiations and partnerships with digital platforms like Apple, Google or Meta and other businesses.
Within the GOP, the Data team has a key role to provide data analysis, market intelligence and customer insights in order to facilitate better informed decisions and to ensure we put customers at the centre of what we do.
Your role: You will be responsible for the analysis and reporting of data for all the GOP functions. Reporting to the Data Lead and working in collaboration with a strong team of insights and data strategy experts.
Day to day you will:
Analyse and package complex data into clear and compelling visualisations and easy-to-use dashboards that coherently present detailed analysis to senior non-technical stakeholders.
Utilise SQL to manipulate and process data sets to enable concise reporting and analysis from our GBQ data warehouse.
Execute data analysis to find insights and make recommendations for revenue generating opportunities based on our content, audiences and relationships with the big tech platforms (e.g. Apple, Google, Facebook,...).
Analyse and exploit data to seize and unlock commercial opportunities with existing and future partners.
Work closely with the News UK Events team (News Live) to understand their data requirements and deliver the resulting analysis and reporting through open and regular communication.
Work with the retail and Newsprinters teams to report on retail sales performance and help identify opportunities to simplifying and consolidate the the operational challenge of print and help decrease the cost of sale.
You’ll have the potential opportunity to lead a team of highly skilled Analysts. People and Team management skills will be important in getting the best of the analytics resource.
Be a major contributor for News UK’s innovation initiatives (working with both the Business Innovation and Tech Innovation leads) by analysing data and generating insights to identify and support opportunities in the media digital space.
What we’re looking for from you:
You’ll love the challenge of visualising data in a meaningful and actionable way using tools like Tableau and enjoy presenting and communicating detailed analysis to non-technical stakeholders.
You have awareness of the social media and platforms industry and understand how to best analyse and visualize News UK's engagement and revenue KPIs on big tech platforms such as Apple, Google, and Facebook.
You communicate clearly and regularly with varied stakeholders to get under the skin of their requirements and manage their expectations, capturing requirements and presenting clear and compelling stories with recommendations.
You utilise SQL to manipulate and process large data sets to enable concise reporting and analysis from our GBQ data warehouse.
You thrive at telling stories using data.
We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport, with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
Life at News: At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.
We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:
A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions
Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes
‘Bikes for Work’ scheme
Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling
We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.
News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.
